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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
i75 
PUBLISHER’S DESK. 
.This is our annual special horticultural 
number. How do you like it? 
Wc confess a great pride in it. From 
a modest enough beginning it has grown 
and increased from year to year until it 
has come to be looked for by horticul¬ 
tural interests as one of the features of 
the year. Because of the popularity of 
this annual special, numerous attempts 
have been made at cheap imitations, but 
no efforts have been made to approach it 
in the wealth of its editorial matter, nor 
in the quality of its material and mechan¬ 
ical execution. The advertising patron¬ 
age, which has been incidental to this 
number, is the controlling factor of its 
imitations. We have always felt that 
agricultural interests deserved to be rep¬ 
resented by a paper that would do justice 
to the importance of the industry. The 
production of this paper is the result of 
cur efforts to crystallize that idea into 
practical form. If it makes one man hold 
his head a bit higher and inspires him to 
more pride in his farm life than he had 
before we shall feel abundantly paid for 
our extra expense and work. 
We told you so. What? Why, that the 
Jersey cattle case would he investigated. 
Why, we have been getting an average 
of 501) letters a day from all parts of the 
Country for the last three months. These 
were, of course, letters for the most part 
on other subjects, but the sentiment on 
the A. J. C. C. ea-sC was emphatic and ail 
in one direction. Copies of letters writ¬ 
ten to others parties who opposed the in¬ 
vestigation also reached us, and we knew 
that an influence of this kind could not 
be resisted. The readers of The R. N.-Y. 
can win almost any fight they take up of 
a public nature. Let the cause be a just 
one, and all pull together and no man or 
measure depending on popular support 
can resist them. 
Can you tell me anything about the 
Crescent Poultry Farm ai Des Moines, la., 
run by Frank Foy? Are they reliable? it. 
This man buys up chickens from neigh¬ 
boring farms, and sells them. We under¬ 
stand he does not raise any himself; if so 
only a few. We would not run advertis¬ 
ing for him, nor for any man doing a 
similar business. 
In the Spring of 1902 1 bought from Mer¬ 
rick & Adams, of Watervllle. Maine. 200 
peach trees of 10 different varieties, from the 
earliest to the latest, all to he freestotie, atul 
100 Stump-the-World, making 800 iu all, 
These were bought direct from the firm; tlie 
trees came labeled as the bill Called for. 
Last. Spring the trees blossomed and set 
peaches in all the rows (the 200 were set 
20 In a row) hilt in these 200 there were 
only two varieties, both ripening the last of 
July, and all gone by. the loth of August, 
and' both clingstones. The 100 Slump proved 
to Ik? a small yellow, woolly clingstone, ut¬ 
terly worthless—so poor I could nol give 
them away. These ripened in August, so in¬ 
stead of having fine freestone peaches- for 
the whole season t have only two clingstones 
that were ripe and gone by August 10. I 
hftvia written the company, and all the satis¬ 
faction I get is this: The trees were bought 
Of a reliable firm in Rochester, who assures 
them the trees were all true to label, and if 
they were not the last year, they will come 
the rifjht kind the next year. A number of 
letters passed between us before closing the 
bargain and I expressly stated I gave them 
preference over other firms because I thought 
trees grown in their nurseries would Ir 
more hardy, but they never wrote me but 
that they grew their own trees. T. u. w. 
Rhode Island. 
Further correspondence developed the 
information that Mr. Adams of the above 
firm has since died, and the business was 
discontinued; but Mr. Merrick of that 
firm is also the leading member in J. Tv. 
Merrick & Co., a nursery house of 'be 
same place, and he had charge of this par¬ 
ticular order. The farmer had no inti¬ 
mation that the order was to be placed 
with another nursery. In his order he 
expressed a preference for the Maine- 
grown trees, because he thought they 
would do better in his Rhode Island cli¬ 
mate. In the Spring he wrote to forward 
trees as it was time to plant, and Mr. 
Merrick wrote him that it was not time to 
ship, as the frost was yet in the ground 
with them. The farmer cannot see how 
that would affect trees shipped from 
Rochester, though it implied that they 
were to come from the Maine grounds. 
We must confess that it is rather new 
to us that trees that do not hear true to 
name first year will do so the next year. 
It is true that the first year’s fruit may 
not be fully developed on young trees the 
first year of bearing; but to expect them 
wholly to change their character and iden¬ 
tity the second year is just a hit too much. 
When the trees were received they were 
very much developed, and had evidently 
been shipped direct from some other nur¬ 
sery. The invoice was not forwarded 
until called for, and the indication is that 
the trees came either directly or indirect¬ 
ly from some southern point. It may not 
he possible for every nurseryman to have 
every grade and kind of stock required 
by his customers, and it is perfectly le¬ 
gitimate to supply the stock from other 
sources, but if the purchaser does not 
have the privilege of selecting the source 
of his orders, the house that assumes the 
order certainly should be responsible for 
the kind and quality of the goods. It is 
poor satisfaction to he told after two or 
three years’ care of trees that have proved 
not true to name in first fruiting that the 
trees were bought of some one else, who 
says they will he all right next year, 
though not so now. If the grower could 
afford to take it to Court, we believe the 
iltifseryitiau could be held responsible, but 
it wotild cost the grower more than it 
amounts to, and lie wisely prefers to 
pocket his loss. The jobber evidently fig 
tires on this, There may be little profit 
iil airing a grievance of this kind to the 
individual concerns) but it til ay prove of 
some value to other growers. 
it blight interest Thb It. N.-Y. to know 
tilat it lias IU-*?ti the medium of introducljlg 
the first manure spreader (Keinp-Burpeo) to 
Australia. Also that Carman potatoes are 
booming here, selling for £1 a ton more than 
any other variety. J. 'E. c. 
Australia. 
Of course information like this interests 
us. We are sneaking evepy week to men 
not only in every State and Territory in 
the Union, but in every country in the 
world, and in some instances to royal 
families of foreign countries. We are 
pleased to have these people and to know 
that they find The R. N.-Y. of service to 
them, but after all it is the native farms 
and' the American homes that we are 
most anxious to serve. We arc glad to 
know that the Carman potatoes are doing 
so well in their foreign home. We be¬ 
lieve the new grape will be equally popu¬ 
lar. These will he going out now short¬ 
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