822 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 24, 
Ruralisms 
End of the Fruit Season. —The local 
fruit season closes with the gathering of 
Kieffer pears. The crop is generally 
of poor market quality. The pears are 
plentiful enough but as a rule they are 
undersized and off color. A few bright, 
clear specimens are seen, but the great 
majority are dull and rusty in appear¬ 
ance. The scrubby Kieffers that have 
been marketed up to this writing have 
naturally brought small returns. The 
quoted prices range from $1.50 to $2 
the barrel, but many barrels have sold 
for less than a dollar. No inconsider¬ 
able portion of many shipments have 
failed to realize expenses. Prices may 
be expected to improve when better 
selected and handled fruits reach the 
markets. As there is a shortage of can¬ 
ning fruits this year, well-flavored Kief¬ 
fers, even if small and cloudy, are likely 
to be wanted at tolerable prices. Apples 
are now practically harvested. The crop, 
as a whole, was light and irregular, but 
individual trees of Baldwin, Ben Davis 
and Salisbury or Smith Cider were well 
filled. Russets and Greenings made a 
poor showing. Fair hand-picked stock 
sold well, bringing from $2 to $2.75 the 
barrel. Early kinds, such as Astrachan, 
Wealthy and Oldenburg, realized profit 
to growers. Peaches of good appear¬ 
ance generally found ready market at 
prices ranging from 80 cents to $1.40 
the 14-quart basket. There were some 
satisfactory peach crops. Iron Moun¬ 
tain is still coming in, selling for $1 
the basket. Its looks are against it, 
but the quality is good enough to satisfy 
buyers. There was little profit in the 
small fruits, with the exception of straw¬ 
berries. Raspberries were in demand at 
good prices, but the drought sadly 
diminished the j’ield. Grapes turned out 
the worst disappointment of the year. 
The set was fair, and no complications 
arose until ripening, when heavy rains, 
following a long drought, caused the 
berries to burst and decay so rapidty 
that but a remnant could be utilized. Bees, 
wasps and kindred insects swarmed on 
the clusters in uncounted thousands, 
soon transforming most of them into 
strings of empty shells. A sour fermen¬ 
tation claimed the remainder so quickly 
that it could not be utilized in any man¬ 
ner. We have never known a promis¬ 
ing fruit crop to deteriorate so rapidly. 
Isabella, trained high on a sunny wall, 
gave us better results than any other 
variety. 
“Coreless” Yellow Tomato. —F. E. 
Barnard, M'etuchen, N. J., sends a yel¬ 
low tomato quite as free from inedible 
core as Livington’s Coreless, noted on 
page 734. There is, however, more de¬ 
pression about the stem, causing a small 
loss when sliced. The flesh is solid, of 
fine texture, clear yellow in color and 
of excellent flavor. Mr. Barnard says: 
We have grown this tomato for years, and 
It certainly appears to be coreless. We 
take much delight in it, as it is decorative 
when sliced alternately with red kinds. We 
think it more solid than the reds and fully 
as fine in flavor. Of course we know that 
this sort of yellow tomato has been grown 
for years, but for some reason they do not 
take with people. The two colors never mix 
In the garden, though often planted near 
together. We plant seed in the open ground 
in this locality and get fine results. 
A section of this yellow coreless to¬ 
mato is shown in natural size in Fig. 
386, page 819. Yellow tomatoes have 
never been popular, though many per¬ 
sons appear to like them as well as or 
better than the red kinds. The above 
variety comes near Golden Queen, the 
best known large yellow sort, but has 
firmer flesh and less “core” than the 
types usually grown. The most com¬ 
monly grown of all yellow tomatoes is 
Yellow Plum, extensively used for pick¬ 
ling and preserving. As everyone 
knows, it is a small affair of no value 
for ordinary purposes. When the un¬ 
doubted good quality of the larger yel¬ 
low kinds, and their decorative appear¬ 
ance is considered it appears strange 
they do not stand in higher favor. When 
yellow and red tomatoes are hybridized 
together the yellow tends to disappear 
in the progeny. Red is the dominant 
color of this indispensable garden fruit, 
and the. brighter and clearer the shade 
the more it attracts consumers. 
Automobile Trade. —We do. not mean 
by this the traffic in motor vehicles them¬ 
selves, but rather the direct trade in 
farm products between producer and 
consumer growing out of the increasing 
travel of automobiles on country roads. 
The abuses of automobile speeding are 
so patent to all that it is obvious that 
their use must be greatly restricted in 
the near future, but in the localities 
where these modern vehicles most 
abound some compensation has de¬ 
veloped in the direct sales at living 
prices of poultry products, choice fruits, 
vegetables and even dairy products to 
automobile owners. Transportation and 
middlemen charges are cut off, and 
while the buyer pays no more than the 
dealer would ask, and often rather less 
for fresh and high-class commodities, 
the seller receives more than he would 
in the ordinary course of trade. Both 
parties are therefore benefited by these 
transactions. Wealthy residents in most 
suburban localities now have powerful 
automobiles capable of a wide radius of 
action. Having the vehicles and con¬ 
scious of the considerable expense of 
their up-keep they naturally wish to 
realize all possible benefit from them, 
and have gradually become accustomed 
to scouring the country districts for 
tasteful provender as well as for other 
purposes. Where there is much auto¬ 
mobile driving it is only necessary to 
display a “For Sale” placard to dispose 
of the broilers, ducklings and young 
guinea fowls that have developed, fresh 
eggs, butter—where that commodity is 
actually produced on the farm—surplus 
fruits, vegetables and in some instances 
the showy garden flowers. Automobile 
foraging for first-hand products is be¬ 
coming so much of a fad that booths 
have been built by occasional gardeners, 
to be constantly replenished with war¬ 
ranted home-grown produce. This is 
excellent as far as it goes. The motor¬ 
ist gets a better opinion of the farmer, 
and the farmer takes a more lenient 
view of the antics of the milder kinds 
of motor “road-hog.” Almost anything 
that brings actual producer and con¬ 
sumer together is commendable in these 
days of extortion by intermediate para¬ 
sites. The grosser abuses of automobile 
driving will in due time be corrected, 
and the great economic value of these 
admirable inventions will sooner or 
later become evident. It is not enough 
to receive the trifling benefits, of what 
may only be a passing or semi-fashion¬ 
able fad. Motor vehicles, it is reason¬ 
able to expect, will be developed that 
will be of actual personal utility to the 
farmer as well as to the man of 
wealth. The capacity of the horse for 
road transportation is too limited for 
this progressive age. After a period of 
catering to the whims of the moneyed 
class automobile manufacturers will 
realize the need of turning out practical, 
inexpensive machines for the use of the 
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