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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 27, 
KILL THE CATERPILLAR EGGS. 
In most parts of the East the past 
season has witnessed a fearful scourge 
of tent caterpillars. In many sections 
they have practically ruined the fruit 
trees for the season, and it is now the 
proper time to begin fighting them for 
another year. First of all, it is desir¬ 
able to cut out and destroy wild cherry 
trees. These make favorite breeding 
places for the caterpillar. Last year, 
through our own neighborhood, these 
wild cherry trees were alive with the 
pest, and in many places they were al¬ 
most entirely responsible for its breeding. 
During the last of June or first of July, 
caterpillars lay their eggs in masses upon 
small twigs of the apple or cherry. A 
picture of such a cluster of eggs is shown 
at Fig. 400. There are usually about 200 
eggs to the cluster, and after laying them 
EGG CLUSTER OF TENT CATER¬ 
PILLAR. Fiu. 406. 
the parent moth covers these eggs with a 
thick fluid which hardens and gives them 
a varnished appearance. This fluid pro¬ 
tects the eggs from the weather and from 
other insects, and also provides food for 
the tiny caterpillars when they first 
hatch out. The first step, therefore, 
toward killing off these insects is to de¬ 
stroy the egg masses. They may fre¬ 
quently be found in large numbers upon 
the apple and cherry tree, and whenever 
seen, they should be cut away and 
burned. It is an excellent plan to teach 
the children to hunt for them and cut 
them down, for a child once interested 
in this matter will find and destroy thou¬ 
sands of the eggs, and greatly reduce the 
next year’s crop. It is far better to kill 
the eggs now rather than to let them 
hatch, and then be forced to fight the 
adult insect next Spring. 
FRUIT PROSPECTS IN WAYNE CO., N. Y. 
Apple buyers are now present in 
Wayne County in large numbers. Last 
season the buyers operated more from 
points farther west. The prevailing quo¬ 
tations are not far from $2.75 per barrel 
for Greenings and $3 for Baldwins and 
other varieties. A number of sales from 
this section are reported as being made 
on that basis. From Wolcott also come 
reports of sales of a number of orchards. 
So far the Baldwins have not sized up 
to normal, probably from the effects of 
the extended drought. As they are of the 
later varieties some time yet remains for 
them to fill out. The crop will be under 
the average for this section and many of 
the growers are reporting fungus, espe¬ 
cially on Baldwins. Early peaches are 
bringing 75 cents at the warehouses. 
There is apparently a good supply. Both 
color and flavor are good. Last season 
continued deficiency in sunshine prevent¬ 
ed the natural color as well as held back 
the flavor. The last of the Bartlett 
pears is now about in. The crop was ex¬ 
tremely heavy and somewhat undersized. 
The price paid for most of the crop was 
$1 per 100. The plum yield was also 
heavy, dropping the price down to about 
40 cents per bushel. At North Rose the 
dealers shut down on receipts because of 
the glut. The canneries used the over¬ 
supply at modest quotations. The fruit 
thus far received at the canneries and 
warehouses has been of fair size and good 
flavor. The August forwardings from 
Sodus station, one of the five shipping 
points of the town, in car lots are as 
follows: Plums, five cars; pears, four; 
peaches, four; apples, three; canned 
goods, 32; onions, three; lettuce, five; 
dried berries, one; 11 cars of baskets 
and barrels have been released and 19 
cars of basket and barrel material re¬ 
ceived. A. II. P. 
Potatoes light crop, selling at $1 per 
bushel; corn average; hay very light. 
Oats and wheat good crop. Peaches mid¬ 
dle of August sold at $1 per 15-quart 
basket. Late cabbage looking very well. 
Butter sells at 30 cents per pound. Eggs, 
35 cents. E. l). 
Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
Horses plentiful* and lower than last 
year, good horses bringing from $120 to 
$150. Cows in demand and 33^ per cent 
higher than last year on account of milk 
station being established at different sec¬ 
tions of the county, 3.8 to 4.2 per cent 
milk bringing $1.40 per cwt. The Lo¬ 
cust Grove creamery will close down for 
good September 15, its patrons going to 
the shipping station at Kennedyvillc. On 
account of dry and hot weather milk has 
dropped off one-fifth. Wheat crop poor, 
both quantity and quality below normal; 
oats almost a failure; hay crop short. 
Biggest crop of potatoes ever grown in 
this county was grown this year, number 
of farmers going into tne business. 
Farmers are cutting corn, beginning this 
week. Crop 75 per cent of average. Lots 
of farm sales, many farmers quitting on 
account of the scarcity of labor. Toma¬ 
toes blighting badly, crop both light^and 
small size: Wheat, 86-87; corn, 85 at 
local mills; oats, 50; potatoes. 70; toma¬ 
toes, $9 per ton; peaches, $1 per 4-8 
basket. Eggs, 27; butter, 25 to 30; 
chickens, 16 to 18; ducks, 18 to 20; milk, 
$1.40 per cwt.; calves, 10 cents per 
pound. Hogs scarce and high. Cows, 
$75 to $100. In about 30 days more the 
State road will be completed, then there* 
will be a continuous improved road from 
Locust Grove to Easton, Talbot County, 
a distance of 50 miles. s. J. C. 
Locust Grove, Md. 
Hay harvest and thrashing just com¬ 
pleted. Oats thrashed out only two- 
thirds crop; no wheat raised here. Most 
farmers busy on road improvement in 
Knottsville district where the big county 
crusher is at work. This district is ex¬ 
ceedingly fortunate in having over one 
million dollars worth of taxable railway 
and corporation property. Yet the peo¬ 
ple are very conservative in regard to 
issuance of bonds. Cattle cannot be pur¬ 
chased at all. Lambs, six cents; chick¬ 
ens, 18; oats, 45 to 50; butter, 25; eggs, 
25; potatoes, $1; crop poor; peaches 
(extra fancy) selling in Grafton at 50 
cents per dozen. Apples coming in via 
Baltimore commission merchants, selling 
at $4 per bushel retail and very poor ones 
at that. Producer to consumer is the 
motto of local gardeners and very little 
produce is sold at wholesale. The writer 
last Spring planted a large orchard for 
a large coal company. A recent visit 
to the property emphasized more forcibly 
then ever before the folly of city men 
going back to the land. In this case 
men were of unlimited means, everything 
pointing to a profitable crop of potatoes 
and corn. But the “cut down expense” 
order went out, and as a result of labor- 
shortage several hundred dollars have 
been lost because those men seemed to 
think that “farming” is easy, that pota¬ 
toes only need be planted and then like 
Topsy, “just growed.” That particular 
orchard is a fine illustration of the truth 
that a farm more than any other business 
needs the close personal attention of the 
owner, and that owner needs to know 
how. G. G. M. 
Taylor Co., W. Va. 
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Orchards That Pay 
Commercial orchards should pay five times as 
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each year after the tenth, and $250 to $500 when 
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HARRISONS' NURSERIES, Box 394, Berlin, Maryland 
FRUIT TREES 
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Box 139 Rochester, N.Y. 
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FRONT BACK the barrel before open¬ 
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SCALEC1DE 
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TRADE MARK REG. U. S. PAT. OFFICE 
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Many trees can be saved that would die before Spring if unsprayed. 
“SCALECIDE” will positively destroy San Jose and Cottony Maple Scale , 
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