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THE RUKAI> NEW-vorKER 
< >< tober 5. 
FRUIT AT THE N. Y. STATE FAIR. 
Takt II. 
The exhibit of commercial packages was 
larger than ever before, and with the liberal 
premiums offered it seems that this should 
develop rapidly. Best three barrels carry 
three prizes of $75, $50 and $25. Single 
barrel entries call for $25, $15 and $10. 
The prizes for best three boxes are $50, 
$30 and $20, with prizes on the single 
box classes of $15, $7.50 and $5. A boys’ 
apple packing contest was a new feature 
this year, but only one entry was made, 
and this robbed of its interest a feature 
that would prove very exciting with strong 
competition. Prizes of $25, $15 and $10 
were offered for best packed standard box, 
open to boys under 19, boys to furnish 
fruit and quality of same to be considered 
as well as the packing. Each contestant 
is allowed 20 minutes for the work. An¬ 
other addition this season was a class for 
fruit farm collections, and this called out 
five entries. Boys’ and girls’ club exhibits 
and boys’ and girls’ collections were very 
creditable and are of great value to the 
children making them. 
In the individual classes there were some 
surprises in the collections. In largest and 
best collections the judges gave the latter 
specification considerable weight, and right¬ 
fully. On the collections of five and 10 
varieties the prizes were awarded with 
reference to the value of the varieties, re¬ 
gardless of mere size or showiness. For 
several years the leading commercial va¬ 
rieties have been favored in the single plate 
classes by the offering of much higher 
prizes, and this has greatly increased en¬ 
tries. The regular plate prizes are $2, $1 
and 50 cents on all fruits, but on the 
strong commercial varieties the following 
prizes are offeffred: Baldwin and Rhode 
Island Greening, $25, $10 and $5; King, 
Northern Spy, Bartlett pear and Iilberta 
peach. $15, $10 and $5; Alexander, Spit- 
zenburg, Fameuse, Hubbardston, Jonathan, 
McIntosh, Red Canada, Rome, Roxbury, 
Twenty Ounce, Wagener, Wealthy, Bose and 
Seckcl pears, Bradshaw, Burbank, Reine 
Claude and Shropshire Damson plums and 
Concord, Catawba, Delaware, Niagara and 
Worden grapes. $10, $5 and $2.50; Anjou, 
Angouleme, Kioffer and Seckel pears, 
Crosby, Early Crawford, Late Crawford and 
Niagara peaches. Abundance, German 
prunes and Lombard plums and Moore's 
Early grape, $5, $2.50 and $1.25. That 
these specials bring out large entries of 
fine fruit is very noticeable; 60 plates of 
Baldwins and 67 plates of Rhode Island 
Greening were shown ; King came next with 
50 plates and Northern Spy with 44. The 
average quality of the fruit was the best 
ever shown, and it seems that exhibitors 
have come to understand that they have 
to show fruit of extra fine quality to get 
a place at the State Fair. One decorative 
feature that attracted considerable atten¬ 
tion was a large American flag made of 
apples, with the exception of the blue. 
This was placed over the superintendent’s 
office and was the full width of the office 
in length. The great handicap in this de¬ 
partment was the lack of room and con¬ 
sequently the crowding not only detracted 
from each exhibit, but also from the gen¬ 
eral effect. 
There is not now a department that 
stands more in need of a new building 
than the horticultural department, and ex¬ 
hibitors are hoping this need will be met 
by making the next building erected Hor¬ 
ticultural Hall. All things considered, the 
fruit department was the best managed 
and arranged of all the departments at 
the fair, at least that was the decision 
handed down by those higher up who were 
familiar with the inside workings of all 
the departments, and great credit is due 
the superintendent, Mr. Charles G. Porter 
of Albion, especially as this was his first 
year. One tiling can be said and said posi¬ 
tively : Mr. Porter did not use the de¬ 
partment or his position for even the least 
shadow of personal advertising. I am 
sorry this cannot be said of some of the 
other departments. Another thing that 
can be said just as positively is that in 
choosing assistants politics cut no figure 
whatever in this department. 
Geneva Experiment Station and Cornell 
both made their usual exhibits of fruit dis¬ 
eases and insects with some one always in 
attendance to answer the inquiring farmer 
and fruit grower. A rumor was afloat that 
the fruit exhibit made by the Geneva sta¬ 
tion was gathered from outside farms and 
not all grown on the station grounds. This 
can be branded as absolutely false. There 
appeared, to be practically no kicking on the 
part of exhibitors against the decisions of 
the judges, and Messrs. Gillett and Rupert 
should be highly com,mended (for their 
painstaking and thorough work in placing 
the prizes and in their steadfast adherance 
to their own convictions. Tire personal ad¬ 
vertiser found little encouragement in this 
department, and with one or two small 
exceptions was entirely absent. I do not 
means exhibitors who would advertise their 
fruit, but those who have for their main 
object the advertising of plants, trees, etc., 
under cover of a fruit exhibit. if these 
people want to advertise let them make 
entries in the proper department, or rent 
space, and not sponge on their Grange or 
county exhibits or the individual classes 
in the department. The fruit classes are 
for the exhibition of fruit and the proper 
advertising of such, but plants, trees or 
implements have no business here, and we 
feel sorry for the Grange or county ex¬ 
hibit that is saddled with one of these 
grafters. To make the State Fair what 
it should be, and worthy of the Empire 
State, every department should be freed 
from such advertising, and personal ad¬ 
vertising by department heads and politics 
should be eliminated. Not until this is 
done can the fair reach its highest effici¬ 
ency. G. k. s. 
Ox September 20 Marlboro. N. Y„ cele¬ 
brated Home Comers’ Day. This is one of 
the oldest of the Hudson River towns and 
noted as center of a fruit-growing section. 
About 1,000 persons gathered in the after¬ 
noon to listen to speeches and at night 
there were historical pictures. A feature 
of the celebration was a surprising exhibi¬ 
tion of fruit. It was a local exhibition, 
yet in beauty and quality it surpassed 
many of the exhibits of State societies. 
Those Hudson Valley growers do not make 
half noise enough for their own good, for 
they have some of the finest fruit that 
grows.' 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
Fourth National Conservation Congress, 
Indianapolis, Ind.. October 1-4. 
Illinois Fair, Springfield, October 4-12. 
Hagerstown, Md., Fair. October 15-18. 
International Dry Farming Congress, 
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Congress of 
Farm Women, week beginning October 21. 
Eighteenth annual meeting of the New 
Hampshire Horticultural Society, Alton, 
N. II., October 23-25. 
Massachusetts Fruit Show, under aus¬ 
pices of State Board of Agriculture and 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Association, 
Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass., Novem¬ 
ber 7-19. 
Annual meeting of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Farmers’ Institute Workers. At¬ 
lanta. Ga., November 11-13. 
Annual meeting of the Association of 
American Agricultural Colleges and Experi¬ 
ment Stations, Atlanta, Ga., November 
11-13. 
Annual meeting of the Maine State Po- 
mologieal Society, City Hall, Portland, Me., 
November 12-14. 
Pacific Northwest Land Products Show, 
Portland, Ore., November 18-23. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, October 
24-Xovember 2. 
Apple Show, Grand Rapids, Mich., No¬ 
vember 12-16. 
Indiana Apple Show, Lafayette, Novem¬ 
ber 13-19; secretary, C. G. Woodbury, La¬ 
fayette, Ind. 
Twin City Poultry and Pigeon Associa¬ 
tion. annual pigeon and poultry show, 
Spring City. Pa., November 27-30. 
International Live Stock, Chicago, No- I 
Vember 30-Dcceml>er 7. 
New Jersey State Horticultural Society. 
New Brunswick, N. J., December 9, 10, 11. 
Fourth Ohio State Apple Show, Zanes¬ 
ville. (>., January 20-24, 1913. 
American Breeders’ Association, Colum¬ 
bia, S. C., January 25-27, 1913. 
Four Excellent Books. 
Sheep Farming m America, by Joseph 
E. Wing. The standard work on sheep. 
Price, $1. 
The IIorse Book, by J. II. S. Johnstone. 
The origin of breeds; heredity; manage¬ 
ment of stallion, mare and foal; fitting for 
market; unsoundness and disease. Price, 
$1.50. 
Vegetable Gardening, by R. L. Watts. 
A real cyclopedia on this subject; clear and 
concise ; many illustrations. Price, $1.75. 
Diseases op Economic Plants, by 
Stevens and Hall. The most complete 
popular work we know on this subject. 
Price, $2. 
Keeping Cabbage. — I would give my 
way, and it is all right. Dig a hole in 
ground and put in a barrel and fill within 
about six inches of top. Bore holes in bot¬ 
tom of barrel to let out water and put in 
some sticks across bottom. Put in cabbage, 
cut off and leave some leaves on full bar¬ 
rel and cover over with some burlap and 
boards, and they will keep till late in 
Spring. Put in cool place in garden. 
Millbrook, N. Y. s. b. J. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
R. N.-Y. and you'll get a quick reply and a 
“square deal.” See guarantee- editorial page. 
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Hunter-Trader-Trapper 128-200 page 
magazine about game, guns, dogs, 
furs, flab, roots, trapping secrets, 10c. Camp & Trail, 16- 
24 page weekly, same subjects, raw fur reports, prices, 5c. 
A. R. HARDING. Publisher. Box 509 Columbus. Ohio 
ATTENTION 
Manufacturer's Samples; Gentlemen’s black broadcloth 
Fur Lined Overcoats; lined throughout with Australian 
Mink; large Persian Lamb Collars. Sizes 86 to 48. $30 
each. These coats have never been worn. Similar gar¬ 
ments not used as samples, retail at $75. Several Ladies’ 
Furs; beautiful Scarf, large stylish Muff, $15 set. Also 
few large size Fur Hobee, plush lined.$1'. earh. All guaranteed 
new. Sent by express with piivilege of examination before 
pitying for them, ltemit only express charges. Write or call. 
E. ROBERT'S, Room 24, 1G0 West 113th St., New York. 
Raw Fur shbppers 
A postal will bring you a trustworthy price list. 
Issued from November to March. Avoid shipping 
to commission houses and extremely high quoters. 
Thirty years’ experience, with best of references, 
personal assortment and cash for all shipments, 
ought to be sufficient. All shipments held separate 
on request. A trial will convince you. 
LEMUEL BLACK, Exporter Raw Furs, Hightstown, N. J. 
RAW FURS WANTED 
IF YOU WANT Highest Market 
Price, Liberal Grading, 
Prompt Returns 
Write for price list and ship your furs 
to the fastest growing Raw Fur House 
in New York. 
DAVID DLUSTEIN & DRO. 
24 EAST 12th STREET, NEW YORK 
The Largest Dealers in Ginseng in the United States 
LET US TAN 
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Cattle or Horse hide. Calf, Dog, Deer, 
or any kind of skin with hair or fur on. 
Wo tan and finish thorn right; make 
them into coats (for men and women), 
robes, rugs or gloves when ordered. 
Your fur goods will cost you less than 
to buy them, and be worth more. Our 
illustrated catalog gives a lot of in¬ 
formation which every stock raiser 
should have, but we never send out this 
valuable book except upon request. 
It tells how to take off and care for 
hides; how and when wo pay tho freight 
both ways ; about our safe dyeing pro¬ 
cess which is a tremendous advantage 
to the customer, especially on horso 
hides and calf skins ; about the fur 
goods and game trophies we sell, taxi¬ 
dermy, etc. If you want a copy send ui 
your correct address. 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 LyellAve.. Rochester. N. Y. 
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At no other time of the year does a roof 
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as much as in winter. 
Sherwin -Williams’ Roof and Bridge 
Paint is made for the painting of barns, 
metal and tin roofs, bridges, iron work 
and unplaned lumber. It covers well, 
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It is sold by dealers everywhere. Ask 
for color cards. This paint is but one of 
the many Sherwin-Williams Paints and 
Varnishes for protecting and beautify¬ 
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Write for our booklet, 
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You will find it well worth your read¬ 
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Rest dealers everywhere. Address all inquiries to The Sherwin-Williams Co., G3^ Canal Rd. .Cleveland, 0. 
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