1904 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
i37 
WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICUL¬ 
TURAL SOCIETY. 
Part II. 
Prof. Slingerlantl gave his annual ‘‘bug 
talk,” which is always of intense interest 
10 all fruit growers. He said that it cost 
New York State farmers more to fight the 
insect pests of the State than it did,to 
educate the children. In the 1'nited States 
:50 tons of Paris-green alone are used 
annually in combating the insect foes, and 
yet there is an estimated loss of $300,000,000 
each year. Many questions were asked, 
and there was full and free discussion 
during the period of the meeting. Judg¬ 
ing by the question, Green aphis and 
Pear psylla had give more trouble than all 
other pests combined. He recommended 
a thorough trial of arsenate of lead as an 
insecticide and the use of whale-oil soap 
for all sucking insects. Dr. L. L. Van 
Slyke, the chemist at the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion at Geneva, gave a well-written paper 
on a rather dry subject in such a manner 
as to captivate his audience. He an¬ 
nounced his subject as “The Latest ! ight 
on American Soil," and declared himself 
present in the role of a war correspondent. 
The paper was an attack straight 1 rom 
the beginning, on Bulletin No. 22, issued 
by the Department of Agriculture at 
Washington from the Bureau of Soil. 
This he declared to be the “casus belli." 
This bulletin is entitled the “Chemistry ( f 
the Soil as Related to Crop Production.” 
In this treatise about everything that we 
have been taught to believe in regard to 
the chemistry of the soil in its relation to 
crop production, fundamentals we have 
supposed 'Were settled beyond question, 
and forming the basis of modern agricul¬ 
tural investigation and practice, have been 
complacently put out of action by a simple 
manipulation of the pen. The findings of 
the Bureau of Soils are in direct contra¬ 
diction to results published by the Bureau 
of Chemistry of the United States Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture and to an immense 
mass of data accumulated by careful re¬ 
search extending through the past 50 years, 
both in this country and in Europe. The 
bulletin, he said, condemned all kinds of 
fertilizers, and declared that all soils had 
sufficient plant food within themselves to 
yield good crops for all time, and that all 
that is necessary to produce bountiful 
crops is soil moisture in right amounts, 
proper methods of culture and a suitable 
rotation of crops. 
Dr. W. H. Jordan, Director of the Ex¬ 
periment Station at Geneva, spoke on 1 he 
Relation of the Experiment Station to 
Horticultural Practice.” He said that 
agriculture was just entering the realm 
of science; that experiment stations have 
come to stay; that it is society’s way of 
attacking one of society's problems; th^t 
the workers at these problems should not 
bo annoyed and disturbed by being called 
away from their studies and their ex¬ 
periments in laboratory and field to teach 
at institutes or even to answer questions 
written them by some person who is in 
trouble with some insect pest or fungus 
disease. The object of an experiment 
station is three-fold: To discover truth; 
to instruct the people through bulletins 
and the press concerning what has been 
discovered; to protect the people againsv 
fraud, as in the case of commercial fer¬ 
tilizers and oleomargarine. 
Geo. T. Powell’s topic was the “Move¬ 
ment of Population Toward Cities.” After- 
explaining the reason of this trend of the 
people toward the great centers of popu¬ 
lation he spoke of its effect on horticul¬ 
ture. The cities have drained the country 
of help and 15 years hence will rule the 
State through the Legislature; witness Un¬ 
vote on the canal question this last elec¬ 
tion. He then took the optimistic side of 
the question, and that the great work be¬ 
ing done by agricultural colleges and ex¬ 
periment station, nature study in the pub¬ 
lic schools, the making of farm life more 
attractive by the extension of trolley lines 
in all directions, the telephone, the goo<4 
roads movement and many other things 
are drawing the attention of city peo- le 
to the country as a place for homes. The 
time will soon come when the pendulum 
will swing the other way; when more of 
the homes of the city people will be in 
the country; when there will be fewer 
children born in the city, where they are 
deprived of their best heritage; and more 
will meet the first light of life in the pure 
air and brighter sunlight of the country. 
O. M. Taylor, of the Geneva Experiment 
Station, gave a report packed with statis¬ 
tics on the business of growing vegetables 
in this State at the present time, showing 
the large acreage and immense value of 
the product; 342,000 acres are devoted to 
gardening in New York State and the value 
of the product is over $25,000,000. He spoke 
ol the great number of varieties of the 
different garden products which are listed 
in the catalogues. About 700 different 
kinds of cabbage, 530 of lettuce, 320 of 
cucumbers and others in like proportion, 
00 per cent of which should be cut out 
and discarded. 
“New Fruits” was the subject of an off¬ 
hand familiar talk by Prof. H. E. Van 
Deman, of Washington. A great many 
questions were asked and discussed. Prom¬ 
inent among them seemed to be the sod 
mulch method of growing apples, the box 
package, formulas and time for spraying; 
cold storage problems; the Elberta peach vs. 
those of higher quality. These go to show 
what problems the fruit grower is study¬ 
ing at the present time. The display of 
fruits and spraying implements was only 
about one-third as large as at the Slate 
Fruit Growers’ Meeting at Geneva, three 
weeks before. The experiment station at 
Geneva made the largest display of apples. 
Ellwanger & Barry had a fine display 
consisting of 80 plates of apples, 40 of 
pears and 32 of grapes. Albert Wood 
showed 13 plates of pears and D. K. Bell, 
of Brighton, seven plates of pears. In 
commenting on Mr. Bell’s pears, President 
Barry, who is a pear grower of large ex¬ 
perience and so a most competent judge, 
said that he did not believe their equal 
had ever before been grown in America. 
The officers of last year were all reelected 
with but one exception. S. Wright Mc- 
Cullon, of Lockport, retired from the vice¬ 
presidency. The officers now are: Presi¬ 
dent, W. C. Barry; vice-presidents, J. S. 
Woodward, S. D. Willard, Albert Wood 
and Grant Hitehings; secretary and treas¬ 
urer, John Hall. e. c. g. 
THE BUSH MULT/FLORA BEAN. 
This is an explanation, not an apology. 
Some years ago an unknown friend sent 
me half a dozen large white beans, un¬ 
accompanied by name or data of any 
sort. These were planted in my trial 
grounds two seasons, along with hun¬ 
dreds of other legumes. During these 
years they attracted no special atten¬ 
tion, and gave no promise of value. It 
may be remarked that during those two 
years not a single tubercle was found 
upon the roots of one of these beans, 
though more than 20 species of legume 
plants were grown in the grounds dur¬ 
ing that time. The plants were very 
small and produced but few pods, and 
those only partly filled. With the third 
season came a phenomenal change. The 
growth was extremely rapid and luxuri¬ 
ant, many single plants measuring three 
feet in diameter by two in height. 
Masses of snowy blossoms were follow¬ 
ed by ropes of mammoth pods contain¬ 
ing four to six beans. They were more 
than five times as prolific as the bush 
Limas beside them. The roots were a 
mass of tubercles, hence the apparent 
miracle. A bean like that should have 
a name. What was it? Neither the ex¬ 
periment stations nor the seedsmen 
could tell me. I read in Dr. Bailey’s 
“Survival of the Unlike” of a bush form 
of the white Dutch Runner. I sent blos¬ 
soms, pods and beans to the Doctor. He 
thought it might be the dwarf Phaseolus 
multiflorus. 1 wrote to the Kansas seed 
house for some of their “bush Limas,” 
but they had been discarded as worth¬ 
less. An occasional tendency to pro¬ 
duce bulbous roots convinced me fully 
that this was Barteldes’ “Bush Lima,” 
and being such it most assuredly is not 
a bush Lima, or a Lima at all. A dwarf 
form of P. multiflorus and not a runner, 
(ould any name be truer or more appro¬ 
priate than Bush Multiflora? Such it is, 
botanically as well as technically. 
EDWARD E. EVANS. 
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The Ear Seed 
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