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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 7, 
GIRDLING GRAPEVINES. 
I have just read note on page 666 on 
girdling grapevines. My first thought was 
that the writer did not know anything 
about it, his experience is so different 
from mine. I have done it and seen it 
done for about 40 years, since I was a 
small boy; my father has done it nearly 
every year. The effect is not so marked, 
1 think, if a large branch is girdled as 
when it is a small one- The theory of. 
girdling, as I have it, is that the sap of 
the grape passes up through the .wood 
and down between wood and bark. • The 
proper time for the operation is from 
June 25 to July 5; July 4, being a holiday, 
was often the time chosen. Take, for 
instance, a branch like a, remove the bark 
clean or it will do no good. B shows 
(T~* ] 03=0 
qo oeo 
bark removed. On the principle I have 
suggested, while this separation is in 
force, the sap passes up and coming back 
cannot pass the bare wood, but from 
above and below it begins to make new 
wood, as shown in c and d. In five or 
six weeks it will look something like d, 
and be healed so that the sap will flow as 
usual. You will notice, however, that 
the vine above the cut is strikingly en¬ 
larged. I imagine the root may have 
suffered during the separation, though 
the vine will appear none the worse for 
it, but during the separation that particu¬ 
lar branch will outgrow the others both 
in foliage and fruit. The grapes on that 
girdled branch can be easily picked out, 
as they run among the others. The 
bunches will be larger and handsomer, 
and grapes larger and they will ripen a 
few days earlier and be superior fruit. 
Tf the whole vine or the greater portion 
were girdled, or girdled too wide, so that 
it could not heal, your correspondent may 
be correct, but this I do not know, but, 
as I have stated, in a small way, it is not 
hurtful to the vine, and the grapes are 
earlier and improved. f. t. jencks. 
Rhode Island. 
PRODUCTS , PRICES, AND TRADE. 
Gbape trade is first rate. There is plenty 
of western New York stock here and arrivals 
from up the river show less of the sour 
grapes ripened by ringing. The small handle 
baskets (four-pound) are going from jobbers 
hands now at 8 to 14 cents, according to 
variety, Delaware, of course, being at the 
top. 
Peaches. —Arrivals at this market for the 
past two weeks have been very heavy, result¬ 
ing in record low prices for the season. The 
fruit has come from Jersey and other nearby 
[joints, Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania, 
West Virginia and Maryland. The muggy 
weather of last week made havoc with peaches, 
both in orchards and on arrival here. It is 
seldom that so many in the “going'’ stage 
are seen. More Connecticut peaches have ar¬ 
rived than were looked for at one time. The 
crop of that State seems to have been about 
equal to early predictions, though there was 
considerable loss from rot in the orchard. 
Doctored Eggs. —White of egg preserved 
with boric acid, to keep an indefinite length 
of time, appears to have been a staple article 
of trade until pressure from the Government 
discredited such tampering with food stuffs. 
Bakers and confectioners have found this 
prepared egg white very useful for icings and 
other purposes for which fresh eggs are sup¬ 
posed to be used. A case now in the hands 
of the customs authorities involves a lot of 
preserved egg white to the value of more than 
8300,000, imported from China and held in 
bond awaiting chemical test, which has shown 
the product to be unfit for food according to 
legal standard. Whether the whole lot shall 
be seized or merely refused entry Is being 
considered by the courts. 
This Preservation Idea has been carried 
far beyond the limits of common sense or 
safety. The regular consumer of commercial 
canned or otherwise preserved goods is con¬ 
tinually duplicating the experiences of Dr. 
Wiley’s “poison squad,” and in his cold stor¬ 
age fish, poultry, meats, etc., he gets enough 
ptomaines to make a well balanced poison 
ration. A large share of the game offered 
at present is cold storage stuff about a year 
old. In many hotels the fish served are six 
months or a year out of the water. There 
are some foods so well known for their sus¬ 
ceptibility to ptomaine development that it 
would be well within the province of common 
sense law to forbid storing them in cold 
houses, in their natural state, for a longer 
time than two weeks, on the same principal 
that milk is forbidden to be similarly pre¬ 
served. Preservation, both by chemicals and 
cold storage, has been so much abused that it 
is only a matter of time when strict super¬ 
vision of stored articles will be established. 
Apples. —The market has picked up a little. 
Choice grades of the standard varieties hav¬ 
ing advanced 50 cents. Jus*, what basis will 
be finally settled on for Winter apples is at 
present uncertain. There are reports of 
orchards that have sold for between $2 and 
$3, but a great many apple buyers refuse to 
consider anything like this. It is probable 
that more apples will be sold on commission 
than in years of plenty, and in very many 
cases this is best for all concerned. The 
farmer gets all that the apples are worth 
when sold, and the handler has a tair per¬ 
centage without any of the speculative risk 
of buying a long time in advance of the con¬ 
sumer’s needs. This Is all on the assump¬ 
tion that the commission merchant selling 
the apples Is a square man, and there are 
plenty of this type without bothering with 
the fakes and frauds in the trade. The 
names of apple dealers in good standing in 
the trade, in the large cities, will be sent 
by mail to anyone interested. A friend who 
is setting out a commercial apple orchard in 
the East, in a section where Ben Davis 
thrives, wishes to know what proportion, of 
that variety to set. Ben Davis is at present 
a profitable market sort. In some places It 
does not sell as welt as it did, consumers 
having dropped it. but it has worked into 
new trade in climates where apples less re¬ 
sistant to rot and hard knocks cannot go. 
Quite likely this field will enlarge, so that 
present orchards of this variety and those 
about to be set will prove profitable. But 
no one knows when some enterprising apple 
breeder will get a new variety combining the 
orchard and shipping merits of Ben Davis 
with a better quality of flesh. When that 
happens, good bye Ben Davis. H. 
AMERICAN i INSTITUTE FAIR. 
The American Institute held its Seventy- 
fourth annual fair at the Berkeley Lyceum, 
New r York City, September 20-21. The exhibit 
of Dahlias was the best seen for a generation. 
The weather has lately been favorable for this 
showy plant, w'bich now' seems to have re¬ 
newed its old-time popularity. The infusion 
of the "Cactus’' type into the regular show 
forms, once so highly appreciated, has brought 
out blooms of more graceful shape and vivid, 
but refined coloring than could possibly be 
imagined All sections were well represented, 
except the l’ompon and Miniature Dahlias, 
which are not now in favor, but public ap¬ 
preciation was most freely bestowed on the 
Cactus and intermediate decorative blooms. 
The Dahlia, like the Chrysanthemum, is 
highly suitable for exhibition purposes, as the 
best blooms come at a good season, and they 
can be admirably displayed after being trans¬ 
ported considerable distances. There were 
many charming new' kinds. Kaiserin Augus¬ 
ta victoria will probably take rank as one 
of ihe best commercial double whites, and 
Katherine Duer, rose and salmon, seemed 
most admired in the Cactus type. The new 
red forcing rose, Richmond, was finely showm. 
It is claimed to grow •more freely under 
glass than Liberty or Meteor, the present 
standards of this color. 
The displays of hardy and wild flowering 
plants were better than ever, while the ex¬ 
hibits of foliage plants, palms and orchids, 
though excellent in quality, were not as 
large as usual. Fruits were in minority, 
though some really fine grapes, peaches, plums 
and apples were staged. 'The collection of 
vegetables was the largest and best W'e have 
"ever seen at an Institute fair. An interest¬ 
ing feature w'as an exhibit .of vegetables from 
the first New York Children’s school farm in 
L>e Witt Clinton Dark. The specimens w r ere 
not numerous, but showed good culture. 
w. v. F. 
Apple Ticking.— The picture on our 
first page shows the pickers in the apple 
orchard of Wm. T. Creasy, of Columbia 
Co., Pa. As will be seen, these pickers 
use bags instead of baskets for handling 
the fruit from the trees. We have found 
this method of picking quite satisfactory. 
For the land’s sake, use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
tilizers. They enrich the earth.— Adv. 
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