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January 21, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
[Every query must be accompanied by the name 
and address of the -writer to insure attention. Be¬ 
fore asking a qaestion, please see whether it is not 
answered in our advertising columns. Ask only 
a few questions at one time. Put questions on a 
separate piece of paper.] 
“THE CULL IN THE PACKAGE.” 
It is the rotten apple in the box, the 
painted knothole in the board, the musty 
streak in the butter or bacon which will 
decide the price of the second package of 
food you try to sell a private customer. 
Most people will forget to praise the good 
specimens if they think you are trying to 
deceive them with a cull. Most of us have 
heard of the fine packing of the Pacific 
Coast fruit. Are there no culls in these 
packages? Interested in this matter we 
wrote the firm of Steinhardt & Kelley, who 
for some years have handled apples from 
the farmers of the Hood River region. 
Their answer follows, and it is worth the 
attention of any fruit grower. 
First you would like to know if the 
packing of the Hood River apples is 
so perfect that we accept them without 
close investigation. Not only do we ac¬ 
cept them without close investigation, 
but we accept them without any investi¬ 
gation whatever, leaving the entire mat¬ 
ter up to the Hood River Apple Grow¬ 
ers’ Union, a body of men with about 
nine directors under whose personal su¬ 
pervision all the fruit is packed and 
shipped to market. Our dealings with 
these men for the last three years, dur¬ 
ing which time we have purchased their 
crop, have always been of such a straight 
and upright character that we have 
never had occasion or cause to doubt 
their packing, and we have never been 
disappointed in our business dealings 
with them. 
Our contract with the Hood River 
Apple Growers’ Union, as represented 
by their board of directors, is certainly 
a very stringent one, they guaranteeing 
us a perfect pack and also guaranteeing 
that every apple in every box is abso¬ 
lutely perfect. We have handled sev¬ 
eral hundred thousand boxes, and never 
have we found ourselves in condition to 
make a single complaint against their 
pack. It is as near perfect as human 
ingenuity and honesty of endeavor can 
make it; in fact we shall be glad to 
have you drop in our place of business at 
any time and take a box of fruit from 
any heap, and you will find that every 
box is practically identical, and that 
every apple is absolutely perfect, whether 
you open the top, bottom or side of any 
package. This is more than we have 
been able to say for any large pack of 
fruit that we have ever contracted for. 
Referring to your second question. 
The very best fruit from the Hood 
River country is purchased by us on 
f. o. b. basis, Hood River, and although 
of course the prices are not exactly 
public property, still we may tell you 
that they average somewhere around 
$2.25 a box there. Of course you under¬ 
stand that a box of fruit will cost us a 
great deal more, as the freight from 
Hood River to New York is on an aver¬ 
age of 60 cents a box. Regarding your 
question whether it were possible for 
a number of individuals who are not con¬ 
nected with this association to do busi¬ 
ness on the same plan as that of the 
Association, suffice it to say that if you 
can get a number of honest men who 
are also good business men together, 
they could do just as well as the Hood 
River Apple Growers’ Union. 
Regarding your endeavor to encourage 
Eastern fruit growers to put up a pack¬ 
age as good as that of the West, suffice 
it to say that this could be done just 
as well in the East as in the West if 
you can get enough, as we stated be¬ 
fore, honest men who will pack hon¬ 
estly. The whole thing in a nutshell is 
simply and purely a business proposi¬ 
tion. You no doubt know that the 
Eastern barrel pack, to say the least, 
leaves a great deal to be desired. Y ou 
know that there are usually three or 
four good tiers on top and the rest is 
<THE RURAL N PC W-YORKER 
a lot of inferior goods. This is the 
reason why the public is now turning 
toward the box apple to take the place 
of the barrel and it is the writer's per¬ 
sonal opinion that it will only be a few 
years when the barrel apple will be 
practically out of use for the better 
class of trade, owing to no other reason 
than dishonest methods employed in 
packing. 
The entire matter is simply one of 
honesty and quality. Fruit can be had 
just as good in the East as in the West, 
and we see no reason why the Eastern 
grower can’t get just as much for his 
goods as the Western grower, if he will 
only make up his mind to one absolute 
fact, and that is that he has got to be 
honest, and that if he thinks he can fool 
the people all the time by putting up a 
fake barrel of apples he is making a big 
mistake. steinhardt & kelley. 
LIME-SULPHUR AND OYSTER-SHELL 
SCALE. 
G. M. II., Charlotte, Vt .—Will spraying 
with lime-sulphur before buds open kill 
Oyster-shell scale? 
Ans. —Yes, spraying with lime-sul¬ 
phur as a dormant spray will kill 
Oyster-shell scale, and yet I feel that 
this answer should be qualified. The 
Oyster-shell louse has a different life 
history from the San Jose scale, which 
never lays eggs, but gives forth young. 
So in this case there is always a young 
insect under the scale which it secretes 
itself after settling on a limb. On the 
other hand, during the dormant season 
there are always eggs under scales of 
the Oyster-shell louse laid by the adult 
and covered by her, and they remain 
eggs until the hatching season during late 
Spring, when they crawl forth, mature, 
lay eggs and cover them. No contact 
insecticide is as effective against the 
egg as against the insect. For this 
reason one application of lime-sulphur is 
not always sufficient to eradicate Oyster- 
shell bark louse, be it ever so thorough. 
But where regular sprayings with lime- 
sulphur are made the Oyster-shell louse 
disappears entirely in two or three years. 
And the lime-sulphur is easier to use, and 
much more practical than any of the 
soap or emulsion sprays used or recom¬ 
mended for a Summer spray, which are 
unreliable and dangerous at best, be¬ 
cause of the poor quality of many soaps, 
and of the generally poor emulsion made 
by those who have not had some ex¬ 
perience in preparation. w. H. 
Peach Trees for Fillers, 
C. II. B., Moliegan Lake, A. Y .—Is the 
practice of using peach trees for fillers 
among apple trees a good one? 
Ans. —The matter of using peach 
trees as fillers in apple orchards, that the 
spaces between the apple trees may be 
utilized until they come to profitable age, 
is very fine in theory but not in prac¬ 
tice. 1 know that some fruit growers do 
not agree with this view, and not only 
advise others to do it, but do it them¬ 
selves, and I do not say that there are 
not cases in which it has succeeded. But 
I started out in my own orcharding 
with this idea, and planted one orchard 
that way, but my experience was so 
disastrous that 1 dug up the peach trees 
and decided never to commit that folly 
again. * I have been looking at other or¬ 
chards planted with peach fillers ever 
since, up to this year, from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific, and I cannot recall an 
instance in which the plan worked well. 
The apple trees finally become stunted 
in some degree and sometimes very 
badly, because the peach trees are far 
more rampant growers than the apple 
trees. Within the last few months I 
have visited hundreds of orchards _ in 
the famous fruit regions of the Pacific 
Coast, from British Columbia to Ari¬ 
zona, and one of the worst features no¬ 
ticed was the injury to apple orchards 
interplanted with peach fillers. Many of 
the growers had pulled out the peach 
trees, others had their minds made up 
to do it, and a few with whom I talked 
were undecided. The proportion of 
newly set orchards with peach fillers is 
much less than of the older ones. Early 
bearing apple trees are as profitable for 
fillers as peach trees, although they do 
not come into bearing as soon. Let an 
apple orchard be an apple orchard en¬ 
tirely and plant peach trees by them¬ 
selves. The two do not need the same 
culture or spraying, and often this causes 
trouble. h. e. van deman. 
Over half a century of fair dealing has civcnour products that 
prominence which merit deserves. Everything of the best for 
Orchard, Vineyard, Lawn, Park, 
Street, Garden and Greenhouse 
Seeds, Bulbs, Plants, Roses, Shrubs, Small Trees, Etc. 
by mall postpaid—safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. Forthese 
send for Catalog No.2, 168 pages. Hundreds of carloads of Fruit 
and Ornamental Trees, Evergreens, Shrubs, Hardy Roses, etc. 
Catalog No. 1 for these. 112 pages. Both FREE. Immense stock of 
SUPERB CANNAS, the queen of bedding plants. Acres of Paeonias 
and other Hardy Perennials. Direct deal will insure you the 
best and save you money. 57 years. 44 greenhouses. 1.200 acres. 
THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., Box 157* Painesvllle, O. 
VISIT OUR 
EXHIBIT OF 
EASTERN GROWN APPLES 
UNTIL FEB. 
1st, 1911 
We have on exhibit during January at the Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia, car loads 
of Eastern grown apples—Winesap, Ben Davis, York Imperial, Stayman’s Winesap, Albemarle 
Pippin and others to show what can be grown in the East. George H. McKay, mgr. of exhibit 
We • ... .---- 
also have a car load of fruit and ornamental trees showing 
WE HAVE AT OUR NURSERIES 
we can grow trees. 
100,000 GRAPE VINES—Concord and Moore's Early 
200,000 PEACH TREES-100 varieties 
200,000 APPLE TREES—100 varieties. 1 and 2 years 
50,080 PEAR TREES—1, 2 and 3 years 
50,000 CHERRY TREES—1 and 2 years 
and a large acreage of other shade and ornamental trees all of 
which are in fine condition and ready for immediate shipment 
Can we talk business? If you intend planting stock in the 
spring, won’t you kindly fill out the attached coupon and 
mail same to us today! You do not place yourself under any 
obligations whatever by doing this, but I should be glad to 
have the opportunity of giving yon our prices. 
New catalogue on how to grow fruit in the East FREE 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES, Berlin, Md. 
20,000 PLUM TREES—1 and 2 years 
500,000 CALIFORNIA PRIVET—sB trades 
10,000,000 STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
100,000 NORWAY MAPLES 
100,000 NORWAY SPRUCE 
.10 VALUABLE FARMS FOB SALE. 
HARRISON’S 
Name _ 
Town _ 
State 
NURSERIES. Berlin, Md. 
County 
terested in the following for spring planting: | 
_ 1 am in- 
FRUIT TREES 
Eldorado Blackberries, Strawberry and 
Raspberry Plants. Catalog free. 
BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO. 
Box 8, Yalesville, Conn. 
Wood’s Seeds 
For The 
farm and Garden 
have an established reputation 
extending over thirty years, be¬ 
ing planted and used extensively 
by the best Farmers and Garden¬ 
ers throughout the Middle and 
Southern States. 
Wood’s New for 1911 will 
Seed Catalog ^ rm y °e £ 
to what crops and seeds to plant 
for success and profit. Our pub¬ 
lications have long been noted 
for the full and complete infor¬ 
mation which they give. 
Catalog mailed free on 
request. Write for it. 
T. W. WOOD O SONS, 
Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. 
J Cabbage Seed —We sup-j 
r ply largest growers in U.S.Y 
Cauliflower — Danish^ 
grown, large, fertile seed. ' 
Onion Sead-No cleaner, truer seed. 
Cucumber Seed —White as chalk. _ 
Also pedigreed Peas, Beana and Swoel Corn. About 
H usual prices. We sell direct—no middlemen. Write. 
FORREST SEED CO., Box 32 Cortland, H.Y. 
ONION SEED 
We are headquarters for a full line of Stras- 
burg, Flat Danvers and Yellow Globe Onion 
Seed. Try them for No. 1 stock. Get prices. 
-THEILMANN SEED CO., ERIE, PA.- 
FRUIT 
TREES 
Pear*. Bartlett, Seckel and others. 
Fine, healthy trees. Cherries and 
PIums,all best varieties. Peaches, 
grown from buds from bearing trees. Also Grapes 
and Currants in any quantity. General big advance 
in prices this year owing to great demand for fruit 
trees in northwest. Our prices have not advanced. 
Get wholesale prices direct from us and $1 Lot Oilers. 
Save § to J. Free Catal og. W rite to-day. 
W. P. KCPEBT &. SON, Box 30 Seneca, N. Y. 
Also Breeders of Prize Hampshire Sheep 
Black’s Peach Trees-1911 
.* y 'iVriV’ l ^ eac ^ Trees are one of our specialties—we ■ 
grow for quality and not quantity alone. Our 
x trees, however, cost little, if any, more than the 
ordinary sort—we employ no agents, but seljj 
a*# 25 direct,saving middleman’s profits.* r | ■ * 
New booklet, “Springtime ^‘^VulUSDlfi 
* Harvest for the Fruit-grower,” free.j | 
Joseph H. Black, Son & Go. 
Box V, Hightstown, New Jersey^ j. f J-gg 
FRUIT, SHADE and ORNAMENTAL 
TREES, SHRUBS and ROSES 
A Large Stock of the Finest Quality. Also 
a Full Line of the BEST Spray Pumps, and 
Spray Material. Prices Low and Satisfac¬ 
tion Guaranteed. We Deal Direct with 
our Customers. Write for Price List. 
CALL’S NUKSEKIKS, Perry, Ohio. 
This 
ValuableBook 
It’s valuable because it tells vou 
how to obtain the highest grade 
fruit and ornamental trees, vines 
and plants and save the agent s 
commission. 
We are offering some great bargains for this 
Spring’s planting and you owe it to yoursclr to 
send us your name and address so we can place 
the book in your hands. 
We grow our own stock and guarantee it 
ALLEN L. WOOD, Woodlawn Nurseries 
567 Culver Road, Rochester, N. Y. 
C 7 C ftftft apple and 
PEACH trees 
Our prices are 50 per cent less than you 
nay agents and dealers. I localise in 
buying direct from the growers you 
SAVE TWO PROFITS 
and run no risk. Every tree as repre¬ 
sented. True to name. Fresh dug. 
Personal attention given each order. 
2 Apple Trees J g““r.£t 
postpaid for 25 cents. 
Everybody send for Free catalogue. 
Maloney Bros. & Wells, 
Box 13 , Dansvllle, N. Y. 
■ 1 
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ferry: 
CC E To grow the fln- 
wj est flowers and 
most luscious 
r vegetables, plant the best 
seeds. Ferry’s Seeds are best 
because they never fall In yield 
or quality. The best garden¬ 
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know Ferry’s seeds to be the 
highest standard of quality 
yet attained. For sale 
everywhere. 
[FERRY’S 1911 Seed Annual 
Free on request 
0. M. FERRY A CO, 
DETROIT, MICK. 
850,000 
1 
GRAPEVINES 
61* Varieties. Also Small Fruits, Trees, etc. Best Root¬ 
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price-list free. LKU IS llOESCli U SOJi. Bos K, Eredonls, ». T. 
EDIIIT TDCCC Apples, Pears, Plums,Cherries, 
ftlUl I I tltlELO Peaches, Small Fruits, Shrubs, 
Roses. Finest Stock. Low 
Prices. Free Catalogue. Write us before you buy. 
J.Faerber Frultiand Nurseries. 303 Winton Rd.N.,Roohester,N.Y. 
PLANT HARDY TREES 
Healthy, acclimated, high grade, true to label fruit trees 
and plants for Northern States at wholesale prices, direct 
from nursery to planter. Send for catalogue. 
^ELERTMCID^URSERIES^esi^JUlajuzoo^ic^ 
—150 ACRES, Genesee Valley 
grown. “Not the cheapest, but 
the best.” Never have had San 
Jose Scale. Established 18C8. 
rsvsTfU' vpsr GEO. A. SWEET NURSERY CO., 
CATALOG FREE 20 Maple St., Dansville, H. Y. 
TREES 
"WXT X Jk »l | a few good customers for 
\A/ A |\| I r | lour unexcelled Trees, 
" Shrubs and Plants. 
We want your custom and you want our goods. 
. Send for our FREE catalog. 
The Rochester Nurseries, Rochester, N.Y. 
