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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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ORANGE VARIETIES. 
What varieties of oranges are best to 
cover the whole season? Give any facts at 
hand regarding the orange trade of West 
Indies. READER. 
Cuba. 
As a partial list, I give the following, 
subject to some change as to locality: 
Early, Parson Brown; medium, Homo- 
sassa, Jaffa, Ruby; late, Bessie, Higley 
Late; very late, Hart’s Tardiff, Valencia 
Late. A. B. HARRINGTON. 
Winter Haven, Fla. 
The best oranges grown in this section 
for market are Boone’s Early, Parson 
Brown, Homosassa, Hart’s Tardiff and 
Mediterranean Sweet. All of these are 
good shipping kinds and fine eating qual¬ 
ity. The Boone’s Early and Parson 
Brown are very early; Homosassa and 
Mediterranean Sweet, medium, and Hart’s 
Tardiff very late. For a “kid glove” 
orange you cannot do better than the 
Satsuma, which is very early. 
Narcoossee, Fla. F. l. woodham. 
The one trouble with the West Indian 
oranges is that they are handled too 
roughly. From what we can learn, they 
are shaken from the trees, put in carts 
and carted to town, and then placed in 
barrels and shipped to market. It stands 
to reason that fruit handled in this man¬ 
ner cannot arrive here in good condition. 
Our best Florida shippers have their 
oranges picked by hand. The orange is 
held between the thumb and the forefinger 
and the stem cut very close to the fruit. 
They are then placed in trays or boxes 
and carried in wagons to the packing 
houses where they are sorted into uniform 
sizes from 126 to 200 to the box, and the 
contents marked on the outside of the 
boxes. When a box contains 126 oranges, 
they are all the same size, and only 126 
of that size could fit in the box; the same 
is the case with the 150’s, etc. It will not 
do to mix the large and small oranges in 
one box. Each orange should be carefully 
wrapped, so that if one of them becomes 
decayed on the way it will not interfere 
with the rest. The less fruit is fertilized, 
the better it keeps. 
New York. archdeacon & co. 
TALKS WITH A LAWYER. 
A Trespass Sign. 
What is the correct sign, how large and 
how worded, to post a farm according to 
law to prevent hunting on the premises, and 
is it necessary to have the signs registered 
anywhere? w. J. w. 
New York. 
The notice which you should give to 
prevent hunting on your premises consists 
of a sign which may read as follows: 
“All persons are warned against hunt¬ 
ing, fishing or trespassing upon these 
premises, under penalty of law, and per¬ 
sons hunting, fishing or trespassing there¬ 
on will be prosecuted according to law.” 
This notice should be on a board not 
less than one foot square and signed by 
the owner of the property. Such a notice 
should be posted conspicuously upon 
every 50 acres of the premises sought to 
be protected, upon or near the lot lines 
thereof. 
Wife's Right in Husband's Estate. 
If no will is made by the husband what 
disposal Is made of it between wife and chil¬ 
dren, and can the wife hold all the movable 
property, like horses, cattle and farming 
utensils? M. b. 
New York. 
If a husband dies leaving a wife and 
children, without leaving any will, his es¬ 
tate passes as follows: The wife takes 
her dower interest in any real estate 
owned by the husband at the time of his 
death, which interest consists of a life 
estate in one-third of said real estate. The 
wife also has one-third of the personal 
property left by the husband. The fee of 
the real estate passes to the children, sub¬ 
ject only to the life estate of the wife in 
one-third thereof. The children also take 
two-thirds of the personal estate, which 
is divided among them equally. The wife 
can dispose of her one-third of the per¬ 
sonal property in any way she sees fit, but 
cannot dispose of the real estate, except 
as to the life estate which she has in one- 
third thereof. 
CORRESPONDENCE COURSE IN 
AGRICULTURE. 
We are sometimes asked if the “corre¬ 
spondence schools*’ really have a legitimate 
place in agricultural education. Wliat with 
agricultural colleges, with long and short 
courses, experiment stations and books it 
might at first sight seem that studying by 
means* of correspondence would scarcely be 
practical. A little thought will quickly 
show that the correspondence method is, in 
some ways, superior to others. There are 
thousands of people, old as well as young, 
who cannot attend an agricultural college. 
They are needed at home. In some cases 
too parents do not care to have their child¬ 
ren go to a distant public school. Yet these 
people need and desire the help which science 
can give them. IIow are they to obtain it 
except through correspondence with some 
sympathetic Instructor who is qualified to 
teach? They surely cannot depend upon the 
yearly farmers’ institute or the bulletins from 
the station. The agricultural paper helps 
them, but they need particularly special in¬ 
formation narrowed down to their personal 
needs and classified so that they can absorb 
it gradually. Suppose a student be one of 
50 listening to lectures by a college professor 
day after day. Suppose on the other hand 
he goes over the same ground, submitting his 
answers and questions in writing to the same 
professor—receiving criticism and sugges¬ 
tions in return—all the while engaged in 
practical farm work! It is not difficult to 
see that the boy who is thus obliged to think 
out the answers and apply them will secure 
a more enduring grasp of the subject. The 
enforced habit, too, of writing out the les¬ 
son will help fix the facts in memory. There 
are many cases where men have taken one 
of these courses and learned enough about 
their daily farm practice to far more than 
pay the cost. In addition to this they have 
cultivated habits of reading, study and ob¬ 
servation which prove of great value. We 
feel so sure of the value of this work that 
we do not hesitate advising readers to investi¬ 
gate the merits of the Home Correspondence 
School of Springfield, Mass. It is not our 
custom to single out institutions of this sort 
for special reference, but we know both Prof. 
Brooks and Prof. Craig, and realize what it 
wll mean for a farmer to have the privilege 
of corresponding with them. We shall dis¬ 
cuss the methods of teaching by correspond¬ 
ence later. The theory is right, and we ad¬ 
vise readers to obtain circulars of the school 
and study them._ 
Apn.ES in Arizona. —This is a strenuous 
place for members of the Apple Consumers’ 
League. Iteports say that the apple market 
is stiffening a little in New York, with the 
best apples at .$6 per barrel. Now, Imagine, 
if you can, paying over .$3 per bushel for the 
Ben Uavis. It takes courage to tackle 
one, but then you know that to one who has 
been accustomed to having all the apples he 
wanted it takes courage to pass by even the 
Ben Davis. I have seen specimens of the 
Gano grown in the Verde V'alley of prodigious 
size. However. I have failed so far to find 
an apple raised here that could equal for 
quality eastern-grown fruit. J. d. p. 
Arizona. 
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20 Times 
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The Angle Lamp 
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Write for our catalogue “20,” listing 88 varieties 
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True Grafted Paragon Chestnut 
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, SOBER, Lewisburg, Pa. 
STRAWBERRY 
PLANTS 
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FROM OTHERS. 
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APPLE BREEDERS. 
We grow and sell direct 
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FRUIT TREES 
