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March 6 
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one yearly. Subscriptions may be taken for the rest of this year for 75 cents, and 
each one will count as three-quarters of a yearly for commission and premiums. 
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subscribers for The Rubai, New-Yorker, and earn a nice bit of money at the 
same time. You can approach your neighbor in full confidence, because you can 
guarantee that his full dollar will be returned in three months, if he is not 
satisfied with the paper. 
Mr. Platt’s paper on Black Knot was interest 
ing and profitable. The disease is spreading in 
many parts of the State, as it is feeding on wild 
and cultivated cherries. The knot spreads by 
spores, and copper is death to the spores. Cut, 
deep all affected places, and spray in the spring 
with copper sulphate solution, one pound to 25 
gallons of water. Bordeaux Mixture is injurious 
to Japan plum foliage, but helpful to European 
We can grow plums in Connecticut if we will take 
care of the trees. 
Mr. H. W. Colling wood, who spoke next, took 
for his subject the suggestive title. Base Hits 
and Home Runs, showing the necessity of the 
scientific man combining with the farmer, and 
both working harmoniously together to achieve 
success. The farmer hasn’t time to spend in 
scientific work; that must be done by those 
who devote their life to that work. The farmer 
needs the scientist and the scientist needs the 
farmer to suggest the work. The farmer is a 
little ahead of the scientist. Hard times have 
forced us to practice economy, both in the use 
and production of everything. We can’t control 
our market price half so much as we can control 
the cost of production. We must get down to 
hard-pan in our use of fertilizers and, if possible, 
(and it seems possible) get our high-priced ele¬ 
ments from the air, and make our coarse feeding 
plants take up cheap forms of fertilizer and turn 
those in the soil into high-grade goods available 
to any plant. He explained the Delaware method 
of fertilizing, and suggested modified uses of it for 
Connecticut. He recommended buckwheat and 
Canada field peas sown in the orchard in August. 
Many of our soils have become acidified, and lime 
or ashes will benefit them ; 600 pounds of lime or 
25 bushels of ashes per acre will be sufficient. 
Develop the home market; it’s better than the 
foreign. One grower this year shipped 150 barrels 
of apples to Europe, and his net returns were 96 
cents. 
Mr. J. H. Hale was re-elected president; other 
officers for ensuing year are, vice-president, J. M. 
Hubbard, Middletown; secretary, H. C. C. Miles, 
Milford; treasurer, R. A. Moore, Kensington. 
h. o.M. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
CONNECTICUT P0M0L0GISTS MEET. 
The sixth annual meeting of the Connecticut 
Pomological Society was held in Hartford, Feb¬ 
ruary 9 and 10. The average attendance was 
150, and, as is becoming more and more the rule, 
a goodly number of young men were present. 
This society is fortunate in having for its presi- 
dent Mr. J. H. Hale, the widely-known nursery¬ 
man and peach grower. He is inimitable as a 
presiding officer, and things are kept constantly 
on the move. The society’s programme con¬ 
tained, besides the usual bill of fare, a list of 
suggested queotlons to be discussed. These were 
helpful, timely and served to make the meeting 
attractive. On the first day, President Hale gave 
his annual address. He said that the year just 
past had been a particularly trying one for the 
fruit-growing interests of Connecticut. Change¬ 
able climatic conditions the winter previous 
killed the fruit buds of all except the more hardy 
fruits; the canes of raspberries and blackberries 
were badly injured; many fields of strawberries 
were killed, and all more or less injured. This, 
followed by drought in May or June gave the 
State the lightest and poorest crop of small fruit 
it has had for many years. Prices for good ber¬ 
ries were fairly liberal and commercial gi-owers 
who had given good winter protection and were 
able to irrigate through the drought, received 
satisfactory returns. 
Peach and plum crops were almost a total 
failure, which, considering the magnitude of the 
business at the present time, was a loss of 
revenue of fully $500,000. Five successive crops 
previously, however, had demonstrated that the 
climate of Connecticut was fully as reliable as 
that of the so-called “ peach-growing States”, 
and now with the nearly 1,000,000 trees in the 
peach orchards of the State the business would 
continue to be a profitable industry if in every 
orchard and garden a vigorous fight was con¬ 
tinued against the dread disease, the Yellows; 
and all interested in growing, selling and eating 
this delicious fruit would cooperate with the 
State Peach Commission in driving and keeping 
out this disease. 
The one great blessing of 1896 was the apple 
crop, the most abundant for many years, and 
more than usually free from imperfections. 
Prices ruled very low, and net cash returns were 
not so great as in former years; but the great 
crop caused us to seek wider market and a trade 
has been established that will be of lasting bene¬ 
fit. Many small towns all through the south had 
apples in car lots for the first time in 1896, and in 
future years will take many more at higher 
prices. With good culture, proper feeding, spray¬ 
ing and thinning, the apple is still the king of 
fruits for Connecticut. With careful grading and 
honest packing it will always be a safe and sure 
money crop, and that too on much of our rough, 
hilly lands of little value for other crops. Cherry 
planting has been greatly neglected; in nearly 
every home where land is sufficient there is a 
need of from two to six cherry trees right away 
this coming spring, while as a commercial crop, 
our markets are ready for the product of many 
thousands of trees. A love of business, judicious 
advertising, clean packages and honest packing 
are essential points in commercial fruit culture. 
New England buyers are the most refined and 
critical of any and will always pay liberally for 
fruit that is beautiful and good. 
Prof. A. G. Gully, Storrs Agricultural College, 
urged the importance of every pomologist ex¬ 
hibiting his fruit at all the fairs possible. The 
lack of proper naming, classifying of fruit and 
judging of the same were hit in a lively manner. 
Expert judges (single judge), were needed so 
that the same variety of fruit would not go under 
various names and receive premiums as different 
varieties. A specified number, no more no less, 
should constitute a plate, and no plate should 
compete in more than one class. This allows 
better judging as, when plates in collections are 
entered in single plate competition, it makes end¬ 
less work for the judge, and it cannot be done 
satisfactorily. Judging should be done by score 
card, quality and trueness to type should count 
more than mere size. Only part of the specimens 
on plates should be polished. The name of the 
producer should, if possible, always be attached, 
as people who visit fairs like to know who grows 
nice fruit, and it helps to advertise one’s busi¬ 
ness. Resolutions were passed by the society re¬ 
questing fair managers to reform this depart¬ 
ment, and to have uniformity throughout the 
State. 
Prof. Brinton, of the Connecticut Experiment 
Station, rather discouraged his hearers when he 
announced that there were 1,000 kinds of insects 
that prey on fruit in Connecticut, and 216 on the 
apple alone. The Currant-stalk borer was de¬ 
scribed, and he recommended cutting off the 
tips of shoots affected, and burning them; this 
prevents the further spread of the insects. 
Canker worms were more prevalent than usual 
the past season in Connecticut, and watchful 
spraying with Paris-green and arsenite of lead 
is the best remedy. The spring and fall canker 
worms are so nearly alike that only a trained 
eye can detect the difference. San Jos6 scale is 
widely scattered in the State, especially in the 
southern part, and it is the most feared of any 
of the pests. Prof. Brinton spoke of the neces¬ 
sity of understanding the habits of our insects in 
order to fight them intelligently and successfully. 
We should know whether an insect is a “sucker ” 
or an “ eater.” 
Mr. H. E. Van Deman spoke on Mutual Relations 
between Nurserymen and Fruit Growers. He 
said that the nurserymen, as a class, are an hon¬ 
est lot of men, and do not deserve the abuse that 
is often heaped upon them. The nurseryman 
ought to be an entomologist, a botanist and my¬ 
cologist, besides having a strong love for his 
business. He should, also, know what fruits will 
succeed in all varieties of soil, latitude and 
longitude. He can then be of great service to 
his customers, who must, many times, rely almost 
entirely upon his judgment. A fruit grower 
should know how to take care of his trees when 
received. If they are frozen, bury immediately in 
soft, moist ground. Frozen trees die from evap¬ 
oration of moisture, and this may be avoided by 
burying. Severe pruning when setting, of both 
root and top, was recommended, especially of 
plum and peach trees. The time may come when 
the Stringfellow method will generally prevail. 
Keep trees away from the air until you plant 
them. It is a good practice to dip them in a pud¬ 
dle of mud and water just before setting, and get 
the best soil close to where the roots are to grow. 
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