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THE RURAI> NKW-YORKER 
Ortobor 10, 
FIG GROWING IN CANADA. 
In the Daily Consular Reports U. S. 
Consul Seyfert states that in the Ni¬ 
agara peninsula fig culture has been suc¬ 
cessfully conducted for some 40 years. 
The manner of Winter protection is 
given as follows: 
As soon as the leaves have fallen and 
sharp frosts set in, two or three of the 
branches are bent to the ground in their 
natural direction and tied loosely with 
strips of cotton or other soft material, and 
held in place by crotched pegs, care being 
taken not to injure the bark. When all 
branches are down the wljole is covered 
with a mound of earth three to four feet in 
depth. In the writer's experience fine 
sand is preferable to earth, as it keeps 
away mice and cutworms, which are in¬ 
jurious to the young wood. In the Spring, 
when danger from severe frost is over, air 
is let into the mound by holes made with 
a small pole or the handle of a rake, and 
during the following .10 days the earth 
is removed by installments. Care must be 
taken that the bark is not injured in the 
process. When the bush is fully exposed 
it is generally found that bearing wood is 
covered with small fruit, about the size 
of a large pea, while the buds show, but 
are not open. Varieties that have proved 
most successful at Niagara are the White 
and Purple Ischias, the Brown Turkey, and 
White Genoa. 
Mr. J. de W. Randall, of Niagara, 
writes the following note to Prof. 
Macoun of the Ottawa Experiment Sta¬ 
tion : 
I can assure you as a citizen of Canada 
it affords me the greatest pleasure in con- 
firmirg the article by Consul A. G. Sey¬ 
fert in every detail. Mr. Ilenry Pafford 
was one of the first to introduce their 
growth here, and has conducted their cul¬ 
tivation for some years, till his removal 
to the Northwest, and it was from his 
garden H. R. II. the Prince of Wales’s table 
was supplied during his visit to this town. 
I obtained some roots from Mr. Pafford 
about 10 or 12 years ago, and have been 
very successful in their cultivation. Dur¬ 
ing the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo 
in 1901 I made an exhibit of fresh ripe 
figs during the whole of the exhibition, for 
which 1 was awarded a diploma and bronze 
medal. Mr. Charles Hunter and others of 
this place have also been successful in 
their cultivation. There is no great diffi¬ 
culty about their growth, as the climate 
seems suitable to them, for the growth is 
very rank and very ‘productive of fruit, 
but they would not pay to be grown for the 
market, as there would be no sale for 
them. When the next are ripe I will mail 
you some so that you can see the actual 
fruit, which is a continuous crop from 
June till first or the latter part of Sep¬ 
tember. On account of the rearranging of- 
my garden I had to move my best trees 
last Fall, so that I am losing a year. 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE. 
Disagreement in Prices. —“Your mar¬ 
ket quotations do not agree with the state¬ 
ment of -, a dealer in your city. 
Who is right?” J. K. 
Vermont. 
The dealer named is an honest man and 
specially well informed in his line. The 
letter he wrote you was written several 
days after the quotations referred to had 
gone to press, and the market had declined 
a trifle, but it is quite possible that our 
figures were not representative of the bulk 
of sales at that time. There is scarcely a 
day that we could not find sales of the 
same quality of goods here at decidedly 
varying prices. We aim to give figures 
that truly represent the current of trade. 
About 25,000 bushels of apples were re¬ 
cently shipped from the Pacific coast on a 
steamer bound for southeast Australia. 
The fruit is choice and is expected to 
bring at least $3 per bushel. The Aus¬ 
tralian season being the reverse of ours, 
the apples will reach there at the close of 
their Winter. Western apples for the 
European markets are moving east quite 
freely, and some of the choicest of the 
Hudson Valley crop has also been sent over. 
Large quantities of western New York 
apples have been sold during the past week 
at from $2 to $2.50, grower to furnish 
barrels and buyer to pack the fruit. Buy¬ 
ers are more conservative than last year, 
which is a good thing both for themselves 
and the growers. Many of the latter sold 
at high prices last year and then lost part 
of their money through failure of the buy¬ 
ers or their inability to take all they had 
contracted for. 
What About Potatoes? —“Are foreign 
potatoes a good crop? I think the price 
here depends very much on the crop in the 
old countries. Are they hurt by drought or 
frost ?” A. H. 
Michigan. 
Our advices indicate that the crop in 
Germany and Great Britain is large, and 
that dealers there have offered potatoes in 
large lots delivered in this country duty 
paid for less than $23 per ton. Thus it 
would seem that the shortage in this coun¬ 
try is nearly discounted by the large crop 
in Europe and that higher prices may not 
be expected before January. But several 
things may occur to make such a prophecy 
unsafe. If 100 farmers with a fair-sized 
potato crop on hand and who usually sell 
in Fall made up their minds to hold until 
Spring, the market would feel the effect at 
once as a result of their co-operation, even 
though it be unconscious. It is the writer's 
opinion that for the interests of both pro¬ 
ducers and the trade potatoes in barrel lots 
should not sell for more than $1 per 
bushel, except in time of a general and 
severe shortage. That is about the limit 
of their consumptive value. Families differ 
greatly in the potato-eating habit. I know 
one small family that has baked po¬ 
tatoes twice a day the year around. Only 
a moderate fire is necessary, as they are 
not baked in the oven, but are put on top 
of the stove and covered with a metal basin 
or are put on a metal shelf with legs and 
set on the coals. In Summer an oil stove 
is used, and the potatoes bake more quickly 
than in the oven. These people use at 
least twice as many potatoes as before they 
learned that an oven is not necessary for 
potato baking, and are thus a steady help 
to the potato market. w. w. H. 
SHEEP IN THE SOUTH. 
There are very few flocks of sheep in this 
vicinity. I have no sheep myself, and can 
only give the experience of a few of my 
neighbors who have them. They claim a 
good profit in them, and I can see only 
one obstacle in the way, as the sheep can 
run on pasture here the year round, as we 
have very little snow in Winter, and very 
often none at all. Of course those who 
take care of their flock get better return 
than those who let them take the weather 
as it comes. Tho dog question is a great 
drawback to the sheep here. Some of my 
neighbors have stocked up with fine sheep 
to give them a trial, and the worthless 
dogs have killed the last one of them, and 
they quit the business, utterly disgusted. 
Until we can get some protection from the 
dog, we shall never have many sheep in 
the South. As a rule the dog that kills 
sheep belongs to a family you cannot make 
anything out of with the law; you can only 
kill the dog, but that does not replace the 
sheep or its value. j. l. m. 
Tennessee. 
Hogs and Weeds. — A. n. P. asks for a 
spray to kill weeds along the stone walls 
on his farm. When I came to my present 
abode for a rod on either side of the walls 
there was a hedge of brush, weeds and 
ferns, and I found it about impossible to 
subdue them with scythe or anything else 
until this Spring. I had some young shotes. 
I made a pen about a rod wide by two long, 
and the pigs did it easily. As fast as they 
turned over a section I moved it along and 
sowed millet. As far as they have gone 
it is a great deal better job than I could 
have done in any other way, and I have 
a good long contract for these pigs or 
some of their progeny. The spray may be 
good, but “pigs is pigs” in some "places I 
can assure you. When the roots are very 
bad make a little hole with the hoe and 
drop in a little corn. The pigs will get it. 
even if they do hurt the roots a little. 
H. D. W. 
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