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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 1, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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THE CHAMPION APPLE PICKER. 
William Vine, who lives on the Latta 
Road, in Greece, N. Y., has established 
a new record for the apple country sur¬ 
rounding Rochester by picking 63 bar¬ 
rels of apples in one day. The record 
was made on the farm of John McShea. 
in the same town. Vine’s previous rec¬ 
ord was 60 barrels. It was made in Or¬ 
leans County three years ago. In addi¬ 
tion to the championship title, Vine’s per¬ 
formance netted him $6.30 for the day’s 
work. He received 10 cents a barrel. 
Some farmers have paid as high as 15 
cents a barrel this year to expert pickers, 
but Vine did not strike one of the fat 
jobs. On off years pickers are plentiful 
at 10 cents a barrel, and in certain locali¬ 
ties even less. Several years ago a Mon¬ 
roe County farmer, with a choice lot of 
fruit, paid 18 cents a barrel to a few 
good pickers. He was getting a good 
price for his product, and had a reputa¬ 
tion to maintain. Vine’s record will prob- 
- ably not be appreciated by those who have 
never stood on a shaking ladder with a 
. bag of sound, heavy fruit attached by a 
strap over shoulder or around waist. 
Something of his ability will be known, 
however, when the average performance 
of 30 to 35 barrels a day is taken into 
consideration. Few pickers with the or¬ 
dinary run of trees can do better than 40 
barrels; records crop out occasionally, but 
they are generally made with big and 
heavy-bearing trees. If the picker could 
work as he pleased, he might earn $10 
or $15 a day. He is not allowed the pick 
of the orchard, however. He must clean 
the tree on which he starts before going 
to another, and is usually obliged to work 
straight through a row across the or¬ 
chard. He must fill his bag as he finds 
the fruit, the bag containing about half 
a barrel. He turns his sack into a bar¬ 
rel, is checked by the buyer or farmer 
employing him, and goes after another 
sackful. Vine worked just nine hours, 
and cleaned nine trees. He was picking 
Baldwins. Two days previous lie skinned 
six trees, getting 50 barrels. Three years 
ago he was as good as he is to-day. Fre¬ 
quently bets were made on the amount 
of work he would do. On one occasion 
there was a bet of $50 that he would not 
fill as many barrels in a day. He worked 
eight hours, filling 60 barrels from six 
trees. Then he had large trees, well 
laden. In his work on McShea’s farm 
he had small trees. The professional' 
apple picker has it easy in all but his own 
season. Vine spends his Winters in Flor¬ 
ida, and has for a number of years. He 
is going South again this Winter. 
_ A. P. C. 
Tree Fruits for Ohio. 
J. C. N., Pittsburg, Pa .—What varieties of 
the following fruit trees would you recom¬ 
mend to plant in Richland County, O. ; 
apple, quince, peach, pear, cherry (sweet 
and sour) and plum trees? I have lately 
purchased a farm, and wish, to plant some 
young fruit trees next Spring. 
Ans. —The inquirer does not say wheth¬ 
er he wishes to plant trees for market 
purposes or for family use. It would 
make much difference which he desires, 
for the lists would vary greatly. One for 
market should not have many varieties, 
and those only of such as will prove profit¬ 
able, while for family use there should 
be a list of varieties that will furnish a 
succession from early to late and fruit of 
good quality, although it may be, in some 
measure, regardless of profit for market. 
The latter is probably what is desired. 
Of apples the following will be found to 
be suitable and are named in order of 
ripening: Early JTarvest, Williams, 
Fanny, Golden Sweet, Jefferis, Wine, Fall 
Pippin, Mother, Grimes, Hubbardston, 
Rome Beauty, Stayman and York Impe¬ 
rial. Very few trees of each of the Sum¬ 
mer and Fall varieties should be planted, 
but more of the Winter kinds. Of pears 
the Tyson, Howell, Bartlett, Seckel, Shel¬ 
don and Lawrence will be found depend¬ 
able. Of peaches, Triumph, Belle of 
Georgia, Elbcrta, Chairs, Henrietta and 
Heath Cling cover the season quite well. 
Among the sour cherries the Richmond, 
Montmorency and English Morello are 
the best, and of the sweet ones May 
Duke, Ilortense, Late Duke and Windsor. 
These latter cherries are not all really 
sweet in flavor, but belong to that class. 
There are few varieties of the European 
ty^e of the plum that are dependable in 
Ohio and other Eastern States, because of 
the curculio, but the Lombard and Fellen- 
berg are more likely to withstand it than 
most of them. Abundance, Burbank, 
Wickson and Climax are among the best 
of the Japan plums. There are some good 
ones of our native types, of which Wyant, 
Brittlewood and Surprise seem to be the 
best. The Orange quince is the old stan¬ 
dard and also the earliest to ripen, with 
Van Deman as a good variety ripening 
later. h. e. van deman. 
Sweet Potatoes for Stock. 
A. S. Hammonton, N. J. — Can sweet po¬ 
tatoes—culls—be profitably fed to milch 
cows and chickens, and if so in what way, 
cooked or raw? 
Ans. —The above question was read at 
a meeting of Vineland Grange. The an¬ 
swers of several members are given in a 
condensed form: 1 . Commence feeding 
a cow or horse a few (a quart) and grad¬ 
ually increase to a peck or half-peck to 
a feed. 2 . Dried up a cow by feeding 
sweets, but not sure he started right; is 
trying same cow again. 3. Increases milk 
at first, then dries a cow up. Killed a 
horse by feeding them. 4. Fed sweets to 
horse, cows (heavy milkers and light 
milkers) and laying hens with apparently 
good results. 5. All right to feed sweets 
to a cow. 6 . Individual animals differ. 
Has one cow he could feed a bushel a 
day to. Dried up one cow. 7. Has al¬ 
ways fed sweets to cow and horse. 8 . 
Hens got at some sweets left in barn, 
and wife got at him because she was get¬ 
ting no eggs. When fed they are always 
fed raw. 
Alfalfa in Southern New York. 
H. II. L., Spring Valley, N. Y. —Will Al¬ 
falfa grow in Rockland County, N. Y. ? Last 
August I came in possession of a tract of 
land, about 14 acres, adjoining my 50-acre 
farm. This new tract is upland, with a nice 
slope to the east; has not been worked for 
20 years, and the soil seems to be rich. 
We plowed five acres in August, planted two 
acres with sowed corn, which grew five feet 
high, sowed the rest to buckwheat; turned 
the buckwheat under and also corn stubble. 
We put 70 bushels of lime to the acre and 
put the land in very good condition by 
plenty of harrowing, then sowed to rye and 
top-dressed with the manure spreader; will 
cut the rye when in blossom, cure it and 
take It off, plow again deep and harrow once 
a week until August 1, and sow to Alfalfa 
without grain. How much seed must I use, 
and where can I obtain seed suitable for 
our climate? 
Ans. —The treatment of the soil is 
right so far as our experience goes. We 
would plow at once after cutting the rye 
for hav. Then work with a harrow 
every week. If you have a spring-tooth 
and an Acme alternate them—one week 
digging up the soil and the next smooth¬ 
ing it down. We sow 20 pounds of seed 
to the acre—going both ways so as to get 
an even stand. We prefer western seed 
from Kansas or Utah. You might make 
a little surer of the crop by using soil 
from some successful Alfalfa field to in¬ 
oculate vour ground. Otherwise, if the 
soil is strong we could not improve upon 
the plan mentioned. 
Millipede Worms. 
H. II. Q., Quilt°rd. Conn .—Can you tell 
me how to rid the soil of worms which are 
about an inch long, composed of many seg¬ 
ments, and which curl into a compact ring 
when molested? They have a “skin” like 
a thin shell, not easily crushed. The dorsal 
side is dark-brown; the ventral side, light. 
The worm is rather slender, anterior and 
posterior similar. They bore through roots, 
eat out crowns and destroy lily bulbs; seem 
to breed worst in barnyard manure. Can I 
destroy them among tulips I am planting? 
I must use barnyard or pigpen manure. 
Ans. — I think the worms described bv 
the correspondent are millipedes or thou¬ 
sand-legged worms. These are very diffi¬ 
cult pests to get at, and no practicable 
method for successfully combating them 
on a large scale has yet been devised. 
Where they occur in greenhouses, or small 
gardens or valuable ginseng beds, one 
can sometimes entice them under boards 
laid on the ground where they can be 
collected by hand, or some of them can 
be poisoned by treating slices of potato 
with arsenic. I do not think they breed 
in barnvard manure, but a liberal use of 
this might offer them more available 
feeding quarters. One could destroy them 
in the soil over a small area by injecting 
in carbon bisulphide. 
M. V. SLINGERLAND. 
Old Lady (to Irish porter) : “Will you 
be so kind as to tell me when the 9 
o’clock train leaves, porter?” Irish Por¬ 
ter : “Certainly, mum. It leaves at 60 
minutes past eight.”—Credit Lost. 
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