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January 9, 
ADVERTISING THE WESTERN APPLES. 
Our old friend Charles Waters, who 
did so much to expose the Seedless 
apple humbug, sends us the following in¬ 
formation : 
“The Oregon State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety and the Northwestern Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association held a joint meeting of 
four days, December 1-4, in Portland, 
it being their annual business meeting 
and exhibition of fruit. The display of 
apples was the best ever seen in size, 
color of their kinds and quality. The 
Commercial Club has purchased 20 boxes 
< f the prize winners to be exhibited 
about Christmas for 10 days in the 
fhow windows of Macy’s department 
: lore, New York City, then five boxes 
each to King Edward, Kaiser William, 
Czar Nicholas and the President of 
France, for them to pass their opinion 
on their merits. That 20 boxes of apples 
cannot be excelled any place on this 
earth! charles waters. 
Oregon. 
R. N.-Y.— We are not so sure about 
that last statement. Up in the bashful 
State—Vermont—they can grow apples 
better than anything Oregon has yet sent 
us—and they are 2700 miles nearer mar¬ 
ket! __ 
COAL TAR AND PEACH BORERS. 
In reply to J. II. Z. and F. K. M., as 
well as yourself, I will give you my ex¬ 
perience. The Winter of 1903-1904 I put 
tar paper around about 500 trees. The effect 
of this can be plainly seen yet at this 
lime on most of the trees, by a rough, 
scaly bark as far as the tar paper extended, 
while on a few where the paper was left 
on later the injury was so great that even 
with good care the trees never recovered. 
1 would look for severe injury from the 
tar as used by F. K. M. I might add that 
the most successful preventive of borers I 
1 ave ever used is whale-oil soap made to 
about the consistency of soft soap and 
applied with a brush two or three times 
during the laying season, from the sur¬ 
face to up about a foot. w. H. 
Kinderhook, N. Y. 
Seeing in The It. N.-Y. you note an in¬ 
quiry as to the method of using tar around 
the base of trees to prevent borers from 
doing damage, I will say that I think it 
perfectly safe. But don’t use “coal tar ’’; 
it is too caustic. Common pine tar is the 
thing. My neighbor, with a large young 
orchard, has used it successfully for years, 
daubing the base of trees every Spring, 
and we hear of "no bad results. His or¬ 
chard is thrifty and in fine condition. 
Oak Hill, N. Y. o. w. 
I was told by an interested neighbor 
above 20 years ago that he had tried coal 
tar mixed with sifted coal ashes, and that 
for several years afterward no borers ever 
entered his trees. I determined to try it, 
at least cautiously, but several years 
elapsed before an opportunity came. In 
the Spring of 1894 I set an orchard of 500 
peach trees near Newark, N. ,T. The next 
Spring I daubed a mixture of coal tar 
and coal ashes of the consistency of mor¬ 
tar on about 150 trees, putting it care¬ 
fully around the base for about one foot, 
not removing any earth or putting any 
below the crown. The result was very 
gratifying indeed as not 10 per cent as 
many borers were found in those trees as 
in those untreated It benefited them 
for three or more years, or until the 
trees became so large that the bark was 
more exposed. I shall do it again next 
Spring, on some I planted last year, and 
shall not skip a single tree, as it is no 
experiment with me. No trees I had grew 
more thrifty or bore larger crops. I 
recommend it heartily. It can be easily 
put on with a garden trowel or even a 
narrow shingle or thin board like 'a paddle. 
Bucks Co., I’a. h. t. a. 
1 notice on page 975 an inquiry from 
two men of my State who want to know 
about using coal tar on peach trees. I 
have used it extensively during the last 
eight years in my orchards, but not until 
the trees were three years old from the 
nursery, and never saw any injury done. 
Many of the trees have been since pulled 
up, being worn out. The first three years 
I had them cleaned with the knife and 
kept them mounded up from four to nine 
inches, which was removed each Spring, 
and the trees examined and cleaned off. 
and in a week’s time I had the mound¬ 
ing replaced. The third Spring I had them 
painted with a brush just to the roots and 
cne foot above the ground with coal tar, 
end that was the last attention I paid to 
vorms on those trees. At that time al¬ 
most everybody said that It would kill the 
trees or at least injure some of them. I 
bad a peach crop every year since except 
fTFIE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
one, when the thermometer was down to 
20 degrees below zero, when they nearly 
all froze. L. L. s. 
Edenville, Pa. 
,T. H. Z. should be cautious about put¬ 
ting tar or any other material on his peach 
trees; sometimes it will injure the trees. 
Conditions of soil and moisture make a 
difference; some varieties suffer worse than 
others. In an experiment here some tarry, 
oily and sticky preparations were used on 
about 20 varieties of peach and a few 
apple trees. On the low rich spots where 
the trees grew very luxuriantly nearly all 
the varieties suffered, and many are dead. 
On the poor clay knolls, while some have 
suffered, none is dead. It is peculiar, too; 
the treated trees suffered severely with 
the yellows, while the untreated were npt 
as badly injured. t. ii. w. 
HOT WATER HEATERS FOR FARM 
HOMES. 
I read with interest the different articles 
published in The It. N.-Y. about heating 
dwellings in cold weather, especially those 
heated by hot water, which in my opinion 
is the very best system known, and the 
most economical after once installed. The 
first cost in my mind cannot be any greater 
than steam, and is just as simple to oper¬ 
ate as an ordinary stove. Ten or 12 years 
ago we had installed in a brooder house 
a small hot-water plant (the heater being 
75 feet capacity). We did not run it very 
long in the brooder house, but transferred 
it to our dwelling to heat the ground floor, 
and it did this so well that we procured 
a larger heater, second hand, for $16, and 
ran the hot-water system all through the 
house, doing the work ourselves, using 
mostly second-hand pipe, the entire cost 
being less than $90 for eight rooms. The 
kitchen we heat with the cook stove in 
the daytime, using no fire in the cook stove 
at night. There are one or two items in 
connection with hot-water heating that I 
have not seen in print that are of the 
utmost importance to the inexperienced: 
First, to be able to find out what is re¬ 
quired to heat a given space. Steainfitters 
usually use the following rule: One foot 
of radiation (that is, 144 square inches) 
will heat 25 cubic feet of space to 65 de¬ 
grees at zero weather, and it requires three 
feet of one-inch pipe to make one foot of 
radiation; that is, a piece of one-inch pipe 
three feet long cut down the side and flat¬ 
tened out would make a surface of 144 
square inches; that is what is meant by 
one foot of radiation. For instance, a 
room 12 x 12 feet ceiling. 8 feet high, would 
require a radiator of 46 feet of radiation. 
It is better to have a few feet extra than 
to be short. Another important item in 
constructing a hot-water system is that the 
water after leaving the heater must con¬ 
tinue to rise until it reaches the radiator; 
from there is must continue to fall until 
it reaches the heater, or there will be no 
circulation whatever. We have been using 
our present system the past 10 or 12 years, 
and it is growing in favor with us every 
year, if that is possible. J. E. 
“For the Land’s Sake use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”—Adv. 
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ALL OF THIS 
MTT Sooner or later you 
If j are going to have a 
Gasoline Engine. 
But before you decide 
on which you shall have, 
you owe it to yourself 
and to everyone else in 
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RELIANCE LINE 
It Was a Hot Summer! 
Hardwick, Yt., July 15, 1908 
Messrs. Brackett. Shaw & Lunt Co. 
Gentlemen : — That 5 Horse Air 
Cooled Engine works fine. We used 
it in April for Drag Sawing and we used it 
in July when the thermometer was 115 in 
the sun for sawing with Circular Saw and 
it didn’t beat up but ran as well as in 
April. Yours respectfully. 
J. H. CURRIER 
It Was a Cold Winter! 
Auburn, Maine, Feb. 25, 1908 
Brackett, Shaw & Lunt Co. 
Gentlemen Received the engine last 
Saturday, Feb. 22, and would have written 
before but thought we would wait a day 
or two and try the engine and see how it 
worked. It works to a charm. We sawed 
; three cords (of wood) in one hour with only 
three men. Everyone who has seen it says 
it is best working engine they ever saw. It 
is drawing a great deal of attention down 
here and we are much pleased with it. 
Yours truly, 
Daniel Brown & Son 
This Last Letter Ex- 
plainsWhat F ollows It 
READ IT ALL! 
So. Waterboro, Me. 
D. A. Lunt, 
My Dear Mr. Lunt:—I had entirely 
given up all thought of trading for or buy¬ 
ing a new engine, as our engine has never 
run better than since you were here. But 
since I saw the engine you sent Mr. Smith 
work, it lias just made me want a 
Reliance and I thought 1 would ask if 
your offer still holds good and. if so, how 
soon you could deliver one. Have been 
talking with several and think I can put 
you onto another sale. Hoping to hear 
from you by return mail, 1 am 
Yours truly, 
Frank H.‘ Hobbs, M. D. 
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