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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 6, 
Varieties for Grafting. 
F. R. Canandaigua, N. Y .—I have 40 apple 
trees in my permanent pasture which I wish 
to graft. What upright growing kind would be 
best for spreading trees, and what drooping 
kinds are best for the tall trees? What would 
be better than Baldwin and Spy? Would it 
pay to graft thorns to crab apples or pears? 
Ans. —The varieties of the apple that 
1 would graft into trees in western New 
York are Sutton where I wanted upright 
trees and Rhode Island Greenings for 
spreading trees. These arc both depend¬ 
able Winter apples, and suitable to that 
part of the country. It would not pay to 
graft any tree to crab apple, for they 
have a very limited sale. The apple and 
pear does not make a good union, and 
I would not graft them together. 
H. E. V. D. 
Suiting Graff to to Scion. 
I. L. WGardner, Me .—Does it work well 
to unite by top-working on McMahan tender 
varieties 'ike Baldwin and Gravenstein, 
which have a soft, ^pongy, open-celled wood 
growth? While McMahan has, or should 
have, because of its hardiness, a closely- 
knit, small cellular structure, these varieties 
have entirely different wood formations, yet 
all are strong growers. 
Ans. —There is no doubt of the wisdom 
of the suggestion that varieties of the ap¬ 
ple of similar character of wood be 
grafted together, rather than those o r 
dissimilarity. The nearer the cellular 
structure of the wood of stock and scion 
are alike the better will be the union. 
This we can see and do see in everyday 
life in the orchards, and particularly in 
the old orchards that have been top- 
worked. Among my e-.rliest recollections 
are those of the hig apple trees that stood 
in our orchard in southern Ohio, that had 
been grafted by grandfather, an old soldier 
of the Revolution, long before I was born. 
I noticed that some of them had welts 
on them and were larger either above or 
below the welts, and asked why this was 
so; when I was told that they had been 
grafted where these marks of difference 
were seen. I fully believe and try to put 
in practice the idea that varieties of strong 
growth should be grafted on to trees of 
strong growth, and those of slow growth 
on those of similar character. Congenial¬ 
ity of stock and scion is very important. 
Things that are thus “married together’* 
have very intimate relations, and their 
"feelings’’ should he considered by those 
who perform the ceremonies that forcibly 
, unite them. They not only have to live 
in very close union, but they are united 
for life, and if that life is to be useful 
it must be harmonious. To do this prop¬ 
erly is the work of the successful grafter. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Poultby.—T he Christmas market ended 
unfavorably. Weather turned warm and 
sticky, and much of the poultry that ar¬ 
rived late was out of condition. Some lots 
intended for the Christmas trade straggled 
in the middle of the next week, which again 
emphasizes the need of getting shipments 
started in time. 
Fubs. —Russia is a heavy buyer of Amer¬ 
ican furs, particularly skunk. The trou¬ 
bles going on there now have upset, all 
markets, and fur buyers scarcely know what 
they can safely pay. Unless matters im¬ 
prove speedily, the present high prices on 
skunk cannot continue long, and mink and 
muskrat are also likely to be reduced. 
Nitrate For the Fishes. —A lighter 
containing 11 cars of nitrate of soda re¬ 
cently sank in New York Bay. At present 
market value the loss would be not far 
from $7,000. This lot of nitrate would have 
put a fair dressing on 3.000 acres of land, 
so that considering what it might have 
done, the actual loss is considerably more 
than the sum named above. 
Wool Matters.— The annual report of 
the Wool Manufacturers’ Association gives 
the season's clip as 295,488,438 pounds, 
equal to 126.527,121 pounds scoured wool, 
nearly 10 per cent increase over the 
previous vear. The total value of the crop 
is about $80,000,000. The number of sheep 
reported is 38,621,476. The wo(|l weighed 
a trifle heavier than last season, the aver¬ 
age increase per fleece being .06 pound. 
The past week has been a first-class one 
for orange trade, and. although receipts 
have been large, they have moved off rapidly 
The quality is considerably improved. Some 
very large Florida navels have been noted, 
retailing at $1 per dozen, which is not an 
extreme price considering their size. The 
highest quality oranges here at present arc 
Arizona navels, which are arriving at the 
rate of two or three cars a week. They are 
juicy, sweet and have less rag than any 
others I have eaten. The growers have been 
verv particular to let them ripen thoroughly 
before shipping, which is perhaps the chief 
cause of their superiority. 
Those who have observed the calm and 
self-possessed appearance of the top layer of 
a barrel of salt mackerel will understand 
the statement made in a commercial paper 
that, at present “salt fish are very quiet." 
It is also said that herrings arc easy and 
codfish firm. Such use of language must be 
puzzling to foreigners who try to translate 
these terms literally, until they learn that 
for market purposes some words have been 
seized liodily and used in an arbitrary way 
unknown to grammar or rhetoric. Yet for 
those acquainted with commercial affairs 
such words are very expressive, a single 
term conveying the meaning of a whole sen¬ 
tence. This is the outgrowth of a business¬ 
like desire to come right to the point in a 
concise and expressive way. 
The Raisin Growers’ combination on the 
Pacific coast, organized for the purpose of 
controlling prices, seems to have fizzled out, 
the result of a too optimistic view of the 
market. It was found that: to move the re¬ 
mainder of the 1905 crop a cut. was neces¬ 
sary. as the price which the combine had 
agreed to maintain until January was too 
high to interest the trade. This emphasizes 
one essential in cooperative work of this 
sort, to fix a price commensurate with con¬ 
sumptive demand. Any committee that de¬ 
cides on a figure in excess of this either does 
not know the needs and views of the trade 
well enough or is trying to put on a form 
of pressure that always gives cooperation 
a bad name and antagonizes consumers and 
the distributing trade. Combinations of 
producers should lie looked on as a means 
of working up new trade, keeping in close 
and harmonious touch with distributors, and 
removing wasteful methods of marketing, 
rather than as a whip to bring the rest of 
the world to time. People resent that sort 
of driving and will not submit unless the 
drivers have absolute control of some neces¬ 
sity. which is not the case with the raisin 
trade. It is probable that the growers’ as¬ 
sociation will have litigation on its hands 
because of its offer to dispose of the remain¬ 
ing 12,000 tons of the last crop at a cut 
price, as the packers claim that this violates 
the agreement made with them to maintain 
prices. Pacific coast fruit people ought to 
be able to give the rest of the world points' 
on cooperation, and an accurate history of 
the ups and downs, especially the downs, 
of the various fruit associations, would tie a 
valuable work. h. 
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