1911. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
AQo 
THE FRUIT OUTLOOK. 
Fruit in Eastern Pennsylvania. 
The prospects in this section are very 
good for all kinds of fruit. However, the 
fruit crop of this country is not large 
enough to count in a commercial way. There 
is little danger of the fruit business being 
overdone here. There are a few good or¬ 
chards scattered over the county which are 
well cared for and returns are such as to 
encourage the growers. Most of the farm¬ 
ers’ orchards are dead or dying with the 
scale, as the trees are too large to spray. 
There is a good bit of activity in replanting 
these family supply orchards and they will 
be well taken care of. There is a large in¬ 
crease in peach planting and the business 
is likely to be overdone in our market, 
Trenton, N. .7. I refer more to that part 
of New Jersey lying around Trenton. Prices 
of peaches 1908 per basket for fancy, $1.50 
to $2; 1909, $1.00; 1910, 80 cents. 
Fallsington, Pa. r. p. l. 
Fanning in Southern New Jersey. 
Peaches were injured very much by the 
cold weather the past Winter, the thermom¬ 
eter going as low as four below. Pears and 
most other fruits seem to be all right, and 
the prospect for a good crop favorable. 
This part of New Jersey is particularly 
adapted to raising of strawberries and all 
other kinds of berries, and more straw¬ 
berries will be planted or raised than ever 
before. Spraying is indulged in more gen¬ 
erally every year with good results to those 
who do it intelligently. Those who culti¬ 
vate fruit of most kinds and in particular 
strawberries do not fear over-production, es¬ 
pecially if the fruit is of a high order. 
Planting is now being done by farmers, and 
in everything will exceed any former sea¬ 
son, and the outlook is good. Farming in 
this part is making good progress for the 
reason farmers are taking better care of 
the soil, as well as showing an increased 
interest in keeping up and improving the 
appearance of their buildings and the fences 
and grounds about them. Much of the soil 
here was given over to sorrel, the soil being 
sour and fitted for its growth. A farmer 
told me there would be double the amount 
of lime used this season over any previous 
one. Farming conditions about here are 
much improved over former years, due to 
taking better care of the soil. These con¬ 
ditions have been brought about largely 
through the influence of The R. N.-Y. for 
there are few up-to-date farmers who do not 
take it and read carefully, and follow out 
what they read. G. T. r, 
Vineland, N. J. 
Apples in Chester Co„ Pa. 
At present apples are mainly imported 
from York State into our Chester County, 
Pa., towns. Our Italian venders mostly 
sell boxed apples from Oregon and Wash¬ 
ington, so that apples here now are as 
rare and cost equally with oranges. There 
is very little fruit stored here by our 
orchardlsts. The late J. Hibbard Bartram, of 
our Westtown Township, was the pioneer 
In placing apples in cold storage. Our 
peaches come from Delaware and New 
Jersey, south and east of us ; grapes from 
New York State. Our orchards have here¬ 
tofore been small and neglected. A few 
of the farmers near towns offer their 
apples at stores and from house to house 
during the Summer season. Within a short 
time large orchards are being planted in 
our country from 500 up to about 1,000 
trees. There are two large nurseries within 
a radius of three miles of West Chester, 
our county town, the Iloopes Bros. & 
Thomas and Morris Nursery companies. 
These report an unprecedented sale of 
apples and peach trees, both for home and 
foreign planting. Several large plantings 
might be named as having been last and 
are being set out this year within the 
limits of our county. There is also in¬ 
creased spraying and trimming. At one 
a, our £ arm supply warehouses in West 
Chester, 16 barrels of spraying material 
has been already sold this Spring, where 
but last year the material was slowly sold 
by cans. There is an increase, too, of 
itinerant sprayers and trimmers. Some¬ 
where or somehow there have been gradu- 
ma ,ny tree doctors, and these are at 
I, • * . I >enns yl va nia Railroad instruc¬ 
tion trains have traversed not onlv our 
county, but State. These trains have been 
turnished without cost by the company, and 
lectures, and demonstrations by our State 
♦A i e \i ,, As indicating a result of these 
travel talks and demonstrations, a I’hila- 
delphia paper mentions the fact that un- 
rr th ®, stlinulus o£ the Williamsport Board 
*i e farms have been purchased 
j two orchards have been 
2nAft™ apple and peach trees, one of 
"S a , n( ? the Other of 3,000 trees, the 
Planted with peach tree fil- 
t e ‘ s ;, ™ s .J 8 quoted as a famous apple- 
hefm'» g i-i bel o Tlie probabilities are that 
^ii? 1 v. the Summer is over the movement 
will have had a number of other import¬ 
ant accessions. Our state College people 
are advising farmers that there are fruit 
belts as well as grain or corn belts; that 
ground not so well suited to fruit produc¬ 
tion cannot compete with that more pro¬ 
ductive of fruit, even different varieties re¬ 
quiring different soils, mostly sand loam. 
As against this furore of planting our old 
orchards, ruined by scale, are being de¬ 
stroyed, the trunks of the trees, where 
sound, being sold to agents for special use. 
Some attempt by topping and spraying is 
made to prolong life and production, but in 
very few instances; so that for 12 years, 
perhaps, there will be a call in our locality 
for York State and Western apples as at 
present. After that, much will depend on 
increase of apple eating as a health policy 
advocated by the Hope Farm man, and 
the 12-year battle in bringing these great 
orchards to their full bearing capacity. 
Chester County. Pa. s. r. downing. 
Good Fruit Prospects in New Hampshire. 
During my stay here I have noticed a 
marked increase in the condition of sur¬ 
rounding orchards in this vicinity. One of 
my neighbors shipped over 5,000 barrels of 
Baldwin apples to Liverpool, England, in 
1910 from his orchard, which is situated on 
a high rocky elevation, thereby escaping 
the late frost we had the first week in 
June. Other of my neighbors lost one-half 
their crops through frosts last year. We 
all believe that success with fruit trees can 
only be obtained by caring for them from 
infancy. With the best of care, there is no 
danger of producing too much fruit in this 
locality, for the late frosts are bound to 
do their work nipping many of the earliest 
buds. The producers about here all believe 
and practice the use of the “sprayer” on 
their trees, applying two, and sometimes 
three sprays at the proper time. Trees, 
properly cared for, in this section give their 
owners excellent returns, and the prospect 
for the future is very encouraging, as most 
of the neglected farms and orchards are 
being slowly brought back by cultivation, 
pruning and spraying. D. r. d. 
Peterboro, N. II. 
The fruit outlook is very promising so 
far. I think there is no danger in over* 
doing the fruit business in Lancaster Co. 
But I find that the larger plantings are for 
commercial orchards where spraying can be 
done to a better advantage. However, the 
old apple orchards are disappearing very 
rapidly owing to the ravages of San Jose 
scale. j. g. r. 
West Willow, Pa. 
Fruit trees of all kinds in this section 
have come through the Winter in perfect 
condition. I do not think plantings will 
be up to normal this year. Fruit growers 
in this locality are not worried about pro¬ 
ducing too much good fruit. Spraying is 
not so general in this section as it should 
be, only a few of the larger growers are 
spraying. w. H. o. 
Lewiston, Me. 
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