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SUCCESS WITH BERRIES. 
A Story of Thrift. 
Concord, Mass., is a fine farming town ; 
it is noted for its production of asparagus, 
berries and milk, as well as for its historic 
and literary associations. On the River 
road, a mile north of the battleground 
of 1775, and extending on one side from 
the road to the historic Concord river, is 
the line farm of Rudolph Peterson, con¬ 
sisting of 76 acres, mostly river bottom 
laud. I was interested lately to find him 
now owning this fertile farm, and realizing 
the success which the appearance of the 
place made evident, and I asked him for 
a brief story of his farm life for the 
benefit of R. N.-Y. readers, which is this: 
lie came to this country from Norway 
at the age of 13 (30 years ago)), and at 
first made his home with his brother in 
Concord, but soon began to work out, and 
so continued till at about 30, and mar¬ 
ried. The couple had got together a capi¬ 
tal of $2,500. With this to pay down 
they bought this place for $7,500 (as¬ 
suming a mortgage of $5,000), and 14 
years ago began what proved to be quite 
a struggle to build up the farm land, 
improve the buildings, add water works, 
and pay off the large incumbrance. For 
the first seven years he was unable to 
make any payment on the principal, hav¬ 
ing some poor years, his wife sick one 
season, and much being required to get 
the place into condition to return a profit, 
and many, Mr. Peterson said, would have 
been discouraged and given up. Lately, 
however, things have gone well with him, 
so that to-day lie has his place nearly paid 
for; improvements upon the house made 
to value of $1,000 (one room at a time 
fixed up, as they could afford it, his wife 
told me) ; water works added at cost of 
$500: barn and land in first-class con¬ 
dition. while for stock he has 14 fine cows 
and two horses. His two children, I may 
add, are nearly through high school, his 
house nicely furnished, and the home as 
good a one to live in as any of us 
could ask. 
I asked him what did it; how at forty- 
three, starting with nothing but his hands, 
he had become so well fixed, and his an¬ 
swer was—berries. Of late years his two 
money crops have been asparagus and 
strawberries, and the last, he says, have 
given ‘ him his farm. Last season lie had 
unusual success, and received from three 
acres after paying for carting to Boston 
and selling a little over $1,000. He says 
he does not expect to do this another year. 
His leading variety is the Bubach. As to 
the secret of his success with berries, it was 
evident lie liked them and their care. No 
weed, he said, was allowed to grow in 
his beds, and further than that at picking 
time all the family must be there to in¬ 
sure profitable handling of the crop. Speak¬ 
ing generally, he emphasized the importance 
of doing everything in season. He has 
himself lent a hand to the mechanical 
work about the buildings, and so saved 
expense. His three-acre asparagus bed has 
been fairly profitable, hut cows he has 
found 1o make a net return of little 
more than the manure pile. 
He keeps no help in Winter—two men 
through the entire Summer, and several 
extra hands (usually Poles) during the 
berry harvest. They have rooms by them¬ 
selves in an ell of the house, with separate 
entrance, hut eat with the family, an excel¬ 
lent plan this seems to be with foreign help. 
I found Mr. Peterson just after dinnertime 
January 1 enjoying his paper, and with 
leisure to give me this account of his farm 
experience. One conclusion he had reached 
interested me—that he could have done 
about as well on a place one-quarler the 
size of his own—say of 20 acres. Berries, 
we may agree with him, have been the 
means of the family’s competence, but 
behind the crop has been the family char¬ 
acter ; and qualities of courage, industry 
and thrift have contributed mainly to 
their success. e. f. dickinsox. 
Massachusetts._ 
THE APPLE CROP. 
What Growers Say. 
The outlook for apples in this section is 
very good. I should think about 65 per 
cent of a crop green and 50 per cent red 
fruit. Pears are about 70 per cent of a 
crop of Bartlett, other varieties are 
lighter. Grapes and peaches very heavy. 
Marlboro, N. Y. • J. f. w- 
We think there is about 40 per cent of 
a crop of apples in this section. Baldwins 
are very light. Fungus is showing up 
very badly, especially where they were 
not sprayed thoroughly. Peaches are very 
good; plums fair. e. b. & g. r. coi.i.amer- 
Monroe Co., N. Y. 
We had a freeze first week in May, 
which practically ruined our apple pros¬ 
pects. I don’t believe there will be 25 
per cent of a crop, and it is not of first 
class. I only have apples; there is no 
other fruit ever shipped from this county. 
Columbia, Mo. r. a. r. 
THE RURAL 
The apple crop in this section is between 
30 and 40 per cent; the Baldwins are a 
complete failure. Pears are about nor¬ 
mal. Potatoes are looking fine and there 
is an increase of about 10 per cent acre¬ 
age. h. n. b. 
Fly Summit, N. Y. 
There is practically no fruit raised here 
for market except apples. In a territory 
of about one township in extent there are 
about 50 acres being sprayed. They are 
doing well, but there is some scab. Prob¬ 
ably there is about 75 per cent of a crop 
on these orchards. Unsprayed orchards 
have almost no apples. There will be 
considerable hay for sale here; about 75 per 
cent of last year’s crop. a. m. b. 
Lapeer, Mich. 
Illinois, as you know, is a large State, 
and I know for a certainty that in some 
portions where fruit (apples) is generally 
expected there is little or none, while in 
other parts there is a fair to good crop. 
So far as I have learned, the early va¬ 
rieties are producing better than the later 
ones, and while there will be quite a crop 
of Winter fruit here and there through¬ 
out Illinois, yet as a whole this State will 
cut a small figure in the apple markets of 
the world this year. G. J. foster. 
Normal, Ill. 
Men driving over this county tell me 
that here and there a tree in the far¬ 
mers' orchards will have apples on it, hut 
that is all. With us there is a very light 
crop of Ben Davis, Salome, Willow and 
Red Canada, and in Summer apples Duch¬ 
ess. Bearing variable; that is, some trees 
of a variety nearly full, others with noth¬ 
ing on. Reports from southern Illinois 
that may be considered authentic indicate 
that 25 per cent of a crop is the greatest 
for any orchard, and most of them are 
a failure. Some little promise of Sum¬ 
mer apples thei'e. f. r. bryant. 
Illinois. 
In regard to fruit prospects in this vicin¬ 
ity, the season opened with as fine a bloom 
on the trees as one could ask for, hut In¬ 
sects as usual have been working the most 
serious damage, this year being charged 
up to plant lice. Their attack was prac¬ 
tically general, and very little was done 
to check their work. The result at present 
is a large proportion of under-sized ap¬ 
ples in sight. The recovery of the trees 
from the attack of lice has been hindered 
by a quite serious drought, but this has 
now been broken, and if seasonable weather 
follows I expect a crop 10 per cent better 
than last year. g. g. ditchings- 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
As to the outlook for Winter apples in 
this part of New England, I believe the 
crop will he very close to the amount of 
1908. I think that the blossom of 1909 
was far in excess of that of 1908, but 
an extremely dry June has caused a very 
heavy drop, and the Codling moth larvie 
have made extremely had work in orchards 
that were not sprayed. Spraying is prac¬ 
ticed in this section but very little. Pears 
are a light crop; peaches and plums un¬ 
even. The strawberry crop was very good 
here this season, hut the acreage has in¬ 
creased to such an extent that prices run 
very low. s. r. w. 
North Leominster, Mass. 
• 
The outlook for apples, judging from 
our own few trees, and from what little 
I have seen in this locality, is very light, 
I should say not half a crop. The pear 
crop Is very light. It might almost be 
called a failure. Some Kieffer trees have 
a few. The peach crop generally is con¬ 
sidered very good indeed, but I see a 
good many “sick” trees. Grapes promise 
an average fair crop, I should say not 
heavy. The currant crop is now rapidly 
being shipped. Quite satisfactory returns 
are being received and the crop is good. 
Raspberries are over. There was not half 
a crop, and of poor quality. f. f. y. 
Cedareliff, N. Y. 
This is the “off year” with us on ap¬ 
ples. The crop will be very light. There 
are practically no other tree fruits grown 
here except a few plums, and not enough 
of them to supply the home market. Of 
the small fruits strawberries and currants 
have yielded abundantly, though perhaps 
the former were not quite up to average 
in size or quality, owing to the extremely 
dry season. I am afraid the raspberry 
and blackberry crop will be damaged from 
this same cause. There is really very 
little fruit grown in this section at best; 
probably strawberries are more generally 
cultivated than any other varieties, and 
these mostly for the grower’s own use, 
disposing of whatever surplus there may 
be in the home market. w. e. r. 
Newport, Vt. 
This is the off year for apples; the crop 
last year was good and prices as a rule 
satisfactory: $2 a barrel at 'the depot, 
growers picking, sorting, packing and de¬ 
livering. Our orchard is a sample of the 
general outlook here. Last year we shipped 
300 barrels, largely Gravenstein and Bald¬ 
win. We shall ,not have over 50 barrels 
this season, mostly Pound Sweets; hardly 
any Gravenstein and hut few Baldwins. A 
block of 15 Baldwin apple trees that last 
year had 55 barrels large handsome fruit 
will have one or two barrels in the entire 
number of trees. Riding through our 
neighborhood but few trees are noticed 
with fruit. Our orchard was trimmed, 
scraped and placed in good shape last 
Spring: lias been sprayed twice with ar¬ 
senate of lead. Trees have made a good 
growth, foliage large and handsome, and 
promise for next season good, but not 
many apples this. I was at Turner, Me., 
in the last days of April. This is the 
center of the apple section of that State. 
Indications there were for a good fruit yield ; 
last year they had but few apples. The 
year before there were 100.900 barrels sent 
from that valley. Wish our trees would 
bear every year, but have to he satisfied 
with a crop once in two years. Apples 
are the leading fruit in our part of the 
State; not enough of other fruit grown 
to make any note of. h. b. p. 
Stratham, N. H. 
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