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THE RURAL N R W -YORKER 
March 25, 
PRODUCTS, PRICES AND TRADE 
About 1,880,000,000 pounds of tobacco 
are consumed annually in the entire world. 
The Netherlands use the largest amount 
per capita, 7.5 pounds. Belgium comes next, 
0.2. The United States uses nearly six 
pounds per head. Other countries running 
jver four are Switzerland, Denmark, Ar¬ 
gentina and Cuba; Germany, 3.5, and Great 
Britain only two pounds. 
During 1910 France exported to the 
United States peanut products valued at 
$1,378,837. The largest item was 42,881 
barrels of peanut oil, worth $1,007,269. 
Part of this oil is used in cookery and part 
for soap making. It is estimated that 
France will have to import at least 75,- 
000.000 bushels of wheat this year. The 
per acre yield of wheat in France runs 
about five bushels ahead of the average in 
the United States, but the population is 
nearly one-half that of the United States, 
with less than one-seventeenth the area. % 
Autos for Heavy Work.—A utomobiles 
have now been used for heavy trucking and 
delivery work in the city long enough to 
make some interesting cost comparisons. In 
one case where an effort was made to get 
conservative figures it was found that 10 
auto trucks took the place of 30 horses and 
did the work something over $1,000 per 
month cheaper than the horses, besides giv¬ 
ing more satisfactory service. 
Sale for Carrots. —“I have about 30 
bushels of table carrots. How can I best 
dispose of them?” w 
Chenango Co., N. Y. 
There is not much inducement in ship¬ 
ping them to New York. They might pos¬ 
sibly bring 50 cents per bushel, from which 
commission and freight would have to be 
deducted. New York and Philadelphia now 
have an ample supply of new carrots from 
Bermuda and the South, which many peo¬ 
ple prefer to the old carrots. Our judg¬ 
ment is that these carrots can be disposed 
of to better advantage in markets nearer 
the place of production, Binghamton, 
Scranton or Wilkesbarre. 
City or Country Horse. —“Which, as a 
rule, has an easier time—a country or a 
city horse?” G - H * L - 
Tennessee. 
Assuming that work horses are the kind 
meant, the country horse is the more fa¬ 
vorably situated, as he does not have to 
contend with hard, and often slippery, 
pavements, and usually eats his noon 
meal in the stable, instead of from 
a nose bag while hitched to a wagon 
on the street. During Summer he 
often gets a bite of grass, even where not 
regularly turned to pasture, a luxuiy that 
bis city brother knows nothing of. Of 
course a brutal master can make life hard 
for a horse anywhere, but taking average 
conditions the country work horse has the 
better end of the bargain. 
Cold Storage Matters.— The legislatures 
of New York and New Jersey are dis¬ 
cussing bills aimed to remedy cold storage 
abuses. Some good may come from State 
regulation, if the laws arc not made to 
carry back-breaking loads of red tape, ••bu¬ 
reau's,” “boards,” and “commissions,” which 
the real enemies of reform, under the guise 
of friendship, manage to have worked into 
such bills before passage, making enforce¬ 
ment difficult, if not ridiculous. But the 
root of the trouble can be got at only 
through Federal regulation, and the only 
regulation necessary is to do away with the 
secret storage of food products. Compel all 
warehouses carrying butter, eggs, poultry, 
etc-., to date the goods when stored and 
make frequent public reports of the actual 
amounts oh hand, and the laws of supply 
and demand and choice will act automatical¬ 
ly to keep prices on a just level and crowd 
unwholesome food out of the channels of 
trade. So long as foods may be taken 
off the market and stored secretly in un¬ 
limited quantities, trade is on an artificial 
rather than natural basis, and speculators 
wax fat at the expense of the helpless pub¬ 
lic. Grain storage might well be included 
in a Federal law of the type suggested. 
Barley Grades. —“I notice malting bar¬ 
ley is quoted around $1 in the market. 
Our local maltster claims this refers to 
barley that has been malted. The top 
price he offers to local farmers is 75 cents. 
Does the term “malting” in the quotations 
really mean malted?” b. 
New York. 
Malting barley is grain suitable for malt¬ 
ing, as distinguished from low-grade bar¬ 
ley, used only for feeding live, stock. Com¬ 
mercially New York State barley is classi¬ 
fied as two and four-rowed, Nos. 1-2-3 of 
each variety. No. 1, four-rowed must be 
bright, plump, sound, clean, weighing not 
less than 48 pounds. No. 2 may be slightly 
stained, but must not weigh less than 46% 
pounds. No. 3 must be reasonably clean 
and weigh at least 44 pounds. Two-rowed 
is graded the same, except that No. 1 
must weigh 49 and No. 2 48 pounds. Any¬ 
thing poorer than these grades would be 
classed as feeding, though, of course, large 
quantities of high-grade barley are used 
for feeding. w. w. h. 
Apples for Western New England. 
What varieties of apples shall I plant in 
northwest Massachusetts? J. R. 
I would plant the McIntosh, Baldwin, 
Gravcnstein and It. I. Greening and Spy, if 
the latter is found to do well, i.e„ to grow 
6 mooth and of good color. Any one of a 
dozen standard varieties might do espe¬ 
cially well in a given locality, and if that 
is the case would plant that variety as a 
specialty; i. e., Astrachan, Fall Pippin, 
Ilubbardston. Twenty Ounce, Wealthy, 
Bdlefleur, Itoxbury Russet, Palmer Green¬ 
ing, Gilli flower, etc. For the best success 
one must grow enough of one kind to create 
a market, or rather a demand for them 
from some large center. s. t. maynard. 
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. 
Will' you tell us why apples and some 
other fruits do better on the south shore 
of Lake Ontario than those south of Lake 
Erie? Is there any definite reason for it? 
Cherries, peaches and plums do quite as 
well on the southern shore of Lake Erie 
as to the south of Lake Ontario. Apples 
and pears do not do nearly as well for 
the reason that the soils south of Lake 
Erie are not as well adapted to these 
fruits. This statement holds only in a 
very general way, for there are some locali¬ 
ties in which apples and pears can be 
grown near Lake Erie in New York as 
well as near Lake Ontario. Another factor, 
though a minor one, is that the winds 
coming from Lake Erie are much stronger 
and more constant as they strike the shores 
of New York than are the winds coming 
from Lake Ontario. This means that fruits 
in the former locality are blown from the 
trees to the great "discouragement of fruit 
growers, especially of apple and pear grow¬ 
ers. Vineyards, as you know, do much 
better on the southern shore of Lake Erie 
than on the same shore of Lake Ontario. 
Soil and climatic conditions are such that 
one is a region of vineyards and the other 
of orchards. In the Ontario region the 
soils as a whole are not nearly as well 
adapted to grape growing and the winds 
are not sufficiently constant to protect the 
vineyards from injurious fungi as they do 
south of Lake Erie. u. p. hedrick. 
Geneva Exp. Station. 
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-Says the Little 
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