1911 . 
THE RURA.I> NEW-YORKER 
105 
NEW SEEDING MACHINE WANTED. 
Can you put me in communication 
with a manufacturing concern which will 
build a seeding machine especially for 
planting Fall cover crops better and 
more economically than any machinery 
now on the market? I want three ma¬ 
chines in one—a grass seeder, a roller, 
and a dust mulcher. The seeder, in 
front, to have small hoes or disks placed 
close together; in the rear of the short 
roller a dust mulcher—a tool that will 
leave the surface as though a very light¬ 
weight weeder had been pulled over the 
ground. The machine must be rigged 
to insure the seed being planted at a 
shallow but uniform depth, and the dust 
mulcher must not work deeper than one 
inch. \\ e lose a lot of our clover and 
Alfalfa seed by the methods now used. 
The regular seeders are too heavy and 
the hoes or disks too far apart. On our 
level, sandy-loam fields we ought always 
to roll after seeding to press the soil 
close around the seed, then stir the top 
very lightly, leaving a dust mulch. 
When we do this in three separate op¬ 
erations, it requires a lot of unnecessary 
work and tramping. A special machine 
will cost more. I know, but I am willing 
to pa}- well for a machine which will 
serve my purpose as outlined above. I 
think there would be considerable sale 
for such a machine once it was intro¬ 
duced. THERON M.’CAMPBELL. | 
Monmouth Co., N. J. 
R. N.-Y.—Who knows of such a ma¬ 
chine? Some western implements de¬ 
signed for use in the “dry lands" do part 
of this work well. The increased use 
of Alfalfa will make new tools neces¬ 
sary. Seeders and lime, spreaders are 
most needed. 
.CO-OPERATIVE FRUIT GROWING IN 
THE HUDSON VALLEY. 
Would it be advisable for any fair num¬ 
ber of apple growers in the Hudson Valley 
to form an association and endeavor to 
market their fruit crops after the plan 
followed by the Colorado and Pacific coast 
growers? 
I can see no reason why such a plan 
could not be accomplished in the Hud¬ 
son Valley if it is taken up by the right 
men and in the right way. It seems to 
me the best way to go at this matter 
is to get a few men in a neighborhood 
who are good growers and are anxious 
to put up a good honest package and 
guarantee it to be honest in every par¬ 
ticular, and stick to it till the question 
is fully tried out. It is my opinion that 
success awaits any such honest experi¬ 
ment. We have to forget the past and 
commence all over again. One reason 
I am fully convinced such a plan would 
prove successful is from my own ex¬ 
perience. We put our fruit up in an 
honest barrel, putting our name and ad¬ 
dress on each package, and give a per¬ 
sonal guarantee with each that every 
part of it will be just as good as the 
plate, in other words that one part shall 
be just as any other. The result is we 
have been getting from $1 to $1.25 above 
the highest market quotations. We ship 
our fruit to one man, and buyers who 
want that mark have to go to him to 
get it. I have no fault to find with the 
commission man; I give him an honest 
package and he sends me honest returns. 
Much has been said about the honest 
package, and much may still be said; 
however, it seems to me the question is a 
simple one. Let each and everyone put 
up an honest package, such as he would 
like to buy himself and the whole ques¬ 
tion is settled. lewis l- morrell. 
I here is no question that cooperation 
in the Hudson Valley in fruit selling 
would have as great value as elsewhere, 
provided their conditions were equal. 
In sections where associations have 
been, and are successful, fruit growing, 
of whatever kind, is the chief industry, 
and usually excellent mehods are the 
rule. Neither is true among Hudson 
^ alley apple growers. There are small 
sections all through it where apples are 
grown extensively, and might and 
should be more extensive, and a 
minority of these growers are putting 
out the finest product, but also the ma¬ 
jority are simply growing apples. The 
first named have little difficulty in get¬ 
ting good prices. “How shall two walk 
together until they be agreed?” In as¬ 
sociation work there must be uniform 
products easily brought together and 
graded. Under existing conditions this 
is entirely impractical, except through 
neighborhood cooperation. When gen¬ 
erally through the valley the farmers 
grow apples according to the laws of 
apples and not of hay, grain or live 
stock, and grow only a limited number 
of varieties, adapted to their soils and 
localities, then the small associations 
may practically form a large one. I fear 
those of us whose hair has begun to 
whiten will die without the sight. Let 
it be fully understood that cooperation 
will never materially help a man who is 
not Lrst willing to make individual ef¬ 
fort, and that all successful associations 
have been preceded by such effort. 
Many a man sits on the fence and 
howls because he thinks he is not get¬ 
ting his just share of the fruits of his 
labors. Perhaps he is not, but were he 
to spend the time and breath put forth 
in howling in intelligent production he 
would do very well as he is, and if he 
used like intelligence in doing what he 
could to promote cooperation in selling 
he would help to create conditions favor¬ 
ing such, and be in position to receive 
much benefit from the same. 
E. VAN ALSTYNE. 
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The influence of heredity cannot, of 
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A Conn, lady says: 
bor years while I was a coffee drinker 
I suffered from bilious attacks of great 
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family physician gave me various pre¬ 
scriptions for improving the digestion 
and stimulating the liver, which I tried 
faithfully but without perceptible result. ' 
. “He was acquainted with my family I 
history for several generations back, and 
once when I visited him he said: 'If you 
have inherited one of those torpid livers 
you may always suffer more or less from 
its inaction. We can’t dodge our inheri¬ 
tance, you know.’ 
I was not so strong a believer in 
heredity as he was, however, and, be¬ 
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“I have used Postum for three years, 
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bilious attacks that I used to suffer from, 
and I have been entirely free from the 
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to result from them. 
“The change is surely very great, and 
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