THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 1, 
THE CHESTNUT IN THE SOUTH. 
I was very much interested in the ar¬ 
ticle appearing on page 226, wherein 
Prof. Van Deman offers some excellent 
advice to some one writing from Run, 
Texas, as to the advisability of planting 
the Sober Paragon chestnut. Having 
considerable practical experience in the 
cultivation of the chestnut in the South, 
I will add my views. About 15 years 
ago I procured from a nurseryman in 
San Francisco half a dozen Japanese 
chestnuts, imported stock. They grew 
very thriftily, and today are upwards of 
40 feet in height and measure 42 inches 
in circumference. They bear prolifically 
every year, and when the Summer is dry 
they mature their fruit, which is very 
large, one nut easily covering a silver 
dollar, and coming often three in a burr. 
But right here is where the uncertainty 
arises. If July is a wet month, the 
moisture collects in the partially open¬ 
ing burr, and the nut sours, and the 
crop is a failure. So I can only say that 
Prof. Van Deman has given sage advice. 
Now, one word more: I know from ex¬ 
perience that your paper has an enor¬ 
mous circulation among a very intelli¬ 
gent and inquiring class of people, and I 
would advise them that I am only an 
enthusiastic amateur horticultural 
“crank,” and have neither trees nor nuts 
for sale, and very little time to answer 
questions. c - J* EDWARDS. 
Louisiana._____ 
The Tin Can System. 
The interesting account of the Hope 
Farm man as to the “tin can” system of 
feeding the people in Florida encouraged 
me to tell what has been done in other 
lauds to introduce the vegetables of tem¬ 
perate climates into the home of the orange 
and the pineapple. A son went out to loi- 
mosa five years, ago and found that vege¬ 
tables were scarce except in tin cans, and 
potatoes that were taken over from Amoy. 
Being a determined youth, not easily daunt¬ 
ed he set about making a garden, and be¬ 
ing a farmer’s son, with a natural love for 
such things, he has put in seed of all the 
vegetables that grow in the northern home 
garden, sending here for the seed. He 
has been writing all Winter, while we are 
snowbound, of eating green peas fresh from 
the garden in January, of corn and toma¬ 
toes. spinach and beets, cauliflower and all 
the soup vegetables and salads so plentiful 
as to be given away. For the land is rich, 
and everything grows luxuriantly, in a 
country where rice and pineapples and tea 
are the staples. After a visit to the south¬ 
ern part of the island he wrote that they 
had no vegetables there but potatoes and 
cabbage, and I should not be surprised if 
his example spreads so as to do away with 
tiie tin can system to a large extent among 
the foreigners settled there, the natives 
living largely on rice. There are many 
drawbacks to success, for the large white 
ants, and other formidable insects, are 
ready to devour, and the hot, scorching 
sun soon dries up the plants if water is 
withheld for even a short time. Yet he 
has planted fruit trees and many orna¬ 
mentals, and sent home for cuttings of 
hothouse as well as outdoor grapes and 
currant bushes. The grapevines stood the 
10,000 miles of travel well, and are grow¬ 
ing luxuriantly, but he finds it hard to 
keep the currant bushes alive, as they like 
coolness and moisture. The canning of 
vegetables is a useful industry, of which 
we are all glad enough to avail ourselves, 
but the excessive use and dependence upon 
them in a farming community indicates a 
lack somewhere, for there is nothing better 
for health than a free use of vegetables, 
home-grown and fresh from the soil. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
Terms of Contract. 
Will you please tell us if this contract 
signed by both parties before witness can 
be enforced, the custom of this part of the 
country being to change farms on April 1. 
The contract reads as follows: 
“The said owner hereby leases to said 
tenant his farm situated on- 
for the term of one year from and after the 
first day of March, 1910, under - 
--conditions.” 
In spite of continual urging on the part 
of the owner, the said tenant did not move 
in until about April 1 and now claims his 
year does not expire until April 1, 1911, 
although he signed contract to vacate one 
year from March 1, 1910. H. H. 
In this contract the data would gov¬ 
ern rather than local usage. 
Where can Fruit be Sold ? 
I have a 20-acre Elberta peach orchard 
in southern part of Arkansas. It will 
bear in a year. When I first set it out, 
orchards were popular, but the last two 
years no one can find market for their 
fruit (all the fruit is canned). Some of 
the farmers sold bad fruit and small meas¬ 
ure in the cans. I judge they have got 
the reputation of the country down. How 
can I secure a sure market for my canned 
peaches? Of course I intend canning fine 
fruit, but I would like to have an under¬ 
standing with a company before canning 
fruit. One farmer went out on the road 
with sample case, and failed to sell. Would 
it pay to ship fruit farther north than 
Kansas City? How could I find the name 
of companies who handle fruit in different 
cities? It does not seem reasonable to 
destroy an orchard for want of a market, 
but a good many people are digging them 
up around here. w. m. 
Talihina, Okla. 
R. N.-Y.—Can any reader help in this? 
Where can a market for this fruit be 
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In 1908 I sold this one for the same price 
it had cost me originally, and bought a 
new one the same year. Both hold 50 
bushels. The new spreader receives the 
same care and usage as the old one, that 
is, I oil all parts well, keep it clean and 
house it. The cost of repairs on the old 
spreader has been less than $5 during my 
ownership; there have been no repairs so 
far on the new one, though it has handled 
400 loads of manure every year and one 
load of lime in 1910. Mine is rolling land. 
I top-dress meadows, using a team of horses 
weighing 1100 pounds each, and by making 
use of the grades and descents of the land, 
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1 have spread as much as 30 loads per day, 
two men loading. I recommended the spread¬ 
er to a friend, a large farmer; he bought 
two of the same make as mine, and pro¬ 
nounces them an absolute failure. Ignor¬ 
ance was trumps in this case. H. H. L. 
Rockland County, N. Y. 
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