1913. 
THIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
391 
A REAL LIVE FRUIT MEETING. 
That the cutting down of the fixed ad¬ 
dresses at horticultural and agricultural 
meetings is conducive to a greater per¬ 
sonal interest and enthusiasm among mem¬ 
bers seemed to be conclusively proven at 
the eastern meeting of the New York State 
Fruit Growers’ Association held in Pough¬ 
keepsie, February 20-21. There was not a 
dull moment at any session, and the gen¬ 
eral feeling was well expressed when a 
man of considerable horticultural promi¬ 
nence who had attended nine horticultural 
meetings this Winter said, “This is the best 
meeting I have attended, and is as near 
an ideal convention as one could wish.” 
President Morrell’s address was brief 
and to the point, free from sensationalism, 
and it gave his hearers the impression 
that it was a message straight from the 
heart. The memberships taken a year ago 
were greater than ever before but they 
were about eleven per cent larger this year. 
The banquet kept pace with the meeting 
as being the best yet, and after the serv¬ 
ing of a well-prepared and abundant menu 
a few short speeches, seasoned with just 
enough wit to check the somnolent effect 
of volume one, were delivered. How much 
a banquet is like a two-volume story! The 
first volume or feast interests us enough 
to start at least, but the second volume 
or toasts, are always more or less a mat¬ 
ter of conjecture and hold great possi¬ 
bilities, ending either in delight or dis¬ 
gust. We found delight all the second 
volume held for us this time and a first 
class male quartette so delighted tbeir 
audience with coon songs and medley that 
they were called back after every number. 
The crowning feature of the evening was a 
treat of songs, each preceded by a short 
address directly relative to it, by Mrs. 
Hose Morgan, of Columbia University. Mrs. 
Morgan has traveled in many lands study¬ 
ing their songs, especially their folk songs, 
and she not only gave her hearers pleas¬ 
ure for the evening but left with many 
of them thoughts that will influence them 
in their future choice of songs and music. 
There was considerable talk outside the 
meeting in regard to the Roosevelt-Cole 
commission bill and the Association passed 
a resolution urging the passage of this 
bill. A resolution, petitioning Gov. Sul- 
zer to appoint a commission of broad¬ 
minded men to examine grading, packing 
and marketing farm products on commis¬ 
sion and recommending legislation that 
would establish justice, was passed. In a 
resolution the association approved the 
Waguer-Armstrong child labor bill as far 
as it was necessary to protect children 
from any mental, physical or moral injury 
but as far as it related to the harvesting 
of farm crops the Association believes it 
would work injustice to both employer and 
employed. It is also opposed to the enact¬ 
ment of any law seeking to establish any 
specified hours for work on the farm. 
The fruit exhibit though somewhat small¬ 
er than at the Rochester meeting was of 
fine quality. The proportion of the differ¬ 
ent varieties seems to indicate considerable 
difference in the popularity of varieties in 
different sections. Although as in Roches¬ 
ter, Baldwin, Greening and Spy were lead¬ 
ers, some varieties were conspicuously short 
and others seemed to show a local pop¬ 
ularity. Entries and fruit would indicate 
that King, Wagoner, Spitzenburg, Fameuse, 
Hubbardston, Red Canada, Rome, Roxbury, 
Twenty Ounce, Golden Russet, Hendrick, 
Winter Banana, and Westfield were more 
popular in Western New York, while the 
varieties that lead in the Hudson Valley 
were Jonathan, Grimes, Stark, York Im¬ 
perial Yellow Newtown, Fall Pippin and 
Lady Sweet, locally known as I’omiueroy. 
Ben Davis, Sutton, Yellow Bellflower and 
Black Gilliflower seem to bear about even¬ 
ly for both sections. In the box fruit 
Baldwin and Newtown led with Spy closely 
following and single boxes of Wagoner, Mc¬ 
Intosh, Greening and Hubbardston. The 
Geneva Station made the same display as at 
Rochester though somewhat smaller. The 
exhibits of spraying machinery, spraying 
.materials, baskets, ladders, graders, and 
nursery stock were the largest ever shown 
at an Eastern meeting and every available 
foot of space was occupied. 
The Summer meeting of the Association 
will be held at Olcott Beach, Niagara 
County, some time between the first and 
fifteenth of August. gko. r. schauber. 
SPRAYING AND SMALL FRUITS. 
• The Massachusetts Fruit Growers, in 
conjunction with the Middlesex South Agri¬ 
cultural Society and the Marlboro Grange, 
hold an instructive and very interesting 
meeting on February 26 at Marlboro. Over 
one hundred growers were present and 
listened very attentively to the lecture on 
spraying by Prof. Soars of the Massachu¬ 
setts Agricultural College. He handled the 
subject in an able manrter, in language 
which any person could understand. He 
showed the dift’erenee in cost between the 
home-made and bought solution of lime- 
sulphur. and advised the use of the home¬ 
made if one was to use- a large quantity, 
but otherwise the commercial might be 
cheaper to use if one did not have facilities 
to mix and cook at home and only wanted 
a small quantity. The homemade mix¬ 
ture costs about $6.75 per barrel and 
the commercial about $13. He considers 
about 200 pounds of sulphur to 100 pounds 
of lime about right. He also gave a dem¬ 
onstration of testing the strength of the 
lime-sulphur mixture with an outfit which 
costs $1. Of four samples he tested there 
they ranged from 21 to 34. He brought 
out the important point that every one 
should have one of these outfits to test 
the mixture so as to know just the strength 
he was using, as if not strong enough the 
spraying was a failure in results in most 
cases. In regard to which was the better 
to use, lime-sulphur or oil, it was stated 
a good plan is to use both, and many are 
doing this. Use the oil in late Fall and 
the lime-sulphur in early Spring. 1 have 
heard much discussion on this some claim 
ing one is good, the other no good, while 
others would have just the opposite view. 
One expert present made the point it was 
all right to use the lime-sulphur just 
as soon as the oil had dried on the tree 
at this season, if for any reason the Fall 
spraying had not been done. It is im¬ 
portant to cover the entire surface with 
the lime-sulphur, as this sticks wherever 
it strikes and does not spread, while the 
oil does to a certain extent. 
Small hose is preferable to use on ac¬ 
count of being easier and lighter to pull 
about. It is a question whether anything 
will beat the Bordeaux mixture as a spray 
which will give results on many things, 
especially small fruits. A spray of lime- 
sulphur of about 1 to 25 is a remedy for 
the apple aphis, which was bad in this 
State last year. Tobacco spray is used for 
these in the West. The spray of arsenate 
of lead for the Codling moth at the same 
time gets the curculio, which stings the 
surface of the apple and spoils the shape, 
as the apple grows around these stings 
rough and uneven. 
For the railroad worm catch the flies 
with molasses or some sticky preparation. 
Always spray in season, not wait for 
what you think is suitable weather. 
Look on spraying as an insurance, don’t 
wait until the damage is done any more 
than you w-ould wait for your house to 
burn before getting it insured. 
It cost in one case to spray 53 trees 
for scale three men and team 7 Ya hours, 
$6.56; material, $12.25, or 35 Yt cents per 
tree. In another with arsenate of lead, 
46 trees, 6% hours’ labor, $5.68, and $1.22 
for the lead, or 15 cents per tree. Lime- 
sulphur and arsenate of lead can be used 
together to advantage in some cases. One 
hundred pounds pressure is about enough 
for man power to stand and keep on the 
job. It depends much on conditions, and 
surface of your land whether a power 
sprayer or hand outfit is the more econ¬ 
omical. The general verdict after the lec¬ 
ture was, there is a whole lot to it; we 
are going to look into this more than we 
have jn the past. 
The reports of the Boston convention 
were given out to all members present, and 
dinner was served by the Grange. In the 
afternoon the subject was small fruits by 
a well-known grower, -who gave his ideas 
on the subject and practical hints both 
for the home garden and for market 
growing. He told the best manner of 
growing these in this section and varieties 
which had made good with him, and those 
which had failed or were not suited for 
this locality. One person asked what about 
the Wonderberry, and a general laugh went 
up, showing that the campaign carried 
on a short time ago by this paper on 
this subject had borne good fruit in this 
section, the fruit of education. It is a 
well-known fact that there is room and 
market for more small fruits of nearly all 
kinds in New England than are grown 
at the present time. This is one of the 
things we should take advantage of both 
for our health and our pockets. And 
this is one of the several great objects 
the Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion is working for; to educate its mem¬ 
bers to meet and taka advantage of this 
condition and profit by it. a. e. p. 
New Life to Grange. 
I would like to have just a word to say 
about the Grange. Our township Grange 
has been in existence for about nine years, 
and until this year we have always met 
around at the homes of the different mem¬ 
bers. This in a way has been very pleas¬ 
ant, but not conductive to the best good 
of the order, for of course there were uo 
conveniences for putting on the degree 
work. Any new member taken in was told 
the secret work and passwords, and if they 
could remember it, all right, but they had 
no chance to put their knowledge into prac¬ 
tice. My husband, who was Master last 
year and re-elected, has been in favor of 
renting a hall for some time, and he has 
kept everlastingly at it in various ways, 
until this year more seemed in favor of 
so doing and the vote carried. We used 
to have a membership of over SO but the 
interest had seemed to be lacking for the 
last two or three years, and sometimes 
there would hardly be enough present to 
fill the officers’ places. We have rented a 
hall for the year at a cost of $50; that 
Includes all conveniences, also fuel, lights, 
use of the kitchen and dishes. Our first 
meeting in the hall was installation of of¬ 
ficers and we held it in the day time. We 
also had six new members to take the 
degree work. We invited a neighboring 
Grange to meet with us. Their Master 
did the installing and their degree team 
did that work. We had 85 present. The 
forenoon was taken up with the business 
that had to be attended to, then a thor¬ 
oughly good chicken pie dinner, furnished 
by our Grange. 
After dinner, first installation, then the 
degree work, and the way that team did 
their work was certainly an inspiration, 
and could not help but leave its impress 
on our minds, both old and young for 
good and a greater desire to better our 
Grange. We have determined to get up a 
degree team in our Grange, and hope to 
do as well as, if not better than our neigh¬ 
bors. I for one would not be in favor of 
shortening any ceremonies connected with 
the Grange. We have taken in 10 new 
members since the first of the year, and 
have five more names to vote on. We have 
an orchestra and some very good talent in 
other lines, and we are bound to have 
some good meetings and more members. 
“The more the merrier,” and everyone wil¬ 
ling to do their share is what makes a 
success of anything. Hurrah for a good 
live Grange! mrs. r. m. s. 
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