THE RURAL HEW-VORKER 
January 23, 
HAULING MANURE IN WINTER. 
1 At present writing I am hauling fresh 
horse manure from a village stable and 
spreading right on ground that was plowed 
during the past Fall. I expect to harrow 
and plant in Spring to potatoes. Land has 
a moderate slope to it, hut I am not spread¬ 
ing the manure within 30 or 40 feet of 
a galley : am spreading on snow about four 
or five inches. My neighbor says it will 
not do my land a bit of good, and that 
I may as well dump the manure in the 
river; says I should pile manure in field 
and spread in Spring, but I am afraid I’ll 
be short of time in Spring, as I keep no 
help. h. g. t. 
ypaine. 
Is it a good plan to haul out manure 
on ground and put in pile at this time, 
and leave until Spring and then spread? 
I have hauled several loads and made a 
long pile. I want to take out 25 to 30 
tons. I have to buy it; and my ground 
is rolling, so that it would not do to 
spread it now, and if I don’t buy it now 
some one else will get it. It is outside 
where I get it, and some of it is burnt. 
I wondered whether it would burn after 
repiling and whether or not it would be 
a good thing to sprinkle land plaster in 
layers. I use the manure for trucking. 
Pennsylvania. h. id. e. 
We think this question of Winter 
hauling and spreading manure depends 
on the cost of labor compared with 
the value of what is lost by leaching. 
On hilly ground or where there was 
a slope along which the Spring water 
runs we would not spread manure on 
the snow without expecting to lose at 
least one-third of the plant-food value. 
On the other hand the Spring is short 
in the Northern States and the work 
of preparing the soil crowds hard. If a 
man has no help and only one team 
he will be obliged, to take time for 
spreading manure which should be 
spent plowing. It is also easier to haul 
the manure with a sled in Winter. We 
do not know what is gained by this 
Winter spreading except time. On our 
own farm we should haul the manure 
and pile it in long piles at the most 
convenient point for Spring handling. 
In making the piles tramp the manure 
as hard as possible and leave the top 
in a dish shape so as to hold snow 
and water. This, soaking down, will 
help prevent hre-fanging. Sprinkling 
land plaster through the pile as it is 
made up will help. 
NEW YORK STATE FRUIT GROWERS. 
Annual Meeting at Medina. 
Paht I. 
Medina was cbosen as the meeting place 
for tbe eighth annual meeting of this asso¬ 
ciation. and from the large attendance it 
seems it would be wise to keep this meet¬ 
ing within the great apple belt of western 
New York. An eastern meeting is held 
each year in February at Poughkeepsie, 
and most eastern members wait for this 
meeting. The general opinion seemed to 
be that the association would profit by 
having a permanent homo for its annual 
meeting, and Rochester seems to be the 
place best adapted, as its facilities for 
caring for the crowd and providing meeting 
and exhibition balls are far in advance of 
the smaller places, and it is easily accessi¬ 
ble from all directions with direct com¬ 
munications. This meeting was the largest 
in tlie history of the association, and though 
the facilities for earing for the crowd were 
inadequate, Medina did nobly and through 
the efforts of Mr. Clark Allis and his as¬ 
sistants everyone was well cared for. To 
those not acquainted with western New 
York, a few words in regard to the meet¬ 
ing place may not he amiss. Medina is 
in Orleans County, 42 miles west of Roch¬ 
ester. and is surrounded by tbe greatest 
apple country in the world. Nowhere do 
apple trees grow more thriftily and attain 
such size, if other sections produce bet¬ 
tor fruit the grower is responsible rather 
than the locality. The population num¬ 
bers about 5,000, and the activity and 
thrift of the place indicates that the im¬ 
mediate surrounding country is prosperous, 
as western New York is full of these hand¬ 
some little towns, each seeming to he sup¬ 
ported by the country within a narrow 
radius. 
The meeting was called to order Wed¬ 
nesday morning by President Cornell. lie 
gave a short address, in which lie said he 
believed the social side of these meetings, 
the visits and Interchange of thought be¬ 
tween members, was even more valuable 
than the programme. He said, in looking 
over the programme, question No. 88 struck 
him as a good text on which to base his 
address, and this question is as follows: 
“What can growers do more to exploit 
their products among consumers?” Honest 
packing with a guarantee was the first 
step. While New York apples are con¬ 
ceded as good as any grown, the growers 
fall down in packing, and ho advised legis¬ 
lative action that would compel every 
packer, whether grower or buyer, to give 
full name and address on package and 
grade of fruit contained. This with the 
full package now required would work 
wonders- in increasing consumption. While 
many apples are being shipped from the 
Northwest and finding ready sale at a pre¬ 
mium over barreled fruit, ho thinks New 
York's position is safe in producing apples 
for the many, and as soon as a uniform 
system of ^ood. packing is inaugurated the 
difference ui favor of the Northwestern 
box fruit will not be so marked. He has 
practiced putting his full name and ad¬ 
dress on packages for several years, with 
instructions to his commission man to 
guarantee every package to he as repre¬ 
sented, and if not so to make it rigid with 
the buyer and charge same to him. While 
he expected some to come hack by rea¬ 
son of his not being able personally to 
oversee the packing of every package, only 
one has made any claim, and that for 
damage in transit. He thanked the mem¬ 
bers for their cordial support while he had 
held the chair, and said that not an un¬ 
kind word or an unjust criticism had 
reached ids ear. He advised co-operative 
work in marketing as soon as possible, and 
briefly outlined the future possibilities of 
the association if all those who should 
would come to its support. 
The secretary's and treasurer's reports 
showed a prosperous financial condition and 
a rapid growth in co-operative buying, the 
fertilizer and sprayer materials sold dur¬ 
ing 1908 amounting in round figures to 
$12,000. If each user had bought the same 
independently it would have cost him much 
more, but tbe benefit does not stop here, 
as the prices made by this association have 
materially aided in reducing the prices of 
the regular dealers, and not only those 
who purchased through the association hut 
other members and outsiders were saved 
considerable. The report of the commit¬ 
tee on. transportation said the Public Serv¬ 
ice Commission had greatly improved con¬ 
ditions along this line .and all members 
were urged to report grievances to this 
committee, as without these reports their 
field was very limited. G. e. s. 
Migratory Farming. 
E. D.. Loveland, O .—I read an article 
on migratory farming. I would like to hear 
your opinion on such an undertaking. 
Would it pay? Where would you advise 
m<- to go? Florida or North Carolina? 
Ax S'.—We take it you mean working 
two places, one in “the North and the 
other in the South. We consider this 
plan better in theory than in practice. 
A fruit grower in the North might 
get his peaches and apples picked and 
strawberries mulched by October, and 
then go to southern Florida and pick 
a crop of oranges or plant vegetables— 
coming hack in time to start the north¬ 
ern fruit in April. This sounds easy, 
but does not always work out. Last 
year we told of an Ohio man who 
put his peach orchard in order and 
then took a load of chickens and a cow 
to Florida—selling what was left in the 
Spring. Another man takes baby 
chicks about two days old—just out 
of the incubator—to Florida. The chicks 
grow fast and are sold as broilers to 
the hotels. A large family lryght di¬ 
vide and “work both ends of the coun¬ 
try - ’ in this way, hut there are some 
serious drawbacks. 
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