1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
97 
CARNATIONS ON TOP OF THE 
ALLEOHANIES. 
Recently I attended an institute at 
Oakland, Garrett Co., Aid., 3,000 feet above 
sea level, on the Alleghany Mountains. 
The agriculture there is not of the most 
advanced type, so that I was much sur¬ 
prised to find under these seemingly ad¬ 
verse conditions, parties raising cauli¬ 
flower, cabbage, melons and celery, as well 
as strawberries, putting them in the New 
York market at paying prices, and with 
one, two acres under glass, growing car¬ 
nations, roses, violets and other choice 
flowers, and shipping them as far west as 
Chicago. Another instance that men can 
be superior to their circumstances, and 
that intelligence, perseverance and in¬ 
dustry will succeed anywhere, even with 
little capital in money. In fact, the for¬ 
mer is the best capital a man can have. 
About '20 years ago a Air. Weber with 
his six boys and five girls—all the chil¬ 
dren under 21, bought a large farm near 
Oakland, the land costing about $20 per 
acre, nearly half of it in woodland, for 
which they ran heavily in debt. They 
had been raising a few vegetables, for the 
Summer boarders coming into the moun¬ 
tains, and followed this at Oakland. They 
put up a little lean-to of a glass house, 
where they raised lettuce and started their 
early vegetables. The old gentleman was 
one who taught his boys to do things well. 
They entered into the spirit of the thing, 
being willing to work, and not afraid of 
soiling their hands, nor ambitious (?) 
to go to town and wear “store clothes” 
in an office. All put their shoulders to 
the wheel and began to expand the busi¬ 
ness. The vegetable line was first ex¬ 
tended beyond the nearby Summer hotel 
trade. Then realizing that a single rose 
or a bunch of carnations would sell in 
the right market for as much as a bale 
of hay, they put up a small greenhouse, 
and began growing flowers, their special¬ 
ty being carnations. As their neighbors, 
from the object lessons given by the 
Webers, began to grow some of the more 
hardy vegetables, they gradually let this 
part of the business go, and devoted them¬ 
selves to growing those things that re¬ 
quired more skill, and for which they 
would command a market outside of their 
own locality. 
For the first 10 years it was uphill 
work. They had to learn the business 
and the markets; put more capital into 
the business and at the same time live. 
Their success is an illustration of stick¬ 
ing to a course once intelligently thought 
out, in spite of discouragement and lack 
of immediate financial success. 
Since 1893 their growth has been steady 
and sure. They now have over two acres 
under glass, and a reputation for their 
products that enables them to obtain the 
highest prices in the most critical markets. 
This was attested by the number of prize 
certificates that line the walls of their 
office from the largest shows all over the 
country, in competition with growers lo¬ 
cated in more favorable localities and with 
large money capital behind them. They 
are also cutting over 100 tons of hay an¬ 
nually, which is fed to the 9 horses re¬ 
quired in the business, and a dairy of 
choice Jersey cows, the cream from which 
in the Summer brings good prices from 
the local Summer hotels. 
The manure thus made helps to grow 
the plants and flowers. They have their 
own little saw-mill, where the lumber 
for the greenhouses and farm buddings 
was got out from their own timber, and 
the boxes used for shipping in sawed. 
An evidence of their prosperity was a 
most beautiful farmhouse built four years 
ago. 
The father has been dead nearly a year; 
but the rest of the family are all on the 
ground, and all, men and women, bear¬ 
ing their part. The present head of the 
firm said he attributed much of their suc¬ 
cess to the fact that for a number of 
years the work has been so divided that 
each one has his special department to 
look gif ter. One has sole charge of the 
carnations, one of the roses, one of the 
bedding plants, another of the dairy, and 
one of the daughters was in the office 
in charge of the correspondence and ship¬ 
ping; in a word, system. On being asked 
if anyone of them would not prefer a 
position in some town with a salary of 
$1,200 or $1,500 a year, as better than 
what they were getting, the answer was 
most emphatically “No.” When asked 
as to the value of their farm to-day, they 
said they would not take $100 per acre, 
showing that after all the value of land is 
its earning power. The only thing I could 
see in their favor from natural conditions 
was that being in the soft coal region, 
they were able to get their fuel at a low 
figure. I ■ have written the above, think¬ 
ing it might be an incentive to some 
young man or woman as an illustration 
of one of the many opportunities in the 
country for intelligent effort. 
E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
Tin* “No Blow’’ Apple. —There is nothing 
new under the sun and history repeats itself 
in the ease of the “No Blow” apple as in 
other things. The merits of the said apple 
seem not to be settled and as I am in all prob¬ 
ability as old as any who have attempted to 
enlighten the public, I will tell what I know 
and have heard about it for a period covering 
a hundred years and more. Col. Nahum Ward, 
one of the first settlers of Shrewsbury, built 
in 1725 the house in which he lived. On this 
place and near the old house spot is or was 
a year or two ago, an old tree that bore the 
“No Blow” apple. 11 is son, Artemas Ward, 
afterwards Major General, lived just across 
“The King's Highway,” on the place now 
known as the “Ward Homestead,” and owned 
by Artemas Ward, of New York. This was 
my home for 24 years of my early life, and I 
well remember, as long ago as 18.30, the old 
“No Blow” apple tree on this place. It was 
then old and much bowed down, and had a box 
of boards around its trunk filled with earth, to 
heal some wound received years before. It 
died more than GO years ago. These two 
trees never seem to bloom,-but every year they 
bore a great many apples identically the 
same in appearance, without seeds and with 
very little core. They were of medium size, 
in color darker than the Rhode Island Green¬ 
ing, with a splash of red on one side, and of 
the “sheep-nose” shape. When a boy I asked 
what made them grow that way, and was told 
that when grafted the scion was inverted. 
Massachusetts. s. d. ward. 
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* 
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SALZER’S NATIONAL OATS 
Yea, farmers of America, lend me your ears, while I chant the merits of this new Oat 
Novelty. It is positively the most wonderful Oat on earth. 
Editors, Agricultural Writers, Institute Orators all talk and write about this new Oat. It 
yielded in Win. 156 bn„ in Ohio 187 bu., In Mich. 231 bu., In Mo. 255 bn., and in N. 11. 310 bn. 
per acre, during 1904, and in 1905 you can grow just as easily 300 bu. per acre of SALZER’S 
NATIONAL OATS, ns we can. Your land is just as good, just as rich and yon are Just as good a 
farmer ns we are. We hope you will try this oat in 1905, and then sell same for seed to your 
neighbors at a fancy price, next fall. * 
MACARONI WHEAT 
Yielded for thousands of farmers in 1904, scattered all over America, from 30 to 80 bu. per 
acre of as fine a wheat as the snn shines on. It does well on arid, dry lands, as also on rich 
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Billion Dollar Grass | 
Speltz or Emmer, 
80 Bu. per Acre. 
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flourishing everywhereandyieldmgSObu. 
of grain and 4 tons of splendid straw hay 
per acre besides. 
Home Builder Corn. 
Was named because 60 acres in 1902 pro¬ 
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for a beautiful home. See Salzer’s cata¬ 
log. It is tlie biggest eared early and 
heaviest yielding Yellow Bent Corn we 
know, yields * to 800 bn. per acre. 
and Teosinte. 
A noble pair. Billion Dollar Grass, 
the most talked of grass on earth, makes 
14 tons of fine hay per acre, while Teo¬ 
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tons of green food per acre, rich in sugar 
and milk and f ood values . 
Potatoes—736 Bu. per Acre. 
The Editor of the Rural New Yorker 
proclaimed to the world that Salzer’s 
Early Wisconsin Potato yielded for him 
736 hu. per acre. That pays! 
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von mention this paper. It you already 
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You may send the three names on a postal card, with full address, and be sure to give your name and address cor¬ 
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