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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 7, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
[Every query must be accompanied by 
tbe name and address of the writer to in¬ 
sure attention. Before asking a question, 
please see whether it is not answered in 
our ^advertising columns. Ask only a few 
questions at one time. Put questions on a 
separate piece of paper. 1 
Walnut Timber. 
S. G., Elmira, Ore .—Is the wood of the 
English walnut and the Japan kinds, such 
as Juglans Sieboldi and .1. cordiformis as 
valuable as that our Black walnut? 
Ans.— The timber produced by the Eng¬ 
lish, or rather Persian, walnut, Juglans 
regia, is not nearly so valuable as that 
from our native Black walnut, J. nigra, 
seldom growing as large and massive, and 
usually finishing up lighter in color. The 
wood of the Japan nuts above mentioned 
is comparatively soft and light, like that 
of our butternut, J. cinerea. All have 
fome value if well grown, but the Black 
walnut is much the best. 
Hedge Locust for Posts. 
IV. L. P., Palmyra, N. V.—Can you tell 
me anything in regard to the durability' of 
posts (fence posts) cut from locust, such as 
is used for hedges? I can get them for 
cleaning up an old hedge that has been neg¬ 
lected. 
Ans.— We do not understand just what 
tree is referred to. The Yellow or Black 
locust, Robinia pscudacacia, is seldom or 
never used for hedges, but the wood is 
most durable, lasting from JO to 75 years 
when used as fence posts. The Honey 
locust, Gleditschia triacanthos, is some¬ 
times used as a defensive hedge. The 
wood is quite durable, but much inferior 
to that of the Black locust, seldom lasting 
more than 10 to 15 years in the soil. The 
thorny Osage orange, Toxylon pomiferum, 
is widely used for hedging and may some¬ 
times be called locust, but is not often 
found large enough for posts. Tlie wood 
is very lasting, posts set in the soil 50 
or more years being still quite sound. 
When Osage posts of sufficient size can 
be procured they may be considered as 
valuable as those from the Black or Yel¬ 
low locust. 
Orchard Cover Crop in South Carolina. 
T. P. P., Wclford /Station, S. C .—I have 
an apple orchard that has been in peas for 
the last three seasons, and I wish to put 
this land in a crop the coining year that 
will not materially injure the fruit trees. 
I put a good dressing of cow manure around 
the trees, not close up to them, with about 
one pound of potash to the tree, it now 
has a good coat of Crab grass on the land, 
since the peas are cut oil'. Would it lie better 
to put this same ground for another year 
in peas and cultivate them, to clear the land 
of the Crab grass before it is put in some¬ 
thing permanent? 1 am trying to manage 
tlie orchard so as to gel a crop of fruit, also 
something to cut that will not injure the 
trees. 
Ans.— It is not stated how old this orch¬ 
ard is, but it is probably young and not 
yet in bearing. As it has been sown to 
cow peas for the past three years, and 
the trees arc now well manured, the soil 
should be in good condition. The aim 
of the owner seems to be to take good care 
of the trees and yet get profitable forage 
crops from the land, borage is a bad 
crop to take from an orchard, generally, 
but cow peas are the best that could be 
grown. Aly advice is to grow a crop of 
early potatoes or one of sweet potatoes 
on the land next year. After that the 
land should be worked over with nothing 
on it until about the middle or last of 
September, when Crimson clover may be 
sown. If tbe land is in very fine condi¬ 
tion it would be possible to grow a crop 
of cow peas or corn fodder between the 
early potato crop and the time to sow 
Crimson clover, as the warm seasons are 
very long in South Carolina. In any 
case the crops should be planted in rows, 
except the clover, and cultivated. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Change in Geneva Meeting. —The annual 
mooting of the New York State Fruit Grow¬ 
ers' Association will be held in Geneva, N. Y., 
Tuesday and Wednesday, January 10 and 11, 
instead' of January 4 and 5, as formerly an¬ 
nounced. An unusually interesting meeting 
is promised. Among those who will give ad¬ 
dresses are Prof. Beach, of the State Exper¬ 
iment Station, on the subject “What Consti¬ 
tutes a Variety Prof. Craig, of Cornell Uni¬ 
versity, on judging and scoring fruit; Prof. 
A. McNeill, of tlie Dominion Department of 
Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario, on tlie trend of 
modern fruit growing: Miss Anna K. Bar- 
rows. of Bostort. on “Fruits in Domestic Sci¬ 
ence,” and Prof. I,. R. Taft, Inspector of tlie 
State Board of Agriculture of Michigan, on 
comfhercial apple growing. Full reports will 
also lie given by tlie committees of tlie Asso¬ 
ciation. Any one wishing accommodations 
engaged for the meeting, or having horticul¬ 
tural apparatus or appliances which they wish 
to exhibit at tbe meeting or have mentioned 
in the programme, address W. L. McKay, 
Secretary, Geneva, N. Y. I 
The Only 
Grand Prize 
for Vegetables 
at the great 1904 
ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION 
was won by 
The Products of 
Burpee’s Seeds! 
C. W. Holley, Glendale Stock Farm, Glens 
Falls, N. Y., December 14, 1901, writes: Now our 
winnings for 1904 are as follows : Wasnington 
County Fair, $110.50; Albany County, $89.75: Cam¬ 
bridge Fair, $101.25; Saratoga County, $45.00; 
Clinton County, $35.00; Warren County, $75.00; 
New York State Fair, #287.50; and West 
Chester Countt, #325.50; making a total of 
#1,060.50 cash. 
Wo also got the GOLI> MEDAL 
at St. Louis World’s Fair on host 
display of vegetables raised in New 
York State. Also we got the 
GRAND PRIZE on vegetables over 
all the other States and the ONLY 
GRAND PRIZE won by any one 
on vegetables. 
Some other seedsmen got “a Gold Medal,'' but 
no other State or person got a Grand Prize but the 
old and tried Glendale Stork Farm of Glens Falls , 
N. Y., with the reliable seeds to back them, with their 
fine show, of which they always win with Burpee’s 
Seeds. I think in the last five years that no other 
seed firm can show tbe winnings at any fairs like 
Burpee & Co., and now tlie biggest honor has 
fallen again on Burpee & Co. by having their 
seeds take tlie GOLD MEDAL, and THE 
GUAM) PRIZE of the United States. 
We took tlie most attractive display to tlie 
World’s Fair. The jury on vegetables told me 
that they never saw such a show anywhere as we had 
there I sent you a letter describing our show 
there. Now I consider that we have won for you 
one of the greatest honors for your seed that can 
be won by any one,--the Grand Ph zk and Gold 
Medal. Of course, there were other Go d Medals 
won on vegetables, b t no other “ Grand Prize ” 
but ours ! it cost us enough. To you the honor,— 
hut we knew we had the vegetables and were 
going to try for the big prize! 
Trj>S¥*> The winnings (as stated above), entitled 
XaB* The Glendale Stock Farm to Burpee 
Premiums as follows: Seve County Fairs at $5.00 
each: one State Fair, with photograph, $21.00; 
and the National Extra Prize of $100.00. In addi¬ 
tion we sent our check also for an “honorarium” 
of $100.00 in appreciation of the magnificent re¬ 
sults that Mr. Holley, at his own expense, att lined 
at St. Louis, ltd Thus Mr. Ilollcy won, the past 
fall, a tota’of thirteen hundred and twenty- 
live dollars and fifty cents in cash prizes for 
the products of BURPEE’S Best “Seeds that 
Grow.” 
In Invcn as usual, the first prize at State 
ill lOVt a, Fairwaswon by Mr. L. G. Clute, — 
exclusively with the products < f Burpee’s Seeds. 
Mr. Clute was made Superintendent of Iowa’s 
Agricultural Exhibit at the World’s Fair. He 
wrote us from St. Louis, November 21, 1904, that 
in this great Iowa Exhibit, which was awarded a 
GOLD MEDAL and also the GRAND PRIZE, 
all the vegetableswere grown from Burpee’s Seeds ; 
ah o the Sweet Corn, Pop Corn, and Potatoes, all 
grown from Burpee’s 8iki;s! 
The* DaciiHc at tho State Fairs of New 
1 IIU lyCSUlIS York, Minnesota, Wiscon¬ 
sin, and Kansas, are announced on page 174, 
and of Indiana on page li> of Burpee’s Farm 
Annual. Other States did equally as well, and 
we si all publish several more ph r t graths of 
State 8 a r Exhibits in our New Prize Supple¬ 
ment for 1905. We are justly proud of all the 
prizes won by our customers, as also of tlie Two 
Gold Medals and Two Silver Medals , (including 
the only GOLD MEDAL on Lawn Grass) 
awarded directly to us for our own Growing Ex¬ 
hibits at tlie St. Louis Exposition. Although not 
yet “thirty years old,” no other seeds have ever 
had such universal endorsement at Slate and 
County Fail's! 
If you are interested’ to know more about 
llkxv the Unequaled Record made throughout 
America,—»t State and County Fairs, - by the pop¬ 
ular prize-winning products of Burpee’s Seeds, 
you have only lo ask, with your order, for a copy 
of our Prize Supplement for 1905, hut farst write 
a postal card for 
Burpee’s Farm Annual 
for 1905, 
“LEADING AMERICAN 
SEED CATALOGUE.” 
A bright new hook of 178 pages 
with beautiful colored plates and hun¬ 
dreds of illustrations from nature. It is 
mailed FRISK to all who intend to 
try Burpee’s Seeds. 
Unlike most “Seedmen,” we are actual 
GROWERS of Seeds, having our own farms in 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, supplemented by 
private contracts throughout America and 
Europe, subject also to our careful personal in¬ 
spection. We have no branch establishments, 
and all orders must be addressed to 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 
so long known 
as the 
FRUIT 
A Large Assortment of the Finest Quality 
of Fruit, Shade and Ornamental Trees, 
at very Low Prices. We make a Specialty 
of dealing Direct with the Farmers. 
Write for Price List. 
CALL’S NURSERIES, Perry, O. 
SEEDS 
SOLD OK MERIT. Catalog free. 
The Ford plan saves you money. 
Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
Ford Seed Co. Oept.24 Ravenna. 0. 
SHENANDOAH YELLOW 
The corn that has made Shenandoah famous. Has 
outyieldedall other varieties of yellow corn wher¬ 
ever tested. A deep grained 100 day yellow corn, 
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corn you erer prew. The world’s husking record, 201 bu. in ten hours, 
was made in this corn near Shenandoah, Dec. 8, 1903. Bend for 
free catalog, photographs and samples of this and other varieties of 
corn. |5.00 worth of seeds free on club orders. Ask about it. 
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THE EAR SEED CORN MAN 
TREES 
SHRUBS 
ROSES 
The largest and most com¬ 
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including all desirable nov¬ 
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St. Louis. apprizesNew York 
State Fair, 1904. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY 
Mount Hope Nurseries, 
Drawer 1044— I, Rochester, S.T, 
Established 18W. 
TUP MfinFRN WAY- Wonderfnl Crops of straw- 
InL IWUULnn ITHI berries: how to retain the 
old beds. KEV1TT PLANT FARM. Athenla.N. J. 
PEACH TREES 
A full line of varie¬ 
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Al’l’L K T K E fc S . 
Summer, Autumn and Winter Varieties. 
QUINCE TREES are scarce, 
but we have them. Get our FK KB descriptive Cata¬ 
logue. JOS. H. BLACK SON & CO. ,Hightstown, N. J. 
shows in NATURAL COLORS and 
accurately describes 216 varieties of 
r fruit. Send forour liberal terms of distri- 
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^GRAPEVINES 
69 Varieties. Also Small Fruits, Trees, A-o. Best root¬ 
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Descriptive price-list free. LEWIS ROESCH. FRTnnwis >• f 
Peach Trees and 
Strawberry Plants. 
We have them by the 100.000, to¬ 
gether with general line of nur¬ 
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best. Write for new 1906 Catalog. 
CHATTANOOGA NURSERIES, 
Chattanooga, Tennessee. 
WES T MICHIGAN TREES 
arc “bred lor benrliijc.” 1 hat's why we 
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trees. It also insures st< < k true to name and 
variety. Over three million trees—*J13 .acres. 
All new and standard varieties of Apple, 
Peach, Pear, Plum, Quince, etc. Also orna¬ 
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wholesale prices. Illustrated catalogue free. 
WEST MICHIGAN NURSERIES, 
Box 54, Benton Harbor, Mich. 
GRAPE VINES 
Cnrranta, Gooseberries, Black¬ 
berries, Raspberries, Straw¬ 
berries. Price List FREE. 
Send 2c .t.mp for illustrated descriptive catalog. 
T, S, HUBBARD CO. Fredonia, N. Y. 
SAVE MONEY ON 
FRUIT PLANTS 
Strawberry Plants 
$1.75' r M 
and up 
All Kinds of Small Fruits. Satisfaction 
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Valuable Catalogue Trek. Bund postal to 
O. A. E. BALDWIN, 
Oak Street, Bridgman, IVlich. 
JOHNSON & STOKES’ 
G4RDEN and FARM MANUALFREE 
Contains actual photographs of the fine, early vegetables 
and flowers any one can grow from our seeds. 
O' l)\Y” SWEET COHN. Tlie newest, ear ie.st aud sweetest corn 
derfully productive. Many o he • n w t arieties of vegetables and 
flowers are shown. 
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217-2 111 Market Street, Philadelphia, 
Johnson & 
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TREES 
Apples. Pear. Plum, rherry, Peach and 
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TREES AND PLANTS 
Our FKEB CATALOGUE will save yoi 
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Blackberries, Strawberries, Raspberries. 
you money. MYEK & SON, Bridgeville, Del. 
300.000 A PP ,e Trees, 
each, 2nd 15c., 3rd 10c.. 4th 5c 
6 to 7 ft. 11c. each; 5 to 6 ft. 8c. each; 4 to 5 ft. Cc. each: 
3 to 4 ft. 4c 60.(00 Cherry trees 2 year first grade 20c 
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Secure varieties now, pay in Spring. No cold storage trees, everything fresh dug. No disease, health certlfi 
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Quinces. A full line of .hade trees and ornamentals. Grape vines and berry plants. Our plate book show 
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and no more comploto line of “ A 1 ” stock grown in the United States. Fruit Trees, Shade Trees and 
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Catalogue for the asking. 
STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS CO., NEW CANAAN, CONNECTICUT. 
NEW RED 
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PHENOMENAL RASPBERRY 
BEATS THEM ALL. 
GIVING A CRATE OF BERRIES TO A PLANT FOURTEEN MONTHS 
FROM PLANTING. 
Returns This Season Over $1,400 Per Acre. 
The Berries are three inches long and 33^ inches in circumference ; they 
will ship 1,000 miles easily. Acres and acres are being planted in California 
for Canning Purposes, and the plants are in great demand. Kend for 
photograph, description and prices of tip pi tints. 
Plants ready to ship from January 15tli to April. 
CALIFORNIA CARNATION CO., * 
L. Box 10.‘5. Loomis, California. 
