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WHE) RURAR NEW-YORKEB 
February 1 
rGood Seeds-i 
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LREILLV BR0S.NURSERIES.113 Reilly Rd.. Dansville, H.Y., 
M?REYS 
First Quality 
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Oar line of Apple, Peach. Cherry f Pear, Plum and 
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r We guarantee our trees true to name and 
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WHOLESALE CATALOG of a complete line. 
THE WM. J. REILLY NURSERIES, Ossian St., 
Dansville, N. Y. 
Connecticut Grown Trees 
Now is the tirno to place your order for Spring 
delivery. We have a full line of all kind of Fruit 
trees. Apples, Pears, Peach, Cherry, Plum and 
Quince, as well as all the Ornamental trees, Shrub- 
berry, Berry and Hedge plants. Our trees are Con¬ 
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sery. No middie mau. Guaranteed to be free from 
all scale or disease. Write for our Catalogue and 
Information Book, gives full instructions as to the 
care of trees from the time you receive them. 
Address The STEPHEN HOYT’S SONS CO., New Canaan, Conn. 
Fruit Trees and Plants 
1,200 acres in Elberta peach and other leading kinds. 
Bartlett and KiefFer pear, Baldwin apple, Rathbun 
blackberry, new St. Regis ever bearing raspberry, 
red currants, etc. Nice, clean stock, lowest prices. 
No advance payment. Ship anywhere. 
PERRY NURSERY CO.. - Rochester. N. Y. 
Established 1895. Salesmen wanted. 
Star or Wonder Blackberry 
A wonder indeed ! in growth, in excel¬ 
lence. in productiveness. Berries large and 
luscious, bears in clusters like a grape for 
two months. A single plant has yielded 
over two bushels in a year. Headquarters 
for St. Regis Everbearing, the best red 
Raspberry,and Caco by far the choicest of 
all hardy Grapes. A full assortment of 
Strawberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, 
Grapes, Currants and Gooseber¬ 
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ennial Plants.Shrubs and Vines, 
Evergreen and Shade Trees, 
Roses, Hedge Plants, etc. Illus¬ 
trated descriptive catalog re¬ 
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free to everybody. Established 
1878 ; 200 acres; quality unsur¬ 
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J.T. LOVETT, Box 162 , Little Sliver, N. J. 
GROWING TOMATOES FOR A CANNERY. 
A. I), (page 28), asks as to the advis¬ 
ability of accepting the proposition of a 
canning company, to agree to grow toma¬ 
toes for a period of five years at 30 cents 
a bushel, delivered at factory, provided 
they established a factory in his vicinity. 
The writer has had some experience both 
as a grower of tomatoes and as an opera¬ 
tor of a cannery for commercial purposes, 
and it is only reasonable that an operator 
should want to be assured that he would 
have the product to put up for a sufficient 
length of time to make it profitable to him 
to establish a factory. On the other hand 
the grower would naturally desire to know 
if his crop would find a sale at the factory 
at the price named for said period, and 
the operator should be required to agree 
accordingly. The interests of grower and 
operator are reciprocal, and both parties 
will keep this fact in view in entering 
into an agreement if honest. The price 
stated is considerably above the prevailing 
price here, which is 40 to 45 cents per 100 
pounds, if the factory is located at a rail¬ 
road point, and 5 to 10 cents less if off 
the railroad, as many of them are. The 
factory does not require the grower to con¬ 
tract for more than one year at a time. 
The growing of tomatoes has proven so 
profitable, generally, that this is a sufficient 
incentive for the farmers to continue to 
grow them as long as the canning company 
want to continue their operations. The 
yield varies, according to the seasons, from 
three tons to 10 per acre, the former being 
considered nearly a failure and the latter 
an unusual yield. The average yield is 
about five to six tons. In one locality in 
this section one grower raised from four 
acres the past season 13 tons to the acre, 
the crop bringing him over $120 per acre. 
It was on newly cleared land, which is 
most desirable in growing this crop com¬ 
mercially. 
The seed should be sown early in a plot 
of ground made rich with stable manure or 
other fertilizer. When danger from frost is 
past transplant to the field, selecting only 
thrifty plants. Plant the rows from four 
to five feet apart. Many growers prefer 
the wider distance, as the crop can be more 
easily gathered. Give clean cultivation up 
to the time of blossoming, when cease cul¬ 
tivation entirely, as injury to the bloom 
blasts the crop. It will require from 2500 
to 3000 plants to set out au acre, and 
from one and a half to two ounces of seed 
are sown for the plants. For the best 
variety A. D. should consult the factory 
people, being careful to grow only a red 
tomato. Some factories furnish the seed. 
The New Stone is the variety almost unani¬ 
mously grown here. Only well-drained up¬ 
land should be set out to tomatoes. Low 
land is usually too moist and fertile, re¬ 
sulting in too vigorous a growth of vine at 
the expense of a fruit yield, and the fruit 
more subject to rot and sun scald. 
Greene Co., Mo. h. w. 
The Situation in Indiana. 
As A. D. of Saugcrties, N. Y., desires 
information about growing tomatoes for 
canning factories, I will give my experi¬ 
ence. It would certainly pay to raise 
tomatoes for a cannery at 30 cents per 
bushel. There are growers in this section, 
however, who claim that if a factory can 
run on a large scale, and pay its hands 
and managers large wages and make money, 
the grower would make more by doing his 
own canning. As a matter of fact, some 
are actually doing so, and are well satis¬ 
fied with the results. In no way that 
anyone has ever been able to discover can 
the grower anticipate the season, and for 
this reason it is not wise to contract to 
deliver a certain number of bushels. The 
usual way here is to contract the delivery 
at the factory the product of a certain 
number of acres, at a certain price per 
bushel or ton. When the factory first 
opened, the contract price was 25 cents per 
bushel, hut was subsequently raised to 30 
cents. Some growers are able to raise 400 
bushels or more per acre. The average has 
been below this—perhaps about 300 bush¬ 
els, or nine tons, liguring 60 pounds to a 
bushel. The land is capable of producing 
70 bushels of corn to the acre. 
We grow our own plants and have found 
that good plants are a very necessary— 
indeed the most necessary—factor for suc¬ 
cess. We grow them in a greenhouse pur¬ 
posely constructed for Spring plant grow¬ 
ing, and the varieties used as a rule are 
Stone and Early Michigan. A tomato 
grown for canning purposes should be 
smooth and well formed, a good sturdy 
growth with strong stem, and yield a heavy 
crop of fruit throughout the season. It 
should also he of a uuform red color, and 
should remain red after it is cooked. No 
varieties we have yet tried are up to all 
of these requirements, yet, we think that 
on the whole, the above mentioned sorts 
come the nearest. 
About the first week in June is early 
enough for setting the plants in the field. 
We set them 4x4 feet. The factory opens 
about 10 weeks later, or August 15, and 
closes a few days after the first frost, which 
in this section is in the beginning of Oc¬ 
tober. We are under contract to deliver 
the fruit at stated times and in good con¬ 
dition. It must be red ripe all over and 
sound. Sometimes the blossom end gets 
soft before the stem end is ripe, and there 
is a loss. In picking tomatoes, we, at the 
beginning of our experience, used one-half 
bushel baskets, but as these were quite 
heavy when full, we soon discarded them 
and used 12-quart tin pails. These when 
full are emptied into bushel boxes furnished 
by the cannery. 
No tomatoes are picked from Saturday 
to Monday and this makes a heavy picking 
for Monday. The usual price paid for 
picking is five cents per bushel, and here 
is where a great deal of trouble lies in 
the business, as careful and trustworthy 
hands for the work are somewhat scarce. 
In hauling the tomatoes to the factory, 
we use a heavy spring market wagon hav¬ 
ing a strong set of springs. At the fac¬ 
tory wagon and all are weighed, the driver 
watching the scales. The boxes are then 
unloaded and as many empty ones put hack 
upon the wagon as full ones were taken 
off. A weigh slip is then given containing 
the number of pounds gross, tare and net, 
and this slip is taken to the office, where a 
cheek is given. Some seasons it has been 
the custom to pay once a week in cash, 
thus avoiding the necessity of making a 
trip to the bank. d. l. 
Indiana. 
Valuable Hints on Planting 
CDCET When buying any article of com- 
t g* merce, one must depend almost 
entirely upon the seller. He must 
be able to inspire confidence, must show that 
he knows his business, and above all prove 
that he is honest. This is even more appli¬ 
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at real cost? We have been in business 59 
years, have 1,200 acres and 47 greenhouses. 
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Box 56 Painesville, Ohio 
We Grow iheTREES 
known the country over as Denton quality. 
All propagatlngis under personal supervision, 
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variety, sturdiness and to be free from Scale. 
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31 Elm St.. Dansville, H. V. 
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FROM GROWER TO PLANTER 
yOU can buy ourquality trees , 
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10 CHERRY TREES 97c. 2 Ey. Richmond, 2 Mont- | 
morrncy, 2 Mor.llo, 2 Gov. Wood, 2 Napoleon. 
Write for onr Catalog now and order early. 
KELLY BROS. NURSERIES, 80 Main St., Dansville, N. Y. 
You’ll Never Regret Planting Kelly Trees 
IF YOU WISH 
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“3 
TWO MILLION 
Strawberry Plants 
H EALTHY, vigorous, strong root¬ 
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in the warm sandy soil of Mary¬ 
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All kinds «f SMALL FRUIT PLANTS 
PEACH AND APPLE TREES 
Grown right; packed right; and priced 
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J. W. Jones & Son, Allen, Maryland 
k { 3ye 
fresh dug: 1 Baldwin, 1 Delicious, 1 Transcendent 
Crab; 1 Bartlett, 1 Flemish Beauty, 1 Duchess 
Pear; 1 Montmorency, 1 Early Richmond, 1 Tar¬ 
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J German Prune—all for 94 cents. Regular price, 
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L. W. HALL Sc CO. Established 1879. 
[ 628 Cutler Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS THAT GROW 
All Standard \ anelies. Also RASPBERRY, BLACKBERRY, 
CURRANT and GRAPE Plants and ASPARAGUS Roots in 
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P E- WHITTEN. BOX 11, BRIDGMAN. - MICHIGAN. 
TREES AND PLANTS-^,,^-”^ 
sale price. Big supply Apple anti Peach Trees. Privet 
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CTRAWBERRY and other small fruit plants, Asparagus 
w Roots, Apple Trees, Hedge Plants, etc. Descrip¬ 
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$1.65 per 1,000. Catalog free. Mention Rural New- 
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A. G. BLOUNT. Box 121. Hastings. H. Y. 
Stoecker Seeds are 
When you must depend on your seeds 
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seed expert’s knowledge. Our policy is to save the buyer money, give prompt atten¬ 
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I’ll Refund Your Money if Yon Don’t Get 1-4 More S ap W ith 
GRIMM SAP SPOUTS 
Grimm spouts more than pay their cost in one season. I will semi 
you a full size sample spout free. Grimm spoutsare perfeet- 
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lag Sized bores so as to allow reaming of the bore. The spouts are so tapered they’re 
held by the outer bark,and will carry a full bucket without being driven hard enough 
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Grimm improved Evaporator will Evaporate one-fourth moresap than the old style. Improve¬ 
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on. 
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RHODES DOUBLE CUT 
PRUNING SHEAR 
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