1072 
THE KURAb NEW-YORKER 
October 19, 
New American Mulberry. 
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Orleans County, (N. Y.) Crops. 
I. E. B. (No address ).—You answered 
a question of S. E. T., Cornwall. N. Y., 
about foreign mulberries, referring to a Almost unanimously the apple growers 
mulberry called New American being hardy Orleans County have stood out against 
in Michigan and the Northern States. Is 
it the same mulberry that is advertised 
in the lists with Downing's Ever-bearing 
and the Russian kinds as the New Ameri¬ 
can in the different nursery catalogues? 
If so. would it live anywhere in New York 
State that the Russian kinds would? We 
can grow the Russian kind here and they 
do well. We grow them to keep the birds 
away from our small fruits, but would 
like to grow some that were better for the 
family. 
Ans.—I know of but one variety of 
mulberry that goes under the name 
the low prices offered by apple buyers. 
With an offer of $1.75 for fancy fruit, the 
buyer told of the immense amount of fruit 
this year, and correspondingly low prices, 
lie forgot to add that the abundance of 
fruit was largely cluster, and that high 
class fruit was not plentiful. For once, 
however, the farmer held, and gradually 
the prices are being raised. The orchard 
of Burchfield & Seaman has fruit trees 
yielding on an average of nine barrels to 
the tree, with eight of the nine barrels 
No. 1 fruit. They have refused $2 for the 
fruit right through or $2.25 for certain 
trees. These growers, however, know they 
have fine fruit and demand $2.50 (fop- 
“New America,” but I do not say that everything. The orchard consists of iius- 
there may not be more than one kind Se *"t Greening, Spy, Baldwin, Spitzenburg 
that may have it. I think one would 
be quite safe to order trees of this va¬ 
riety from the nurseries. It is about 
the same in hardiness as most of the 
Russian varieties that I have seen. The 
fruit is much larger and of better 
flavor than any of the latter class that 
I know. H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Winter Care of Parsnips. 
P. T>. Theresa, N. Y .—What is the 
best method of caring for parsnips so they 
may be placed on the market in early 
Spring before the ground thaws up? Could 
they be dug in the Fall before the ground 
freezes, and placed in a pit and covered 
with straw and dirt? If so, how deep 
would you dig the pit and how much 
covering would you place over it? Would 
it be better to leave them in the ground 
where they grew and throw straw over 
them to keep the ground from freezing? 
and Golden Drop. 
This year Mr. Seaman experimented with 
ids orchard by plowing half, and leaving 
half. The orchard has always been plowed 
before. On the half unplowed there were 
more apples on the trees, but slightly 
smaller as to size. This half also missed 
the first spraying. Mr. Burchfield believes 
that the fine quality of his fruit this year 
is owing to its heavy fertilization with 
manure and by spraying with an arsenate 
of lead and sulphur mixture. With an 
orchard in which many apples will weigh 
from 10 to 1G ounces each, without a 
blemish. Burchfield & Seaman will put their 
fruit into storage if buyers do not pay 
better prices. Burt Rayburn, another apple 
grower, is holding for $2 right through. 
His orchard is not fancy. .T. B. Fuller, 
with choice fruit, has refused $2.25, 
and demands $2.50 to $3. His orchard 
is largely Kings. G. Duddington has 
sold all of his fruit, averaging from 
$2_ to $2.30 with good quality. These 
prices are about what are demanded by 
growers, and what must be paid for good 
fruit, if the main crop is not put into 
Ans.—S elect a piece of ground nat- storage. Beans are being cut, with about 
iirallv drv nr if this ic tint available half a cro P- This was caused by the 
uraiiy ary, or it tins is not available heavy rains of the past few months. The 
drainage must be provided lower than quality is good. Many beans failed to 
the bottom of the pit to carry off the come up. and others only grew a few 
water. The pit is usually dug from 3/ 2 i^the acre? Cabbage i'f turning 1 brown "in 
to 4/2 feet deep, six to eight feet wide, many places, but the crop is not seriously 
and of the' length required. The roots affected. The yield per acre is good; $15 
are then narked in in narrow sections per ton is being asked. Early frosts, with 
are men pacKca in, in narrow sections, other climatic conditions, have made the 
two to three feet wide across the pit, grapes in many sections unfit for market, 
up to the level of the surface. Leave a consequently there will be a large portion 
space of 6 or 8 inches between the sec- of /rilnno 6 ^?. 8 ^ op made iut0 wine. 
tions, which is filled with earth up to h *’ _1_ 
the top. This leaves the pit filled with Government Crop Reports. 
alternate sections of roots and earth. 
A. 
tv • i • r • , ,, , The revised estimate for October shows 
f his plan is of considerable advantage, a substantial increase in practically all 
as it is in fact a series of small pits farm crops over 1911. Following are some 
holding from four to six barrels each, comparisons: 
which can be taken out without expos- Corn— 
ing the adjoining section, as it is pro- Acreage .. 
tected by the layer or partition of soil * ‘ 
Estimated, 
1912. 
108.110.000 
3,016,000.000 
Yield, 
1911. 
105.825,000 
2,531,4S8,000 
between. The parsnips will keep better 
when in small lots than they will if a 
large lot is placed in the pit together. 
Cover with earth 12 to 18 inches deep, 
rounding off the top so as to shed the 
water, packing it down well with the 
back of the spade. When hard freez¬ 
ing weather approaches cover the pit 
with about a foot of straw, and if this 
in turn is covered with boards to pre¬ 
vent the straw from getting wet and 
freezing, the parsnips can be got out at IIa A J / 
any time during the Winter with very 
little labor. 
Acreage .. 
Bushels .. 
Oats— 
Acreage .. 
Bushels .. 
Rye— 
Acreage .. 
Bushels .. 
Barley— 
Acreage .. 
Bushels .., 
Buckwheat— 
Acreage .. 
Bushels .. 
Grafting Cherries. 
On page 973 I have read the article 
as to the grafting of sweet cherries on 
wild stocks. I have grafted 10 wild 
seedling stocks to the Windsor, Toronto 
and Schmidts Bigarreau and they are 
Acreage 
Tons .. 
Tobacco— 
Acreage 
Pounds 
Potatoes— 
Acreage 
Bushels 
44.945.000 
720.333,000 
37.844.000 
1,417,172,000 
2.097.000 
35,422,000 
7.754,000 
224,019,000 
835,000 
18.000,000 
49.209.000 
72,425,000 
1,194,200 
974,000,000 
3.689.000 
401.000,000 
49,543,000 
021,338.000 
37,703.000 
922,298,000 
2.127.000 
33,119,000 
7.027.000 
100,240.000 
833,000 
17,000,000 
43.017.000 
55,000,000 
1.012.000 
905,109.000 
3,019,000 
292.737,000 
I think it is high time something is 
done about showing the different collec¬ 
tions at our fair. Year after year they are 
shown in the same old way—the name of 
doing nicely. The Toronto, which is a a variety on a slip of paper tucked down 
dark red sweet cherry that originated in "ft* any o?these co\Tectk,ns C nrnan 'mnless 
the city of loronto,. Ontario, is now they happen to have a prize list along, and 
seven years old, and is making a good then it takes a half-hour’s hunt to trace I 
strong tree, the branches being of a h FJit ® in & le plate list was shown 
,, , .. v 6 . ni much better form than usual this year, 
thick, strong growth, and it has been We are having some nice sunny weather 
bearing four years. The oldest Wind- now, at last. Apples have been slow in 
sor is five years old and looks very lipenin f’ a ? d . nia . a -Y have been picked too 
.!_■£. t'u: r r , £ green, I think. Prices are pretty low here, 
thrifty This year I put a graft of the about $1.50 F. O. B. We are storing at 
Schmidts Bigarreau into a seedling that Philadelphia. w. a. b. 
I found growing by the wall, and it has Seneca Co., N. Y. 
made a fine growth. I also took up a . At this writing, October 5, we are hav- 
seedling near the Toronto tree that I in ^ fine warm weather and if it holds for 
purchased originally from the nursery, S&Z'T 'WS *„"£ Sl/ail dug" 
and put a Black Tartarian into that and Most of them are affected more or less 
it is growing all right. I suppose this witi ? rot - Fall rains have delayed the 
inip-ht lie nf a little different-tn sow ? n g ol wheat and nearly everyone is 
lrugnt DC or a little dirterent nature to sowing now. Some beans have been pulled 
the held seedlings, possibly. I never tried and a few pieces of corn are cut. Apple 
to graft the black bunch or choke cher- l)a - ver ® ?’'°__ scarca and timid. One buyer 
riec But nne nnH tkp,, offered $1.10 for Kings and Greenings and 
ries hut one year and then the two another offered 75 cents per hundred for 
grafts 1 put into the tree did not take, apples hand picked, as they come from 
I shall be interested in watching these the tr ee. „ They did not_ get many. Farm- 
trees to see if the root system goes back apples" aU lloldlus out £or better c p ou 
in them as predicted. While knowing ‘ Rushville, N. Y. 
that the Mazzard is the stock generally Fat steers, good quality, $6.75 to $7.50; 
used by the nurserymen or advised by steers, $6 to $6.75 ; hogs, $8.25 per 
them I thought when I grafted mine milk TSail, 28 Sts^r'IallJn f^ches! 
that they might just as well be bearing $2 per bushel; pears, $2; plums, $2; apples, 
good fruit as poor, and perhaps the 00 eents; potatoes, 75 cents; old corn, 80 
birds might let us get some of our ce: CoMiJcton/ Ohd. ° atS ’ 30 CeDt j w c 
others. If any other of your readers 
Coshocton, Ohio. 
Beef cows bring in our 
i, it J . / . . Beef cows bring in our local market 
hat e had any experience along this line four to 4^4 cents; extra good beef steers, 
I should be interested to hear of it. I seven to 7% cents. Good dairy cows, $50 
am interested in this work and have pe 0 r n/1 ce oi milk . at the con ; 
grafted quite a number of seedlings for butteAat at the creamery? Freah^eg^ 
apples and pears this season with good j 28 cents; live chickens, ll cents. Live 
results. I have an orchard of about ( uV s( ? ru <1 j n ear - 94 cents 
200 fruit trees of different kinds, which cents per bushel’. ' V Poteto?s, 35to Scents 
furnishes me with a pleasant change Per bushel. Pure Timothy hay, $13; 
from my work in the city. mixed, $12; and $10 to $11 for clover, 
Massachusetts. • — - — p “- c - *• 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
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. H., October 23-25. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, October 
24-November 2. 
Massachusetts Fruit Show, under aus¬ 
pices of State Board of Agriculture and 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Association, 
Horticultural Hall, Boston, Mass., Novem¬ 
ber 7-10. 
Annual meeting of the American Associa¬ 
tion of Farmers' Institute Workers, At¬ 
lanta. Ga., November 11-13. 
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American Agricultural' Colleges and Experi¬ 
ment Stations, Atlanta, Ga., November 
11-13. 
Annual meeting of the Maine State Po- 
mological Society, City Hall, Portland, Me., 
November 12-14. 
Pacific Northwest Land Products Show, 
Portland. Ore., November 18-23. 
Indiana Apple Show, Indianapolis. No¬ 
vember 13-19; secretary, C. G. Woodbury, 
Lafayette, Ind. 
Negro Farmers’ Conference, Hampton 
Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hamp¬ 
ton, Va.. November 20-21. 
Twin City Poultry and Pigeon Associa¬ 
tion. annual pigeon and poultry show, 
Spring City, Pa.. November 27-30. 
International Live Stock, Chicago, No¬ 
vember 30-December 7. 
New Jersey State Horticultural Society, 
New Brunswick, N. J., December 9, 10, 11. 
Fourth Ohio State Apple Show, Zanes¬ 
ville. O., January 20-24, 1913. 
American Breeders' Association, Colum¬ 
bia, S. C., January 25-27, 1913. 
Apple Show, Grand Rapids, Mich., No¬ 
vember 12-16. 
Western New York Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Rochester, N. Y., December 11-13. 
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