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March 9 
EASTERN N. Y. HORT. SOCIETY. 
Past III. 
The substance of the transportation com¬ 
mittee’s report was to the effect that the 
profits of fruit growing largely disappear 
In transportation. Most growers can raise 
good fruits, but they cannot always get 
them to market economically. The project 
of getting reduced and uniform rates la 
very full of difficulties and will take much 
time. The legislative committee reported 
that the Short-package law had been quite 
generally disregarded by dealers, as there 
is little Inducement to enforce the law, no 
official being charged with the duty. 
Makers had lots of material on hand for 
short barrels when the law went Into ef¬ 
fect. Many manufacturers complied with 
the law, and marked their barrels and 
packages “short.” The law must be amend¬ 
ed by bringing It under the direction of 
the Commissioner of Agriculture, and mak¬ 
ing Inspection and enforcement of the law 
mandatory. 
Prof. G. H. Powell, of the Delaware Ex¬ 
periment Station, said, In a paper on peach 
growing on the Chesapeake Peninsula, that 
commercial peach growing began near the 
northern border of the State nearly 75 years 
ago. At that time the trees were nearly all 
seedlings. By 1832 there was a regular 
boom In the business, and In 1848 orchards 
of 50,000 trees were known. Lands had 
jumped from $40 to $50 an acre to $150. In 
1875 632,000 bushels of peaches were shipped 
from Middletown, then the center of the 
district. In 25 years from planting the or¬ 
chards had nearly disappeared from each 
locality, being killed by yellows. It started 
In 1842, and has diminished very little in 
violence. The peach-growing belt has fol¬ 
lowed a line down the center of Delaware, 
and Is now centered about Milford in south¬ 
ern part. The yellows In Its destructive 
form has not moved more than 10 miles In 
as many years. Systematic efforts for 
stamping It out have only been made for 
the last two years. The decline In peach 
growing Is making important social and 
economical changes in Delaware. In the 
best-managed orchards the yellows is con¬ 
trolled by the prompt destruction, root and 
branch, of every tree that ripens an im¬ 
mature peach, without waiting for any 
further evidence of disease, which experi¬ 
ence has shown may be deferred for some 
time. It has been demonstrated that young 
trees may be replanted with comparative 
safety where diseased trees have been re¬ 
moved in the early stages of the trouble. 
The real nature of the disease is still a 
mystery. 
Prof. John Craig, of Cornell Experiment 
Station, gave a talk on apple growing In 
western New York, Illustrated with many 
excellent stereoptlcon views of notable or¬ 
chards In the State. Particular emphasis 
was placed on thorough cultivation and 
the use of quickly-grown cover crops for 
Winter protection of the soil. The growth 
of such available plants as rye, oats, 
vetches, the clovers and cow peas was well 
shown on the screen. 
CENTRAL N. Y. HORT. SOCIETY. 
The twelfth annual meeting of the Cen¬ 
tral New York Horticultural Society was 
held at the Chamber of Commerce rooms, 
Syracuse, February 22. Officers were elect¬ 
ed as follows: President, S. T. Betts; vice- 
presidents, Rev. Wm. A. Beauchamp, A. - 
D. Perry, E. A. Powell, J. Wm. Smith, A. 
C- Chase; secretary, N. H, Chapman; treas¬ 
urer, David Campbell. Executive com¬ 
mittee, S. W. Rose, C. A. Pox, Geo. Ham, 
Peter Kay, P. H. Ebeling and John T. 
Roberts. It was proposed to hold a rose 
show June 6-7 next, at which time the 
amateur growers would be Invited to par¬ 
ticipate in the competition for prizes to 
be offered by the Society. The Society also 
took action to send delegates to the second 
annual exhibition of the American Rose 
Society, which is to be held at the Waldorf- 
Astoria, New York City, March 19-21. 
President S. T. Betts and David Campbell 
were elected as delegates, and A. C, Chase 
and J. Wm. Smith as alternates. The 
proposition was also presented at the 
meeting to hold a Chrysanthemum show 
November 12-14. The Central New York 
Horticultural Society has done a good work 
in this community for a number of years, 
and has encouraged a larger interest along 
the line of horticulture and fforlculture. 
There is an earnest desire on the part of 
the Society to extend its infiuence and en¬ 
large Its field of labor. n. h. c. 
Fruits in Eastern Ohio. —Esopus Spitz- 
enburg apple is not very satisfactory any 
place in this State, and less so than for¬ 
merly. It Is rarely planted now. Moun¬ 
tain Rose, Champion and Crosby are very 
satisfactory peaches for home use in the 
section named. They are comparatively 
hardy, which is to be considered in that 
section, besides, are of good quality. Cham¬ 
pion particularly, w. j. o. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
A CITY HAH TURNS FARHER, 
Crowded Into the Farm. 
Part 1, 
For many years it had been a favorite 
expression of my wife’s: “I hope some 
time before we die we may own a little 
place out in the country,” but I did not 
think it wise to leave a good position 
where a living was assured, for the un¬ 
certainties of farming. Finally, the fin¬ 
ancial panic of 1893 came, paralyzing 
business, closing the factory in Brook¬ 
lyn, N. Y., where I was shipping and re¬ 
ceiving clerk, and I went home that 
night and said to my wife: “The hour 
has come, we’ll go now and look fof a 
farm.” Right here I wish to give an 
illustration of the lasting power of a 
well-worded advertisement. A year pre¬ 
vious to this time I read in a New York 
paper: “Farm for sale! An 80-acre 
farm, 2% miles from railroad station, ^ 
mile from churches, school, post oflBce, 
store, etc. High location, good neigh¬ 
bors, 23 kinds of grafted apples, cherries 
and small fruits in abundance. Trout 
brook runs through the farm. Price, 
$1,000.” I had cut this out and put it in 
my pocketbook, and now wrote asking 
whether that farm was still for sale. Re¬ 
ceiving reply that it was, my wife and I 
started out with the address of a num¬ 
ber of farms, some in Massachusetts, 
which we went to see, but decided on 
buying the Connecticut farm as being 
best value for the price. It was Sep¬ 
tember 16; beautiful Fall weather; the 
ground covered with apples, and an as¬ 
pect of restfulness and peace about the 
place that was indescribably charming 
to a man fresh from the hurry and tur¬ 
moil of city life. 
The owner was a country carpenter 
whose outside work had caused him to 
neglect the farm, but he had three cows 
and two hogs which I bought, and paid 
him also $100 for eight tons of hay in 
the barn. The butter from the cows he 
had been selling to a relative who kept 
a restaurant in a manufacturing village 
six miles away. That was the only 
source of income which I could look for¬ 
ward to. Returning to the city, I began 
to realize with constantly increasing 
trepidation, what a decided break we 
were about to make, and how terribly 
ignorant I was of how to perform the 
labor which it would soon be necessary 
for me to assume. Milking was my chief 
terror, I remember occupying a large 
part of the time—even when on the 
street—in closing my hands the index 
finger first—to keep the milk from go¬ 
ing back into the udder—then the other 
fingers in succession to squeeze it out. 
I had the theory all right, but found 
later that theory and practice were two 
quite different things. 
At last the furniture was all packed, 
also a stock of provisions boxed, and 
taken to the New York pier, where I saw 
it loaded on the freight boat Monday 
afternoon. We had arranged to remain 
in the city three days to give plenty of 
time for the goods to arrive in Willing- 
ton, where a teamster had been engaged 
to take it to the farm on Thursday, when 
the family would arrive. The owner 
was to move out so that we could have 
possession on that day, caring for the 
stock until then. How these well-ar¬ 
ranged plans turned out I will tell next 
week. G. A. c. 
Willington, Conn. 
Vermont Fruit Trials.—I have made 
trials In fruits for many years, such as 
grapes, plums, cherries and the different 
berries, but In this climate It Is not always 
conducive to good and pure thoughts. The 
pleasure of seeing them grow will compen¬ 
sate for some of the ravages of Jack Frost. 
M. H. W. 
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