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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 1, 1896 
FROM A VERMONT FRUIT FARM. 
I note what you say in January number 
of Green's Fruit Grower about my fruit 
trees having 1 come from a Rochester 
nursery, which is correct, but I would 
like to add a word more. For manv 
years I bought nursery stock for my own 
planting of traveling tree agents, who 
were selling for the best nurseries. I 
paid for plum, pear and cherry trees 
from SI to S3 each. My large orders led 
a certain nurseryman to think that I 
would make a good tree agent, for some 
eight or nine years ago he sent me a can¬ 
vasser's outfit and offered me a salary or 
60 per cent for selling and delivering 
fruit stock for him. This set me to 
thinking that if they could pay 60 per 
cent for selling and delivering their 
stock, it could not cost much at first 
hands. So I sat down and wrote to 
Charles A. Green for his wholesale cata¬ 
logue, which came in due season, and 
after a careful perusal of it I felt like 
the boy who wanted to hire some one to 
kick him. I found that I could buy of 
Green’s nursery for about 25 cents what 
I had been paying SI for. But I had my 
doubts about this cheap stock being 
good. However, the next spring I risked 
a small order and was agreeably sur¬ 
prised, for I found it the best stock I 
had ever had from any nursery at any 
price. 1 took much pains to show this 
stock to my neighbors, and the next 
spring many of them put their orders 
with mine, and got their stock as cheap 
as I did. Thus year after year since 
then my orders for stock of Green's 
Nursery Company have increased, until 
now it takes several large boxes to hold 
it. 1 am no “ tree agent ” and do not go 
out soliciting orders. The orders come 
to me. 1 have found the stock first- 
class, and so far as it has fruitel, it is 
always true to name, and I found G. N. 
Co., always square and honorable in all 
their dealings. 
The company of whom I used to buy 
sent an agent here some years ago, and 
after spending several days and being 
met at every door with the remark, “Oh, 
no. We don't want anything from you : 
we give our orders to Mr. Halladay.” 
he wrote his firm that there was no 
need of staying here any longer. Their 
reply was that “there must be a stop put 
to that at once, to stay here four weeks 
and thoroughly canvass the town.” Well, 
the agent stayed, and when he got 
through he came to me and showed me his 
order, which amounted to less than $ 8 . A 
gentleman drove up to my door last 
winter. He sat down and eyed me for 
some time. Well, says he, “ I have 
driven 10 miles to see you. I am selling 
(or trying to sell) fruit stock for- 
Nursery Company. I have just started 
for them, and nearly every house 1 called 
at I was told that ‘we order all our stock 
through Mr. Halladay.’ I have come 10 
miles to see what kind of stock you can 
sell at such prices.” I took the agent to 
my orchard and showed him the stock I 
had growing (all from Green’s Nursery 
Company) and he declared that it was 
the best he had ever seen, and that he 
would go home and give up trying to 
sell at the prices he had been trying to 
get. Most agents tell their customers 
not to deal with me or Green, but for all 
this my orders to Green’s Nursery Com 
pany each year are more than four times 
that of all the tree agents who come to 
this town. I have as fine an orchard of 
young trees as can be found in this 
State, and every tree was bought of 
Green’s Nursery Company, Rochester, 
N. Y.—A. A. Halladay, Vermont. 
Note : Our readers will remember that 
The Rural New-Yorker published on 
its first page a photographic cut of Mr. 
Ilalladay’s fruit farm and home, with a 
long article describing his methods of 
culture, and relating the story of his 
success. This article was published in 
the November 30, (1895) issue.—C. A. 
Green Rochester, N. Y. 
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CONTENTS. 
Rural New-Yorker, February 1, 1896. 
FARM TOPICS. 
Sowing Millet.66 
Width of Cow Stall.66 
More About Corn Hay.66 
Self-cleaning Stalls.66 
A Crop of Oats. 67 
Fertilizers for Canadian Corn.67 
A Fanner’s Carrot Crop.67, 68 
Early-sown Rye a Failure.68 
Coal Tar for a Tin Roof.6b 
Blasting Stumps with Dynamite.68 
Can We-Starve the White Grubs?.69 
Wood Ashes and Leather Scraps.69 
Potash with Manure and Fish.69 
Howto Prevent Bursting Cabbages.69 
Success with Sublimate Solution.73 
Likes Corn Hay.73 
Potatoes at Twenty-eight Inches.73 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY. 
Ten Cows; Two Tons of Butter.65 
The Business Jersey Cow.65, 66 
A Cold Country Hoghouse.66 
Making Farrow Cow Beef.66 
Some Cow Notes.66 
Hen Ration Suggested.66 
That Leather Chewer.66 
Sugar Beets and Ensilage.67 
Farmers as Breeders.67 
Care and Feed for Breeding Ducks.67 
Let the Farmer Pay Milk Rates.68, 69 
Churning the Whole Milk.69 
A Bone Cutter Pays.73 
Feeding a Hen. Part IV.78 
The Cheshire Swine Breeders.78, 79 
Death to the Rats.79 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Treatment of Pear Trees.66 
Miller Raspberry Hardy.67 
Sowing Flower Seeds.68 
Rhubarb for the Farm.69 
Grafting German Prune on Plums.69 
When Pears Will Bear. 69 
Horse-radish for Market.69 
WOMAN AND THE HOME. 
Editorials.74 
A Work-Saving Kitchen.74, 75 
Shall Women Propose?.75 
Opening of a Night-Blooming Cereus.75 
Uses of Yawning.75 
Crumbs from Different Tables.75 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Free Mail Delivery ; Fractional Currency. 66 
Grapes in Cold Storage.69 
Catalogue Reviews.70, 71 
Editorials.72 
Brevities. .72 
Business Bits...73 
As We Go to Press.76 
Markets... 77 
Crop and Market Notes...77 
Humorous.80 
