1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
577 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
When we were sending out the Ruby 
Queen rose and again when we sent 
out the new Crimson Rambler, Phila¬ 
delphia, we said that our friends would 
prize them highly when once established 
in their yards. But to establish them took 
time, and we have no doubt the tiny 
little plant seemed a good way off from 
a blooming bush when first received; but 
all this season we have been hearing 
from friends who now have in them a 
yard ornament that they would not part 
with for any reasonable amount. Now 
that the Philadelphia rose has received an 
award at the Temple Show of the Royal 
Horticultural Society at London, we who 
have it in our door .yards may justly feel 
an extra pride in it, not so much because 
of the award as because of the merit that 
the distinguished society acknowledges. 
The following letters are samples merely 
of many others recently received: 
The Ruby Queen has bloomed this year for 
the first to any amount, and we cannot say 
enough in its praise. It is exquisite In beauty 
and fragrance, and we prize it highly. We 
wish to again thank you for it. 
New York. jins. h. s. h. 
My Philadelphia Rambler, received late in 
.Tune, 1904, with barely three or four little 
rootlets an inch long, is now a splendid, 
strong plant and bore several large clusters 
of its beautiful flowers. C. b. p. 
Illinois. 
I thought I would have to write and thank 
you for the Crimson Rambler you sent me 
last year. If has grown three new shoots 
this year that are over six feet high, and 
the part that you sent me is only about three 
feet high and full of blossoms and a beauty. 
I have about 25 different rose bushes, but 
that is the handsomest one in the lot. Thank¬ 
ing you again for the same. e. l. m. 
Connecticut. 
We do not care ever to take up much 
space telling readers how good The R. 
N.-Y. is If it serves them a useful pur¬ 
pose they find it out without our telling 
it; but we have our weakness, like other 
folk, and when a reader tells us that he 
finds those elements of helpfulness in the 
paper that we silently work every day in 
tho j-o..- p..c it we are pleased and 
—well—yes, we may as well admit it—we 
like to have others hear it, too. So we 
are going to let you read these two notes: 
I enclose one dollar by check to renew 
subscription to your remarkable paper. For 
common sense, sincerity, freedom from bun¬ 
kum. it never fails to be refreshing, and 
stands out from the mass of magazines and 
journals, big and little. As an amateur, with 
only a small one-horse hold on the subject 
matter of The It. N.-Y.. I should like to testi 
f.V to the vivid interest of its articles, on 
no matter what topic. Compared with if the 
expensive country life periodicals resemble 
valentines, and this superiority must he due, 
I think, to the above mentioned directness 
and simplicity. Nature is rather too big to 
patronize or gush over. c. it. 
Staten Island. 
Please find $1 for your paper and “The 
Business Hen." I took your ten weeks' offer, 
but that must have expired. Your fresh and 
original news is what attracts and I shall 
take time to read it. Most farm journals 
are edited with the scissors. a. s. it. 
Virginia. 
Here is just one more note of interest 
at tin’s time: 
1 have received The Business Hen and am 
delighted with the book, considering it the 
best book of its kind I have read. All those 
interested in poultry for profit should cer¬ 
tainly have a copy. I congratulate you on 
its success. c. f. s. 
British Columbia. 
Whether a rose, a potato, a book, or 
the paper itself, we never want to send 
anything to our readers short of the very 
best that we can produce. This is hot 
weather in the open sun on the farm; but 
it is, we assure you. just as hot in this 
sweltering city of brick walls and stone 
sidewalks; and while you are working 
hard to save the fruit and harvest the hay, 
we are here working just as faithfully to 
find ways and means to offer a helpful 
suggestion and a protecting warning. If 
you who have not yet received The Busi¬ 
ness Hen feel towards our service any of 
the fervor of the above correspondents, 
send in a renewal this month, and the 
book will go to you by return mail. 
Bald-Heaped Chicks. —We have been hav¬ 
ing some trouble with our young chicks, and 
have found a remedy which may interest 
some of your readers. The trouble is the 
feathers falling off the head and neck, with 
no apparent cause. We have lost none from 
this cause, but they droop around and fail to 
eat or work. I killed one and examined it; 
found the skin inflamed and infested with a 
parasite under skin. The rest were anointed 
with a mixture of one part kerosene and two 
parts sweet oil. Feathers soon started and 
no further trouble. e. m. santee. 
PRODUCTS PRICES, AND TRADE. 
Watermelon Receivers. —Give the address 
of a reliable commission house in your city 
who handles watermelons. The growers of 
melons here get very little for them. If we 
ship, we generally get stuck, not knowing who 
to ship to, and if we sell, we have to do so 
for a small price. Can you recommend 
—--, of Washington St., New York. b. 
South Carolina. 
The name of a dealer whom we have found 
honest has been given to this inquirer. The 
parties whose names he mentions are not to 
be recommended. That is, there are plenty 
of others with better records. It is an inter¬ 
esting fact that nearly all of the inquiries 
about commission men received here refer to 
those of a doubtful type, who have gone 
through bankruptcy or whose business meth¬ 
ods will not bear investigation. Of course 
there are honest bankrupts, but so long as 
there are three times as many commission 
merchants as are necessary to handle the vol¬ 
ume of business, it is only reasonable to give 
preference to those who through care and 
judgment have avoided financial wreck and 
kept themselves above suspicion. Dealers who 
through plunging about in the market have 
periodical smashups, emerge under a new 
name and go at it again, are not worthy of 
consideration by those who have produce to 
ship, no matter how plausibly their circulars 
and market letters may read. 
Fruits.-— Peach arrivals are quite heavy. 
The general market situation is not much 
improved on account of the large proportion 
of inferior quality, wormy or part green. I 
never saw more uniformly wormy lots than 
some of these packages turn out, and some¬ 
how a worm seems out of place in a good- 
sized, well-colored peach. People .are used 
to worms in apples. The last strawberries 
come from western New York, and they 
are about gone. Huckleberries are in large 
supply but sell well. For city trade these 
are very popular. Kvery hotel and restaurant 
must have huckleberry pies and many bakers 
make huge pans of huckleberry cake. The 
crust (on the bottom only) is a simple bread 
dough. On this is poured the huckleberries, 
with just enough thickening (the composition 
of which is a trade secret) to prevent it from 
running when the pieces are cut. A slab 
six or seven inches long and five wide goes 
for five cents. The currant market, is weak. 
This is one of our choicest garden fruits, 
especially suitable for hot weather desserts, 
well mixed with pulverized sugar, but it is 
SOUr, anti i/cwj/lc arc afraid of it, ovappt foi’ 
jelly purposes. The weather is favorable for 
watermelon trade. As many as 60 carloads 
have arrived here in one day lately, yet the 
demand is good enough to keep the price well 
up. The conditions are different witli musk- 
melons. So many of them are worthless 
that the wastage in a crate or carload may be 
heavy. Tills refers to melons from the South 
or nearby. The expensive trade is being 
filled at present with melons from the Pacific 
Coast, the chief merit being that they are 
more dependable. Some dealers claim that 
they will not average one bad one to 10 
erntes, and the attitude of the trade is shown 
in their paying $5 or $0 for Oalifornias, and 
75 cents to $2 for the same quantity of 
southern. I have recently tried some of these 
high-priced Pacific Coast melons, 15 days 
from the vines. They were no better than 
many out of $1.50 southern crates, but 
seemed to be ail alike in flavor, probably 
because of uniform sunshine and weather 
conditions. 
Apple Storage Wanted. —“I live in the 
Piedmont section of Virginia, so noted for 
fine apples. My crop this year will be about 
25.000 bushels, Winesap, Johnson Winter and 
other fine sorts. I hope more buyers will 
come our way. What we need is a cold 
storage. Can some enterprising man be found 
who will come at once and build a cold stor¬ 
age on his own account, to store our apples 
and charge us the usual price for storage? 
We have many large orchards in bearing an,d 
others have more recently been planted, so a 
good business could be done now in this line. 
What would be the cost of a storage to hold 
80,000 barrels of apples? IIow do northern 
people manage this? Do they have storage 
houses on their farms? If some one could 
lie found willing to build a. storage here on 
his own account, he might get some of our 
people to take stock. ’ j. r. 
Virginia. 
It is doubtful whether an outsider can be 
found willing to handle this job on terms 
that would be at all favorable to you. If 
your farmers are willing to take stock in a 
plant put up by an outsider, they ought to be 
glad to invest in a co-operative plan. The 
storage is needed now and will be in greater 
dejnand as the new orchards come into bear¬ 
ing. Why not own the storage yourselves 
and put what profit there is in your own 
pocket? The first thing necessary is a thor¬ 
ough canvass of the locality that would pat¬ 
ronize the storage. If the result is at all 
encouraging, call a meeting to talk It over, 
appoint committees, get estimates, etc. If 
there is any man in the locality who is look¬ 
ing for a “soft job,” be sure that he is not 
put on any committee, board of directors, or 
In any office. The job will be hard enough 
without having in the way a lot of drones 
or people who can do nothing but talk and 
are after graft. In the meantime get in cor¬ 
respondence with a large number of makers 
of refrigeration machinery. Tell them what 
you want to do, ask questions and get esti¬ 
mates. Look up their references and write 
to the people they have built plants for. 
Write to your State Department of Agricul¬ 
ture, asking whether they have any cold 
storage specialist or know any man who has 
had practical experience in this line. If 
possible get him to come, look the ground 
over and give advice. Northern apple grow¬ 
ers in localities where natural ice can be 
harvested in large quantities can make quite 
small storages of their own profitable. You 
are below the line of natural ice; expensive 
artificial refrigeration machinery is needed; 
and the larger plant you can use the cheaper 
per barrel will be the cost. The machinery, 
including pipes, boilers, fittings and setting 
up for a plant of the size indicated, would 
cost in the neighborhood of $20,000. The 
building could be put up by local carpenters. 
When you get to the point of buying the 
machine, after due investigation of the com¬ 
pany's standing and of other plants they 
have put up, it is probable that, the prige 
may be cut a little if they find that no per¬ 
centage or bonus is to be paid anyone for 
turning the business over to them. In large 
sales it. is nothing unusual for several com¬ 
missions to be paid, some of them to people 
who have done practically nothing to warrant 
it. Some who have bad experience with 
“creamery sharks" may think that there is 
danger of refrigeration sharks unloading un¬ 
suitable machinery on such an Inquirer. But 
the two cases are different. The cold storage 
machinery is very expensive, and promoters 
for working up stock are not employed after 
the manner of the creamery sharks. There 
will be no difficulty in getting a first-class 
job if good business judgment is used and one 
of the established houses dealt with. With 
so much money invested in a plant you should 
build it with a view to holding eggs, butter 
and other perishables, so as to keep it at 
work the entire year If possible. h. 
POWER SPRAYING IN VINEYARDS. 
Wc have no experience with power. 
sprayers, if by the term power sprayer. 
it is meant to describe a sprayer operated 
by a steam engine or gasoline motor. 1 he 
sprayers we use are in one sense operated 
sprayers as distinguished from hand 
sprayers, in that the pump is operated 
by chain and sprockets from the hind 
wheels of the wagon which carries the 
tank and pump. We find such sprayers 
desirable and comparing them with hand 
spraying, as we find hand spraying done 
in the same section, we find the power 
sprayers satisfactory. The reason for this 
is that with power sprayers it is possible 
to drive the spray in a fine mist which is 
driven through the foliage and branches, 
covering them as dew wets the grass, 
while with, a lower pressure the liquid 
is thrown in fine drops like rain, and drips 
from the surfaces reached before drying 
as the mist does. 
As to your question whether on the 
whole I consider that it pays to use Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture and other liquids, it can 
best be answered by the experience here. 
Practically every vineyard which has not 
been sprayed in this locality is a total loss 
now. At this writing, after a serious out¬ 
break of black rot on July 11 and 12, the 
loss from rot on thoroughly sprayed vine¬ 
yards does not exceed five per cent, in 
many cases less than one per cent, and 
wherever there is serious loss on sprayed 
vineyards it may be traced either to lack 
of timeliness or thoroughness in spraying 
with Bordeaux Mixture. No one can ex¬ 
haustively treat on the subject of spraying 
vineyards,- as conditions vary so greatly. 
Around the central New York lakes most 
of the vineyards are on steep hillsides 
where it is almost impossible to operate 
anything but hand sprayers, and in this 
locality hand sprayers are used effectively, 
because the work is thoroughly done, even 
with the hand sprayers. As a matter of 
fact, efficiency in spraying does not depend 
upon the description of sprayer used if it 
is capable of being worked to the pressure 
of 80 to 100 pounds, and of distributing 
properly not less than 50 gallons of Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture to the acre, but upon 
working the sprayer to that degree of 
force, and applying the spray where need¬ 
ed, viz., on all the branches, leaves, canes, 
posts and wires, and this being done the 
ground will be fairly covered. 
Seneca Co,, N, Y* g, o. lansino. 
SANITATION FOR CONSUMPTIVES. 
I would like to tell your Arizona cor¬ 
respondent, J. D. P., page 525, anent con¬ 
sumption, that if he and the other kickers 
on this subject would buy a supply of 
horse-radish bottles, half fill with five per 
cent solution carbolic acid, and label with 
suitable warning and instructions, and 
hand one to each spitter in a polite man¬ 
ner, 1 believe there would be less germs 
afloat. I blame bitterly the M. D.’s, who 
can be seen daily hawking up and into 
the street, as an example for the unthink¬ 
ing herd. I know it’s awful for a con¬ 
sumptive on a railway train, because 
there are no sanitary cuspidors; and yet 
the little fellow with a $100 share of some 
railroad stock in his stocking gloats over 
the close management that pays him a 
dividend. Statistics try to prove that the 
white plague is going out of business, 
but I guess most of it will pass through 
Arizona on its way out. john bisbee. 
Massachusetts. 
A Prolific Turkey. —I should like to know 
whether any of your readers can furnish a 
turkey hen that can beat this one of mine. 
During laying she laid 56 eggs. Of the 56 
eggs there were only three infertile. Would 
you advise keeping such a hen another year? 
Her turkeys are strong and healthy. 
Montgomery Co.. Pa. jibs. j. a. b. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply and 
"a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
For Sale.—TUNIS RAMS. 
Best of all Breeds for Hothouse Lambs. 
J. N. McTHERSON, 
Pine View Farm, Scottsville N. Y. 
POULTRY SUTRLIES — 
M The Kind that Make Kggs— All per 100 lbs. 
Recleaned Ground Oyster Shells, 60c; Mlco Grit tor 
Poultry. tiOc.; MicoGritfor Pigeons,60c.; MtcoGritfor 
Chicks. 60 c ; Saul’s Poultry Scratching Food. $1.65; 
Saul s Poultry Mash Food $2; Saul’s Pigeon Food. $2. 
Saul’sChick Food, $2.60; Cut Clover, $1.60; CloverMeal 
$1.60; Pure Ground Beef Scraps, $2.26; Pure Meat 
Meal, $2 25: Pure Meat and Bone, $2.25; Pure Poultry 
Bone. $2 25; Pure Bone Meal, $2.25; Hemp Seed, $4.00; 
Sunflower Seed, $5.60; Chicken Millet, $2.50. Cata¬ 
logue sent free. 
CHAS. F. SAUL, 220-224 James Street, Syracuse, N.Y. 
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R eliable Hatching Eggs, any number. Barred Rocks, 
Brown, W. and B. Leghorns, W. and B. Wyan- 
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Orpingtons, Buff, Black, White. 
Why not have the very best obtainable? First cost 
may be a little more, but you get i he stock and blood 
from the grandest winning strain in America, and 
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page Illustrated Oroington catalogue, also Mating 
List describing thirty-two breeding yards and prices 
of eggs. The blood from the largest winners at New 
York the past three years ate in these yards. 
Box 78, WILLOW BROOK FARM, Berlin, Conn. 
EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
ROSE COMB W. LEGHORNS 
Prize Winners at the Best Shows. Eggs $1 
for 15; $3 for 50: |5 for 100. Half price after .June 
first. L. 0. HILLS, Delaware, Ohio. 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Four promising young Cockerels for $5.00. 
1,000 to select from Send for circular 
WHITE & RICE, Yorktown, N, Y. 
S. G. WHITE. LEGHORNS 
Yearlings 75 cents. 
HILANDALE FARM, Brooklyn, Ohio, R. F. D. 2. 
Var s Poultry, Pigeons, Parrots, Dogs, Cats 
Ferrets, etc. Eggs a specialty. 60 p. book, 10c 
Rates free. J. A. BF.ROEY.Box 8.Telford.Pa. 
U - . -— * ■soiriiM lur squan oreeaing a 
flying. JOHN M. HATHAWAY, Acuslmet, Ma 
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ADVERTISER HAS FOR SALE ! 
ONE HUNDRED PAIRS OF FINE 
MATED AND ACCI IMATED 
BREEDING 
i HOM HI 
which he must sell at once. Address, 
f B. P-, Box 1020, New York City. | 
Good oreeders raise good squabs. Good squabs 
bring good prices. A good plant (like ours) sup¬ 
plies only good breeders. Write us. 
BROAD VALLEY FARM, WOBURN, MASS, 
