THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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THE VALUE OF NUT CULTURE. 
I see it stated that ex-Governor Hogg’s 
dying request was as follows: “I want 
no monument of stone; plant at the head 
of my grave a pecan tree, and at the foot 
a walnut tree, and when these shall bear 
let the nuts be given to the people of the 
State so they may plant them and make 
Texas a land of trees.” This was a noble 
desire, and if his wishes are carried out 
he will be remembered for this when 
every other act is forgotten. The experts 
are always advising that grafted or bud¬ 
ded trees and not the nuts be planted. 
This may be good advice to those plant¬ 
ing commercial orchards of pecans in the 
South, but in the North nuts should be 
planted where the trees are to stand and 
nuts from hardy northern trees. The 
large paper shell pecans are too tender to 
succeed north of the pecan belt, but there 
are pecans as hardy as a hickory or wal¬ 
nut, and every lover of trees and nuts in 
the North should plant them. Fourteen 
years ago a friend in Missouri sent me a 
pecan fresh from the tree. I stratified it 
in sand until Spring, when I planted it 
on my ground in Sidney. It is now a 
beautiful tree about 40 feet high, and has 
been in bearing since eight years old. 
The nuts are only medium in size and 
thickness of shell, but the quality is of 
the best, sweet, and very free from the 
pignut flavor not uncommon with the 
pecan. The tree is quite hardy in this 
severe climate, having withstood 38 de¬ 
grees below zero without the loss of a 
twig. It fruits every year, while our na¬ 
tive hickories fruit only on alternate 
years. I have not seen a nut with a worm 
or worm-hole, while the hickorynuts are 
very badly affected, fully 50 per cent being 
wormy. Many persons have been disap¬ 
pointed in their nut planting owing to 
using dry nuts from the stores. They 
should be stratified or planted fresh from 
the tree. e. p. robinson. 
Ohio. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Potato conditions continue just about the 
same as at last report. Prices in this city 
run from $2 up. Good seed costs $3 up. 
Reports from Montana name high prices 
for sheep recently sold in that State. One 
lot of 2,000 two-year-old ewes brought $5.25 
per head; several hunches of about 2.000 
yearlings, $4 each; and 1,500 three-year 
ewes, $6 per head. 
Tub season for Spring lambs is drawing to 
a close, though during the last week the 
weather has been favorable and the market 
has held firm for those of full weight, not 
under 32 pounds. There was some complaint 
of soured lambs during the warm spell about 
April 21. As a precaution against this it is 
wise to cut them well open and let them 
drain thoroughly before packing. 
Vetch Free op Duty. —The Board of Ap¬ 
praisers has just ruled that previous deci¬ 
sions in which a duty of 30 per cent ad 
valorem was assessed on seeds of the vetches 
were not in accordance with the intent of the 
law. It is now to be admitted free, classed 
with “all flower and grass seeds not specially 
provided for.” The appraisers held that 
while it is not a grass botanically the intent 
of the law was to make free the seeds of 
plants which are commercially treated and 
handled as grasses. 
Cases of ivy poisoning are often noted at 
this season, caused usually by handling the 
root, which is the most venomous part of 
the plant. These roots get in the corners 
of garden patches and hedge-rows, and one 
is likely to get hold of them while digging 
out other plants. Those practically immune 
to injury from touching the leaves may be 
badly poisoned by the roots or cut stems. 
Two well-tried remedies are sugar of lead 
solution, which any druggist will make by 
dissolving sugar of lead in alcohol and 
water, and pure olive oil. Often mild cases 
are cpiickly cured by the oil. The lead so¬ 
lution is very poisonous for Internal use, 
and the mouth or lips should never be touched 
with 't. 
When to Kill Old TTens. —“It is gener¬ 
ally understood that hens kept for egg pro¬ 
duction should be killed off at about two 
years of age. At what time in the year is it 
the most economical to kill? I should imag¬ 
ine that just prior to moulting, but how is 
one to know that time?” a. s. 
New Jersey. 
The moulting period runs from late Sum¬ 
mer to early Winter. Fowls vary greatly 
in this, and some poultrymen claim that 
by a special system of fasting and feeding 
they can produce a moult so early that the 
hens will have their new coat and be ready 
to lay in late Fall. But the best time 
to kill will depend on what is to be done 
with the poultry. There is a steady demand 
for live poultry in New York and other mar¬ 
kets having a Jewish population, and the 
names of dealers who will handle live birds 
will be given to anyone interested. If the 
fowls are to be killed at home probably 
Septeaiber and October are as favorable 
months as any. There would be little object 
in keeping old hens for Thanksgiving and 
Christmas, as the greatest demand then is for 
turkeys and chickens. Is a hen old at two 
or three years? No doubt some are then past 
their prime, but this rule has many excep¬ 
tions. At the writer's home an 11-year-old 
hen was killed by a dog last Fall. She 
had raised two broodst of chickens that year, 
and laid as many eggs afterward as any 
other hen in the flock. That worthless dog 
managed to dodge three bullets and got away. 
A reader asks what methods are used in 
selling the early southern fruits and vege¬ 
tables. Some are shipped directly to com¬ 
mission houses by individual growers, the 
same as in the North; some are sent by 
local growers’ associations to commission men 
whom they have found square; some are 
bought outright by large commission houses 
or their agents, it being a common thing for 
a member of the firm to make a trip through 
the growing section at the most favorable 
season; and considerable is done by free-lance 
speculators. With a large part of this busi¬ 
ness the buyers are competing with each 
other rather than the growers. Many of 
these products are out-of-season luxuries 
that are to sell at a high price in the con¬ 
suming centers. Florida East Coast toma¬ 
toes, for instance, have almost no competi¬ 
tion. People in the North want them, and 
the buyers can get them nowhere else. But 
with Jersey melons, tomatoes, peppers, etc., 
the competition is on the other hand, as 
these products may be had from a wide 
growing section. The growers must hunt 
up their market, and marketing is often a 
harder job than growing the crop. h. 
FRUIT NOTES. 
A Canadian Apple Eater. —I have been a 
member at large of the apple eaters frater¬ 
nity for many years, having made my bow 
in May, 1835. At an early age myself with 
a younger brother planted 50 trees of the 
then famous Pomme Gris, obtained at a 
nursery in Montreal. I have never forsaken 
the fraternity; I have been a close loyal 
brother even in the midst of the lauded 
tropical fruits. Here I have more or less 
success growing apples, old standards, by the 
low-headed grass and mulch process. If we 
urge growth the new wood will freeze 
back, so we must be content to wait a year 
longer, or even two or three, then we grow 
the finest possible specimens to be had on 
the continent, but we are north of the best 
fruit belt for such apples as Baldwin, R. I. 
Greening, etc., but we have many sorts to 
take their place. I am glad to see other 
papers taking up the parcels post question. 
If the parcels post was organized, the postage 
on the delivery would soon pay the whole ex¬ 
pense of the affair, without any more cost to 
the Department. You know we have also 
savings banks and the schools have two-cent 
savings banks as well. Why not you? I am 
sending you a sample of the “Pomme Gris.” 
Gravenhurst, Ontario. s. p. c. 
R. N.-Y.—The Pomme Gris is about the 
finest morsel of flavor ever packed inside an 
apple skin. The only objection is that this 
little russet is so small that an apple eater 
is almost ashamed to tell how many he needs 
to satisfy him. 
Banana and Bismarck Apple. —I have been 
growing the Banana apple for nearly 20 
years. It has been disseminated by several 
nurseries during the past 10 or 15 years. 
The fact that not one person in a thousand 
has ever heard of It indicates how long it 
takes for a new fruit to become well known 
in this big country. Prof. II. E. Van Deman 
says that Banana is of better quality than 
the Swaar. I have claimed this myself, but 
others do not agree on this point, claiming 
that the Swaar is better than the Banana; 
but however that may be no one can deny 
that Banana is an apple of superior quality. 
It has something of the banana flavor, the 
flesh is of fine texture, crisp and aromatic. 
It is a good keeping Winter apple. When 
fully ripe the color of the skin is a golden 
yellow, with an inclination to blush on the 
cheek. The trees are vigorous, upright grow¬ 
ers, and are very productive of fruit, which 
is uniformly fair and free from blemish. We 
have fruited the Bismarck apple at our place 
for several years now. It bears very freely 
on very young trees. The fruit is very large 
and handsome, the skin being streaked with 
bright red and with a bright red blush on one 
side: the flesh is not as fine and delicate 
texture nor of as good quality as Banana, 
but will, I think, compare favorably with 
Baldwin, Greening and other apples of that 
Class. C. A. GREEN. 
For the land’s sake use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
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