1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
46i 
BOOK BOLLETIN 
For Sale by The Rural New-Yorker 
Plant BRee1>inQ, by Prof. L. H. Bailey; 
a series of plain talks on hybridizing fruits 
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cheese; tables giving rules and tests. 
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fertilizers, and suggestions about their use 
for different crops and conditions. Price, 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
409 Pearl St., New York. 
Market Briefs 
PIOKEB trp SERE ANE THERE 
ODt) FRtrlT NOTES.—Peaches are ar¬ 
riving in car-lots from Georgia, but the 
quality Is inferior. Some of them which 
look really fine taste but little better than 
pumpkin or raw potato. Probably the 
trouble Is that the fruit is picked 
too green. A good many eastern 
cherries are seen, but largely of poor 
quality. California plums are on hand In 
large quantities. As usual they are put up 
in good shape, but are disappointing when 
one tries to eat them. A little later In the 
season they will be better. Watermelons 
are coming by the carload. The quality is 
good, but price too high for general con¬ 
sumption. The better grades of musk- 
melons are scarce. There are plenty of 
strawberries, but prime lots are the ex¬ 
ception. We see a great many that are 
small, sandy and more or less crushed in 
transit. A few Maryland red raspberries 
have been received and peddled out at 10 
to 12 cents a pint. Large blue huckleberries 
are selling well, and the same Is true of 
prime blackberries. 
UNSATISFACTORY SALES.—A corre¬ 
spondent sends us a memorandum of the 
returns received by him for a shipment of 
maple sugar and syrup sold by a New York 
general commission merchant, and feels 
that the low price secured practically 
amounts to robbery. The figures given do 
seem rather low, but the market for maple 
products of late has been very dull, and 
It is possible that this concern got as 
much for the shipment as anyone could. 
We have bought excellent maple sugar 
here (as nearly pure as any that Is to be 
had) at 10 cents a pound retail. This com¬ 
mission firm, of which our correspondent 
complains, has a good name, and is to all 
appearances doing a square business; but 
they are more In the line of fruits and 
vegetables, potatoes being their specialty, 
and such products as maple sugar are 
merely a side Issue. We think that as a 
rule It pays better to ship uncommon 
products of this sort to dealers who make 
a specialty of them. There are those who 
handle nothing but honey, maple sugar and 
syrup; and others have a large trade In 
these goods In addition to other products. 
The chances are that either of these 
classes would handle a shipment of maple 
sugar to better advantage than those who 
perhaps do not receive more than one or 
two consignments of it during a season. 
Unless some chance buyer comes along, 
they have to go out and hunt up a dealer 
who will take it oft their hands, probably 
at a discount. There Is a great difference 
in men in this particular. We have seen 
commission dealers who. In an effort t<j 
sell some shipment they had received, and 
for which there was no call, would chase 
around the streets and spend in time more 
than the value of their commission trying 
to make a satisfactory sale. Others make 
no special effort In such cases, letting the 
stuff stand around In their stores until It 
spoils or Is sold for a trifle. In either case 
the shipper growls at the returns, and the 
nian who takes some trouble to make a 
sale feels that he gets small thanks. The 
dissatisfaction of shippers over prices re¬ 
ceived is a common complaint. There Is 
good ground for It In many cases where 
receivers, through shiftless methods of 
handling, allow stuff to spoil, and then 
write the shipper that It was In that con¬ 
dition when received. The reputation of 
the better dealers suffers from the methods 
of these snides, whose chief qualities are 
laziness and dishonesty. Judging from 
what shippers have told us, we believe that 
when one finds a commission hierchant 
who knows his business and Is careful and 
honest, it Is a good plan to stick to him. 
There are plenty of this class without 
patronizing the frothy concerns whoso 
chief capital consists of fiamlng letter 
heads and great promises, which they 
never carry out. w. w. h. 
FRUIT IN THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY. 
A Trip Among Growers. 
Part ll. 
Tjast week I ended up a 2(X)-mlle drive 
through Orange, Sullivan and Ulster coun¬ 
ties, N. Y., in a two-days’ trip in the 
Hudson River section from southern Ulster 
to Cornwall. Starting from New Paltz In 
Ulster County one plunges right Into the 
fruit orchards at the threshold of the vil¬ 
lage. Through this whole section peaches 
are light. There are some exceptions in 
Individual trees, but the general conditions 
are light foliage, with considerable blight 
and light setting of fruit. C. M. Harcourt 
had some trees pretty well set. His 
peaches were good and plums heavily 
loaded. His ground showed thorough cul¬ 
tivation. Elting T. Deyo owns the adjoin¬ 
ing place, and while apparently not culti¬ 
vating a large acreage his plantings Idok 
well. A young peach orchard of great 
promise, we were told, belongs to J. M. 
Hasbrouck. The trees seemed to be about 
three years from planting. They are 
heavily loaded and look as If there was 
not likely to be any more drop. Mr. Has¬ 
brouck is also a large grape grower. His 
currants are heavily loaded, but are shell¬ 
ing some, and show signs of early color, 
probably due to the fact that the plow 
had turned the earth ayray from the 
canes and left them somewhat exposed. 
This mistake Is pretty sure to hurt the 
crop. This place also has a young orchard 
of apples which promise a nice crop. 
Nathan Elting runs largely to grapes and 
pears, but grows some peaches also. The 
Kleffer seems to do well here as else¬ 
where. H. E. Brown, who enjoys the rep¬ 
utation among some of his neighbors of 
being the best fruit man In his section, 
has about 100 trees that reports say never 
net him less than $1 a tree, and some¬ 
times run close to $1.50. About the only 
fruit that seems at all neglected in this 
section Is the grape. This Is not univer¬ 
sally true, but poor tillage and neglect are 
frequent enough to cause comment, where 
other fields are so well tilled. The con¬ 
dition was explained by one man on the 
ground that the grape crop had not been 
a remunerative one of late. 
Right in the heart of this great fruit 
district one meets good farms devoted to 
dairying. Nathan Rose owns one of these, 
sending his milk to the creamery at New 
Paltz on the Exchange basis, which Is 
now 1% cents per quart to him. A threat¬ 
ening cloud hurried us past Jacob La 
Fevre’s place, which looks Inviting but 
which Is not largely devoted to fruit. The 
storm drove us to shelter In the barn of 
Philip H. Dubois, who with his son Henry 
Is operating a large dairy farm, making 
from eight to 16 cans of milk a day. This 
goes to the Borden condensery at Wall- 
kill at 114 cent. The distance is 14 miles. 
His place contains a large planting of 
young apple trees. His criticism of farm¬ 
ing conditions in that section Is that farm¬ 
ers do not keep stock enough. They take 
all off the farm and put nothing back to 
keep up fertility. Henry is manifesting 
some pardonable pride in a five-year-old 
Hambletonlan mare which he has recently 
purchased. Close to Cllntondale we passed 
a large fruit farm owned by Henry J. 
Dubois, and quite a large planting of 
young grapes by Geo. Hull. The finest 
field of Delawares that w-e saw in this 
section belong to Hurd Brothers Just west 
of Cllntondale. They also had the best¬ 
looking field of Marlboro raspberries we 
had seen up to this point, but farther on 
we saw a fine field on Henry Roe’s ground 
and one or two others farther along 
towards the river, but raspberries are gen- 
ei'ally light and unpromising. 
One of the finest cultivated fruit farms 
that we saw is that one owned by C. A. 
Jenkins and his son, Irwin Jenkins, on 
towards Highland. I believe they are two 
separate farms, though Joining each other. 
Mr. Jenkins put us on the right road to 
Milton, and we tarried long enough to 
learn something of his fruit Industry. He 
has nearly 4,000 grapevines and 250 Japan 
plums. He likes Burbank best. His cur¬ 
rants are promising, no drop to speak of. 
His Bartletts have dropped badly, and he 
does not expect one bushel where he had 
100 last year. Thrlps and borers seem to 
be his greatest annoyance. He has some 
notion of spraying a weak solution of tar 
on the under side of grape leaves for the 
annoyance of thrlps. We encouraged the 
experiment, and would be glad to learn 
later what effect It will have on this rest¬ 
less little pest. All through our ride of 
over 200 miles up to this point we found 
blackberries heavily loaded with blossoms 
and strong vigorous canes. In the vicinity 
of Milton and Marlboro, however, the 
canes had winterkilled badly, and this sec¬ 
tion will be an exception apparently to the 
generally favorable conditions at this 
time. Complaint of a short strawberry 
crop Is also general In this section. The 
fields show lack of foliage, some rust, and 
for the most part light setting of fruit, 
and fully a week or 10 days or more late. 
Wm. Belt seems the favorite with quite 
a large planting of Gibson. In this sec¬ 
tion currants are quite badly affected with 
a scald or leaf blight, which In some places 
has also attacked the fruit. J. A. Hep- 
worth, of Marlboro, has the worst affected 
piece we saw. He has a large planting of 
Fillers. They are well set, and before the 
blight struck them the promise for a 
large crop must have been most encourag¬ 
ing. They seem to be less affected on the 
low ground and where shaded than on the 
high portions of the field. It Is dlfflcult 
to find a satisfactory reason for this con¬ 
dition. It may possibly be due to the in¬ 
tensive cropping In this section. Mr. Hep- 
vorth has great encouragement, however, 
in his prospect for peaches. He has a 
large acreage of well-tilled, well-cared-for 
trees, and the promise for a large crop Is 
all that could be desired. 
After all these observations we did not 
feel entirely satisfied without a look in on 
John R. Cornell, of Newburg. We knew 
that If any man could grow currants and 
pears he could, and so he has. Except 
for an occasional tree here and there he 
has the only crop of Seckel pears we saw- 
on the whole trip. His trees will need to 
be thinned, and the heavy, rich foliage 
promises to carry the fruit through to 
maturity. The trees show effect of liberal 
fertility, thorough culture and plenty of 
spraying. He sprayed with arsenate of 
lead, one pound to 50 gallons of water, and 
four to five gallons to the tree. “I was 
there myself, and the spray went on until 
I said enough,” was the way he put it. 
The arsenate of lead Is favored because 
“It sticks like lead through all the rain.” 
Ground bone, potash, spray material and 
cultivation seem to be the elements In Mr. 
Cornell’s genius for pear growing. His 
Bartletts are set lighter than Seckels, but 
most trees have all the fruit they ought 
to carry. He has some Bose top-worked 
on old Lawrence which are well set. Tw'o 
points that he makes for Bose are that It 
sets fruit all over the tree, and that the 
long stems swing In the wind and the 
fruit does not drop. His currants are al¬ 
most as promising as the pears. One piece 
has rusted a little, but not seriously. The 
aphis Is bothering some, but as a whole 
h's bushes are looking well, with good 
healthy foliage and heavy setting of fruit. 
He was Inclined to think lightly of his 
strawberry crop, but after visiting other 
places we thought he had a good crop, 
though like others late. 
From here we returned to the point of 
starting, the Orange County Nurseries at 
Cornwall, Mr. Dwyer having accompanied 
me on the entire trip. He seems to have 
the art of growing strawberries as com¬ 
pletely conquered as Mr. Cornell has pears. 
The week had done wonders for his vines. 
The plants and foliage had developed, and 
the promise of fruit was such as we saw 
nowhere else. Sharpless, Lovett’s Early, 
and especially Glen Mary yet showed signs 
of the blight referred to last week, and 
light foliage, but they were bearing a nice 
lot of fruit. The Bubach had kept on de¬ 
veloping, and was by all odds the best seen 
on the road. The set of berries was In 
keeping with the foliage. Gandy, Wm. 
Belt, Marshall and Parker Earl had all 
developed a rich foliage, strong stem and 
heavy setting of fruit. The older planting 
of Gibson was light here as elsewhere, but 
a. young bed looked strong and had a good 
setting of fruit. This is a berry of fine 
quality, and It is hoped that It will prove 
a more vigorous grower than this wet sea¬ 
son seems to Indicate. The Rough Rider 
seen here Is a vigorous grower; the fruit 
la medium In size, rather irregular in form 
and of low quality. Among other varieties 
doing well was the NIc Ohmer. It was 
growing In a young bed, vigorous plants, 
rich foliage and good setting of large 
shapely berries of high flavor. The Mar¬ 
shall continues to do well on these grounds. 
I put a tape on one berry picked from a 
young bed that measured 9% Inches arountl. 
Of course, this was exceptional, but shows 
the vigor of the plant, and gives some 
Intimation of its prolific qualities. 
To sum up the whole fruit situation In 
the Hudson River Valley, and omitting the 
exceptions, cherries are almost an entire 
failure; apples and pears will be very light; 
strawberries generally light and late; 
peaches promise an abundant crop; cur¬ 
rants from present Indications good; rasp¬ 
berries for the most part light, and black¬ 
berries unusually promising. Plums abund¬ 
ant. _ J. J. D. 
JAMES WRIGHT, of the produce com¬ 
mission house of Jelllffe, Wright & Co., of 
this city, died suddenly while on his way 
home from business June 18. Mr. Wright 
was 62 years old and had been with this 
firm for 30 years. He was born in north¬ 
ern New York and spent part of his early 
life as a school teacher and clerk In a 
store. At the time of his death he was 
serving his second term as member of the 
Board of Education of Brooklyn. He was 
connected with the order of Good Tem¬ 
plars, and was active In church work. 
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