1904. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
629 
LONG KEEPING IN COLD STORAGE. 
Apples Will Not Pay. 
We have seen apples that have been kept for 
almost two years, but are sure from a specu¬ 
lative point this would be disastrous and 
would not advise the holding in cold storage 
of any fruits longer than six or seven months. 
New York. 0 . p. davis & bkos. 
This matter has been experimented on in a 
small way, but in no single instance has it 
ever been found practical, particularly so far 
as commercial varieties are concerned. We 
cannot imagine that conditions can ever exist 
that would make the carrying of fruit more 
than one year profitable, and as a rule it has 
always been found to the best advantage to 
have cold storages empty by April 15, or not 
later than May 1. While it is true some 
fancy prices are at times obtained for such 
late-keeping varieties as Russets, Rome Beauty 
and Ben Davis, it is only in a comparatively 
limited way and for a very small quantity as 
compared to the amount of fruit stored. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. armacost, rii.ey & co. 
It would not pay to carry apples as long 
as a year. Apples that are put in in Sep¬ 
tember, October and November, should he all 
out by July 1, although sometimes circum¬ 
stances are such that one is compelled to 
keep them a month or two longer, as was the 
case this season, for the reason that the mar¬ 
kets were dull and the supply heavier than 
the demand. We had a few barrels on hand 
the last of July. One season, just for the 
sake of experimenting, we carried a few bar¬ 
rels of Baldwins from October until the fol¬ 
lowing October, and they were in perfect con¬ 
dition, scarcely a rotten apple in them, but 
badly scalded. Apples should not be kept 
that length of time, because they scald quick¬ 
ly after taking them out into the open air. 
Cleveland, Ohio. j. j. puts & co. 
Apples have been carried over for more 
than a year as an experiment. There are 
apples now in icehouses since last season ; not 
as an experiment, however, but because the 
owners could not get the cost out of them 
last Fall. We believe it advisable for all 
growers to sell their fruit while there is a de¬ 
mand for it, and let the buyer do with it as 
he desires. Some years ago there was always 
a good profit in holding fruit in either natural 
or cold storage, but for the last two or three 
years apples have been held in icehouses more 
to save the owners than for the profit they 
used to expect in former years. If all the 
apples, etc., were pushed on the market as 
soon as they were ready they would not bring 
enough to pay for the expense of handling 
them, so the only alternative is to hold them 
in cold storage. archdeacon & co. 
New York. 
We have known of apples being carried in 
cold storage for two years, but only as an ex¬ 
periment to see what they would do. We, 
ourselves, have carried Willow-twig in cold 
storage for two years in perfect condition, 
but from a financial standpoint it is not ad¬ 
visable. We know of no instance when it 
would be advisable to carry apples in cold 
storage longer than four to seven months, ac¬ 
cording to variety and kind. The trouble in 
late years has been that too many dealers 
have carried loo many apples in cold storage 
late in the season. Take last season, for in¬ 
stance, a great many apples were held in cold 
storage until June and July, which sold for 
less money net by considerable than they 
would have sold f. o. b. shipping point last 
Fall. We do not think it policy to place too 
large a proportion of the apple crop in cold 
storage. AT moderate quantity stored and 
moved out in proper season is all right, but of 
late years losses have been enormous on 
apples carried from six to eight months. 
From a financial standpoint it would be inad¬ 
visable to carry any apples one year, much 
less two years. F. newhall & sons. 
Chicago, 111. 
MARKET NEWS 
A Fine Point Decided. —Tice U. S. General 
Appraisers Tlave just announced another of 
their famous natural history classifications, 
viz. : that a jackass or donkey is not a horse 
or a mule within the meaning of the customs 
laws. The duty on horses and mules is if30 
per head and on other animals not classed 
as such 20 per cent of their value. In the 
case in question a small donkey had been 
assessed for the if30 duty, but the importer 
claimed that it should come under “other 
animals” at the 20 per cent rate, which con¬ 
tention tlie Board upheld. The only evident 
injustice in this ruling is the reflection on 
the donkey in the apparent intimation that 
he may not be worth a whole $30. 
Truck Garden Work. —“What are the 
chances for getting work at truck gardening 
near New York, class of help employed and 
prices paid? l. 
Massachusetts. 
The wages paid run anywhere from $12 to 
$20 with board. Some men get even more. 
A common way is to hire men for a month 
at what seems a safe price and increase them 
the next month if they are worth it. A good 
many foreigners are employed. Poles, Iluns, 
Swedes, Italians, etc., and in some cases the 
associations are decidedly mixed and unde¬ 
sirable. As a rule the work is harder, the 
conditions more unpleasant and the pay for 
the season no higher than on the general farm 
farther away from the city. Any man who 
has a fair farm job would better stick to it 
than come here, unless he is determined to 
learn the business of market gardening. In 
that case the only way is to look around 
among the gardeners until he finds the oppor¬ 
tunity he is after. One of the special dis¬ 
comforts of this work is the pest of mosquitoes 
in sections of nong Island and New Jersey. 
They bite through Summer clothes, and in 
muggy weather it is necessary to spray one¬ 
self with tar oil or some similar “dope,” or 
keep up a constant fight, which is a hindrance 
to work. 
Fruit Items. —The arrivals of peaches 
have been very heavy, 39 carloads in a single 
day, but these included considerable poor 
fruit. The range of prices has been low, 
some going for 25 cents a crate. The poorest 
showing was made by Maryland and Dela¬ 
ware basket stock, which had been allowed 
to get too ripe and had suffered from heat 
and rain. The conditions for apples and 
pears have not been encouraging, except for 
sound, well-matured fruit, a great share be¬ 
ing only suitable for cooking, and the de¬ 
mand is not heavy enough to keep the mar¬ 
ket cleared up. Clapp’s Favorite and Bart¬ 
lett pears, large and with some show of color, 
have gone over $3 per barrel. The half¬ 
barrel basket is used largely for pears. Be¬ 
fore buying baskets of this size for heavy 
fruit it is well to see that they are strong 
enough to avoid going to pieces in handling. 
A basket that is all right for lettuce or other 
light stuff may get badly smashed up in car¬ 
rying 75 or more pounds. I have often no¬ 
ticed losses caused by the use of packages too 
light for the purpose or poorly made. Plums 
have suffered from the general glut of fresh 
fruit, some eight-pound basnets selling as low 
as 10 cents. The eastern-grown plum falls 
flat on this market the quickest of any 
commercial fruit I know, except the goose¬ 
berry. Most of these plums are of better 
quality than those from the Pacific coast, as 
sold here, yet the latter sell steadily, often 
at four times the price of those grown here. 
The only visible reason is that they are 
larger and more carefully handled. Musk- 
melons are here from Texas, Arizona, Mary¬ 
land, New Jersey, North Carolina and Geor¬ 
gia. Those from Arizona have sold best, as 
hign as $2.50 per crate. These are grown 
under ideal muskmelon conditions, on irri¬ 
gated land with plenty of hot sunshine, which 
hammers sweetness and high quality through 
their rough rinds. The weather conditions 
are essentially the same as with the Colorado 
Rocky Fords, which arrive later. Maryland 
melons have sold well, but are variable in 
quality, like all others grown under too many 
clouds. Picking out muskmelons for hotel 
and fruit store trade is uncertain business. 
Buyers know that unless the quality is fairly 
good there will be a steady run of complaints 
from their customers. A poor apple or pear 
will pass, but a poor muskmelon is an insult. 
Some claim to be able to select good melons 
by the appearance, but as a rule the more 
experience they have the less confident they 
are of the infallibility of their scale of 
points. Of course where melons are grown 
on a large scale, from good seed and under 
uniform weauier conditions, such as are com¬ 
mon in the arid regions and some seasons in 
the South Anam.c States, they vary less. 
This fruit would be used much more freely 
every year if at all dependable. Poor seed is 
responsible for some failures, melons unfit for 
sale being saved for seed. Seed from choice 
melons has a right to be expensive, and the 
buyer should not expect to get it for less 
than the melons producing it would have sold 
for, plus the cost of saving and dealer’s profit. 
Such seed may be cheap at $4 per pound. 
w. w. 11 . 
WANT TO KNOW. 
Fruit-Picking Sack. —Have any of your 
readers tried the California orange picker's 
sack for gathering apples from large trees? 
If so, does it give satisfaction? Where are 
they for sale and what is the cost? 
Pennsylvania. j. b. j. 
Sulphur and Cabbage Maggots. —After 
reading the article on page 571 on the Cab¬ 
bage maggots, it put me in mind of what I 
di^ to half an acre of cabbages that were be¬ 
ing destroyed by this little worm. I bought 
fine ground sulphur and put, I think, about 
half a teaspoonful of it about each cabbage, 
plant, close to the stump. I think it killed' 
or drove the maggots away, for I never saw 
a better crop of cabbages before or since than 
that was, and from that time saw no more 
maggots, so I concluded the sulphur acted 
not only as a worm-killer, but I thought by 
the way they grew that there was some fer¬ 
tilizing property in it. This must have keen 
20 years ago, and as I have not been troubled 
with the maggot since (for I have grown 
but few cabbages) I have not had a chance 
to prove my remedy. The using of the sul¬ 
phur was an idea of my own, and if I had tne 
trouble again I should expect that the sul¬ 
phur would be the remedy, s. h. warren. 
Massachusetts. 
One of the greatest American millionaires 
once said to his physician, "A million dol¬ 
lars, Doctor, for a new stomach,” and then 
the sick man groaned and turned away. 
One of a man’s greatest pleasures is that 
born of a keen appetite, vigorous digestion 
and a good dinner, and this belongs to 
many a good fellow who is living on small 
wages, but the rich man without & stomach 
has to forego the good things of the table 
because his stomach rebels. Without a 
healthy stomach and a good digestion, our 
blood is thin, watery and poor, our heart 
action is weak, our liver does not do its 
duty, and man is miserable and unhappy. 
In mis condition man is prey to the germs 
of influenza, consumption, malaria and all 
the ills that he is heir to. Consumption 
can be treated by natural methods which 
are as close to nature as possible. 
Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief consulting physi¬ 
cian of the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical 
Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y., years ago un¬ 
derstood this disease, and after a long pe¬ 
riod of experiment discovered certain roots 
and herbs which were nature’s remedies, 
and succeeded in putting them up in a 
form that would be easily procured and 
ready to use. This he called Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery. It gives no 
false stimulation because it contains no 
alcohol and no narcotic. It helps diges¬ 
tion and the assimilation of such elements 
in the food as are required for the blood. 
Instead of a cod liver oil, against which 
the already sensitive stomach will declare 
open rebellion, this tonic has a pacifying 
action upon the sensitive stomach and 
gives to the blood the food elements the 
tissues require. It maintains the patient’s 
nutrition by enabling him to eat, retain, 
digest and assimilate nutritious food. It 
overcomes gastric irritability and symp¬ 
toms of indigestion, and in this way fever, 
night - sweats, headaches, etc., are done 
away with. It fortifies the body against 
the germs of consumption, grip and ma¬ 
laria, and it builds up the tissues and puts 
on healthy flesh. 
When the druggist says he has some¬ 
thing that is "just as good” as Dr. Pierce’s 
Golden Medical Discovery, he says so be¬ 
cause he hopes to make a better profit, 
but his own mixtures have not stood the 
test of long experience nor had the success 
that Dr. Pierce’s medicines have had. 
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