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U\H£C RURAL NEVV-VORKER 
February 1, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Pecans and Persimmons Do Not Bear. 
P. IF., Orosse Tete, La .—Eleven years 
ago I bought 500 budded paper-shell pecan 
trees; they were at the time three year 
stock and two years from the bud, which 
makes them 14 years old now. The kinds 
were Centennial, Frotscher and Van De¬ 
man ; they were carefully cultivated but 
have not set a single nut. For the last 
three years they were loaded with tassels; 
200 feet away stand three old pecan trees 
which bear nuts more or less every year. 
2. Same condition holds good as to a few 
persimmon trees, millions of blossoms but 
no fruit; these trees are 10 years old. 
In the same row stands a common seedling 
bearing fruit every year. What is the trou¬ 
ble? 
3. Can Kieffer pears be propagated by 
planting limbs from old trees? If so, how 
is it done, or would trees from nursery be 
more satisfactory? 4. Is there any market 
for Soy beans and what price? 5. Please 
inform me how to obtain “Seed Dasheens” 
from the Bureau of Plant Industry? 
Ans. —It is rather surprising that the 
pecan trees do not bear, as they are now 
11 years from time of planting, although 
the Centennial is not a good bearer 
anywhere or at any age, and has been 
generally condemned on this account; 
almost no trees of it are being planted 
now. The Frotscher and Van Deman 
are generally considered reasonably 
early bearers. I have trees of the Van 
Deman in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, 
that began to bear at six years from 
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planting, and have gradually increased 
in amount since, although I do not think 
it is as fruitful a variety as some others, 
or as it should be. However, the nuts 
are large, thin shelled and of high qual¬ 
ity in every way. The Frotscher is also 
a very fine pecan, and very large, but the 
tree is not so well shaped as some others. 
It may be that there is some mistake 
about the trees, and that they are all 
Centennial. I visited the pecan nursery 
and orchard where these trees were 
bought while the owner was living and 
think he tried to have his trees true to 
name, but in the course of nursery prop¬ 
agation there are mistakes made, and I 
know this has been true of many pecan 
trees, especially for the first few years 
of the business. It would be a big job 
to bud over the large 14-year-old trees, 
but it might pay to do so with all .of 
them, and I am sure it would in case 
of the Centennial trees. The Schley, 
James, Curtis, President, Success and 
Claremont are all productive varieties. 
2. It is probable that the Japan per¬ 
simmon is the kind planted, and if so 
it is strange that these trees have not 
borne fruit. I set several varieties in 
Louisiana and they began to bear two 
years afterwards and have not failed 
since. Some of them'have borne far 
more than was good for them. It may 
be that the trees in question are of some 
inferior variety in point of pollination. 
I would suggest that a few scions of 
the Zengi or some other variety that 
bears very abundantly be grafted in the; 
tops of the trees to furnish pollen and j 
this may cause them to bear. It would 
seem that the pollen from the “seed¬ 
lings in the same row” would be car¬ 
ried by insects to the flowers of the ‘ 
barren trees. 
3. Cuttings of the Kieffer pear can be 
made to root in some soils, especially 
those of a sandy nature. Where they | 
will so root it might not be necessary 
to buy nursery trees, but they are so 
cheap that even this is doubtful. The 
scions should be about a foot long and 
put in the ground in the late Fall. Win¬ 
ter or early Spring, leaving out about 
one-third or less of their length. 
4. I think a few “seed dasheens” can 
be had from the Bureau of Plant In¬ 
dustry at Washington, D. C., by making 
application directly or through a mem¬ 
ber of Congress. 5. Soy beans have a 
good market value, but I do not know 
the price. h. e. van deman. 
Co-operative Grain Buying. 
Cannot a poultry association having a 
membership of 300 buy feed and grain in 
large quantities, deliver same in 200 to 500- 
pound lots, and still sell cheaper than re¬ 
tail prices of 100-pound quantities? What 
system of buying, etc., would you suggest? 
Would be pleased to have you advise as to 
cooperative buying in this line. 
Elizabeth, N. J. a. m. b. 
Such an organization ought to be able 
to buy grain in large quantities at con¬ 
siderable saving. The trouble will come 
in distributing the smaller quantities. In 
several cases that we know such grain 
was bought in carload lots and each 
member came to the car and got his 
share, paying cash on delivery of the 
grain. This plan would hardly work 
with you, for with so many members 
you will need a storehouse, someone to 
attend to the business and probably" some 
facilities for delivering the grain. This 
will cost considerable, and it is where 
you will have most of your trouble. 
You will find it quite possible to buy 
grain and feed at wholesale, but it is a 
big problem to distribute it in small lots 
among 300 members without friction and 
loss. We do not know how widely scat¬ 
tered j'our members are or what pro¬ 
portion of them will come for the grain. 
Can you not combine and make arrange¬ 
ments with some dealer to supply' what 
you want at reduced rates by guarantee¬ 
ing to take a certain large quantity? 
Corn, 50; oats, 40; rye, 75; wheat, 85; 
potatoes. 50; apples, $1 ; clover seed, re¬ 
tail. 89; cattle, 2*4 to 8; cows, $30 to 
$130; hogs, 7%; sheep, two to eight for 
lambs; chickens, 11; turkeys, 17; ducks, 
11; geese, 10; eggs, 24. Horses. $80 to 
$250. Our creamery pays two cents below 
Elgin prices. They have paid to the farm¬ 
ers of this locality the past year $65,000 
for butter fat; retail, 25 to 35 cents. Not 
much garden truck raised here. Just 
enough for home use. Milk, seven cents 
per quart. We are 12 miles west of New¬ 
ark. O.. county seat. Weather fine, from 
20 to 40 degrees. l. m. w. 
Alexandria, O. 
Apples sell for 75 cents a bushel or $1.50 
to $2.50 a barrel; potatoes, 65: eggs, 28; 
butter, 35. Hay. $20 a ton. Cows vary 
in price; new milch ones sell from $65 to 
$150. Good ones are very scarce. No 
snow yet, so very little lumbering done ex¬ 
cept by portable mills, of which there are 
several in our vicinity. c. A. T. 
Biddeford, Me. 
COMING FARMERS' MEETINGS. 
Genesee County Poultry Association, 
Batavia, N. Y., January 22-27. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, Am¬ 
herst. Mass., school of apple packing, Jan¬ 
uary 23-29, 1913. 
American Breeders’ Association, Colum¬ 
bia, S. C., January 25-27, 1913. 
Northeastern Poultry and Pet Stock As¬ 
sociation, Inc., fourth annual show, Green 
Bay, Wis., January 30-31, Feb. 1-3. 
Fifth National Corn Exhibition, State 
Exposition Grounds, Columbia, S. C., Janu¬ 
ary 27, to February 8, 1913. 
New York State Grange, Buffalo, N. 1\, 
February 3-6. 
Farmers’ Course at Rhode Island StSte 
College, February 5-7. 
New York State Drainage Association. 
State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. 
Y., February 10-11. 
New York State Vegetable Growers’ As¬ 
sociation .College of xlgriculture, Ithaca, 
February 11-13, 1913. 
New York State Federation of Floral 
Clubs, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., 
February 12. 
Farmers’ Week. N. Y.. State College of 
Agriculture, Ithaca, February 10-15. 
Ohio State Dairymen’s Association, Co¬ 
lumbus, Ohio, February 13-14. 
Third National Flower Show of the So¬ 
ciety of American Florists. Grand Central 
Palace, New York, April ,5-12. 
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