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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 22 , 
BEST WAY TO HARVEST CORN. 
In this section of Ohio we do not grow 
corn as a commercial crop, but rather as a 
rotation. No corn goes out of the com¬ 
munity, but is consumed among farmers 
and in nearby towns. Aside from the corn 
grown and fed thousands of bushels of 
western corn are shipped in and consumed. 
Corn grown in the limestone soil of Jef¬ 
ferson, Belmont and Harrison counties is 
rich in vegetable oils, hence contains 
larger quantities of protein and starches, 
and weighs very heavy to measured bushel. 
I have had considerable experience in the 
work of hybridizing and pollenizing this 
important cereal. My aim has been to 
balance up the inequalities of season and 
size of ear, or rather the ripening effect 
of season. Mature experience has taught 
some valuable lessons about season for 
planting and effective cultivation. Corn 
matured in August or early September 
sunlight with warm nights to follow is 
most valuable in food values, yet with 
lingering Summer days sometimes lasting 
late into the latter month produces a very 
nourishing plant. It does not pay to cut 
corn too early, but rather let it yellow up 
with husks bursting so as to expose the 
gold hue of the grain. Too often farmers 
begin cutting while the blades and stalks 
contain too much moisture. This is a 
very great mistake, because it is during 
the escape of moisture into the air that 
starches are stored in its place, and it is 
always desirable to produce a plant with 
many broad leaves, so that the decompos¬ 
ing of carbon from the air shall be rapid 
during the shortening hours of sunshine. 
Inclemencies of weather in Spring may de¬ 
fer the dates of planting, and in such 
cases the above conditions arc important. 
It is generally believed that so long as 
there remains a measure of green surface 
exposed to the air the starches are form¬ 
ing in some tissue of the plant. With this 
belief implied we delay the cutting of 
corn as long as safety from frost will 
allow to get these better conditions. By 
thus deferring the cutting under the more 
perfect conditions described the less weight 
and ability to store larger quantities in 
shocks favor the safety of blade and grain. 
The most desirable method of cutting is 
to secure it by hand intq shocks double 
tied, may be cut into half shocks, then 
completed in a. few days into full ones and 
well tied again. The 100-hill shock is the 
most economical when everything is just 
right with a fully matured stalk and ear. 
We have had corn cut and bound with the 
corn harvester, the same shocked into 
larger shocks to insure them standing, but 
the curing out was not so perfect as when 
stood up in regular layers around a hand- 
tied horse. When machine cutting is em¬ 
ployed and ' corn thrown into bound 
gavels drying in sun for a time sufficient 
to wilt thoroughly is commendable. Labor 
for hand cutting is almost out of the ques¬ 
tion, and machine cutting must to a very 
large degree displace hand labor. A new 
device run by one-horse power, cutting 
two rows and throwing the cut corn on 
platforms in large heaps operated by one 
or more men, is in the market, and de¬ 
mands the attention of the farmer short 
on farm labor. The operator stops, and 
with a shocking bar reaching out behind 
shocks and ties his shock and drives on, 
putting the bar out. I have seen this new 
machine for the first this season, and think 
it worthy of notice. It should be put into 
farmer’s hand for trial, standing on its 
own merits. geo. e. scott. 
Ohio. _ 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Since last report prices of fresh eggs and 
closely candled held stock have advanced two 
cents. At this writing the market has weak¬ 
ened a little, but it seems quite likely that 
strictly fresh will hold this advance for sev¬ 
eral weeks, as many hens are taking a rest 
either in moulting or on account of natural 
disinclination to work. 
New Track Clearer. —Navigators always 
fear derelicts, and many ships have suffered 
serious injury from collisions with these 
wandering wrecks, which, floating at the 
water’s edge or just below, are not seen until 
the ship is directly on them. The United 
States is about to build a vessel specially 
designed to destroy these derelicts. It will 
be of steel, 200 feet long, with draft of 14 
feet, carrying coal enough for 4,000 miles of 
cruising. It will have wireless equipment, 
so that any vessel thus fitted, on discover¬ 
ing a derelict, may “call up” the destroyer 
and give the data necessary to trace the 
nuisance. Some derelicts may lie got rid of 
by powerful ramming with the sharp prow 
of the destroyer, but more dependence is 
put upon explosives. In some cases there 
is possibility of salvage, when towing ap¬ 
pliances will be used. 
The New Jersey cranberry yield is likely 
to be less than half a crop, much of the 
fruit having blighted or scalded owing to 
wet weather followed immediately by bright 
sunshine. The trouble seems to be quite gen¬ 
eral through the l>ogs of Ocean County, the 
chief cranberry section of New Jersey. 
The potato market is firm. Long Island 
stock bringing 75 cents per bushel. Prices 
are likely to vary considerably for a month 
or more during the season when those who 
sell their main crop from the field are dig¬ 
ging, but there is nothing to indicate an 
extravagant yield, and it would seem that 
prices for Winter ought to settle down to 
$2 or better. 
The Merchants’ League of America is a 
new organization with headquarters in this 
city, its special purpose being to work up 
sentiment against parcels post legislation. 
Among the gems of thought that they are 
giving out are the statements that a domes¬ 
tic parcels post would cause an annual postal 
deficit of $150,000,000, and bring calamity on 
thousands of communities by closing small 
shops, throwing people out of work, and in¬ 
juring the business of country banks. Of 
course a parcels post might be run on such 
an extravagant basis as to cause a deficit 
four or five times as large as the sum named, 
but the same possibility exists with regard 
to any public improvement. It would he 
possible to bankrupt the country with river 
and harbor work, war vessels, irrigation of 
lands, canal building or the subsidizing of 
industries, were it not that the people have 
voting power, and that a fair proportion of 
our lawmakers have some common sense. Be¬ 
cause the parcels post opens a wide field 
which might easily be overworked, the op- 
posers minimize the intelligence of the pres¬ 
ent and future generations of voters by de¬ 
claring that it is little short of rank treason 
to look favorably toward relief from the 
poor service and hold-up charges of the ex¬ 
press companies. We know that we cannot 
afford as extensive parcels post service as 
might he desirable, but these people say that 
we shall have none. It would bo as sensible 
to claim that no one should have an ax or 
light a fire because of the possibilities of in¬ 
jury to life and property through misuse of 
these utilities. All sorts of awful things 
might happen as a result of the 
permitting the inhabitants of this 
go about where they will, instead 
ing fast to trees or rocks. 
Fruits. —'But little change is noted in 
local apple trade. Some days during the 
week receipts were somewhat greater than 
current demand and prices of seconds and 
lower grades were cut. The range of prices 
on pears indicates a large proportion of low 
grades. There is practically no choice Bose 
or Bartlett. Peaches are here in great vari¬ 
ety, the finest fruit of the season and the 
poorest. The Pine Island, N. Y., crop is 
at its height and is this week selling at the 
top. The general run of retail prices is 
higher than last year. Those buying single 
16-quart baskets have to pay from $1 to $2, 
and the $1 ones are small and either green 
or specked. The retail price yesterday for 
fairly good peaches, with but little wastage 
was $1.85 per basket. These netted the 
grower about 75 cents. The retailer claims 
that lie has to charge these prices to make 
himself whole, as the fruit often has to be 
sorted and 10 per cent or more, thrown away 
or stuffed in the center of re packed baskets, 
according to the caliber of the retailer’s con¬ 
science. Grapes from the up-Elver section 
are very plentiful and going at low figures. 
For the first time in several years there has 
been a fair supply of muskmelons from the 
Hackensack growers. The weather was dry 
and so favorable that some fields ripened 
nearly the whole crop before blight arrived. 
But the acreage in this once famous melon 
district is small on account of the ravages 
of blight. A man who at one time raised 
1.000 barrels per year this year sold 25 
barrels from about one-fortieth of his former 
acreage. At the writer's home we have had 
choice melons for a month. They were the 
large yellow-fleshed sort which, when at their 
best are superior to the Rocky Fords. 
__ w. w. H. 
For the land’s sake use Bowker’s Fer¬ 
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