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THE RURAL NKW-YOKKEH 
TREATMENT OF AZALEA. 
TP. II. J., Malden, Mass .—IIow shall I 
treat an azalea after it has finished bloom¬ 
ing', so that it will flower another year? 
Ansy —As the flowers fade, pick them 
off; stand the plant in a cool light 
window and continue to water as be¬ 
fore, so that it will make growth freely. 
If any of the shoots grow too long and 
straggly, pinch them back, so as to keep 
the plant symmetrical. About the be¬ 
ginning of May, when danger of frost 
is over, put the plant outside; if the 
room it has been in is rather warm it 
should be transferred to a cooler place 
to harden it before putting outside. 
Select a place with partial shade—where 
trees will protect from mid day sun; 
dig a hole to receive the pot, lining bot¬ 
tom of hole with coal ashes to pre¬ 
vent earthworms entering the pot. 
Water regularly, spraying foliage well 
and the Azalea should make a good 
growth before Fall. It should be 
brought inside before frost. If it needs 
repotting, this should be done in Sep¬ 
tember, before bringing in. Pot firmly, 
with good drainage, in one-half peat, 
one-half leaf mold, with the addition 
of some good loam; base of stem 
should not be below the surface. Abun¬ 
dant drainage and firm soil are the two 
great requisites in potting Azaleas. 
A SMALL CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. 
Three years ago a few progressive apple 
growers got together here at Proetorville, 
and discussed organizing an association for 
buying our supplies and disposing of the 
apples. After due deliberation a committee 
was appointed to draft a constitution and 
by-laws, which were adopted at a regular 
meeting and signed by the members, which 
were to be 10. It was not incorporated, 
but each member was to pay an initiation 
fee and also a small sum, not to exceed 
five cents per barrel, for the apples grown 
In case it was needed for expenses. Sup¬ 
plies were bought and distributed according 
to the needs of each for cash, such as 
spraying material and cooperage, and each 
grower made his own barrels on the farm. 
The saving on spraying material was prob¬ 
ably $400 and on barrels about five cents 
each or $500. Letter heads and return 
envelopes were used to let people know 
what was doing, and large stencils were 
ordered for each member, which spread a 
large advertisement of the association over 
the whole barrel head, and stating the 
variety and grade of the fruit and by whom 
grown. All the varieties were to be graded 
the same, and well put up and stored for 
latter market, which paid a fair profit over 
the price they could have been sold at when 
picked. Also the price paid for apples at 
picking time to other growers was higher 
by 25 to 50 cents per barrel than it •would 
have been if these growers had not organ¬ 
ized and taken over 10,000 barrels off the 
market here, and there -were 100,000 barrels 
of Winter fruit in the county. The sec¬ 
ond year lime and fertilizers were added 
to the supplies bought, and a few hundred 
dollars more were saved the growers by get¬ 
ting the supplies in straight car lots at 
the lowest possible cost. 
Last Summer there was a heavy crop of 
early apples here, and it was impossible 
to sell them in the local markets or to 
local buyers at a fair profit, so it was de¬ 
cided to try loading them by carloads and 
sending them where the prospect of better 
prices were to be obtained, and we usually 
made a little over local prices and also 
helped those who sold on the local market 
by taking large quantities out of their way. 
The secretary keeps tab on the transactions 
of the society, for which lie receives a 
small salary. The selling. has been done 
through a well-known .lobbing house mostly, 
and usually they can get better prices than 
an officer of an association and also can 
make sales stick better and collect closer 
than others. 
Our association made a display at the ex¬ 
position at Cincinnati in 1910, and indi¬ 
vidual growers in the association have been 
making exhibits at county and State fairs 
and tlie State apple shows, and thus keeping 
our section in the minds of the people 
as an apple-growing county. As the famous 
Rome Beauty apple originated in the com¬ 
munity and has proven a good money-maker 
for the grower and storage man both, it was 
decided to name the association, “The Rome 
Beauty Growers’ Association of Proctor- 
ville, 6.” No one is eligible to membership 
but growers of Rome Beauty and no one 
can join without being recommended by 
the growers of the association and voted 
in. One can easily see that an unworthy 
man should not be in. and it may be better 
to keep him out than to put him out. 
We wonder if a number of small associa¬ 
tions working together would not be pref¬ 
erable to an association of large member¬ 
ship where it would be difficult to get all 
members together. In unity there is 
strength. There is strength in the West 
because they are organized, and if such 
organizations were in effect in the East our 
products would have a different credit, and 
the growers would be doing better work and 
growing better fruit, and the consumers 
February 22, 
would be taking it instead of much they 
get from the West on account of its looks 
and honest pack. Recent apple shows 
prove that this part of the country can 
produce the equal of any fruit from the 
West in size, color and quality. 
Lawrence Co., Ohio. V. T. COX. 
Belgian Chicory. 
Chicory or witloof is grown very exten¬ 
sively in Belgium as a salad plant, both 
for home use and export. The London Gar¬ 
deners’ Chronicle, quoting from the Revue 
de 1’IIorticulture Beige, says that the meth¬ 
od of cultivation is simple. Roots for forc¬ 
ing are taken from a special variety of 
chicory. The roots, after being raised in 
October, are planted in shallow trenches 
about n yard wide and long. A layer of 
good soil, some lfi inches deep, is spread 
over the roots, and later on, when forcing 
is to be begun, manure, to a depth of from 
1 Va to three feet, is spread over the soil. 
Recently this manure lias been dispensed 
with, and heat is supplied by thermo¬ 
syphons, or by means of smoke pipes (con¬ 
duits de fum6e). Production extends from 
October to April. The total export of chic¬ 
ory—mainly to Paris—has reached the co¬ 
lossal amount of seven million pounds. Of 
the total exported, Paris takes over five 
million pounds and the United States, 
whence the chicory is transported in cold 
storage by the Red Star Line, about half 
a million pounds. Week by week during 
the season thirty thousand pounds are dis¬ 
patched to London. The trade is carried on 
also with Germany, Holland, and Switzer¬ 
land. The Belgian producers co-operate 
with one another, and are grouped into 15 
syndicates, which groups have done much 
in the way of opening and extending mar¬ 
kets. Each producer send his chicory to 
the nearest station packed in panniers bear¬ 
ing his number, and the subsequent distri¬ 
bution is carried out by the syndicate. 
“Good numbers” soon acquire a reputation 
and command good prices. During Janu¬ 
ary this chicory, white and solid as a head 
of celery, sold in New York suburbs for 
nine cents a pound, and was regarded by 
housekeepers as much more profitable ns 
salad than native lettuce at 10 cents a head, 
because there is so little waste. 
Selecting a Garden Market. 
Of more than ordinary importance, If 
not the most important of all, for a fruit 
grower and market gardener, provided he 
is not altogether in the wholesale trade, is 
the location. The most important thing 
for a beginner therefore is to look well into 
the matter of location. And what would 
be the ideal location? If I were to look 
for one the points I would want to find 
would be a prosperous, thriving city, the 
size of the city to be from 15,000 to 50,000 
population, where one could buy good land 
at not too high a price; a city with col¬ 
leges or high schools or some other public 
institution ; a city where the connections 
with the Soutli are not the best or fastest. 
And why, for the above reason would I se¬ 
lect a place to come nearest to the above 
requirements? In a prosperous thriving 
city one will most assuredly find a ready 
market with a good price for your pro¬ 
ducts. What good is it to one when you 
have. the stuff and no sale? The reason 
I would look for a city from 15,000 to 30,- 
000 is because if the city were smaller I 
would not look for much sale at good 
prices, and if larger there would undoubt¬ 
edly be numbers of other fruit growers and 
gardeners located there already, and likely 
to be crowding. To get good land is al¬ 
most absolutely necessary, and to get 
enough of it for a moderate price so with 
the growing of the city the price of the 
land would increase in value so In time 
one could sell out with profit. In a city 
with colleges, etc., good fancy fruit and 
vegetables are always wanted at good 
prices. Why the fast connections with the 
South would not be desired; take for in¬ 
stance our city; they get fresh stuff in 
here in the very best of condition, as it is 
only necessary to be from 12 to 24 hours 
en route from the Southern States, where 
labor, land, etc., is much cheaper. This 
southern stuff comes in here weeks before 
ours gets ready. Then when we get to the 
market with our products and ask a fair, 
living price, we often are told “I get It 
from St. Louis so much cheaper.” Of 
course not quite as fresh as ours, but 
nevertheless being en route so short a time 
it gets in here all right. ciias. purzner. 
Missouri. 
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