1904 
WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICUL¬ 
TURAL SOCIETY. 
Part I. 
The Western New York Horticultural 
Society held its forty-ninth annual meet¬ 
ing in the City Hall at Rochester, Janu¬ 
ary 27-2S. In spite of intense cold, blocked 
roads and delayed trains, the room was 
packed to the door with enthusiastic fruit 
growers at nearly every session. Presi¬ 
dent W. C. Barry occupied the chair and 
made a brief opening address, in which he 
spoke of the successful work of the So¬ 
ciety and its large membership, and urged 
the members to raise the roll to an even 
1,000, there being about 700 now. Mr. 
Barry is the second president of this So¬ 
ciety in the forty-nine years of its exist¬ 
ence, his father having been his predeces¬ 
sor. The official programme contained 13 
topics for addresses and discussion, 12 of 
which were assigned to men connected with 
the College of Agriculture at Cornell, the Ex¬ 
periment Station at Geneva, or the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture at Washington. Numer¬ 
ous criticisms were heard floating around 
among the members concerning this action 
of the officials of the Society in making 
up the programme. Something of the same 
tendency was observed in the manner of 
conducting the question box. A certain 
few, not to exceed a dozen men, were al¬ 
most always called upon to answer the 
questions, and the GOO or 700 others were 
practically excluded from the discussions. 
The principal address of the morning ses¬ 
sion was by Prof. S. A. Beach, of Geneva, 
on “Orchard Management for Apples," His 
remarks covered the training and pruning 
of the trees, thinning the fruit and tilling 
and fertilizing the soil. He advocated the 
careful drainage of low lands, and the pro¬ 
tection of the trees from insect pests and 
fungus diseases. Jay A. Bonsteel, of the 
Department of Agriculture at Washington, 
spoke of “The Character of a Soil Survey 
and Its Objects.” He said that each plant 
had its own favorable soil environment 
and climatic condition. The soil survey 
has for its object the determination of 
what crops can best be grown on certain 
soils. The most valuable part of soil sur¬ 
vey work is that it brings to our own door 
the work of the experiment stations, and 
makes it of value to us in our own homes. 
Dr. L. H. Bailey, Dean of the College of 
Agriculture at Cornell University, gave an 
address on “New York’s Place a s an Apple 
Growing Region.” He sphl that New York 
now holds first place as an apple growing 
State. The question is, can it continue to 
occupy this place? The answer is from 
statistics. Many Western States and some 
Southern have increased their plantings 
more than 100 per cent in a single year, 
while New York is slowly falling off in 
her planting. The best apple county of the 
State, Niagara, had in 1S90 over 1,000,000 
apple trees, while in 1900 only 924,000, which 
proves that our State is losing prestige in 
this direction, but our trees live and fruit 
for three times as many years as the west¬ 
ern trees, and our quality is unsurpassed. 
In these two points lie our salvation, if 
we are saved as an apple growing region. 
The population of the Mississippi Valley is 
rapidly increasing, and is demanding more 
apples each year, and will use the greater 
portion of the western supply. Our mar¬ 
kets should be sought in foreign countries 
and in the large cities of the East. He 
then took up the question of the poorer 
soils of our State, the hill lands that are 
hard to cultivate, and unprofitable when 
cropped with grain. He advocated plant¬ 
ing these lands to apples and working 
them on the sod-mulch method. He said 
we had not yet learned the business of 
apple growing, but many bright minds are 
studying the question and in time we shall 
solve it, not all alike, but each locality for 
itself, according to the conditions of soil 
and climate. Quality should be the watch¬ 
word for every apple grower of this Etm- 
pire State. In the discussion which fol¬ 
lowed this address, Mr. Beckwith, of Al¬ 
bion, a large dealer in apples, said that 
there were over 200,000,000 apple trees in 
the United States, but that the consump¬ 
tion of apples had Increased 75 per cent in 
10 years, and he predicted a great future 
for the apple business. 
Prof. John Craig, of Cornell University, 
gave an account of experiments with dust 
sprays, saying it was not a new method, 
but was used many years ago in cotton 
growing. It has some points in its favor 
over liquid sprays; less weight, hence 
easier of transportation; easier to apply, 
especially to small trees; takes less labor, 
hence is cheaper. An experiment was 
tried last season at Batavia. One block 
of trees had liquid spray twice and one 
block had dust spray six times at an equal 
outlay of labor and material. The results 
were slightly in favor of the dust spray 
The dust-sprayed trees gave 72 per cent of 
No. 1 fruit and 27 per cent of No. 2. Liquid 
sprayed trees gave 62 per cent of No. 1 and 
3* per cent of No. 2. Those unsprayed 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
RHEUMATISM 
gave 21 per cent of No. 1, 13 per cent of 
No. 2, five per cent of No. 3 and 60 per 
cent of No. 4. It cost to spray 14 trees 25 
years old six times 26 cents per tree. 
Liquid spray twice over cost 22 cents per 
tree. His conclusion was that the place 
for dust spray is on small trees and on 
hilly land, and advised all not to throw 
away the liquid machine yet. 
Dr. E. P. Felt, of Albany, Prof. F. C. 
Stewart, of Geneva, and Prof. Slingerland 
each used lantern slides to illustrate their 
subjects. Prof. Felt told of recent experi¬ 
ments in controlling the Grape root-worm. 
He showed views of vineyards in Chau¬ 
tauqua County that had been ruined by 
this pest, and showed the insect in differ¬ 
ent stages of development and the different 
implements that have been devised for de¬ 
stroying this enemy of the grape; 80 per¬ 
cent of them can be killed while in the 
pupa state in the soil by thorough culti¬ 
vation of the vineyard at the right time. 
Those that emerge from this stage into 
the beetle can be jarred into shallow pans 
of kerosene, somewhat as eurculios are 
caught. Prof. Stewart spoke on "Fungi 
and Fungus Diseases.” He said that there 
was not much new along this line this 
year. He described fungi as plants, not 
insects, and showed how they grow and 
spread and what conditions arc most favor¬ 
able to their germination, and discussed 
many of the fungus diseases of fruits and 
told of their remedy and prevention. He 
illustrated and described Pear and Apple 
scab, canker fungus, black knot, Quince 
blight, Raspberry cane-blight, anthrac- 
nose, rot of peach and plum and Potato 
blight. E - c • G - 
Illinois Rabbit Notes.—1 keep rabbits 
pretty thin here, but they come in each 
night from my non-shooting neighbors, 
some of whom do not allow any hunting 
on their farms. Trapping is much the best 
way to get rid of rabbits unless we ex¬ 
cept poison, and I do not try this any 
more from fear that some one might be 
injured by it. A new hired man once 
asked me, years ago, why I kept apples 
on sharpened sticks in the orchard. When 
1 told him it was “strychnine for rabbits,” 
he said: “Why, I was going to eat one 
the other day, and should have done so, 
only I had a fresh chew of tobacco in my 
mouth.” I dropped poisoning rabbits then. 
I have been a hunter myself and have 
burnt at least a dozen kegs of powder in 
guns. My boys like to hunt, but hunting 
and small trees do not mix to advantage, 
and I mostly use traps to catch the 
rabbits. We have killed about 100 with 
guns and caught 350 in box traps since 
October 1, a total to date of 451. This is a 
staggerer even to me—I would not have 
believed it possible. I use wooden veneer¬ 
ing on my most valuable young trees, rub 
axle grease on another lot, and some that 
are not valuable I do not protect, especially 
if rushed with work. B. b. 
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GAINED 
The story of a 
great deal of the 
unhappiness of 
women is a story 
of lost health. 
Women wonder 
how it is that 
little by little 
the form loses 
plumpness, the 
cheeks grow hol¬ 
low and sallow, and they feel tired and 
worn-out all the time. In a large pro¬ 
portion of cases when women are weak, 
run-down and falling off in flesh and 
looks, the root of the trouble can be 
traced to womanly diseases which under¬ 
mine the general health. The proof of 
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of painful womanly diseases by the use 
of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription 
have recovered their general health, 
gained in flesh and in appearance. 
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription cures 
the womanly diseases which sap the gen¬ 
eral health. It establishes regularity, 
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«i suffered for three years with ovarian 
trouble,” writes Mrs. Anna Quinn (Treasurer 
Woman's Athletic Club), of 602 Sycamore St., 
Milwaukee, Wis. "The treatment I took did 
not do me a particle of good, until a good neigh¬ 
bor who had been using Dr. Pierce’s Favorite 
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different woman; my flesh which had been 
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eyes bright. It was simply an indication qf the 
great change within from pain and suffering to 
health and happiness.” 
"Favorite Prescription” makes weak 
women strong, sick women well. Ac¬ 
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which works wonders for weak women. 
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stomach, liver and bowels. 
Cured 
Through the Feet 
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