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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 25. 
The Rural New-Yorker 
TUE BUSINESS FARMER'S PAPER. 
A National Weekly Journal for Country and Suburban Homes. 
Established 1850. 
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neighbors and friends. 
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The National Stockman and Farmer has a good arti¬ 
cle on the Seedless apple. Its investigations appear to 
show that the fruit lacks both novelty and quality, while 
the methods employed by the introducer are peculiar to 
say the least. This is good work on the part of the 
Stockman. Now may we not hope for help in the cam¬ 
paign against Mr. Wadsworth? 
* 
The farm labor question is enlivened this week by the 
experience of a woman who was forced to sell a good 
farm through lack of sober and industrious help. The 
liquor problem hits the farm labor question hard. Next 
week we shall hear from a man who left a city job to 
become a hired man—and is glad he went! We shall 
have a number of these farm problems thrashed out dur¬ 
ing the year. 
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Reports from all over show that there are fewer eggs 
held in cold storage now than at this time last year. 
This shortage is nearly 20 per cent in New York, 10 
per cent in Boston and nearly 15 per cent in Chicago. 
The consumption is enormous—in Boston more than 
10,000 cases are required per month than last Summer. 
All this is cheering for the hen. In Spite of all the 
efforts to “boom” the poultry business man fails in his 
duty and the egg business prospers. 
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It is an event of some importance to record the first 
auto milk wagon. Here it is: 
I saw in The R. N.-Y. the query: “Who will drive th* 
first auto milk wagon?" A Knox tonneau ear has been de¬ 
livering milk and cream in this vicinity for several months, 
the tonneau removed and a body fitted to carry milk cans 
and bottles. It is owned in Tiverton, R. I. w. h. b. 
Fa'l River, Mass. 
Before many years we shall doubtless learn that this 
auto drives home and uses its power to run a milking 
machine, a separator and milk bottler! As usual, the 
Yankees are ahead! 
* 
Three weeks ago “A Farmer’s Daughter” discussed 
the hired help question in a way that stirred up a lively 
correspondence. Some interest has been manifested in 
the farm from which this article was written, and we 
have arranged with “A Farmer’s Daughter” to write 
monthly reports of business and farm operations. They 
will be somewhat after the line followed by Mr. Cos¬ 
grove, and we feel safe in telling our readers that they 
will be instructed by the story of this piece of Bay State 
farm mechanism, with Jersey cows for motive power. 
The first article will appear next week. 
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The apple shippers seem to be overdoing the crop re¬ 
port business. Some of the papers claim the heaviest 
yield of apples ever known, larger than that of 1896! 
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle goes so far as 
to predict lower Winter prices than last year. We can 
find nothing in the situation to warrant any such predic¬ 
tions. Our reports uniformly show less fruit than last 
year, especially in sections where orcharding is a main 
business. Every year the shippers and dealers attempt 
to spread the report of large crops, the object being to 
frighten growers so that they will sell early at low 
prices. In a season like the present, when almost every 
report from growers indicates a reduced crop, what folly 
it is to talk about a yield equal to that of 1896! 
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We are giving some time to James W. Wadsworth 
and the effort to keep him at home, but let us not forget 
the amendment to be voted in Minnesota. Every farmer 
and gardener in that State should vote for that amend¬ 
ment and work for it as well. Here is a copy of the 
important section: 
Section 18. Any person may sell or peddle the products 
of the farm or garden occupied and cultivated by him with¬ 
out obtaining a license therefor. 
A little thought will show any farmer how important 
this is. The amendment is needed in Minnesota because 
that State has an old law forbidding class legislation, 
and it is necessary specially to exempt farmers by law. 
Every farmer in the State ought to vote for his own 
interests. \\ bile those of us who live outside the State 
cannot vote, it is one of those far-reaching questions 
which concern us all. 
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Never before, since cheese-making became a commer¬ 
cial interest, lias the trade been in a more healthy condi¬ 
tion than now. Several causes, no doubt, contribute to this 
condition. After our loss of the export trade resulting 
from the use of the skimmer and manufacture of filled 
cheese we began a systematic effort to rebuild. The 
passage of the anti-filled cheese law opened up a large 
trade with the South, and they are to-day liberal buyers. 
The general prosperity of the West has largely increased 
their orders, and now the foreign' trade has again been 
active; in fact, for a time this Spring taking everything 
in sight. Another factor which is not so easily proven 
by exact data is an understanding that cheese is not only 
a wholesome, but one of the cheapest foods. The dealers 
at Watertown (N. Y.) Board of Trade meeting recently 
reported not to exceed two-thirds the amount of stock 
in storage of one year ago, and cheese shipped very 
close to the hoop. In the face of these figures the old 
cheese sections of New York are being reduced by the 
demand for milk for city use and special manufacture. 
It is evident therefore that prices must for a time re¬ 
main good, and that new territory must be found. This 
cannot come from the sparsely settled dairy sections of 
the West. Cheese cannot, like butter, be made where 
cow population is light. The whole milk must be hauled 
to a common center. The cheese sections are more gen¬ 
erally equipped than formerly for Winter handling of 
milk, and the business is not as demoralizing to the pro¬ 
ducers as when it was necessary to close up shop 
November 1 . 
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We are very glad to print the enclosed letter from a 
friend in Genesee County, N. Y.: 
I differ with you in your opinion of the lion. .Tames W. 
Wadsworth, page 604. You should give Mr. Wadsworth 
credit for having a little common sense. I have known 
him a good many years, and have always found him true 
to the interests, as he saw it, of the majority of the farm¬ 
ers of his district. He may see it differently from you and 
I, but have we a right to say he is dishonest, and condemn 
him for his action in his vote on two hills, and give him no 
credit whatever for the good he has done, and advise the 
farmers to beat him at the polls this Fall? I have not 
seen Mr. Wadsworth this year, and do not know that I 
shall see him this Fall. I do not believe he ever said he 
did not care for the Granges and farmers’ clubs of his dis¬ 
trict. He is not that kind of a man, but a perfect gen¬ 
tleman wherever placed, and wants the support of every 
voter in his district, but if any feel that they cannot sup¬ 
port him at the polls he at least wants them to think he is 
an honest man. f. t. miller. 
The R. N.-Y. cannot afford to be unjust to anyone, 
whether, it be the wealthy Mr. Wadsworth or a day 
laborer. It came to us on what seemed good authority 
that Mr. Wadsworth sneered at the Grange and farmers’ 
clubs, and said he could and would be re-elected in spite 
of them. If this report is wrong we will gladly correct 
it. Whatever Mr. Wadsworth may think about the 
Grange there is no question as to what the members of 
that organization think about him. They seem to op¬ 
pose him to a man! Not one word can be said against the 
personal character of Mr. Wadsworth. There is only 
one question which interests us—is he a true representa¬ 
tive of what farmers desire and need? We think not. 
1 here is a long article in The Saturday Evening Post, 
from which the following is taken: 
lie is known in New York, where he has been in politics 
for many years. Up in the Genesee Valley the name Wads¬ 
worth is the synonym for wealth, aristocracy, riding to 
hounds and ownership of the Republican party. You see, 
the Wadsworths are the overlords of Livingston County. 
. . . He tells the people what he wants and the people 
gladly give it to him. They have to be glad, for it would 
make no difference if they were sorry. He’d get it anyway. 
By and large, there is no prettier political machine than 
the Wadsworth one that operates in Livingston County and 
iu the other counties of the Thirty-fourth New York Dis¬ 
trict. It has been built by assiduous toil. It works like 
a clock. 
We never yet saw a man with such a machine who 
could be said to represent the people. Such a person 
usually represents the machine or himself. Mr. Wads¬ 
worth’s record on the oleo and meat inspection bills 
should condemn him in the eyes of any fair-minded 
farmer. He may be, and doubtless is, a perfect gentle¬ 
man, but a few other qualities are needed in the man 
who represents agriculture at Washington. President 
Roosevelt understood this perfectly when he wrote Mr. 
Wadsworth that his bill was “very, very bad.” He told 
the truth, and gave the reason why Mr. Wadsworth 
should not represent farmers! 
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J. L. Normand, of Louisiana, is an expert in hybridiz¬ 
ing fruits. What he says about seedless apples is worth 
reading at any time, especially while people are all ears, 
listening to words of wisdom from John F. Spencer. 
Here we have Mr. Normand’s views: 
The discussion as to how seedless fruits are produced is 
very interesting. The only way I know of from practical 
experience is to cross two somewhat distantly related fruits, 
and the result will be most likely to produce seedless fruits. 
I have two variety of oranges bearing here on my experi¬ 
mental grounds that were evolved by crossing the sweet 
orange with the C. trifoliata that are• seedless, or nearly 
scr. I)r. II. ,T. Webber, in charge of the plant breeding in¬ 
vestigations at Washington. D. C.. has obtained similar 
results in his production of the Willets, Rusk and Morton 
citranges. Luther Burbank obtained a seedless plum by 
crossing the domesticated plum on the wild Beach plum of 
the Pacific coast; these two plums are distantly related. 
The animal and vegetable kingdom seems to run hand in 
hand in that respect. By crossing the jack with the 
horse the progeny will be barren—seedless—the Muscovy 
with the puddle duck will make a mule duck unable to pro¬ 
duce its species any further. Let us not condemn Mr. 
Spencer before we hear from him. Ills secret process may 
be that he has crossed the apple with the Red haw, haw¬ 
thorn or May apple, which are related to the apple, and 
grow wild nearly all over this country. I believe such 
crosses would produce seedless apples; in fact, I am work¬ 
ing at that myself, and I believe if I can infuse the deli¬ 
cate strawberry-pineapple aroma of the May haw that a 
superior early apple can be produced that may be better 
suited to the South than those we now have. 
Louisiana. j. l. normand. 
Condemn Mr. Spencer? Let the thought perish at 
once! If we wait until we hear from him before doing 
so there is not likely to be much condemnation. On the 
next page Mr. Van Deman gives what he considers good 
evidence to show that the “Seedless apple” is merely an 
old seedling of very little value. Mr. Van Deman is 
well known, and it is certainly up to Mr. Spencer to 
break a hole through Van Deman’s evidence. We call 
upon him to do so, or we shall have the right to assume 
that Van Deman is right. But just mark the difference 
between Spencer and Normand! The latter states 
plainly what he is trying to do, and if he succeeds in de¬ 
veloping a seedless apple will tell frankly where it came 
from. Spencer, on the other hand, refuses to answer a 
plain question, even when cornered by the best experts 
in the land. Now, Mr. Spencer, is Van Deman’s story 
true? 
BREVITIES. 
The dog days dog our footsteps this year. 
It's hard to work on at a new thing in the face of op¬ 
position—but the seat of success has a soft cushion. 
It is said that some apples do not contain enough 
sugar to make a vinegar that will grade up to the stand¬ 
ard. 
In Germany 12% per cent of all the land cultivated is 
planted to potatoes. This is for human food, stock feeding 
and alcohol making. 
Do bees carry the germs of Pear blight from tree to tree? 
So it is said and yet, if the bees did not pass from one tree 
to another, there would would be no pears. 
The latest addition to labor’s ranks, says tnc Florists 
Exchange, is the United Brotherhood of Rural, Horticul¬ 
tural and Agricultural Wage Earners of America. The 
headquarters is in Dallas, Tex. 
Australia has raised the import duty on stripper har¬ 
vesters, plows and disk cultivators from 12% to 25 per 
cent, but if the selling price of similar machines made 
in Australia is unduly increased the government will sus¬ 
pend the additional duty. 
This from the late Congressman H. C. Adams: “And 
if any young fellow asks my advice about making farming 
ills vocation, I ask him, “Are you man enough? If not, 
don t; but go and be a lawyer or a doctor or a preacher, 
or something of that sort.” 
Here Is a commission from one of our best contributors : 
“I will write you up a small story about Alfalfa for hog 
pasture. I will let you do the fighting, as I am out of 
training.” We accept, and make choice of weapons— 
printer’s ink, the principles to stand at least 500 miles 
apart. 
“Since Sir Walter Raleigh carried the New World fruit 
over seas, no occurrence in its history is half so interest¬ 
ing: What do you suppose this man is talking about? 
Why, the “invention” of that Vineless potato. It isn’t 
half so interesting as the action of the postal authorities 
in shutting the “Vineless” out of the mails. 
Farmers’ Bulletin, No. 254 of the Department of Agri¬ 
culture at Washington is devoted to cucumbers. The au¬ 
thor, Prof. L. C. Corbett has collected valuable material on 
the treatment of cucumbers both out of doors and under 
glass, diseases and enemies, and there is also a useful de¬ 
scription of salting and pickling cucumbers commercially. 
On page 641 we printed a note from a Massachusetts 
woman who carefully seeded a small patch of Alfalfa 
for her hens. She adds: “It came up in three days, stayed 
quiet a few days, then sent up a third leaf June 28. To¬ 
day, August 9, I have just measured a stalk which rs 
exactly two feet high with many branches. The bud has 
half a dozen blue blooms. Compare this any New Eng¬ 
land grass, grown from the seed in less than two months!” 
