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THIS RURAb NEW-YORKER 
November 16, 
POTATO GRAFTED ON TOMATO. 
We have in years past had several 
references to the horticultural freak well 
shown on page 1155. The potato and 
tomato are close relatives, and it is not 
difficult to graft them. The picture 
shown is about the best one we have 
seen. This grafting was done by Mr. 
George H. Ruff of Pennsylvania, who 
exhibited the plant at his county fair. 
We can easily see that such a plant with 
both potatoes and tomatoes naturally at¬ 
tached to it would attract great atten¬ 
tion from people who do not understand 
how such work may be done. There 
are many, who,on seeing this plant would 
conclude that they could plant seeds or 
tubers from it and thus produce plants 
which will produce tubers below ground 
and then turn in and grow fruit above 
ground. This would make a sort of 
two-story plant which would double 
crop production. Thus some of the 
plant fakers sell seeds purporting to 
come from such a plant at 25 or 50 cents 
each ! Of course this is a fraud. Seeds 
from such plants will simply grow 
mere tomato plants without any tuber 
or sub-cellar attachment whatever. We 
print this picture early before the plant 
fakers begin. Remember that it is 
merely an interesting horticultural 
freak which cannot produce from its 
seeds any two-storied crop. 
CFLOFS 
New Jersey Farm News. 
The Mercer County Farm Bureau has en¬ 
gaged .John H. Ilankinson as farm expert 
for tli.it county. lie is a graduate of 
Princeton University and of tlie State Agri¬ 
cultural College, and has lately been in 
charge of the Raritan Valley Farm, which 
is owned by Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, presi¬ 
dent of both tlie State Board of Agriculture 
and the State Board of Education. Mr. 
Ilankinson will be expected to give advice 
to the farmers throughout the county as 
to the best possible use to put their re¬ 
spective lands to insure the largest and 
most profitable crops. Unquestionably 
most farm land may be made to yield more 
abundantly in the light of present scientific 
farm knowledge, and the farmers of Mercer 
County are to be congratulated upon their 
advanced step. 
Up to October 20, tomatoes were still ar¬ 
riving in large quantities at the canning 
factories, which is remarkable for so late 
in the season. Large shipments of the 
canned goods are now being made. One 
factory, that of David Morris & Sons, at 
Allentown, has put up nearly 500,000 cans 
of tomatoes, and about 40,000 gallons of 
tomato catsup pulp. 
Cranberry growers in the lower end of 
Gloucester County have harvested a light 
crop this season, but the berries are of . ex¬ 
cellent quality and the prices are good. 
Hundreds of foreign pickers who gathered 
the crop have returned to their homes in 
the large cities. 
The salt hay harvest in Ocean County is 
about over. Some of the large growers 
cut two crops this year. Several carloads 
are being shipped daily from Hilliard’s Sta¬ 
tion. The price is $7 per ton, F. O. B. 
cars. 
Charles N. Warner, of the Toms River 
Poultry Farm, whose pen of five White 
Leghorns holds fourth prize in the egg- 
laying contest at Storrs, Conn., has en¬ 
tered another pen for the contest which be¬ 
gan on November 1, Up to October 10, Mr. 
Warner's five birds bad laid 958 eggs. Mrs. 
E. S. Morris, of Trenton, has a Black 
Minorca pullet which laid her first egg on 
November 11, 1911, and in the following 
10 months laid 203 eggs. This record is a 
remarkable one, especially in view of the 
fact that a hen which lays 250 eggs in 
12 months is considered a wonderful one. 
The premium list for tne Winter show of 
the Trenton Poultry and Pigeon Associa¬ 
tion, which will be held the week beginning 
December 2, is now out. A magnificent list 
o prizes are shown, including beside the 
.$3,000 in cash prizes, $300 in gold specials. 
Aside from these there are to be offered 35 
handsome cups and 50 association medals 
as special prizes. 
The new employers’ liability law is work¬ 
ing so well that only a few minor changes 
in the act will be recommended to the 
next Legislature. More than 90 per cent, 
of the employers of industrial labor have 
subscribed to the provisions of the statute. 
A movement seeking the modification of the 
law with respect to farmers is gaining 
strength, however, as the result of an 
early campaign begun among the Grangers 
of South Jersey. The Gloucester County 
Pomona has made a demand for the re¬ 
vision of the act. The Salem County 
Grangers have adopted resolutions propos¬ 
ing that the county Pomonas throughout 
the State combine in an effort to have the 
act modified. Numerous accidents to farm 
laborers during the haying and fruit gath¬ 
ering season arc said to be responsible for 
this attack. The farmers declare that they 
are taking too many risks with field la¬ 
borers to be further held responsible for 
any accidents that might befall them. They 
contend that work on the farm is of en¬ 
tirely different nature from that in the 
factories and shops, where conditions are 
such as to make it necessary that there 
should be laws for the protection of labor. 
Hon. George W. F. Gaunt, State Senator 
from Gloucester County and Master of the 
State Grange, will lead the campaign to 
secure the desired change in the law. 
The new law which prohibits the short 
basket has prevented many frauds during 
the past summer. The object is to prevent 
the frauds practiced upon the public by 
unscrupulous dealers and peddlers. An 
ordinary peach or vegetable basket is sup¬ 
posed to hold half a bushel, but competition 
has forced the bottom of the basket toward 
the top, or curtailed its height, until the 
consumer does not know bow much be re¬ 
ceives. The penalty is a fine of $25 for 
each offense, and as the law was vigorously 
prosecuted by the authorities, infractions 
have been rare. 
A recent report by Dr. Calvin N. Ken¬ 
dall, State Commissioner of Education, dis¬ 
closes the fact that in the rural schools 
of the State 206 teachers are without edu¬ 
cation other than that represented by a 
high school diploma or less. What more 
can be expected when Warren and Ocean 
Counties pay a minimum of $270 per an¬ 
num, and Cumberland a maximum of $459 ! 
The latter, too, is a very rich county. 
_ D. t. H. 
New Jersey Cranberry Report. 
A meeting of the stockholders of the 
Growers’ Cranberry Company was held in 
Camden and reports were received from 
all over the country as to the yield of 
berries and the demand for them. It was 
figured out that the crop the country over 
was larger than last year, and the demand 
was also larger. 
The crop in New Jersey was reported to 
be about the same as last year. Cape Cod, 
however, is beating last year some 25,000 
barrels. Still, at the present time, the 
quantity of berries in the hands of growers 
is no larger than it was a year ago this 
time, because the berries have been dis¬ 
tributed and sold in larger quantities and 
earlier than in 1911. This is accounted for 
in part by the better organization of the 
selling companies, the extension of the 
market in places which had heretofore not 
been regularly supplied with the berries, 
and to the fact that there was a small 
crop of Fall cooking apples. The failure 
of the crop of Fall apples, used largely as 
a sauce dish on the table of millions of 
American homes, has increased the demand 
for cranberries for the same table use. 
The sales companies are now standard¬ 
izing shipments. The buyer knows what he 
is getting. A Cape Cod berry is now really 
Cape Cod grown, and a Jersey berry was 
really grown in Jersey. New Jersey has 
adopted a number of the Cape Cod varie¬ 
ties, such as Howe's, Centennial, Early 
Blacks, etc., but these when shipped have 
the prefix, “New Jersey grown," on the 
label. On the other hand, the Cape Cod 
growers have not taken any of the Jersey 
varieties. It is claimed for the Jersey 
berry that it will last longer through the 
Winter than the berry grown in Massa¬ 
chusetts, and accordingly, the Cape Cod 
growers rush their fruit to the market first, 
while the Jersey berries are generally held 
for a later sale either by growers or by 
speculator's. 
The question of sufficient help to pick 
the berries this Fall threatened to be¬ 
come serious at one time, but was solved 
by importing carloads of Italians from 
Philadelphia. d. t. h. 
The Co-operation Problem. 
I am a farmer, not a dealer, but any idea 
which plans elimination of the city com¬ 
mission merchant would seem to be a mis¬ 
take. Though well organized, the farmers’ 
association would find it expensive to es¬ 
tablish their own trade in the city, besides 
much to learn in experience, which costs. 
After years in becoming well established 
in city distribution it would be a question 
if they could handle their own stuff as 
cheaply as the 10 per cent, or less charged 
by the regular commission merchant. It 
would seem the farmer could benefit most 
through local associations, co-operating to 
mass shipments, and secure lower freight 
rates; cheaper commissions and securing 
supplies more cheaply in car lots. In this 
way they could increase their profits and 
save labor, as they could afford to hire a 
good man to look after the markets, mark¬ 
eting and minor details. 
To the city denizens I would say: don’t 
expect the farmer to do it all. Form clubs, 
co-operate together, buy in quantity from 
farmers’ societies, farmers or wholesale 
dealers at wholesale prices. Cut out the 
corner grocer on farm products. Let those 
pay for the high rents, fancy trimmings 
and automobile deliveries who can afford 
it—many want it; let them pay it; they 
are partly responsible. This article applies 
to those whom high prices cause to strug¬ 
gle in the city and those farmers depend¬ 
ent upon railroads, express companies and 
city arrangements for selling. Those hav¬ 
ing closer access to city markets have their 
own problems. it. a. e. 
Ha rbor Creek, Pa. 
Buyers are paying 40 cents here at the 
depot for potatoes. There are no apples in 
Maine, or this section at least. a. r. b. 
Dexter, Me. 
Hay crop, fairly good; oats light, buck¬ 
wheat good. Apples, though not many 
raised, are good. Potatoes, large crop but 
rotting badly. Good pullets are selling 
from 90 cents to $1. Pigs, 4 weeks old, 
$1.50-$2. Cows, first, $50-$70. Pork, light, 
11 cents per pound. Beef, scarce. 
Jefferson, N. Y. j. c. w. 
The apple crop In this locality was one 
of the largest harvested in years, but 
prices are not very encouraging, 25 
cents per 100 pounds at the cider mills 
and from $1.25 to $2 per barrel for picked 
apples. The potato crop has been very 
good, but the rot has decreased the yield 
about one-third. The frequent rains of 
late have made the harvesting of both 
of these crops a difficult task. With, 
thrashing and silo filling, the potato and 
apple crop out of the way, and some fair 
weather each week, farmers hereabout have 
time for Fall plowing, and this time is 
used to a good advantage, for it is no 
rare sight through here to see field after 
field turned over for the Spring crops, and 
in many cases old meadows are being 
plowed for next year’s corn and potato 
crop. The experience of those who have 
tried Fall plowing for» corn and frequent 
harrowing in the Spring has been that a 
larger yield would almost always follow. 
Ellicottville, N. Y. l. j. w. 
I give a list of prices of farm products 
and live stock. The prices given for fruit 
are what I can obtain at retail, especially 
the highest prices, and this is true of 
fowls, chickens and eggs. The prices for 
vegetables are what the stores pay. Only 
a very small amount of dairy butter is 
made in this section, and I have merely 
given prices that butter and cheese cost us 
at the stores. The price of milk is what 
farmers get from dealers, the latter hauling 
it from four to eight miles. 
Apples, Baldwin, barrel, $2 to $3; Mc¬ 
Intosh, $4; potatoes, bushel, 58 to 60 
cents; carrots, 50 to 75 cents; parsnips, 
$1 ; onions, 75 cents to $1 ; beets, 75 cents ; 
cabbage, cwt., 75 cents; squash, $1 to 
$1.25; spinach, bunch, 35 cents; celery, 
dozen, $1; tomatoes, bushel, $2 to $2.50; 
green, 35 to 40 cents ; turnips, 50 cents. 
Butter, best creamery, pound, 35 to 38 
cents; cheese, 23 cents; milk, 8%-quart 
can, 35 to 36 cents; fowls, pound. 20 to 22 
cents; chickens, broilers, 24 to 25 cents; 
eggs, choice, dozen, 45 cents; hay, timothy 
No. 1, ton, $25; pea beans, bushel, $3.35; 
new milch cows, $55 to $85; beef cattle, 
100 pounds, $2 to $5; oxen, $1 to $7. 
Bedford, N. II. c. h. f. 
Four-fifths of the grapes in the Lake 
Erie belt have been harvested and the cold 
weather of the past few davs has tem¬ 
porarily delayed completing work. Many 
apples are still on the trees, and if the 
cold weather continues, this crop will be 
harvested with cold fingers. There is a 
great demand for fresh poultry products 
in northwestern Pennsylvania. Even in the 
smaller towns dealers report their only 
source of supply for eggs, is the storage 
house, and these are bringing 35 cents. 
Dealers are paying 28 cents for these eggs. 
Saturday, November 2, fresh eggs, brown 
and white mixed, were sold by farmers in 
the Erie market place for 45 cents a dozen. 
There is a shortage of fowls this year, and 
the Thanksgiving turkey will be denied a 
great many families owing to the scarcity 
of the fowl this year. Owing to the bad 
season this year for turkeys, buyers and 
farmers are unanimous in declaring that 
there has not been as great scarcity in 
years. There is not sufficient butter to 
supply local demands, and buyers are pay¬ 
ing from 28 cents in the small towns to 
32 and 35 cents in larger places, and are 
selling it from four to ten cents a pound 
more. Fall wheat is looking good, and is 
not suffering from fly, as is reported in 
some sections of Ohio. The past year has 
been an excellent one for seeding, particu¬ 
larly clover. The proportion of good 
catches is larger this year than ever be¬ 
fore. Farmers are marketing buckwheat at 
$1.20 per hundred pounds, and the crop, 
in spite of adverse weather conditions in 
July and August, has yielded well. 
Erie Co., Pa. w. J. 
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