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THE RURAI. NEW-YORKEH 
n 
1913. 
Ruralisms 
APPLES ON THE MARKET. 
Although this has been a much better 
apple year than last, the consumer is 
paying about the same prices. At pick¬ 
ing time the quotations in this part of 
the State on Winesap and Black Twig 
were $3 per barrel at the orchard. In 
the real apple growing regions of Mis¬ 
souri, however, I saw prices quoted on 
hand-picked apples of good varieties as 
low as 50 cents. This is a town of 
about 10,000 people, situated in a cli¬ 
mate and soil most favorable to the ap¬ 
ple, but yet there is not a commercial 
orchard within 20 miles, and nearly all 
the stock is imported. A good deal of 
it is box apples from the West. One 
of our grocers makes a specialty of a 
fine display and assortment of apples. 
The cheapest thing on his list is a poor 
quality of Ben Davis at $1 per bushel. 
The Gano ranks a little higher on ac¬ 
count of its better color and smoother 
appearance. The next cheapest I find to 
be a Black Twig, low grade, at $1.50. 
A common grade of Winesap is marked 
$2.10. From that the price ranges up to 
60 cents per dozen. At this apex we 
find the Spitzenberg, Black Ben Davis 
(renamed here Black Beauty, to shun, 
do you suppose, the name Ben Davis?), 
Rome Beauty (very large size), Arkan¬ 
sas Black, and Stayman Winesap. In 
all I counted 30 varieties, and all ar¬ 
ranged in tiers like an exhibit at a 
show; it made a pretty picture, and one 
quite alluring to customers. 
Arkansas Black.— The showiest ap¬ 
ple in the lot and really the showiest 
ever seen in this market, is the Arkan¬ 
sas Black. The color of this apple is 
simply superb; it glows with the deep 
red fire of a glass of old Burgundy 
wine. And the color is always solid and 
entire; no spots, no variation in shade, 
every part dipped deep in the same dye 
whose recipe nature gave to no other 
apple. After the eye has once rested on 
the exquisite glow of the Arkansas 
Black, it wanders in a vain search from 
tier to tier for a rival. Neither has 
this apple an unpleasant deception await¬ 
ing you beneath its splendid exterior. 
The quality of its parent, the Winesap, 
is there, with rich, yellowish flesh. All 
in all it has no peer for beauty. 
Winesap.— That old veteran of many 
years, the Winesap, has undergone a re¬ 
juvenation. Modestly it held its ground 
while a swarm of debutantes came forth 
with fulsome flattery and flaunted their 
charms over the country. In the end, 
however, when the paint and powder 
had washed off, the ancient standard re¬ 
asserted itself with little difficulty. Most 
of the Winesaps marketed here run too 
small, but that goes back to the heavy 
bearing habits of the tree and the fail¬ 
ure of growers to thin. Thinning should 
be as much a part of tree culture as 
spraying, but it is a reform hard to in¬ 
troduce. I have heard members of the 
old pioneer generation declare that if 
you picked off green fruit and threw it 
away, the tree would refuse to bear, and 
this doctrine was as firmly implanted as 
the belief in the manifold influences of 
the moon on various phases of agricul¬ 
ture. 
King David. —Of several kinds of 
young apple trees which bore here for 
the first time the King David had the 
heaviest crop and the highest colored 
fruit. 1 he young Jonathans did not 
equal it either in color or size. It is 
rare to see such a large crop for the 
first effort, and the rich, deep red of 
the apples proved this new variety to 
have the attribute of color in a high de¬ 
gree. The quality, too, is good. 
Delicious. —Next to the King David 
stood a tree of the Delicious of the 
same age, and it bore just two speci¬ 
mens. This is no great disparagement, 
however, for I know the Delicious to be 
a heavy bearer, and the tree is beautiful 
in its vigorous growth, with clean bark 
and strong, shapely top. A friend who 
has several trees tells me that they are 
regular bearers, and that he has custom¬ 
ers who make him special offers of $6 
per barrel for their private family use. 
So far as I can learn, the Delicious will 
take its place as a permanent addition 
to our standard lists, though the asser¬ 
tion that its quality is unexcelled by any 
other apple requires modifying. I have 
seen people of cultured taste who were 
not told the variety they were testing 
give it second place to Stayman Wine¬ 
sap. Both kinds were fine specimens 
from Pacific slope orchards. 
Stayman Winesap.— Here is an ap¬ 
ple that has been making a steady as¬ 
cent for the last several years, when its 
merits began to bring it into notice. 
One of the first men to discover the 
value of the Stayman was J. W. Kerr, 
of Denton, Md. It succeeds on the At¬ 
lantic coast, and it is grown success¬ 
fully on the Pacific, thereby showing 
the adaptability of its parent. It has 
not the entire deep color of the Wine¬ 
sap, but is handsome and showy, is as 
good or better in quality and grows so 
large that it is condemned for packing 
in western boxes. There are a few con¬ 
sumers, however, who object to exces¬ 
sive size in an apple. Several young 
trees of this variety bore their first crop 
for me last Summer, and were well 
filled with apples that exceeded the 
Winesap in size, while still far from 
mature. Unfortunately nearly all the 
row of Staymans died of the root rot, 
the first time this disease ever mani¬ 
fested itself hereabouts (it must have 
originated with germs from the nursery 
on the young trees), and the few trees 
left were pilfered of their fruit before 
ripe by a grading gang putting through a 
new street. Some of the immature ap¬ 
ples had attained more than half a 
pound in weight. All in all, Stayman 
seems to be one of the safest proposi¬ 
tions in orchard planting all through the 
central tier of States from the northern 
line of Iowa to the southern boundary 
of Arkansas, and its stronger habits of 
growth make it successful on soils where 
the parent Winesap fails. 
L. R. JOHNSON. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
Pears on Quince Stock. 
C. S., yew Jersey .—Will you advise if 
the following varieties of the pear can be 
successfully cultivated on Quince stock? 
lleurre Hose, Gray Doyenne, Seckel, Shel¬ 
don, White Doyenne, Winter Nellis. 
Ans. —Yes, all of these varieties of 
the pear and many more are successful 
when budded on Quince stocks, and this 
has been done many thousands of times. 
Some varieties do better than others 
when worked in this way for the pur¬ 
pose of making dwarf trees, but almost 
any kind of pear may be grown with 
fair success in this way. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
PULLED! 
With a Triple Power 
Hercules 
Biggest stumps are pulled out in 6 minutes, 
with the Hercules It puMs an acre or more of 
ttumps a day Why don t you clear those 
Stumpy acres of yours' It means much to 
you. Put that stumpy field under the plow 
and it will be worth double —and will pay you 
big money In crops 
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on 40 acres the first year after stumps are 
pulled. Remember, you plant on virgin soil 
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See many letters and photographs Read 
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Company 
230 21st 
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2 Kill St., Elmira, N. Y. - 
The 
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Draft 
Harrow 
Hangs low and has 
great extension—you 
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Brown’s Auto Spray 
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Don’t grow cider apples. Rid your trees of scale and fungous pests and grow 
number one apples by using “Scalecide"—the one absolutely sure scale spray. 
“Scalecide” is easy to handle, it will not clog or corrode the no.-zle or injure the 
skin. It will build up a poorly paying, run down orchard and make it return 
large profits. It will maintain a good orchard in prime condition. “Scalecide’’ 
is the best spray for San Jose. It kills every scale it reaches. “Scalecide” goes 
further, is cheaper and more effective than lime sulphur. Endorsed by Experi¬ 
ment Stations and used by the best orchardists everywhere. “Scalecide” will 
solve your scale problem. Our SERVICE DEPARTMENT furnishes every¬ 
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Fruit Growers” and “ ‘Scalecide’—the Tree Saver.” They contain valuable 
information for orchardists. Every fmit grower should have them. Both 
are free. B. G. Pratt Co., Dept. “N” ^0 Church Street, New York Oily. 
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rnUuUll live Larries off surplus water 
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creases the value. Acres of swampy land reclaimed and made fertile 
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