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THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
February 4, 
ORCHARD HEATERS IN MARYLAND. 
The peach industry is being revived, and 
largo planting are being made in several 
parts of the State. To insure a crop, so 
far as late Spring frosts are concerned, the 
practice of orchard heating must be adopted. 
In order to gain experience along this line 
some experimental work was started last 
Spring Sn the orchards of the Experiment 
Station and Mr. A. L. Towson of Wash¬ 
ington County. Both oil and coal heaters 
were used, so as to get at a comparison of 
the .two kinds of fuel. Fortunately for 
the peach crop, the temperature did not go 
low enough near the experimental plots 
to injure the fruit blossoms, and in fact at 
Mr. Tow son's it was not necessary to start 
fires in the heaters at all. At the Experi¬ 
ment Station the temperature approached 
the danger point three times, and the fires 
were started with excellent experience- 
results. 
The results were in favor of crude or 
fuel oil for fuel, because the oil heaters 
are easily filled, quickly lighted, give off 
the maximum amount of heat immediately 
and can be instantly extinguished. The 
coal heaters are more difficult to fill and 
light, burn slowly and may throw out only 
a little heat, and cannot be extinguished 
without dumping out the fuel. Three types 
of oil heaters were used, the Troutman 
heater; sheet iron locally-made heaters 
holding about two gallons; and sheet iron 
paint kegs. For the latter a large piece of 
roofing slate was used as a cover to keep 
out rain and to extinguish the fire. From 
our experience, the paint kegs and locally- 
made heater^ are entirely' satisfactory. A 
good serviceable size is nine inches in di¬ 
ameter and 11 inches high, holding three 
gallons. This size burns about one quart of 
crude or fuel oil per hour, and from 80 
to 90 heaters are required per acre. The 
difference in price between crude and fuel 
oil will determine the one to use; they are 
apparently equally effective. In our work 
100 heaters per acre were used, and when 
the outside temperature was 30 degrees 
above zero the oil heated area was 40 de¬ 
grees, and the coal heated area was 36 
degrees above zero. c. p. chase ? 
Maryland. State Horticulturist. 
CROP NOTES. 
The potato crop in this township is about 
an average yield, about 100 bushels per 
acre. There are none raised for shipping 
here. The local market demands all raised 
here; prices are 45 to 50 cents. Corn, about 
half crop, with half in the field yet. Hay, 
fair crop, bringing $18 on the market; wheat 
not as good as last year; 15 to 25 bushels 
per acre. Oats would have been a bumper 
crop if they could have stood up, but it was 
impossible to harvest them; price 36 cents 
at feed store. M. H. t. 
Akron, Ohio. 
All this month to date (January 16) has 
been unfavorable for farm work. Rains and 
fogs very general. Much sickness prevail¬ 
ing. Wheat not faring so well since snow 
went off. Some hogs yet unsold and own¬ 
ers losing money on them because of de¬ 
cline in markets and heavy feeding now to 
them in condition. Public sales getting 
numerous, abov one a day in this section, 
corn not moving on account of low price. 
Farmers are ready and anxious for work 
to open. Hogs plentiful, cattle scarce. 
Horses in demand. Business fair. Farm¬ 
ers are watching legislative and Congress¬ 
ional matters closely, and they mean busi¬ 
ness in the future. Parcels post wa prom¬ 
ised us, but chances are slim. j. h. h. 
Carroll Co., Ind. 
Weather fairly cold with no sleighing to 
date (January 12). Stock wintering well 
and the farmers well supplied with feed. 
Some complained of a scarcity of water 
in wells, and streams low. Good demand 
for farms, with some yet in the market at 
a price about equal to what buildings are 
worth. It seems strange that land in 
the Far West or in the Northwest, many 
miles from markets, should sell for more 
per acre, than land in a section like this, 
where buildings are good, lawns beautified 
with maple or elm trees, lands fenced, and 
supplied with wells, springs or streams of 
water, numerous fruit trees in bearing, New 
York and all Eastern markets easily reached 
by several different lines of railroads and 
the Hudson River as well. Good gravel 
roads, with State roads as well, rural de¬ 
delivery routes in every direction, and one 
or two telephone lines passing nearly every 
door. Good soil, good climate, and good 
roads, with electric and steam railroads 
in plenty, and yet farms are for sale and 
cheap, and mainly because the owners have 
grown old, and so frequently have no chil¬ 
dren to take their place on the home farm. 
In a radius of three miles from a neighbor¬ 
ing village, 18 farms have been sold within 
the past few months, and I do not call to 
mind a single one that has been sold 
under foreclosure of mortgage within the 
last several years. Rye, 80 cents per 
bushel; hay, $15*, eggs, 42 cents; butter, 
35 cents; milk, $2.05 per hundred pounds. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. a. s. 
An Apple Country. —On page 7. under 
the heading of “ A Study of Soils,” I note 
remarks and questions of E. P., Windsor, 
Conn., and your reply, in connection with 
which first let me say that I have no land 
for sale, nor am I personally interested in 
the sale of any lands in the section. It is 
a well-known fact, however, that we pro¬ 
duce iu the valleys of the Tacdnic range 
of mountains (which is practically a con¬ 
tinuation, or an offshoot, of the Berk- 
shires) a number of varieties of apples 
which command the highest market prices 
by reason of their exceptional keeping 
qualities; in fact, three to four years out 
of five, the majority of the apple crop of 
this section is shipped to the Middle West. 
On the hillsides of the abandoned and ill- 
kept farms in this section are thousands 
of healthy, wild apple trees which, with 
proper pruning, budding and grafting, could 
be made very profitable, aside from planting 
new trees upon soil which evidently is 
most excellent for the growing of apples. 
E. P. should take a trip through this 
beautiful country before locating his fruit 
farm. a. C. 
Berlin, N. Y. 
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Orchards Pay Better Than Gold Mines When Fertilized With 
GENUINE THOM AS PHOSP HATE POWDER! 
The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture Offered a Prize for the Most Profitable Acre of Massachusetts 
Orchards. This Contest Has Recently Closed, and the 
FIRST PRIZE IS WON BY THE DREW-MUNSON FRUIT CO., of Littleton, Mass, 
Their Prize Winning Acre of Baldwin Apples 
GAVE THEM A TOTAL RETURN OF $715.70—THE NET PROFIT WAS $519.55 
THIS ORDHARD WAS 
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