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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
EARLY MATURING APPLES. 
If you were 40 years old. with no children, 
and caring little for posterity, what varieties 
of apples would you plant so as to get most 
out of them early? 
In planting a commercial orchard 1 
should use the following varieties whether 
I was 25 years old or 75. believing the 
yearly gain in value of such an orchard 
A LOAD OF CASSAVA. Fio. 88. 
to more than offset the gain of an or¬ 
chard of all early bearing varieties. For 
permanent trees, which should he alter¬ 
nate in the rows, would advise Nor hern 
Spy for central New York. Baldwin for 
western New York. For remainder of 
trees the following list are profitable 
and also early bearers: Oldenburg, 
Wealthy, Twenty Ounce, Hubbardston, 
McIntosh and Wagener. 
GRANT G. IIlTCHINGS. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
I would say plant some early apple, 
Alexander, Maiden Blush, Detroit Red, 
or Stump for most of the orchard, and 
Hubbardston and McIntosh for later. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. clark allis. 
God have mercy on the man who cares 
little or nothing for posterity. I did not 
suppose we had such a one in western 
New York, but to answer your questions 
I should say plant Ben Davis or North¬ 
western Greening as stock to top-graft 
such varieties as Alexander, Gravenstein, 
Twenty Ounce, Duchess of Oldenburg 
and a fair quantity of that royal money 
maker, R. I. Greening. Understand that 
these varieties require thorough culture 
and high fertilization, and of course com¬ 
plete spraying. s. w. wadhams. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
A GOOD BUSHEL CRATE. 
The desirable features of a crate for 
holding or storing potatoes, apples or 
other produce are lightness, strength, com¬ 
pactness and convenience in handling. If 
these points be combined in a style or 
form of package that will enable us to 
store them away economically when empty 
—in the least possible space—we have 
pretty nearly the ideal crate. Personally 
I do not care for a “folding” crate. The 
number of parts and the cost of manu¬ 
facturing are increased, and one is likely 
to find himself unwittingly infringing on 
some one’s “patent.” Besides, the folding 
feature is of no great advantage to the 
busy man, who has use for the crates 
nearly the whole year round. A style of 
crates that anyone can build, and which 
may be stored away, three crates in the 
space of two, ought to be good enough 
for the most exacting. We are using 
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such crates at the experiment station, and 
they give excellent service and satisfac¬ 
tion. They hold a full, rounded bushel, 
level full, and permit of a cover being 
nailed on, or of being racked up, one upon 
another, without crushing or bruising the 
contents. The cubic contents of such 
crates, dimensions for making which are 
given below, are about 2,700 cubic inches, 
while 2,OSS cubic inches constitute a legal 
or U. S. rounded bushel. 
The crates are made entirely of light 
strips of wood—no sol d ends, sides or 
bottoms being used. Material, exact meas¬ 
ure: Uprights or corner posts—length, 
1214 inches; width, 2 inches; thickness, 
y 2 inch. Ends, 13% inches by 2 by % 
inch. Sides and bottom, 16% niches by 
2 by % inch. 
This makes a crate 16j/6 inches long, 
13% inches wide and 12% inches high, 
outside measure, and the pieces are as¬ 
sembled as I have shown in a diagram 
presented herewith. These crates can be 
“nested”—three in the space of two. 
F. H. BALLOU. 
Ohio Experiment Station. 
PACKING PLANTS FOR SHIPMENT. 
In packing strawberry plants we use a 
light crate with plenty of ventilation, a 
solid bottom and a solid top, with sides 
slatted. Use about two-inch slats and 
about one and a half inch space between 
the slats. The plants are packed top both 
ways, with roots in the middle, and a layer 
of damp moss between each layer of 
plants. During the Winter months and 
up to about the middle of March plants 
packed in this way will keep for from 
three to six weeks; later, after the top 
begins to grow, the time that they will 
keep is considerably shortened, until late 
in April, when it is pretty hard to have 
them keep in good condition over a week. 
As the top begins to grow great care has 
to be exercised to pack them in a manner 
to prevent heating, and where the tops are 
very long it is much better to trim most 
of them off, although some customers ob¬ 
ject to this. It is decidedly to their ad¬ 
vantage that it be done, inasmuch as it 
saves in express charges and helps the 
plants to live. In vegetable plants it is our 
plan to tie about 25 in a bunch. Put a 
handful of damp moss around the roots, 
wrap this in paper and pack these bundles 
in any well-ventilated crate. Nothing is 
better for this than the ordinary berry 
crate. Such small fruit plants as currants* 
dewberries, blackberries, raspberries, 
grapevines and gooseberries, pack in a 
tight box or sugar barrel. Use a liberal 
quantity of damp moss and they will carry 
to any part of the country in good con¬ 
dition while in a dormant state. During 
severe cold weather the boxes should be 
lined with paper. I have shipped plants in 
good condition to Sidney, Australia, via 
San Francisco, a journey requiring about 
six weeks. This, however, is very diffi¬ 
cult, and can only be done successfully 
during the Winter months, and to stand a 
journey like this they must be packed 
with special care. W. F. allen. 
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