1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HOW TO FILL A DITCH. 
I noticed on page 17 John M. Jami¬ 
son’s pointers on tiling. I will give a 
cheap, practical way of filling a tile ditch 
with two horses, without putting the in¬ 
side horse too near ditch. Take an iron 
bar about 18 inches long, two inches wide 
and one-half inch thick, and have holes 
drilled in it about three inches apart, large 
enough for clevis pin to go through; then 
bolt one end to clevis at end of beam. 
Next will be a half-inch rod 24 inches 
long, bent at each end for a bolt hole; 
then if it be a wood beam plow, bore a 
hole through it about 20 inches from 
front end. Bolt one end to beam, and 
other end to iron bar; this then affords 
a brace. Then fasten clevis of double- 
tree to outer end of bar. By this means 
the inside horse can walk on the out 
edge of dirt and the plow will work next 
to ditch. I have tried this and found it 
to be a very practical way of filling ditch 
with two horses. Of course this would 
not be so convenient on an iron beam 
plow. F. T. E. 
Macksville, N. C. 
FRUIT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION 
NOTES . 
Plans fob Marketing Fruit. —The alleged 
“fruit growers’ trust” (as some of the city 
papers have called it) proposed by Thos. W. 
Campliell on behalf of the Special Committee 
on Plans for Marketing Fruits, seems to be 
nothing more than an ingeniously worked-out 
plan for the salvation of the comparatively 
small apple growers in various neighborhoods 
of the State, and for preventing the middle¬ 
men from taking the lion’s share of the 
profits. Under present conditions only a 
small share of the money that the consumer 
pays for his fruit finds its way into the 
hands of the producer. Mr. Campbell’s plan 
involves the organization of local stock com¬ 
panies who are to build and operate coopera¬ 
tive packing houses where the apples are 
delivered graded and packed, and offered 
to the trade under a positive guarantee. A 
sales agent is to he kept in New York to 
look after the proper distribution of the 
fruit and to hold it in case of glut in the 
market. Unfortunately it seems easier for a 
committee to develop a really good plan 
than to make a lot of individual growers 
get together to put even the best cooperative 
scheme in practice. Some of the grape 
growers of the State are doing it, however, 
why not the apple growers? 
Girdling Trees. —One of the particularly 
interesting points in L. A. Goodman’s paper 
and talk on Missouri apple orcharding was 
the allusion to girdling trees as means of 
hurrying them Into early fruiting. Mr. 
Goodman says he has girdled thousands of 
trees from seven to nine years old, taking a 
ring of bark off the tree body two to four 
inches wide about .Tune 10, and thereby often 
increasing the yield five fold. In one case 
he girdled a tree five years in succession, 
and it lived and did well. He advises the 
New York State grower who asks what he 
would do with an older unproductive apple 
tree, to girdle it, and either make it bear or 
kill it. Willard Hopkins tells of having 
girdled 20 trees in different portions of his 
orchard without either doing any harm to 
the trees, or getting an appreciably greater 
yield of apples. 
New York as Peach Growing State. —In 
the western end of the State is seems a 
superfluous question to ask whether New 
York can compete with Connecticut in grow¬ 
ing peaches. Mr. Hale, who grows peaches 
in Connecticut, where the mercury indicates 
occasionally a temperature of 34 degrees be¬ 
low zero, may claim that the New York 
peaches are grown in the poorest peach sec¬ 
tion. and that the rolling sections of the 
State are better adapted to peach growing, 
but the Niagara County peach growers supply 
the markets over a wide territory with very 
good peaches, and get generous returns from 
the crop, so that their claim to be able to 
“match Hale” seems to be well founded. 
The Prepared Lime was given the black 
eye by Mr. Cornell, who declares that after 
his experience with the prepared article last 
year, which, had been very unsatisfactory, 
he will use stone lime only. 
Spray Injury manifested itself in many 
instances last season in russet spotting or in 
cracking and one-sided development or defor¬ 
mation of the apples. Prof. Stewart of the 
Geneva Station promises to investigate the 
causes next season, but thinks sometimes the 
work of the blister mite or of other causes 
has been mistaken for spray injury. Mr. 
Smith, of Orleans County, suggests that pos¬ 
sibly the power sprayers may be to blame, as 
we are apt to squirt more liquid on the trees 
than when using a band pump. 
Sweet Cherries, Windsor. Napoleon and 
Gov. Wood were named as profitable sorts. 
The Future of Apple Growing. —In Mr. 
Hale's estimation, apple orcharding on mod- 
io5 
em lines is the great industry of the future 
The trees will have to lie thoroughly sprayed, 
the fruit thinned and the trees picked ovei 
repeatedly (so as to give every specimen a 
chance to get its full development and matur¬ 
ity). In the place of the old-style high 
headed apple tree we shall have irees headed 
from 15 to 18 inches from the ground thus 
reducing the labor cost of harvesting GO 
per cent. Buy yearling trees, be says, and 
pinch them into shape. 
To Prevent Girdling by mice and rabbits, 
the means recommended are pain Mug with 
coal tar, applied well up; wrapp’ng with 
tarred felt or wooden veneer: and mounding 
with earth. The veneer, which can be had 
at $4 or $5 a thousand, seem to be tbe first 
choice. It should be sunk about two inches 
into the ground to keep mice from going 
underneath. Clean culture involving the re¬ 
moval of all rubbish from around the tree, 
and tramping down (he snow immediately 
after every heavy snowfall, were also sag 
gested. 
The Missouri Ideal of proper tree shape, 
according to Mr. Goodman, is that of a 
pyramid, like a spruce, the branches starting 
as low down as 18 inches from the soil sur¬ 
face and lying rather close to the ground. 
When eight years old, the tree bears fruit 
on the lower limbs, and if these begin to die, 
they are removed and the fruit will grow 
higher up. The Missouri apple tree should 
bear itself to death in 25 years. As the five 
leading characteristics of the market apple 
of the future, Mr. Goodman names color, 
quality, productiveness, hardiness and adapt¬ 
ability, and says that wo have these in the 
Jonathan. The market plum adapted to 
Missouri conditions has not yet been found. 
The air-drainage which was mentioned as 
quite essential for the success of Missouri 
orchards and can be secured by elevation not 
only above the sea level but also above the 
surrounding land, is a good thing even for 
northern orchards, as is also the rich and 
porous subsoil, need of which was so strongly 
emphasized by Mr. Goodman. t. g. 
“I’m in favor of these automobiles,” 
said the Billville farmer; “fust time John 
ever went to the city he got run over by 
two of ’em, an’ made enough in damages 
to take the mortgage off the farm an’ buy 
three mules.”—Atlanta Constitution. 
Scientific Boarder; “The marvels of 
architectural construction nowadays are 
stupendous. This is emphatically the age 
of steel.” Practical Boarder: “Well, I 
don’t think there’s any more of that going- 
on now than there ever was. They’re 
catching ’em at it a little better than they 
used to.”—Chicago Tribune. 
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MILE RECORD . . 1:55# 
UNPACED RECORD . . 1:58 
HALF-MILE RECORD . :56 
HALF-MILE TRACK . . 2:01 
HIGH WHEEL RECORD . 2:04 Ye 
WAGON )4 MILE TRACK . 2:05 
WAGON MILE TRACK . 1:57)4 
TWO MILE RECORD . . 4:17 
DREW 250,000 PEOPLE IN 
4 EXHIBITIONS IN 1905. 
Dan broke 
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r—gry 
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