1904 
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M\a\ AND APRICOT CROWING 
IN TURKEY. 
These two stone fruits of Persian ori¬ 
gin are grown a good deal in many parts 
of Asia Minor, but I cannot name any 
quarter of the country devoted exclu¬ 
sively to the culture of peach or apricot 
or both together. As in any branch or 
industry of agriculture there is no ef¬ 
fort on the part of native fruit growers 
to develop the desirable qualities of 
s£>me varieties of these fruits. Careless¬ 
ness is the general rule in fruit culture 
as well as in any other work. There are 
a few places, however, to form an ex¬ 
ception to the rule. Peaches of Broussa 
and Tokat are of noted quality, especial¬ 
ly the former, which has a highly devel¬ 
oped color and delicious flavor. But it 
is not cultivated extensively, and the 
largest part of the crop is sent to Con¬ 
stantinople and consumed there. Tokat 
also—the ancient Darimon—has a few 
varieties of peach renowned for their 
pretty appearance and sweet taste. In 
my opinion there are better apricots in 
this country than peaches; some places 
in the eastern part of Asiatic Turkey, 
near the boundary of Persia, are famous 
for their apricots. Particularly I could 
mention Malatea, a city in the Province 
of Aleppo, which is celebrated for its 
apricot and gives its name to a variety 
of it. The Malatea apricot has a very 
fine texture and an exceedingly sweet 
and agreeable flavor. 
Kaplan, the Tiger, is the largest va¬ 
riety of apricot grown in this country. 
Its color is better than its flavor, but 
both are inferior to the Malatea variety 
named above. Its texture is a little 
tough and color is a pale yellow, partly 
crimson red. I suppose that if a cross 
should be made between this and the 
Malatea, there should be a new variety 
with the desirable qualities of both, but 
(he fruit growers in this country have no 
idea about crossing plants. They are 
not eager to improve them, partly be¬ 
cause they are ignorant, but chiefly be¬ 
cause it is not profitable to grow them. 
In the city where I live (Amassia) 
peaches and apricots cost only 30 paras 
(about three cents) per batman (16-18 
pounds), when they are the cheapest, 
and are not worth more than two cents 
a pound when they are dearest. They 
are not exportable either, from the lack 
of good and easy means of transport. 
Canning and preserving fruits is never 
practiced in this country. 
Amassia, Turkey. ii. caramajnian. 
Control of a New Variety. 
TV. F. C., Turner Center, Me .—Can a person 
discovering and introducing a new fruit 
copyright the name or in any way so pro¬ 
tect it that he can, for a time at least, 
control the sale of it? 
A ns. —No. This question seems to 
have been decided by the courts. A 
patent may be granted on a machine, 
device or process which is entirely un¬ 
der man’s control. A living plant will 
propagate itself, and the law is that a 
man may buy a tree or plant, use it for 
propagating others, and then sell these 
new plants under the name selected by 
the originator. He can do this unless 
he signs an agreement not to do so. If 
you have a new and desirable fruit you 
cannot secure a monopoly on its sale ex¬ 
cept in so far as you can control all the 
stock. 
Alfalfa ana Fruit on Sandy Soil. 
C. TV. F., Schuyler, N. Y. —1. I have a farm 
in Saratoga Co., N. Y., upon which I 
should like to try Alfalfa. Soil is sandy 
hut in good condition, raised 30 bushels of 
oats per acre, also good corn and potatoes 
last season. Molding sand is found under 
the soil. Will Alfalfa succeed on this soil? 
If so, when should it be sown, in drills or 
broadcast, and what quantity per acre? 2. 
Will apples, also Keiffer pear, succeed 
here? Stone fruits are not a success. 3. 
I have 500 pear trees three years set on 
another farm, gravel loam with clay sub¬ 
soil. What fertilizer would you recom¬ 
mend, as I am told barnyard manure 
causes fire blight? 
Ans.— 1. I should not expect Alfalfa 
to be at its best on soil underlaid with 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
this type of sand, but the Alfalfa plant 
is peculiar in its adaptations, and it is 
much better to try it than to condemn 
it without trial. It is just possible that 
it would succeed for three or four years, 
at any rate. I would sow it broadcast 
with a thin seeding of oats, using 15 or 
16 pounds to the acre. 2. The Kieffer 
pear is likely to do better than apples 
on this soil. I should not expect any 
class of fruit to be long-lived and pro¬ 
ductive. On these porous, filtering soils 
fruits are apt to run out early. 3. 
Watch the growth of these trees, and in 
fertilizing them be guided by their con¬ 
ditions. If they are making plenty of 
wood, give them a complete fertilizer; 
if too much wood, withhold the nitro¬ 
gen, giving only phosphoric acid and 
potash. Heavy applications of barnyard 
manure cause sappy growth of immature 
wood, and this condition is favorable 
for the development of the blight. A 
stocky, conservative growth is much 
better than a luxuriant one. 
JOHN CRAIG. 
Southern Orchard Notes.—I am trying 
to make an orchard on a steep mountain 
“cove.” Trees do well, but so also the 
rabbits. I have tried nearly everything. 
I have ever heard of to stop them, in¬ 
cluding the following, and in the order 
given him: Sulphur, flour and assafoetida, 
and flour and strychnine. Of the above 
the second is most effectual, although 
some trees are still eaten. Now I am 
going to paint them in accordance with 
Prof. Alwood’s method. Northern-grown 
Baldwins are selling at 35 cents per dozen; 
no others in the market. The latest native 
apple to come into market here is the 
Camack; very popular but tree a poor 
grower. c. H. t. b. 
Hendersonville, N. C. 
Pat; “Did ye hear that old Hogan 
was dead, Mrs. Ryan?” Mrs. R: “Is he 
thin, poor man? Sure, I always knew 
that would be the end of him.”—Illus¬ 
trated Bits. 
Mil Hopeful: “I’m quite a near 
neighbor of yours now. I’ve taken a 
house by the river.” Miss Golightly: 
“Oh, I hope you’ll drop in some day.”— 
Credit Lest. 
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POTATOES AFTER POTATOES. 
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"In the Fall of 1894 I broke a field of sod 
land near my buildings. The field had not 
been plowed or manured in any way for 
32 years. The soil is a light loam. In the 
Spring of 1S95 I planted the field to pota¬ 
toes, using 900 pounds to the acre of Bow¬ 
ker’s Fertilizers in the drill. The yield 
was over 200 bushels of salable potatoes 
per acre. No manure was used except the 
Bowker Fertilizer. Each year since that I 
have planted an acre of the same field, 
using no other manure than Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers, and for seven years have used the 
Stockbridge Potato Manure exclusively. 
My crop this year was over 300 bushels to 
the acre and the average for the nine 
years has been rising 250 bushels per acre. 
I generally plow the land in September 
and harrow well once or twice before Win¬ 
ter. In the Spring I harrow well with a 
spring-tooth harrow to a depth of six 
inches. I now apply half the fertilizer 
broadcast and harrow well. I try to do 
this a week or more before planting. The 
rest of the fertilizer is strewn as evenly as 
possible in a very wide drill or furrow. The 
seed is dropped and covered by hand. 
About the time some of the plants begin 
to show above the ground I go over the 
piece with a, pronged hoe, loosening the 
soil and killing the weeds. When the 
plants are up so as to show the rows well, 
I cultivate to a depth of five or six inches 
and do not cultivate or hoe deeply after 
that. When the plants are about six inches 
high I use flanges on the cultivator similar 
to a celery trencher and crowd the dirt to¬ 
ward the plants from between the rows so 
as to make a low and wide hill, but I do 
not throw any dirt directly around the 
stalk. I go over the piece once more after 
this with a pronged hoe to loosen the soil 
and let the air and warmth in freely, and 
then simply cut or pull up any weeds that 
start afterward. I dig my potatoes for the 
early market between July 12 and 20. By 
experimenting I have found that it pays 
to fertilize well and now use about one 
ton of Bowker’s Fertilizer per acre.”— Ado. 
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