1911. 
THE RURAb NEW-YORKER 
766 
Ruralisms 
THE FEITCHENG PEACH. 
This is a Chinese peach from the 
Shantung province, seed being received 
in this country by the Plant Introduc¬ 
tion Bureau. It is a late variety, com¬ 
ing into market about the middle of 
September or October. It is reported 
to have such unusual keeping qualities, 
that it can be kept, when wrapped in 
tissue paper, until February. Though 
a clingstone it is luscious, sweet and 
aromatic, and of unusual size, reach¬ 
ing a pound in weight, and is so prized 
by the Chinese that as much as 15 cents 
apiece is paid for it in the region where 
yield would have been obtained had the 
rows each side been but three feet away. 
This would have increased the yield one- 
fourth, and had the berries been grown un¬ 
der such favorable conditions as to be all 
large, and had not one-fourth of the row 
been nearly killed out by the overshadowing 
hedge in a season of drought, the yield 
would easily have been double, or at the 
rate of nearly .$1 per square rod. I might 
add that many berries were sampled before 
any were picked to sell, and two more pick¬ 
ings were made which yielded more berries 
not taken account of 
Not long ago I read a statement from a 
fruit grower that he had been knocked out 
of crops of strawberries and apples five 
years in succession by severe late Spring 
frosts, and had gone out of the berry busi¬ 
ness, and was considering the matter of 
cutting down his orchards, but had decided 
trying orchard heaters first. He is located 
in southern Illinois. With warm sandy soil 
I have many times been able to market 
strawberries with the earliest, and could I 
ORCHARD OF FEITCHENG PEACHES IN CPIINA. Fig. 281. 
it is grown; every year the Feitcheng 
peaches are sent as a present to the 
Imperial court in Pekin. The picture 
shown at Fig. 281 is from a photograph 
furnished by the Department of Agri¬ 
culture, taken by Mr. Frank N. Meyer 
at Feitcheng, Shantung, China, Septem¬ 
ber 1, 1907. Scions were collected by 
Mr. Meyer from the trees in this 
orchard, but owing to the long voyage 
to America they arrived dead. From 
seeds secured, however, a plant is now 
growing in the Chico, Cal., Gardens 
and a large number of budded plants 
will be ready for distribution to ex¬ 
perimenters when this seedling has 
fruited and shown its value. 
STRAWBERRIES AND OTHER THINGS. 
Here in northern Ohio, about 35 miles 
southeast from Cleveland, we picked the first 
ripe strawberries on the 23d of May, and on 
Memorial Pay had enough to serve on the 
table, and three days later picked for mar¬ 
ket. The varieties were Senator Dunlap and 
Gill. The first gave beautiful elongated 
large dark crimson berries, easily hulled 
and of fine flavor, although a little acid. 
This latter quality gave them a capacity to 
give a strawberry flavor to a large amount 
of sugar and increase their food value. 
The Gill is an obtusely conical berry 
which broadens out sideways when well 
grown, of light scarlet color and somewhat 
neutral flavor. While the Dunlap gave but 
one ripe berry to a stem, here and there, the 
Gill had three or more on every stem, thus 
bearing out the catalogue assertion that it 
ripened a good many berries at once. We 
had one row set with 2G plants and 50 feet 
long. The rows in the patch were four feet 
apart, so the Gill part must be charged with 
occupying 200 feet of ground. A little figur¬ 
ing shows that this bit of ground would go 
into an acre 217.6 times. There were 21 
quarts of Dunlap and three of Gill, the for¬ 
mer requiring the picking over of more than 
11,000 square feet of ground. The price re¬ 
ceived was 14 cents per quart wholesale. A 
little more figuring shows that at the same 
rate per acre the result in dollars for one 
picking would be $91.39. Three days later 
three quarts more were picked of the Gill 
which sold in with other larger and nicer 
berries for 10 cents per quart. This second 
picking figures up $65.28. Added to the 
other it makes $156.67 per acre gathered 
at two pickings and marketed in four days. 
This would be a very comfortable income 
from an acre of ground from a crop matur¬ 
ing so early that a second crop of something 
else could be raised on the same ground. 
Tills short row of Gill was at one end abut¬ 
ting a wagon path, beyond which is a hedge 
of trees, and an excessively dry Autumn 
made about 12 feet of the row a failure, 
and less than 30 berries, actual count, went 
into the six quarts. In addition to this 
there was a drought nearly all of May and 
berry growers had despaired of a decent 
crop, although it finally proved that mulched 
plantations of late varieties had not suf¬ 
fered so but what timely rains revived them 
and the season has been a fairly profitable 
one. The Gill berries were quite small, so 
much so that had but one plant done its 
best and produced berries which cut in two 
and laid on rule proved more than an inch 
and a half through, I should have consid¬ 
ered the berry too small to grow extensively. 
There was still another drawback, and that 
was the dry September greatly limited run¬ 
ner making, and there were not half the 
plants one should like to have in a properly 
placed matted row. The plants are not re¬ 
markably robust, and I know just as good a 
be sure of exemption from frost I could make 
a small fortune in a few years from growj 
ing a few acres like the Gill. But I am 
“up against it.” just as the Illinois man is. 
I have to gamble on the season just as a 
late celery grower docs who cannot get 
water. If I mulch I can retard mid-season 
berries so as to insure a cx-op, but then I am 
no better off than others, as I get no benefit 
from the early soil. On the other hand 
there are growers for the same market who 
have very backward cold land, and al¬ 
though more liable to frost manage by 
heavy mulching to carry the blooming period 
along so as to sell berries two weeks after 
mine are gone, and get $4 a bushel easily. 
Two years ago there was a hiatus in the 
sti’awberry supply owing to excessive rains 
in southern Ohio and for a whole week early 
home-grown berries sold from 20 down to 
15 cents per quart wholesale. Had I had an 
acre of Gill I could have sold enough to buy 
several acres of ordinary land. On the 
other hand. last year with its continuous 
frosts would have brought disappointment 
and a Pill of expense in growing to be 
mad'' up from other ci'ops. 
Summit Co., Ohio. n. b. pieuce. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
II. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
WRONG SORT 
Perhaps Plain Old Meat, Potatoes and 
Bread may He Against You for a Time. 
A change to the right kind of food 
can lilt one from a sick bed. A lady in 
Welden, Ill., says: 
“Last spring I became bed-fast with 
severe stomach trouble accompanied by 
sick headache. I got worse and worse 
until I became so low I could scarcely 
retain any food at all, although I tried 
about every kind. 
“I had become completely discour¬ 
aged, and given up all hope and thought 
I was doomed to starve to death, until 
one day my husband, trying to find 
something I could retain, brought home 
some Grape-Nuts. 
“To my surprise the food agreed with 
me, digested perfectly and without dis¬ 
tress. I began to gain strength at once. 
My flesh (which had been flabby) grew 
firmer, my health improved in every 
way and every day, and in a very few 
weeks I gained 20 pounds in weight. 
“I liked Grape-Nuts so well that for 
four months I ate no other food, and al¬ 
ways felt as well satisfied after eating 
as if I had sat down to a fine banquet. 
“I had no return of- the miserable 
sick stomach nor of the headaches, that 
I used to have when I ate other food. I 
am now a well woman, doing all my 
own work again, and feel that life is 
worth living. 
“Grape-Nuts food has been a God¬ 
send to my family; it surely saved my 
life; and my two little boys have 
thriven on it wonderfully.” Name given 
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. 
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How would you like to have two hundred dollars a month, net 
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Some even make $250 to $300 per 
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Farmers Now 
Making Cheese 
Invention of Wonderful Com¬ 
plete Cheese-Making Outfit 
Enables Every Farm Home to 
Make Cheese at a big Profit. 
It is no longer necessary for Farmers to buy 
store cheese at a high price, or sell their milk to 
the Cheese Trust at a low price. A clever inven¬ 
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cheese right at home either for his own con¬ 
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Outfit consists of the following; One Cheese 
Press, One Horizontal Curd Knife, One Perpen¬ 
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One Bottle Rennett Extract, One Bottle Col¬ 
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to farm at one small profit over actual cost to 
manufacture. It is simple, inexpensive, easily 
operated and pays for itself in a very short time. 
Capacity of this Outfit is from 25 to 40 quarts, 
making a cheese weighing from eight to ten 
pounds. With milk selling around 80 and 90 cents 
per hundred, any Farmer can save about one- 
third of the price he pays for store cheese, and 
at the same time have an outlet for either his 
whole or skimmed milk. This excellent home¬ 
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profit, either for cash or in exchange for goods. 
This wonderful Complete Cheese-Making Outfit 
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Mfg. Co., Dept. E Holland, Mich. Every Farmer 
should write them for full description of the Out¬ 
fit, prices, etc., and exact directions telling how 
to make cheese at a profit right on the farm. 
