1912. 
THE HURAE NEW-YORKER 
67 
Apples for Southern New York. 
Referring to Mr. E. S. Black's answer 
to A. M. of Middlesex County. N. J., in 
issue of September 30 last, if Mr. Black 
and Mr. Barclay have had the genuine 
Stayman's Winesap apple under observation 
then it certainly behaves very differently 
in New Jersey from what it does in Rock¬ 
land County, N. Y„ for here it never cracks 
nor drops off before picking time; even 
wormy specimens mostly stay on the trees 
until picking time. I have had trees of 
this variety in bearing more than 10 
years, and it has grown more valuable in 
my estimation every year since; in fact 
I had recently decided that Stayman’s 
Winesap was the best apple I had on my 
place, and I have a large collection of 
the very best varieties. With me the trees 
bear early and annually. This is worth 
considering when making a selection of 
varieties to plant either for home use or 
for market. October 11 the apples were 
well colored (not so dull red either) and 
fit to pick, but cling to the trees very 
tenaciously. For a tender-fleshed high qual¬ 
ity apple it is a very good keeper. My 
trees were grown from scions received from 
J. W. Kerr of Maryland, who was one 
of the first to recognize the value of Stay- 
man’s Winesap and introduce it. I would 
advise planting Stayman at least on trial. 
But Paragon or Mammoth Black Twig are 
not worth testing; being unproductive and 
late coming into bearing. 
Kinnard is by some said to be the best 
of the Winesap seedlings. From only two 
years in bearing I am well pleased with 
it: the quality is excellent. 
Mr. Black says. “In quality and market 
value Rome Beauty excels.” This is surely 
rating it too high in quality, for while it 
has much to commend it in other respects 
it falls near third rate in quality with 
the best judges of apples. levi bell. 
Rockland Co., N. Y. 
The Rock Problem in New England. 
In Southeast Massachusetts there are 
many fields free from rock, so that a mow¬ 
ing machine may be used, but not free 
enough to plow and cultivate with pleasure. 
The question arises, how can they be dis¬ 
posed of, with the least labor and expense? 
The answer depends on the size of the 
boulder. A man who has never tried it 
will be surprised at the size of rock a pair 
of horses can roll out of a hole. Dig a 
trench around the rock deep enough to 
allow a log-chain to pass around it and not 
slip off. Then put the chain on so that 
the hook that makes the slip-noose will be 
on the opposite side of the rock from the 
horses. The remainder of the chain should 
then be placed up and over the highest 
part of the rock, and from there to the 
horses. On extra heavy rocks, the same 
ityle of hitch, and the horses pulling on a 
set of double pulleys, will do the trick 
cheaper than blasting. Some rocks are too 
heavy to be moved by this means, then 
blasting must be resorted to. Blasting has 
its disadvantages. The ground will be 
covered with the fragments, and it is ex¬ 
pensive besides. 
Sometimes a comparatively 'small stono 
will lie in such a position that it will 
not yield to the power; then I use a 
“dead man.” Two stout sticks are fastened 
to form an inverted V. Have it straddle 
the rock and slant a little, away from the 
horses. Lot the chain pass from the slip- 
noose to the crutch at the top of the “dead 
man,” and from there to the horses. ' This 
will change the direction of draught enough 
to start the rock. 
EVERETT H. CAIN. 
Norfolk County, Mass. 
An Ice House Arrangement. 
I will give 'an idea of my ice house, 
which I have studied out to save the work 
of carrying the ice into the refrigerator. 
The ice house is 14 feet by 14 feet out¬ 
side* measurements. The walls are one foot 
concrete five feet high, with a double board 
wall five feet on top of concrete. There 
is also a board wall outside the concrete 
wall so as to give a dead-air space be¬ 
tween the walls. There is a concrete floor 
with a water outlet in the form of a trap 
so as to exclude the air. Below this floor 
is a small cellar in which to keep some¬ 
thing almost at the freezing point. As to 
the location of the house; my aim before 
1 started the ice house was convenience. 
So I built just inside the Summer house 
and in this ice house 1 built a refrigerator 
four cubic feet with the door opening right 
into the Summer house. You can see at 
a glance what I have gained. Instead of 
carrying the ice about 75 feet from the 
ice house into the old refrigerator three or 
four times a week. I have that much time 
for reading The R. N.-Y. and other papers. 
And another thing which is a great com¬ 
fort is that we have no fear that the ice 
gets all exhausted iu the refrigerator, as 
was sometimes the case, and the pies got 
soft. I will also state that we have had 
one disadvantage in the refrigerator from 
water condensing on the inner upper wall 
and dripping down on the edibles. To 
overcome this I do not know how, but I 
will try a remedy by drilling a hole through 
the top of the refrigerator and putting a 
two-inch pipe in as a ventilator. As a 
whole I am very much pleased with the 
idea. I have used nice smooth white pine 
boards for weatherboarding and painted it 
the same as for the Summer house. 
Berks Co., Pa. c. r. b. 
A Hold-Up 
An Oppressive Trust. 
Before the Coffee Roasters’ Association, in ses¬ 
sion at Chicago on Thursday, Thomas J. Webb, 
of Chicago, charged that there is in existence a 
coffee combine which is “the most monstrous im- 
position in the history of human commerce.” 
There is very slight exaggeration about this 
statement. It comes very close to being literally 
true. There is a coffee combine in Brazil, from 
which country comes the bulk of the coffee used 
in the United States, which is backed by the gov¬ 
ernment of Brazil and financed by it, which com¬ 
pels American consumers, as Mr. Webb said, “to 
pay famine prices for coffee when no famine 
exists.” 
The worst thing about this is that the consum¬ 
ers of the United States have been compelled to 
put up the money through which this combine, 
to further cinch them, has been made effective. 
There were formerly revenue duties imposed upon 
all coffee entering the United States. Those taxes 
were denounced as an imposition upon the people; 
as taxing the poor man’s breakfast table, and the 
like. The taxes were removed. Immediately 
thereafter Brazil imposed a n export duty upon 
coffee up to the full amount of the former customs 
taxes in this country. The revenue which for¬ 
merly went into the treasury of the United States 
was diverted to the treasury of Brazil. The poor 
man’s breakfast coffee continued to cost him the 
same old price. 
But this was only the commencement. The 
“valorization” plan was evolved in Brazil. 
Through this plan the government, using the rev¬ 
enues derived from the export duties for the pur¬ 
poses, takes all of the surplus crop in a season of 
large yields and holds it off the market, thus 
keeping the supply down to the demands of the 
market and permitting the planters to receive a 
much higher price than they would otherwise 
have done. 
The United States consumes more Brazilian cof¬ 
fee than does the rest of the world. We are the 
best customers of Brazil, and Brazil buys little 
from us. Now Brazil is promoting, financing and 
maintaining a trust designed, and working effect¬ 
ively for the purpose, to compel American con- 
sumers to pay an exorbitant price for the coffee 
they use. What is the remedy?— Seattle Post-In • 
telligencer — Nov. 19, 1911. 
Standard statistics of the coffee trade 
show a falling off in sales during the last 
two years of over two hundred million 
pounds. Authenticated reports from the 
Postum factories in this city show a 
tremendous increase in the sale of Postum 
in a like period of time. 
While the sales of Postum invariably 
show marked increase year over year, the 
extraordinary demand for that well- 
known breakfast beverage during 1911 is 
very likely due to a public awakening to 
the oppression of the coffee trust. 
Such an awakening naturally disposes 
the multitude who suffer from the ill 
effects of coffee drinking to be more re¬ 
ceptive to knowledge of harm which so 
often comes as a result of the use of 
the drug-beverage, coffee .—Battle Creek 
Evening News'—Dec. 19,1911. 
ST 
M 
is a pure food-drink made of the field grains, with a pleasing flavour 
not unlike high grade Java. 
A Big Package 
About 15 lbs. Costs 25 cts. 
At Grocers 
Economy to one’s purse is not the main reason for using Postum. 
It is absolutely free from any harmful substance, such as “caffeine” 
(the drug in coffee), to which so much of the nervousness, biliousness 
and indigestion of today are due. Thousands of former coffee 
drinkers now use Postum because they know from experience the 
harm that coffee drinking causes. 
Boil it according to directions (that’s easy) and it will become 
clear'to you why— 
“There’s a Reason” 
Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Battle Creek, Michigan. 
