1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Sprayingr of Plants, by E. G. Lode- 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
409 Pearl St., New York. 
Market Briefs 
PICKED DP HERE AND THEBE 
STRAWBERRY VS. ORANGE.—The or¬ 
ange Is feeling the effect of the large auan- 
tlty of cheap strawberries on the market, 
and prices have taken a decided tumble. 
This is to bo expected, and the figures for 
oranges from this time on will be more or 
less affected by the various Summer fruits. 
The drop In price, however, will put the 
fruit within the reach of many new custo¬ 
mers, and thus sales will continue heavy. 
LEMON TRADE.—Of course, there Is a 
regular demand for lemons the year 
around, but an increased Summer trade is 
always expected, and the ups and downs 
of this Summer business usually follow 
very closely those of the thermometer. 
Most restaurants now furnish lemonade, 
and in hot weather many patrons take it 
in preference to tea or coffee. During a 
long period of hot weather, lemonade 
stands spring up around the streets like 
mushrooms. 
NEW POTATOES In large quantities are 
arriving from the South, and prices have 
declined. In one day this week 8,000 bar¬ 
rels came from the South. Prices run from 
J1.75 to $3.50. Many of them are of good 
size and quality, but, like all new potatoes, 
look bad on account of the tender skin be¬ 
ing knocked off. It will be well for ship¬ 
pers to keep in close touch with their mar¬ 
kets, so as not to overdo the business and 
create a surplus that will result In dis¬ 
astrous prices. It is very easy to over¬ 
stock a market with perishable stuff in hot 
weather; and, like an animal that has been 
cloyed by overfeeding, some time Is re- 
qtilred to get over the effects of such a 
mistake. Only a few days since the local 
board of health condemned L500 barrels of 
southern cabbage that had been here too 
long. 
UNRIPE BANANAS.-It is in this con¬ 
dition that they are usually sold and 
eaten. Those that are Intended for ship¬ 
ment to this market are picked green as 
grass, and many of them are in this shape 
when unloaded from the steamers. If 
shipped when too near ripe, they are likely 
to spoil on the way, melting down in the 
hold of the vessel Into an indescribable 
mass of rottenness. Great loss Is also ex¬ 
perienced from this cause when vessels are 
detained by accident or storm. But few 
people, however, seem to know that a 
banana is not ripe enough to be fit to eat 
until the skin Is more or less brown and 
discolored. As a general rule buyers ap¬ 
pear to think that the speck on a banana 
skin makes the fruit unwholesome, as It 
would an apple or orange, and they reject 
all such. The banana peddler has to sell 
the thoroughly ripe fruit at almost any 
price to get rid of It, and people go on buy¬ 
ing the green bananas which are really 
raw and to some extent indigestible. More 
red bananas than usual are seen this year. 
They cost more, and are more highly nu¬ 
tritious than the yellow ones. 
NEW MILK PRODUCT.-It is not really 
new, yet not at all well known here. 
Koumiss has been made for a long time 
in eastern countries, and as prepared there 
is an Intoxicating drink. It Is merely fer¬ 
mented milk. It, however, can be made 
so as not to be Intoxicating, and an in¬ 
creasing trade Is being worked up In It In 
drug stores and dairies In this city. When 
more people learn Its value as a Summer 
drink, this business Is bound to Increase, 
and a trade that puts a new value on the 
product of the cow must be a benefit to 
the farmer. Some people whose stomachs 
rebel against milk In any other form, can 
use koumiss. What to drink In hot weather 
is not a troublesome question for those 
who have plenty of pure spring water at 
hand. As it bubbles up through the gravel 
or slate rock, one many drink as much as 
he wishes without harm, and thirst is sat¬ 
isfied, but the reservoir water with which 
most cities are supplied is a different ar¬ 
ticle. Those who live among these brick 
walls and pavements during long periods 
of hot weather are often troubled with a 
distressing thirst which is difficult to sat¬ 
isfy. Iced city water does not do the busi¬ 
ness; soda is only an aggravation; and 
lemonade and cold tea seem to be the most 
.satisfying of ordinary drinks. From fe- 
peated trials the better brands of koumiss 
have been found the most satisfying for 
this purpo.se, and it has the further merit 
of being a food as well as a drink. It has 
a little of the flavor of sour buttermilk and 
enough snap and sparkle to make It pal¬ 
atable. It would seem as though some of 
the dairies which have large plants In the 
country and supply private customers here, 
might well boom this trade. If once thor¬ 
oughly Introduced, so that people learned 
Its value, there would be a steady demand 
for it, as It has all the desirable qualities 
of the best buttermilk, is much more nu¬ 
tritious, and can be used without harm by 
those with weak stomachs. w. w. h. 
FRUIT IN THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY. 
A Trip Among Growers. 
T^ast week I took a drive through the 
Hudson River fruit section from New¬ 
burgh south as far as Mountalnvllle. I 
have never before found strawberries so 
backward at this time in June. The effect 
of cold wet weather Is apparent. For the 
most part the crop Is lacking in foliage, 
and there is considerable blight, showing 
lack of fertilization caused no doubt by 
the excessive rain. There are, of course, 
some exceptions to this general rule. The 
Bubach on T. J. Dwyer’s grounds at Corn¬ 
wall Is everything that could be desired. 
I rarely see a more vigorous plant or a 
stronger or richer foliage than in his field 
planting of this variety, and the promise 
of fruit, while possibly a week later than 
usual, is certainly most encouraging. Will¬ 
iam Belt on these grounds is also In good 
condition, and most promising for a fruit 
yield. But Glen Mary, Brandywine, Cum¬ 
berland, Triumph and some other varieties 
have not the growth of foliage nor promise 
of fruit that the rich condition of the soil 
and evident care would lead one to expect, 
and which Is usually rewarded on these 
grounds. At the Phleffer fruit farm near 
Mountalnvllle, where strawberries usually 
are at their best, I saw the same condl- 
tlons—light foliage and blight. At Cyrus 
Shaw’s place at Mounl:iinvllle the prevail¬ 
ing conditions were the same. Wm. Belt 
showed decided lack of foliage, and Gibson 
still more. Both under favorable condition 
of soil and cultivation. 
Cherries, both sour and sweet, are going 
to bo a light crop in this section. They 
may run from one-third to possibly one- 
half crop. They, however, show marked 
evidence of rot, and some indication of im¬ 
mature ripening, and the final result is 
likely to be rather under than over the 
above estimates. Pears as a whole are go¬ 
ing to be light here, possibly one-third 
crop. On Mr. Shaw’s grounds, however, 
1 saw some young Kieffers which bear a 
nice crop, and some trees of Seckel were 
as well loaded as one could wish. Some 
Anjou trees thjit had been cut back se¬ 
verely for grafting with Bose stock had a 
line setting on the remaining wood, and 
will boar more fruit than trees In adja¬ 
cent rows which were not so pruned. As 
a rule both the Bartlett and Anjou trees 
are lacking in foliage, and not well set 
with fruit, which, of course, the June drop, 
which is late, will reduce still more. 
In peaches and Jai)an plums, however, 
the conditions are different. The promise 
for both these fruits Is most encouraging. 
Trees which bore heavily last year are 
again loaded down with young fruit now, 
and this condition prevails ,at Mr. Dwyer’s, 
Mr. Shaw’s and at other places in this sec¬ 
tion. In Mr. Dwyer’s nursery rows Bur- 
liank and Abundance are simply a sight to 
behold. The finest specimens of Abundance 
are to be seen at Mr. Shaw’s place. The 
trees are set well apart, on rich soil well 
worked, and the set of fruit is not too 
heavy as Is frequently the case. The re¬ 
sult Is healthy vigorous trees and an 
abundance of finely developed young fruit. 
Both Mr. Dwyer and Mr. Doxey, who has 
charge of Mr. Shaw’s recent plantings, 
class the Abundance at the head of the 
plum list, and equal In quality to the 
strawberry. The October Purple Is grow¬ 
ing on both these grounds. Some on Mr. 
Dwyer’s ground set In 1899 were bearing 
liberally. On one such young tree I count¬ 
ed not less than 160 plums, larger and bet¬ 
ter developed than the Burbank or Abund¬ 
ance nearby, though a later variety. These 
were on peach stock. The trees on plum 
stock were smaller, bore only a few plums 
and those of a small size, but strange to 
.say on Mr. Shaw’s grounds this condition 
was reversed. Those on peach stock win¬ 
terkilled, trees were small and bore little 
or no fruit, while the trees on peach stock 
were larger and more promising In every 
way. The Wlckson does not here compare 
favorably with the above varieties. The 
size and shape of tree are not so good, and 
the foliage is sparse. Mr. Shaw has quite 
a large planting of young Windsor cherries, 
but the cherry crop with him is light also. 
The crop of peaches on both old and 
young trees is big. Mr. Shaw’s trees bore 
heavily last year. They are heavily set 
again now. Some of his older trees, while 
heavily set with young fruit, show a lack 
of foliage, probably due,partly to the cold 
wet weather, and partly to the heavy crop¬ 
ping of last year. In his new planting his 
Elbertas show a denser foliAge and a good 
sot of fruit. Currants at Mr. Dwyer’s place 
thre.aten to come In with the strawberries. 
Fay is heavily loaded again this year, as 
it was last. At Mr. Shaw’s the old cur¬ 
rants were hardly up to the average as a 
whole. Some bushes are good, but they do 
not run universally so. The crop was a 
fair average one, however, on his later 
plantings. The apple crop is not a big one 
throughout this section. Mr. Dwyer’s crop 
is good, big in fact, but he Is not a large 
grower. Mr. Shaw Is. He had a good crop 
last year, and will have a good many ap¬ 
ples this year, but his trees do not all 
promise well. While individual trees show 
a heavy setting many others are light or 
lacking in fruit entirely, and in foliage as 
well. Eugene Bartow, near Mountalnvllle, 
has a large planting of young Kleffer 
pears. They are looking most th'rilfty. 
They are young for fruiting, but there will 
bo fruit later. J. W. Spencer’s orchards 
look thrifty and his home grounds are In¬ 
viting. Mrs. E. T. Tenney’s peaches bear 
a promise of large crop, in keeping with 
general conditions of the crop through this 
section. I will tell about conditions farther 
up the river next week. j. j. d. 
The Chicken Crop. 
A Goon AvEnAOE.—From the reports I 
have had I think the average hatches 
have been better than \isual, and the 
chicks are doing better than the average 
.season, and much better than one would 
believe from the very wet weather we 
have had. There certainly seem to be 
plenty of chicks In this section and fine 
healthy ones. I have already marketed 
this season’s hatch of chicks that weighed 
seven pounds to the pair, and they sold 
for almost $1 each. They were sold about 
the middle of May. n. A. mottnt. 
New .Ter.sey. 
Boon I,ucK.—Most people hereabouts re¬ 
port poor success In hatching and raising 
chicks this year. A neighbor set two 
Cyphers Incubators holding 220 eggs each, 
from which he hatched only 80 chicks, all 
of which died. He is a man of consider¬ 
able experience, and cannot account for 
his failure. I believe his later hatches 
have been better, but are below the aver¬ 
age.- Our experience has been quite satis¬ 
factory and we have no complaint to 
make. We have a 320-egg Plneland ma¬ 
chine, which has hatched three times this 
season, and which I set for the fourth 
time to-day. Our chicks have been strong 
and we have succeeded In raising almost 
all of them. We have hatched about 60 
per cent of the eggs put Into the ma¬ 
chines. This Is not as well as many do, 
but is not by any means a total failure. 
We have an indoor sectional brooder and 
three small outdoor brooders. W'e like 
the indoor brooder when the chicks are 
small as we are able to regulate tempera¬ 
ture more evenly. After chicks are three 
weeks old we shift to outdoor brooders, 
where they (io very well. n. w. n. 
Mill Brook, Conn. 
Hens Do Weli,.— After using the incu¬ 
bator and brooder for five or six years, I 
came to the conclusion, as I wanted only 
about 200 chicks a year to keep up niy 
supply of layers, that I could do it better 
with hens, so now the hens do all the 
hatching and brooding In the brooder 
house till the snow is off the ground, and 
then In some small yards, 4x12 feet, wltB 
18-lnch boards and four feet wire netting, 
I have a small box In one end with a sash 
of glass over the front for the chicks to 
get under In case of rain. As far as I can 
hear the hatchings of chicks have not been 
above the average around this section. I 
have set 31 hens this year, and I have now 
2.50 chicks besides those that have died 
(about 16). This is the best I have ever 
done, although the weather has been very 
bad this Spring; 12 Inches of rain In April 
and May. I never had chicks grow as 
they have this year; two that were 
hatched February 28, when about 13 weeks 
old, weighed. Light Brahma cockerel, 
4 6-16 pounds, Brahma and P. Rock cock¬ 
erel, 4 2-16 pounds. The first feed of the 
chicks was fine cracked corn and whole 
wheat. In three days I commenced to 
give beef scraps; cracked com and scraps 
are kept before them all the time; the 
supply is renewed twice a day. Some¬ 
times at noon the smaller ones get sour 
milk cheese. At night when their crops 
are full, ready for bed, I give them boiled 
potatoes which they think Is a kind of 
pie or pudding. So far I am shaking 
hands with myself over the results this 
Spring. V. B. HASERTCK. 
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