1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
349 
PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF FRUIT 
EATING. 
A communication from a western fruit 
growers' association was read at our last 
annual meeting of the Massachusetts Fruit 
Growers' Association, held at Worcester. 
March 14 and 15, asking co-operation with 
the several western associations to establish 
an “Apple Day,” naming October 2 (I think) 
which day all are requested to observe by 
eating and cooking in various forms a larger 
number of apples than they had been ac¬ 
customed to use. Some one moved the adop¬ 
tion of a similar resolution. The chairman 
asked if that motion was supported? The 
writer seconded the motion, with an amend¬ 
ment that not only October 2, but every other 
day in the year (when apples can, be had) 
should be also included. One fruit grower 
objected to indorsing this western apple day 
suggestion, “as it savored of mercenary mo¬ 
tives,” to which he did not care to subscribe. 
Another remarked that if adopted, the pear 
growers would want a “Pear Day,” and the 
peach growers would want a “Peach Day,” 
and a “Strawberry Day,” until there would 
be no end of special days for eating fruit. 
The supporter of the motive declared that he 
was ready to indorse all these suggested 
fruit eating days, saying that his amendment 
practically covered that very point, as he 
believed in daily eating fruit, to a larger 
extent than is now generally practiced. lie 
said that for years it had been ids habit 
to have fruit, either raw or cooked, at every 
meal the year around, on his own table, and 
he claimed to be now trying to form the 
habit of eating also a larger variety of 
vegetables than formerly, because he had 
come to believe that every variety of fruit, 
and every variety of vegetables had its own 
peculiar chemical constituents that the human 
system needed to promote its most healthy 
condition. He therefore indorsed this pro¬ 
posed movement for encouraging a greater 
consumption of apples, and all other fruit, 
not based at ail on any mercenary motive, 
but rather as a mission for the welfare of 
all who may be induced to use a larger per 
cent of fruit and vegetables for food. Others 
favored the motion, declaring the objections 
offered to be “silly.” The objecting man 
promptly withdrew his objection and the mo¬ 
tion was carried with only one dissenting 
voice heard, and why not? We are constantly 
striving to learn what constitutes the best 
“balanced ration” for our cows, our work 
horses and our hens. To do their best in 
production of milk, labor or eggs, the promo¬ 
tion of vigorous health must be the first con¬ 
sideration. And why do not we humans also 
need “balanced rations" to promote physical 
and mental vigor for the performance of our 
higher duties to ourselves and the world 
around us? The Almighty has created an 
almost endless variety of wholesome and de¬ 
licious fruits and vegetables, and he must 
have designed them for our general consump¬ 
tion, since lie has given them flavors so 
pleasing to our normal sense of taste and so 
wonderfully adapted them to the promotion 
of our bodily health and comfort. And if 
so, is not the gos*pel of fruit eating a most 
worthy object to proclaim? S. H. RECORD. 
Worcester Co., Mass. 
“WHAT APPLES SHALL WE EAT?” 
Cut Out Ben Davis and Company. 
I heartily agree with everything a writer 
said in a recent issue under the caption of 
“What Apples Shall We Eat”—excepting one 
thing. He recommends the growing of an 
apple (the Alexander) which he confesses to 
be of inferior quality. Never shall I forget 
a confidence game worked upon me by a 
gay and festive deceiver, one Ren Davis by 
name. I met him for the first time upon 
East 23d street, in the company of a push¬ 
cart man (I. e., Ren was with the Dago— 
not I) and straightway spotting me as a 
freshly arrived countryman and an easy mark 
as it were, he at once endeavored to represent 
himself as my old and esteemed friend N. 
Spy—and I bit. Rut from that day until 
this 1 have never tasted another Ben Davis, 
nor will I so long as the world stands and 
I stand in it. No! not even if all other 
fruit should fail and B. D.’s sell for four 
cents per barrel retail! One September day 
I was riding past a young orchard which 
was fairly glowing with the most beautiful 
fruit; I climbed the fence and secured some, 
noting at the same time that almost every 
apple upon the trees was perfect. I bit into 
a ripened specimen and the face I made 
stopped all the clocks in northern Dutchess 
and even slopped over the line a way into 
Columbia, though whether the effect reached 
as far as Kinderhook or not, I can’t say. 
I inquired the name of .the apple and was 
told it was the Alexander. I intended the 
following Spring to begin the setting out of 
about 4.0 acres of apple orchard, but I said 
no Alecs, in mine thank you. And even when 
I heard later that the apples from that very 
orchard shipped in berry crates realized at 
the rate of $9 per barrel, it didn’t “fuss” 
uo. Komember, I am not discussing the 
finance, but the ethics of the question. I 
Know that Alexander, Be n Davis, Wolf River 
and others of that class will bring the 
growers big money but sirs, in my opinion 
it will not be honest money. I would as 
soon sell to an ignorant buyer a horse of 
beautiful coat and conformation but useless 
on account of vicious habits as a barrel of 
those apples—they are both skin tricks. And 
I'll wager considerable that, the victim in 
the latter case could legally recover as well 
as in the former if in order to test it he were 
willing to involve himself in a suit over a 
barrel of apples! Rut some say there must 
be people who want such apples or they 
wouldn't sell. Nonsense! Every time such 
an apple is sold another innocent is taken 
in just as I was with the Ben Davis. Only 
if the party sold doesn't happen to know 
what a good apple Is he will infer that all 
apples are like this and never buy another, 
and what effect such education will have 
upon the apple trade I can't say; though if 
a countryman and an old fruit grower could 
be fooled into buying Ben Davis for Spies 
it’s likely that the city buyers will prove 
easy game for many years to come. But 
I. say that a. man who knowing the nature 
of these apples sets out the trees with the 
idea of having them “sell by their looks” 
is “fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils" ! 
Why do you know what happens to such 
a man after Charon has toted him over the 
Styx? Well, I know, for I had it straight 
from Dante—he was at the Grange the other 
night. As soon as the arrival of a fruit 
grower is announced li is shipping record is 
gone over, and if it is found that he has 
ever sold Ben Davis, Alexander, Wolf River 
or other apples of that sort without labeling 
“For Decorative Purposes, or External Use 
Only," he is at once given a seat in the front 
row, near the fire, and fed upon a diet of 
sawdust, pomace and shavings, with shredded 
wheat biscuit for desert, and with only as 
much fluid three times a day as can be 
extracted from a peck of Ren Davis—which 
is only about four cubic centimeters or a 
scant teaspoonful. And in addition, if there 
happen to be any of his victims present, and 
there usually are a good many, for there is 
where the ignorant as well as the vicious 
are apt to land—they are all allowed to 
crack dry jokes at his expense. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. iiakvkv losee. 
Cow Teas and Wheat. —Last Summer you 
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grown in Delaware on wheat stubble. We 
were just going to give it a trial. We have 
nine acres; plowed July, first week, and put in 
July 15 ; gave us a splendid crop of cow peas, 
our principal cow feed this Winter. We did 
not weigh the hay, hut think we got from 
two to three tons of hay to the acre, and put 
the same field in wheat again about October 
15, plowing a part and disk-harrowing a part, 
and the wheat looks good Indeed. We have 
had a very mild Winter, but quite cold and 
wintry here now. w. d. 
Lewes, Del. 
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