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THE RURAL NEW-YORKEk 
January 6, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
you raise. Nothing goes by commission 
that I can sell direct. h. h. albeutson. 
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Potato Tops and Tubers. 
I have just chanced to notice your 
note on page 1176 on potatoes running 
to tops in Colorado. Since I had abund¬ 
ant opportunity to experiment with this 
trouble while a resident of that State, a 
further note on this subject may not be 
amiss. This condition of the produc¬ 
tion of very large tops with no tubers, 
or small worthless ones, has proven to 
be the result of the attack of a plant 
disease. This particular fungus attacks 
the potato below ground, and the tuber 
stem is the part particularly suscep¬ 
tible to injury. In soils where this dis¬ 
ease is bad the tuber stems are rotted 
off about as fast as they are produced, 
and consequently there is no place for 
the formation of tubers. In the mean¬ 
time the root system of the plant has 
not been injured materially, so the top 
goes on manufacturing plant food, and 
since it must be used some place it is 
used in top growth. 
Had your correspondent been long a 
resident of that section, or had he 
been interested in farm operations, he 
would know that a large growth.of tops 
usually means no potatoes. We have 
seen many acres of just such results, but 
usually the seed has been planted in 
rather heavy land. Under Colorado 
conditions it does not pay as a rule to 
plant potatoes in a soil that is not known 
R. N.-Y.—Wo gave Mr. Albertson's ex¬ 
perience in advertising boxed apples on 
page 1140. Ilis apples are all sold, but 
he says orders are still coming in after 
six weeks. There is a large demand for 
apples supplied in this way. and several 
people have also asked for potatoes. There 
is a future for this plan where farmers 
can put up a good article and get close 
enough to customers so that the expense 
will not be out of sight. 
YOURS FOR PARCELS POST. 
A Stupid Statement. 
“At a meeting of his fellow-merchants 
assembled to do him honor in New York, 
last week. John Wanamaker made several 
suggestions for reducing the cost of living. 
One of them -was the establishment of a 
parcels post. Naturally. Mr. Wanamaker. 
as owner of a great department store, 
favors a parcels post, which would not. as 
matter of fact, reduce the cost of living at 
all. The probability is that it would in¬ 
crease the cost of living. The mail order 
houses and department stores would flood 
the country with catalogues of their wares, 
the result being that the improvident, who 
compose the great majority of the people 
of the country, would fill their houses with 
unnecessary things, which now they get 
along without in comfort.” 
Who do you suppose was guilty of any 
such fool statement? That even gets down 
past the express company oracle. It is 
from the “Bankers’ and Traders’ Maga¬ 
zine”—a publication with “high standing” 
in the cultured city of Boston! Parcels 
post has been operated in Germany for 
years. If this magazine is correct Germany 
should be pretty well owned by big depart¬ 
ment stores. The fact is. however, that 
there is nothing in the empire to com¬ 
pare with an American large mail order 
house. Parcels post has built up the 
smaller local stores. Their proprietors use 
this service in ordering their lighter goods 
and thus obtain quicker and cheaper ser¬ 
vice. T’nder a parcels post the local stores, 
if their owners showed common enterprise, 
would get more trade than now. The large 
department stores would get a larger 
freight business. On the other hand farm¬ 
ers and country people could obtain a fine 
trade iu selling to the city people by direct 
sale.. If there is anything more criminally 
stupid than the way such interests as this 
bankers’ magazine discuss parcels post we 
would walk far to see it as a mental mon¬ 
strosity. “Fill their houses with unneces¬ 
sary things!” Wouldn’t you like to see 
them doing it? Using 35-cent dollars to 
buy .$1.75 dollars in “things!” 
to be good potato land. Such land 
should, first of all, be well drained, 
should have a’ good content of coarse 
sand or fine gravel and should not bake. 
Even with such a soil great care must 
be taken in cultivation and irrigation. 
If your correspondent will write to the 
Experiment Station at Fort Collins, he 
may secure copies of several bulletins 
which deal with potato growing and 
which, I am sure, will give him valuable 
information. w. paddock. 
Ohio State University. 
What About Vinegar ? 
If a farmer makes two or three barrels 
of cider and turns it into vinegar I am told 
there is a law forbidding him from selling 
it to his neighbors. If there is such an 
arbitrary law. why was it passed? M. J. 
Bong Island. 
The intent of this law is to stop adul¬ 
teration of vinegar with water or harmful 
substances. Most vinegar made from pure 
apple juice will pass the legal standard of 
two per cent solids and 4% per cent by 
weight of acetic acid, but, when new, the 
acid content may be short. To cover such 
cases the revised law provides for the sale 
of “cider vinegar stock.” provided it is so 
labelled and the package bears the maker's 
name and address, as the law requires. 
This lessens the hardship to those who 
wish to supply their neighbors with a pure 
apple juice article but do not care to have 
the bother and expense of an official test. 
Crops for Peat Bog. 
Is it possible to raise crops, and if so, 
what kind in a peat bog if same * was 
pioperly drained? G. A. v. 
Massachusetts. 
It certainly is. If the land is well 
drained the next step is to sweeten the 
soil. Plow and scatter say 3.000 pounds 
of air slaked lime per acre and harrow in. 
This will correct the acid condition. Corn 
will be a good crop to start with. 
Parsley Under Glass. 
“Marketman,” writing in “The American 
Florist,” compares returns from one acre 
of Lima beans and one-twentieth acre of 
parsley. He says. “Our records show that 
the parsley has fully kept up with the Lima 
bean field in returns with the expense ac¬ 
count much in favor of the parsley. This 
is out of doors, but the same is often true 
inside. There are many places where a 
bed of parsley under glass would outstrip 
littuce or anything else. 
“Parsley should not be grown under 
benches or along walks where it is trampled 
on, or in any bad spot. It wants a good 
clear roof, a cool temperature and deep 
rich soil. We transplant strong field roots 
in September into the house, removing all 
field growth except the heart leaves. 
Shorten the roots and plant about four 
inches by six inches apart. After under 
way they will respond to chemicals, espe¬ 
cially to nitrate of soda and sulphate of 
potash. We want the growth to come 
heavy and curled, of fine color and hpavy 
stem.” 
Commission Man’s Share. 
Last week I saw a car of our apples 
sold in Philadelphia, most of them for 
$2.30 per barrel, most of them being sec¬ 
onds. When the statement came in these 
were marked as sold for $2. The commis¬ 
sion man took 25 per cent instead of 10 
per cent commission. There is some satis¬ 
faction in setting your own price on what 
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