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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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A New Scheme for Orchard Heating. 
I have a plum orchard of 300 trees, 
nine years old, set 14 x 16. They have 
become so large they are shaded, so they 
rot quite a lot, and it is hard to get 
through to spray. I have commenced 
cutting every other one out; it takes 
some nerve to cut a thrifty tree with the 
prospect of bearing from three to five 
bushels this year, but I am doing it. 
Last year the frost killed about all, so 1 
only got a small crop. I think I shall 
experiment this Spring, if there is any 
danger of frost, by splitting the stumps 
and coal-oiling them, and cut the bodies 
and limbs in short lengths set on end, 
and cover with dirt like the old coal 
pits we used to burn. harvey hill. 
Darke Co., O. 
R. N.-Y.—This is a new idea to us. 
You are right in cutting out the trees, 
but it does take nerve to do it properly. 
In case of a severe frost you will prob¬ 
ably need more heat than the covered 
piles will give out In California they 
have a set of thermometers which reg¬ 
ister the temperature around the orchard. 
Greenhouse Attached to Dwelling. 
L. N. D., page 11, must bear in mind 
that if the greenhouse is built against the 
dwelling, it is almost impossible to ex¬ 
clude the tobacco odor. The smoke will 
find the tiniest opening through the side 
of the house and penetrate to all parts, 
and it is hardly out before the next 
fumigation takes place. If a person is 
ill, or has a weak throat, this vile odor 
is very distressing. The house should be 
so constructed that the tobacco fumes 
will be absolutely excluded. f. c. c. 
R. N.-Y.—In such a greenhouse it 
would be well to use other forms of to¬ 
bacco to combat insects, rather than 
depend upon fumigation with crude 
stalks, which, as F. C. C. says, is ex¬ 
tremely penetrating. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE ORCHARDS AND 
TAXATION. 
On page 29, A. L. Littlefield says that 
■we did not mention in our resolution to 
have the orehards exempted from taxes, set 
and eared for by some one of the approved 
methods and under the direction and ap¬ 
proval of the horticultural department of 
the State College, as he mentioned in "New 
England Farms.” As I was the one that 
brought this resolution before the meeting, 
1 will say that 1 did not see his article in 
“ New England Farms,” but my idea was 
that a new manufacturing company can 
come in the State—or, ( in particular, in 
Manchester—and start up business and be 
exempted from taxes for 10 years, when 
they are running their business from the 
start The Amoskeag Co. built a new mill 
to cost $1,000,000, and they have a small 
tax to pay in comparison with other prop¬ 
erty owners; have been doing business for 
50 years or’more, paying big dividends to 
those who are fortunate enough to own the 
shares, and yet they are exempted for 10 
years on $1,000,000 property. 
Now, if some one interested in fruit grow¬ 
ing takes five acres or more of his land and 
plants an orchard on it and cares for it in 
the up-to-date methods and tries to raise 
better fruit than our Western brother 
(which I think can be done here in New 
Hampshire), he has to put a lot of work 
and expense on that land, and he gets no 
return until the trees commence to bear. 
Why should he have to pay taxes on that 
property that he is getting no return from, 
and paying out in money and labor, when 
his neighbor is getting returns from his 
property every day and still paying no 
taxes? 
Another resolution of quite as much im¬ 
portance was the one asking for a grant 
from this Legislature . to carry on demon¬ 
stration work by the college in different 
parts of the State. Last Spring I wrote 
to Prof. Pickett asking him if he would 
come to our place and show us how to 
prune our fruit trees, or send some one 
who understood the work, and he wrote that 
he could not, as there was no appropriation 
for such, work, but after a little correspond- 
er. 'o he agreed to send his assistant. Prof.' 
February 4 , 
Wolff, on condition that we pay all ex¬ 
penses and make it a public demonstration, 
which we were only too glad to do. Quite 
a crowd turned out to see Prof. Wolff, and 
it stirred up an interest in both the work 
and the college. Now, if the State will give 
a little money to help in this work, so the 
college can send its men to different parts 
oi the State and take an orchard and care 
for it in the latest methods, I think it 
would do more for the fruit or horticultural 
interests of this State than any other one 
tiling. HARVEY T. COREY. 
HORSERADISH AND DANDELIONS. 
I have never had much experience with 
horseradish, but a neighbor who seemed to 
have just the ground for it, though not 
growing* other truck crops, seemed to suc¬ 
ceed with it and always had good returns 
on his crops, shipped in barrels to a com¬ 
mission house in Cleveland. I would think 
it risky to attempt to grow it extensively 
before I was sure that I had the soil that 
would grow nice roots, as it is the fancy 
article that brings the price, besides being 
handled with less work, and I should not 
be much afraid of overdoing the market on 
this kind of stock. Our products are about 
all sold direct to the consumer, and there¬ 
fore we have a limited use for it, and that 
only for the prepared article, which we take 
along in a galvanized pail with cover, and 
sell out at “ 10 cents per dipper full,” 
the customer furnishing the receptacle. 
Quite a number of things work in nicely 
and pay in this way, when no middlemen 
come in for a share of the proceeds, and cus¬ 
tomers are always pleased to get such 
things at first hands, and knowing the 
ingredients are pure. If one grows a quan¬ 
tity and has to depend on commission men 
to ‘sell the crop, 1 would advise going slow 
till one is sui’e of his ground. 
A limited quantity of dandelion for greens 
works in well, giving consumers a variety 
of things, which is always pleasing, but 
unless one is located near a large city 1 
would consider its use quite limited, and 
much more risky to grow than horseradish, 
with chances of loss in marketing, which 
do not appear with horseradish. 
Wayne Co., O. c. weckesser. 
Horseradish as a market garden crop is 
not always profitable except in localities 
where there is a certain and steady demand, 
such as is usually found in our large city 
markets and then only when it can be cul¬ 
tivated as a second crop. As a rule, the 
soil in market gardens is in a high state of 
cultivation, and will give better returns in 
some of the early or more standard crops. 
But as a farm crop it is a different proposi¬ 
tion. Here the land is not considered as 
valuable in fertility, and the acreage more 
extensive. Soil that will grow a good crop 
of corn or potatoes will usually produce a 
good crop of horseradish, and when choice 
can be had a loose loamy soil, rather moist 
than dry, should be preferred. The roots 
can be planted in the early Spring, cul¬ 
tivated by horse power, and the expense of 
growing the crop will he somewhat reduced, 
if we do not figure the interest of our land too 
high. In case we do not find a ready market 
for the entire crop the first year, we can 
allow it to remain in the field, to come on 
the next Fall, without any material loss. 
By this method of culture the crop will 
pav as well as or better than the average 
farm crop. The selling price will average 
from $4 to .$5 per hundred pounds, unless 
you have a contract price, in which case 
the crop could be grown extensively at a 
handsome profit. As to the growing of 
dand?lions I have had but little experience 
but 1 am of the opinion the venture would 
not pay. T ~ 
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This Beautiful New Rose 
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West Chester, Pa. 
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Hundreds of car lots of 
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Black’s Peach Trees-1911 
• . . v ,„ Peach Trees are one of our specialties—we 
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trees, however, cost little, if any, more than the 
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Box V.’Hightstown.New Jersey^ pj-gg 
12 FRUIT TREES 
WORTH 
$1.90 
FOR 98c 
1 Roosevelt, 1 Bradshaw Plum, 1 
Niagara Peach, 1 Bing, 1 Napo¬ 
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Baldwin, I McIntosh, 1 King 
Apple, 1 Orange Quince, 1 Bartlett, 
1 Seckel Pear. All first class trees, 
2 yr., 4 ft high for 98c. Everybody 
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M&loney Bros. 0 Wells, Box 13 D&nsvilU, N„ Y. 
Rochester Grown 
Elberta Peaches 
The most profitable market 
variety. Catalogue and 
price on application 
Ellwanger & Barry 
MOUNT HOPE NURSERIES 
Rochester, N. Y. 
Leaders for 70 
Years 
FRUIT, SHADE and ORNAMENTAL 
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Eldorado Blackberries, Strawberry and 
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Box 8, Yalesville, Conn. 
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NO. 1. FOR $6.00 
100 Elberta Peach, 2 to 3 feet. 1 yr. from bud 
10 Jonathan Apple, 1 year 2 to 3 feet 
NO. 5, FOR $10.00 
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20 Winter Banana 30 Jonathan 
NO. 6. FOR $16.00 
100 Cherry, 2 year from bud, 5 to 6 feet 
80 Early Richmond 10 Montmorency 
10 Dyehouse 
NO. 4, FOR $8.00 
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40 Jonathan 40 Rome Beauty 20 Winesap 
NO. 7, FOR $15.00 
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Big Money Is Made Growing Peaches for Market 
A six-year-old Peach Orchard in Palisade, Colorado, sold for $24,630.50 cash. Peaches was the only 
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farm lias slopes which face the north and east—with natural Peach Soil. Learn what varietiesthrive on your 
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We Tell You HOW to Grow Peaches RIGHT 
Our big orchards make us lots of money. Some of our bearing trees are twenty-five years old. with no 
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