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893 
FARM POWER IN MAINE. 
Fig. 416, page 890, shows two yoke of 
oxen (four-year-olds) on the road with a 
load of l/> cord of wood for the lime¬ 
kilns. These cattle are on the road or 
working at farm work about every pleas¬ 
ant day. The leaders are Holsteins and 
those on the pole Herefords, and the value 
of such a team depends largely on their 
condition for beef. Their education gen¬ 
erally commences when two, at which 
time they can do lots of light farm work, 
and by the time they are four they should 
be able to do almost any kind of team 
work. One advantage of oxen over horses 
is the light expense for harness, the yoke 
taking the place of collars, harness, whif- 
fletrees and chains. The grain bill is 
much lighter, and in case of accident the 
ox needn’t be a total loss, as would be the 
case with a horse. With the growing ten¬ 
dency of hay to lower and beef to higher 
prices I think there will be more cattle 
raised on our small eastern farms. \ his 
is largely a dairy district, being near a 
good market for dairy products, but 
farther away from the markets the farm¬ 
ers are growing more interested in cattle 
raising. _ b. 
GANO AND BLACK BEN DAVIS 
APPLES. 
A Little More Light on the Subject. 
I am asked by the editor of The R. 
N.-Y. and and others to state my pres¬ 
ent opinion of the question regarding the 
Gano and Black Ben Davis apples, espe¬ 
cially in view of any recent information 
that I may have. So far as the surest 
source of all information is concerned, 
which is observation of the fruit on the 
trees of both varieties of undoubted iden¬ 
tity and standing in the same or neigh¬ 
boring orchards, I have not been able to 
•see anything within the last two years. At 
the fruit show at the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition I saw many lots of fruit under 
Iboth names, and very carefully exam¬ 
ined them. These were in the exhibits 
of Missouri, Arkansas, Colorado, Oregon, 
Washington and those of other States. 
In the Missouri exhibit there was a 
very fine display of Gano from W. G. 
Gano of Parkville, the size, color and 
freedom from defects being remarkable. 
In looking over these specimens there 
were a few that showed no striping, being 
blushed all over, or nearly so, with dark 
red, but the majority of them were more 
or less distinctly striped. There were no 
Black Ben Davis in the exhibit from this 
State when I was there. In the exhibit 
from Arkansas there was about the same 
character in the Gano as those just men¬ 
tioned, except that there were fewer of 
the solid colored specimens. 
In the Colorado exhibit were several 
lots of both varieties. There was a 
marked difference in the matter of color, 
the Gano having stripes observable on 
nearly every specimen, and the Black 
Ben Davis none. The same was true re¬ 
garding the two varieties from Washing¬ 
ton. From Oregon there were lots un¬ 
der both names that could not be told 
apart, both showing no striping. My pres¬ 
ent belief is that these points are charac¬ 
teristic of the two varieties, and that 
there are two varieties instead of one. 
It is possible that there may have been 
some selecting of specimens by the ex¬ 
hibitors with a view to making the im¬ 
pression that there are two varieties or 
is only one. Or, the trees may not have 
been true to name. Exhibits of selected 
specimens on the table are often different 
from the run of the tree in the orchard. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
AN ENGINEER ON APPLES. 
I am not a farmer, only a locomotive engi¬ 
neer with a natural love for flowers and 
fruit. I have a small place on which, when 
they come into bearing, I will have 18 vari¬ 
eties of apples, 14 of pears, 5 of plums, 11 
of grapes, strawberries, blackberries, goose¬ 
berries, etc. From two hives of bees I took 
$43.50 worth of comb honey this season, and 
I raise all my own vegetables. Last Winter 
I grew rhubarb in the house cellar, and am 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
going to do the same this Winter. I learned 
how from reading The it. N.-Y. It is ihe 
best of five papers on farming that I take. 
I am a crank on quality in fruit. I do 
not understand why fruit growers do not pay 
more attention to quality for home trade. 
Go among our fruit stands in our cities or 
towns and you will find fine oranges, ba¬ 
nanas and grapes, but what a show of apples 
(Ben Davis or his family) ; on Monday I 
was trying to buy a barrel of Palmer Green¬ 
ings for a friend, and went into a black¬ 
smith's shop where farmers have their horses 
shod. The first man I asked said it. did not 
pay to raise apples. “Why, I just got my 
returns from 78 barrels I sent to England, 
and only got $27.75." Barrels cost 35 cents; 
net profit. 45 cents on 7S barrels. 1 said: 
“Why don't you raise Palmer Greenings? 
They are worth $2 to $2.50, and it does not 
cost any more to pick them than the Bald¬ 
wins.” “Oh, if I went, to raising them every 
one else would.” Enterprising! I am test¬ 
ing the keeping qualities of Palmer (picked 
from grafts on Yellow Transparent, Baldwin 
and natural fruit), to see if they will keep 
as long when grafted on Summer apples as 
on Winter. B. 
Massachuset ts. 
NEW POULTRY SHOW. 
The first exhibit of the Association of 
Poultry and Pet: Stock Breeders was held 
on top floor of the Macy Building, New York, 
November 28-December 3. This show is in¬ 
tended to be national in character. There 
were entries from all sections of this coun¬ 
try, and the founders of the Orpington breed, 
Wm. Cook & Sons, England, were well rep¬ 
resented. As valued by the exhibitors, the 
entire stock of the show was about $100,000, 
single roosters being held as high as $500. 
A novelty was a lot of Angora goats shown 
by Ilomer Davenport, of New Jersey, and 
Wm. J. Cohill, of Maryland. All standard 
and fancy breeds of poultry, water fowls 
and pigeons were on band, besides numerous 
cats and other fancy stock. 
Barren Pear Trees. 
J. J. G., South Euclid, O.—What should 
I do for my Bartlett and Sheldon pear 
trees? They are live years old, are in sandy 
soil and in my chicken run. They seem 
very hardy and have good foliage, but have 
never borne fruit. 
A ns. —It is probable that these pear 
trees are standards, that is, are on pear 
stocks and will not bear nearly so early 
as if they were on quince roots. It is 
no wonder that such trees have not begun 
to bear at five years from planting, if they 
were of the usual age that trees are 
transplanted from the nurseries, for they 
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