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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
February 22 
“$500 From 12 Hens." 
F. P., Capron, Ia.—W e have been 
reading of late, much about “ hens by 
the acre” ; but inclosed find a hen story 
that will “ beat ’em all.” These cir¬ 
culars are flooding the country here. 
The times are hard, and if the half of 
Prof. Corbett’s story were true, what a 
boon to the poor farmers it would be. If 
the book is just published, how can 
“ Moore's Rural New-Yorker” give an 
opinion about it ? Has it not been over 
20 years since Moore’s was dropped from 
The R. N.-Y. ? How could Prof. Corbett 
be awarded diplomas by agricultural 
societies of Brocton County, Mass., and 
Denison County, Ia. ? Where are those 
counties? As that shining light on 
Gallinoculture Science, has his place of 
business in your burgh, I thought that I 
would not send a hard-earned dollar for 
his book, until The R. N.-Y. had turned 
its search light on him and his publica¬ 
tion. 
R. N.-Y.—As explained last week, this 
is an old book written when little was 
known about incubation. To-day it is 
simply a “ back number” and ’way back 
at that. It is of no value to any wide¬ 
awake poultry man. If one wished to 
make Prof. Corbett a present of $1 for 
the good he did 25 years ago, this is a 
fine opportunity. If you wish to invest 
that dollar in poultry, we adtise you to 
keep it in your pocket, rather than pur¬ 
chase this product of “ gallinocultural 
science.” 
Wood Growth in Kansas. 
J. E. H., Emporia, Kan.— In the spring 
of 1894, a sycamore and cottonwood 
came up from the seed, near a fence. 
After 11 years of growth, they intruded 
too much on the evergreens, and a few 
days ago they were felled. They meas¬ 
ured as follows : Cottonwood, circumfer¬ 
ence 29 inches ; height, 40 feet; Syca¬ 
more, circumference 39 inches ; height, 
42feet. All this in droughty Kansas. The 
cottonwood had 10 rings, the sycamore 
nine. The latter made the growth of 
one inch in one year, as indicated by 
the ring. 
Rot in Plums. 
W. W. S., Mercer County, N. J.—An 
inquiry was made some months ago in 
the columns of The R. N.-Y., as to a 
remedy for rot in plums. The reply 
seemed to take it for granted that the 
rot in question was caused by curculio. 
If the reply was not satisfactory to the 
inquirer, the following statement may 
be of interest to lnm : A few years ago, 
the nursery firm of Jos. H. Black Son & 
Co., added an adjoining farm to their 
grounds. The senior member of the 
firm noticed three large plum trees 
which had set a goodly amount of fine- 
looking fruit. He inquired of the former 
owner as to name or character of the 
plum. He could not inform him as the 
trees had never given a crop during his 
acquaintance with the farm. Mr. Black 
felt quite confident that this year would 
be an exception ; but every plum rotted 
—when nearly full-grown, I think. The 
next year the trees were sprayed three 
times with Bordeaux Mixture—the first 
time when the plums were about as 
large as peas, and then at intervals of, 
perhaps, two weeks. The result was a 
crop of 10K bushels, or 21 baskets, of 
plums nearly the size of the Imperial 
Gage. The trees have during different 
AH! WIIAT DELICIOUS COFFEE. 
Thus a Texas lady writes, and I grew it for less 
than half a cent a pound from Salzer’s Great 
German Coffee Berry, coffee better than Rio! 
That’s a general vei-dict! A 15-cent package 
gives 30 pounds. Largely used in Germany, 
France, Holland and England. 60,000 bushels 
Seed Potatoes cheap. 
If you will cut tills out and send it with 
15 cents stamps to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., 
La Crosse, Wis., you will get a package of above 
great coffee seed and our 148 page seed catalogue! 
Catalogue alone five cents,"_ 
years been sprayed and again neglected, 
but always with the same result; the 
plums matured when sprayed, and rotted 
when neglected. 
Some Pacific Coast Apples. 
A. W., Marshfield, Ore. —According 
to the statements in The R. N.-Y. of 
October 12 and 26, the impression that 
all the apples grown on the Pacific Coast 
lack in color, flavor, shape and keeping 
qualities, prevails among Eastern pomol- 
ogists. Not intending to dispute or 
doubt the sincerity of the statements, I 
beg to make a few remarks. By obser¬ 
vation, I noticed that the physical situa¬ 
tion of a region, and the different soils, 
have a great influence on the coloring of 
the fruit, and that the color is more 
prominent in fine autumn weather, with 
alternate showers, and concluded that 
the cause of the acknowledged fact that, 
in high altitudes, the fruit has better- 
color, shape and keeping qualities, may 
be due to the existence of the mineral 
substances in the soil, and to the solar 
beams striking on an elevated and pro¬ 
tected ground. A little experimenting 
with adding mineral substances to the 
soil, not only convinced me of their im¬ 
portant influence on the shape, color and 
keeping qualities of the fruit, but also 
impressed me with their influence on 
self-fertilization, and the resistance of 
fungous and other diseases of the fruit 
trees. I anticipate the time when it will 
be in the fruit growers’ power to regu- 
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