THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 6 
92 
About Premiums. 
Here are the names of the $2 prize 
winners for the last week of January : 
1. —W. PICKHARDT.New York. 
2. —J. W. HIGGINS.New Jersey. 
3—W. MOORE.New York. 
4. —J. BILLS.New York. 
5. —J. D. RAY.Texas. 
6. —J. E. EVERETT.Virginia. 
Gabriel Heister spoke on the topic, How to 
Make Fruit Culture Profitable. He said that the 
fruit grower ought to understand his business 
better than any one else, and not let the tree 
agent take advantage of his ignorance at one 
end of his business and the fruit merchant at the 
other. He ought to know how to buy and how to 
sell. A nurseryman, he thought, was not likely 
to cheat his neighbors, although he might not be 
honest with those far away. The fruit grower 
should grade and pack his fruit as the Califor¬ 
nians do theirs. 
The cash premiums for the month £0 
to very small clubs. At this writing, 
they are not all made up, but there will 
be no delay this month, and club raisers 
will, probably, have their premiums be¬ 
fore they read this. The six $2 weekly 
premiums will be continued during Feb¬ 
ruary, but no club of less than five names 
will compete for these premiums. This 
will make clubs of five practically sure 
of a $2 premium any week during the 
month. 
PENNS YL VANIA HOP TIC UL TURAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
The 38th annual meeting of this society was 
held at Allentown, January 19 and 20. Mr. Wil¬ 
liam H. Moon, of Morrisville, presided, and spoke 
very pointedly of the short-sightedness of those 
who send poor fruit to market, and get almost 
nothing for it, and injure the sale of that which is 
good. 
The report of the General Fruit Committee was 
made by Cyrus T. Fox, of Reading. The apple 
crop in the western part was so heavy that large 
quantities rotted in the orchard for lack of buy¬ 
ers, and many more rotted after being stored. At 
this time, there are many apples in the cellars un¬ 
sold. Those who fed all but the very best grade 
to their live stock in the fall, were wise. Keiffer 
and Seckel pears bore the best this year where 
the crop was light. Spraying again proved its 
usefulness; the arsenicals against the Codling 
moth, and the copper remedies against the fun¬ 
gous diseases. Jarring and catching the curculio 
is the only remedy known for that pest of the 
plum, peach and cherry. The San JosG scale 
came in for a full share of attention, and was 
treated at length by Prof. G. G. Groff, of Lewis- 
burg, Pa. It is steadily increasing in Pennsyl¬ 
vania. While it is not known to be in any nurs¬ 
eries of the State, it is in a number of orchards 
in different sections, and may be expected to 
cover the whole territory unless some means of 
exterminating it are soon found. It not only in¬ 
fests fruit trees and plants, but some of the 
forest trees, and, when once thoroughly scattered, 
it will be impossible to exterminate it. It can be 
kept in check by spraying with whale or fish-oil 
soap — 2*4 pounds to a gallon of hot water. 
Its presence is more easily seen on the fruit in 
summer time. Any supposed attack of it should 
at once be communicated to the experiment sta¬ 
tion of the State in which it appears, that true 
information and assistance may be given. 
Bartlett pear and Fay currant are two of the 
most easily affected of the fruits, and the most 
liable to have the insect. 
H. E. Van Deman, formerly Pomologist of the 
United States Department of Agriculture, told of 
the present state of knowledge as to pear blight. 
The disease runs rampant during the summer, 
and largely dies out in the fall. The germ winters 
over in the more tender and unripe wood where 
the disease was active when winter stopped all 
growth. The next spring, it begins to quicken, 
and a brown juice exudes from the diseased 
parts. This gets on to the feet of insects, which 
carry it to the flowers as they open, and they are 
infested through their delicate organs. Later the 
tender growing branches present a means of the 
germs getting into their tender tissues. It per¬ 
meates the sap, and soon death of a part of the 
branch follows. We then call it pear blight and 
apple and quince-twig blight. It can be held in 
check by united effort. If all diseased branches 
be cut back to healthy wood and burned each 
year, there would soon be few spores in the 
spring to propagate the malady. 
At the evening session, Dr. Schmucker, of the 
State Normal School, delivered an address on 
botany. He picked a lily to pieces before the 
audience, and showed the uses of the different 
parts, especially, the essential central organs. 
He showed how the bee, in his rounds for honey, 
carried the pollen grains on his furry mantle from 
flower to flower, and thus crossed and strength¬ 
ened, as well as helped to propagate the plants 
and trees. 
Prof. S. B. Heiges, Pomologist at Washington, 
spoke of the advantages that would follow the 
selection by the nurserymen of scions only from 
the thriftiest and most productive trees or parts 
of trees, that those which grew from them might 
be of like character. Prof. Van Deman suggested 
to the fruit growers the value of the honey bee as 
a part of the farm force. He defended it against 
the mistaken accusation of biting holes in fruits. 
The following officers were elected: President, 
S. B. Heiges of York; vice-presidents, H. M. Engle 
of Marietta, H. S. Rupp of Shiremanstown, 
Gabriel Heister of Harrisburg; secretary, Cyrus 
T. Fox of Reading; treasurer, Hibbard Bartram 
of Milltown. Lancaster was chosen as the place 
for the next meeting. 
Prof. Van Deman said that he thought the old 
but neglected Summer Rose apple the best of the 
very early kinds for family use. Yellow Trans¬ 
parent the best for market. Jefferis, which orig¬ 
inated near West Chester, is the very best of all 
apples for market or family use ripening about 
September 1. It is beautifully red-striped, and 
as good as a Seckel pear. Stayman, a seedling 
of Wluesap, is like it, only larger, better in qual¬ 
ity, a late keeper, and the tree is of far better 
shape. Arctic is a new apple from New York 
which is very dark red, medium size, good qual¬ 
ity and a late keeper. The Koonce pear for early 
market, and the Garber for fall market, are 
worthy of general trial. Goldsboro peach is the 
latest novelty among the very early kinds. 
Crothers resembles Oldmixon Free in size, shape 
and color, is as good or better in quality and 
about two weeks later, making it better than any 
variety of that color then in season. Yosebe and 
Red June are two of the most promising new 
Japanese plums. Smiley is one of our native 
kinds that has good qualities and is also valu¬ 
able to pollinate the Wild Goose and others of 
that type. Campbell’s Early grape is of unusual 
promise. The Brunette strawberry is of highest 
quality, and the plant vigorous and productive, 
and, perhaps, the best of all strawberries for 
home use. 
Mr. Frank M. Bartram of Parry, N. J., read a 
very complete paper on Chestnut Culture. The 
native varieties were of good quality, but too 
small for market when compared with those of 
the European and Japanese type. Some of the 
latter kinds grown in New Jersey the past sea¬ 
son had sold from $8 to $14 per bushel in the city 
markets at wholesale. Paragon is one of the 
best varieties, all things considered. Reliance is 
exceedingly productive and early in bearing. 
Chestnut orchards, as a rule, do not do well on 
heavy limestone soil, but thrive on that which is 
loose, shaly or sandy, especially on limestone 
uplands. Wild sprouts on stump land are being 
grafted with the choice varieties with success in 
many cases. 
The retiring president and secretary made very 
pleasant remarks concerning the kindness that 
had been shown them during their terms of office. 
Itis a shame that the great Stateof Pennsylvania 
does not appropriate a dollar to help this worthy 
and unselfish society. If this were done, it would 
be still more useful to the farmers and fruit¬ 
growers. rOMOLO. 
A disinterested 
and clear - headed 
judge doesn’t al¬ 
low himself to be 
biased by preju¬ 
dice. Superstition 
doesn’t affect his 
decisions. Mere 
tradition has no 
place in his rea¬ 
soning. Facts are 
the only things 
which he consid¬ 
ers. If the intelli¬ 
gent men and wo¬ 
men who make up 
this great country 
of ours will simply 
bring their reason 
and common-sense 
to bear on the 
S roblem of curing 
_ leir sickness, we 
will soon be a na¬ 
tion most remarkable for health and longev¬ 
ity. The plain, undecorated facts about Dr. 
Fierce’s Golden Medical Discovery are all 
that is necessary to convince fair-minded 
people of its transcendent merit. They 
are as follows: 
All diseases come from germs. The germs 
get into the blood, propagate and increase 
in the blood, which carries them all over the 
body. When they find a weak spot, they 
6 tick to the weak spot. It becomes a dis¬ 
eased spot, and the disease is called by the 
name corresponding to its location in the 
body. The cause is the same for nearly all 
diseases. All impurities are germs, or breed 
§ erms. Impure blood means germ filled 
lood. Kill the germs, eliminate the im¬ 
purities, enrich the blood, and it will force 
itself into the diseased spot and strengthen 
it, and give it power to throw off the germs 
that exist there. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med¬ 
ical Discovery is designed to do this—that 
is the theory. The facts are these—tens of 
thousands of people have used the "Dis¬ 
covery.” It used to be sold with the under¬ 
standing that if it didn’t cure, it should be 
returned, and the money refunded. No¬ 
body ever asked for the money, and so that 
clause was dropped. Thousands of people 
have written voluntary letters of thanks to 
its discoverer. A few of these letters have 
been included in Dr. Pierce’s great thou¬ 
sand page book, Common Sense Medical 
Adviser. It will be sent absolutely free on 
receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay for 
mailing only. Address, with stamps, World’s 
Dispensary Medical Association, No. 663 
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AT THE. 
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Minnesota, 
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Pennsylvania, - 
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Trace 
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