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TIIH RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 13 
MONTANA FRUIT GROWERS MEET. 
The Montana Horticultural Society held 
its seventh annual meeting at Great Falls, 
January 19-20-21. The next meeting will 
be held at Helena, January 24-25-26, 1905. 
All the officers were reflected. W. B. 
Harlan, Como, Is president, and C. W. H. 
Heideman, Missoula, secretary and treas¬ 
urer. The meeting was the best in the 
history of the Society, the attendance and 
interest being excellent, and the fruit ex¬ 
hibit the largest yet shown. The latter 
consisted mainly of apples, but a few 
pears, quinces, flowers and bottles of 
sweet cider were exhibited. A great many 
small apples are worked up into cider, 
which has the advantage of being made 
from sound fruit. The wholesale price is 
30 cents a gallon; retail, 50 cents. Fred 
Whiteside, Kalispell, brought over a barrel 
of cider, which was on tap during the 
meeting, and also a quantity of cherry 
wine. 
The Flathead County prize cup, a hand¬ 
some trophy of solid silver, was awarded 
to A. Li. Treat, Plains, for the four best 
plates of Winter apples. The varieties 
were Canada Red, King, R. I. Greening 
and Rome Beauty. C. F. Dallman, of Mis¬ 
soula, gave $10 worth of apple trees for 
the best plate of McIntosh Red apples, 
and similar prizes for the best plates of 
Bellflower, Northern Spy, King, Spitzen- 
burg, Delaware Red, N. W. Greening, 
Jonathan and Grimes Golden. Mr. Dall¬ 
man had one of the largest and best col¬ 
lections of apples on exhibition. T. E. 
Mills, of Helena, exhibited some very fine 
violets, roses and carnations. Flowers 
grow to great perfection in Montana. Mr. 
Mills has 80,000 square feet under glass in 
his greenhouses and ships flowers all over 
Montana and to several other States, in¬ 
cluding Washington. 
Orcharding in Montana is confined chiefly 
to the valleys west of the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains, although successful experiments 
have been made in other localities. In 
Missoula and Ravalli counties 139,000 apple 
boxes were used last year, indicating a 
crop of 230 carloads. Judge H. F. Woody, 
of Missoula, stated that the first apple 
trees in Montana were planted in 1867 by 
Philip Ritz, in the Bitter Root Valley. 
Some of these trees are still bearing good 
fruit and are free from fungus and insect 
pests, although sta.nding in a Timothy 
pasture and neglected for years. A classi¬ 
fied list of fruits was made out for the 
State Fair. The following scale of points 
for judging fruits was adopted: Form, 10; 
size, 20; color, 20; uniformity, 20; quality, 
20; general condition, 10; total, 100 points. 
Fred Whiteside gave his experience in 
orcharding in the Flathead Valley. He 
has 60 acres in trees, most of them too 
young to bear, with potatoes planted be¬ 
tween the rows. The principal items in 
his crop last year were as follows: 4,000 
boxes apples at $1.25, $5,000; 1,000 gallons 
cider at 30 cents, $300 ; 7,000 bushels pota¬ 
toes, at 30 cents, $2,000; total receipts from 
60 acres, $7,300. Tuesday evening there 
were two lectures, illustrated with numer¬ 
ous stereoptican views. One was by Prof. 
R. A. Cooley, of the State Agricultural 
College, on “Glimpses into the Insect 
World,'’ and the other by Prof. M. J. El¬ 
rod, of the State University, on “A Trip 
Through the Flathead Forest Reserve.” 
There were many interesting papers and 
discussions. Thursday afternoon the mem¬ 
bers of the Society were taken on a special 
train to visit the Rainbow Falls of the 
Missouri River, Giant Springs and the 
Boston and Montana Smelter. In the 
evening they were entertained at a ban 7 
quet, which was followed by two hours of 
speaking and music. Great Falls is a 
shining example of -what a city can do 
towards beautifying its streets and parks, 
in spite of the necessity of irrigating. 
Starting in 18S5 with 300 people, it now has 
a population of 17,000 ; 450 acres In parks, 
10 miles of boulevards, with trees on each 
side of the walks, and has spent $95,000 on 
these improvements. The city has 6,750 
trees and maintains its own nursery. 
Holt, Mont. o. h. b. 
Arkansas Black and Mammoth Black Twig. 
J. T. A., Nettle Ridge, Va .—I wish to ask 
the difference between the Arkansas 
Black and Mammoth Black Twig apples. 
What is the difference In their size and 
in every particular? We have planted a 
good many of each kind. 
Ans.— Arkansas Black is a seedling of 
Winesap, which originated in Arkansas 
but has the fault of dropping its fruit 
badly in some places. The apple is of 
medium size, roundish in shape, brilliant 
red with darker shading of deep crim¬ 
son; the flesh is yellowish, somewhat in¬ 
clined to be dry; subacid but not rich in 
flavor. It is a very handsome apple and 
of quite good quality, but is not so de¬ 
pendable as some others. Arkansas is 
the correct name of the variety that is 
often called Mammoth Black Twig. It 
is a native of Arkansas and a seedling of 
Winesap. The tree is a very good bearer 
and the fruit is large, flat in shape, with 
in inclination to be conical; color, dark, 
dull red; flesh yellowish and rather 
coarse; subacid in flavor and only fairly 
good in quality. This apple is a very 
good market variety. h. e. v. d. 
SCREEN FOR CRACKED CORN. 
In feeding dry cracked corn to poultry 
much of the very fine is wasted unless it 
is sifted more thoroughly than is usual¬ 
ly the case when brought from the mill, 
and often it is impossible to get the sizes 
wanted for feeding from the finely crack¬ 
ed for little chicks to very coarse crack¬ 
ed for fowls and pigeons. This led me to 
arrange a sort of grader. I made a 
hopper large enough to hold a hundred¬ 
weight or so of cracked corn, with a 
shut-off in bottom so as to regulate the 
flow of grain, then with three sizes of 
galvanized wire netting I made screens 
about one foot wide by six feet long. 
The hopper was placed up at the head of 
the granary stairway with the screens 
underneath in such a manner that when 
the cracked corn is allowed to run slow¬ 
ly from hopper it grades it nicely into 
HOMEMADE SCREENER. Fig 52. 
three sizes of cracked corn, besides the 
fine meal, which would go to waste if 
scattered on ground for the poultry, and 
anyone would be surprised at the 
amount of this meal saved even from 
the best sifted cracked corn. The size of 
screens may be arranged to suit each 
user. I use No. 4 for top or coarsest, as 
I want it as coarse as possible for pig¬ 
eons; No. 6 for second, and No. 12 for 
finest. These sizes if set at an angle 
that the corn will run down nicely with¬ 
out requiring any shaking to prevent 
lodging, will give nice grades of cracked 
corn. The more upright the grader is 
placed the more fine will be left in the 
coarser grades, and the less thoroughly 
will it be sifted. This has saved me 
many times its cost in the meal saved 
alone aside from the convenience of hav¬ 
ing the size cracked wanted for the dif¬ 
ferent birds. At times when feeding 
largely on cracked corn I have saved 
enough meal to feed two cows. j. e. s. 
New Jersey. 
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Vinton, Iowa, July 35th, 1902. 
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