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THE RURAL. NEW-VOKKEK 
October 11, 
FALL PLANTING OF PEACH TREES 
Previous to last Fall I had planted 
only a few peach trees several times in 
the Fall, but with good results. Our 
available peach lancT is on a mountain 
slope, has about the right elevation and 
is protected by woods adjoining. Win¬ 
ter killing of peach wood very rarely oc¬ 
curs and I felt convinced that Fall plant¬ 
ing would be a success on a more exten¬ 
sive scale. As I am always rushed with 
work in Spring I decided to try it any- 
Avay, so I wrote to the nursery with 
which I deal, asking them to ship me a 
block of trees for Fall planting. In due 
time the trees came and were soon plant¬ 
ed, but not pruned till Spring. We had 
THE FRUIT-PICKER'S SCISSORS. 
Fig. 421. See Page 1103. 
a comparatively mild Winter and I was 
confident that the trees would start ’way 
ahead of the Spring-planted ones. Then 
towards Spring I ordered from the same 
firm another bunch of trees, half as 
many as the previous order. Spring was 
early, so that the trees arrived and were 
planted before April first. Both plantings 
had plenty of moisture in the Spring, 
but the Summer has been quite dry at 
times. When pruning the Fall planted 
trees I was surprised to find many of 
the tops dead, evidently frozen, while 
the stems or trunks were green. I was 
also surprised to see the Spring-planted 
THE FRUIT-PICKER’S BASKET. 
Fig. 422. See Page 1103. 
trees start out ahead of the Fall-planted 
ones. Nearly one-fourth of the latter 
failed to grow, though some of them 
made a feeble start, only to dry up later. 
Not one of the Spring-planted ones was 
lost. The Elberta and Salway were hard¬ 
est to start, while Niagara, Wonderful 
and Beers’ Smock came through, all right. 
Among 10 varieties about one-fourth of 
the trees were lost as stated. 
In correspondence with the nursery¬ 
men this Summer they agreed with me 
that Fall planting of peach trees is not 
advisable, for many orcliardists of which 
they knew had poor results from such 
planting. Of course I would have ap¬ 
preciated this information earlier in the 
game, but as I had not asked them for 
advice I suppose they thought it ex¬ 
pedient to let me find it out for myself, 
especially as they have offered to re¬ 
place the dead trees with live ones the 
next time I order, without my having 
asked them to do so. I feel that they 
have acted the part of reliable nursery¬ 
men. Of course I shall order my peach 
trees for Spring delivery after this un¬ 
less I learn a better way to make them 
grow in Fall. However, I do not re¬ 
gard this one experience as conclusive 
evidence that Fall planting of peach trees 
is of necessity always a failure. 
Pennsylvania. david plank. 
R. N.-Y.—We have had varying re¬ 
sults with Fall planting. The best ap¬ 
ple trees we have were planted in early 
November, but the trees were well rip¬ 
ened when they came. Other trees with 
soft unripened wood were killed by freez¬ 
ing. We think therefore that the char¬ 
acter of the tree determines the matter. 
In other ways it makes little difference 
whether a nursery tree is grown North 
or South if it is of good size and healthy. 
For Fall planting we prefer Northern- 
grown trees, as they are more likely to 
have mature wood. 
INDIANA FARM NOTES. 
In this section, the season now drawing 
toward a close has, on the whole, been up 
to the average. We have lately had a 
slow, soaking rain, which has greatly im¬ 
proved the pasture, and pastures of all 
kinds are now in better condition than 
they have been since June. It is notice¬ 
able that farmers are taking unusual 
pains this season in the preparation of 
their wheat ground, and it is also a fact 
that more fertilizer will be used than 
heretofore. The acreage to be sown to 
wheat is much larger than last year. A 
variety of wheat much raised in this sec¬ 
tion is the Fultz-Mediterranean. It is 
claimed to be much superior to the pure 
Mediterranean. Late potatoes will not 
be a very good crop and the supply of 
the early ones is nearly exhausted, the 
price at present being $1.25, retail per 
bushel. There is much inquiry for milch 
cows, dairying being considered as good 
a line of farming as any. Prices of cows 
are quite high, even grades selling for 
$75. An unusually good demand exists 
for dairy products, the condensery at 
present paying $1.50 per 100 pounds for 
four-per-cent milk, with prospects that 
the price will go up to $1.70 before the 
holidays. Our farmers are to be con¬ 
gratulated in the interest they are taking 
in Alfalfa. The acreage has grown quite 
rajjidly the past season. Three cuttings 
were made this season from fields sown 
last year, but owing to the dry weather 
in June, the second crop was quite light. 
The appearance of a destructive worm in 
some fields is causing some anxiety. The 
county expert is investigating the matter, 
and says the pest is known as the army 
web-worm. It spins a web over the heads 
of the Alfalfa and then eats the leaves. 
A green moth lays the eggs on the plant, 
and a green worm with black spots on its 
back is hatched. The weather during 
August was very hot—often being 98 and 
100 degrees in the shade—and it is be¬ 
lieved that this has had a great deal to 
do with hastening the hatching of the 
eggs. Whether the pest can be kept down 
by harrowing the Alfalfa early in the 
Spring so as to draw the worms from 
their places of abode before their time, as 
advocated by our expert, remains to be 
seen. D. L. 
Elkhart Co., Ind. 
Beef cattle on foot, four to six cents; 
hogs, six to seven cents; yearling steers, 
$15 to $18 each ; milch cows and calves, 
$30 to $45. We have no first-class dairy 
cows here. Good butter, 25; corn, new. 
60; wheat, 72; oats, 50; hay, prairie, $12 
per ton. Apples, windfalls, $1 per 
bushel, best grade, $1.50; peaches, $1.50; 
blackberries, $2 per 24-quart case, short 
quarts; strawberries from $1.50 to $2.50 
per case. Irish potatoes, $1: sweets, 
$1.25 now, will soon be less. Tomatoes 
peddled bring about 51.40 to $1.00 per 
bushel. Cotton seed, $1S per ton. T. F. 
Stuart, Okla. 
The acreage of Spanish tobacco com¬ 
pared with 1912 is about 75 per cent. 
The crop as it now is is one of the best 
for years, where it was set early. The 
late setting is no good, only about 25 per 
'cent went in the sheds early. My to¬ 
bacco is almost cured now, while I have 
neighbors who have not cut a stalk yet 
(September 21). I can quote no prices 
on 1913 Spanish, as no offers have been 
made, but tobacco men are out looking 
in sheds on pretense of hunting old. 
WaynesviUe, O. \v. A. C. 
Chicago and Sioux City markets gov¬ 
ern the prices of cattle and hogs here. 
I ship my cattle and hogs sometimes to 
Chicago and sometimes to Sioux City. 
Milch cows here sell for from $50 to $70 
per head; calves from $15 to 30; two- 
year and tliree-year-old steers from $40 
to $70; hogs now about $7.50 per cwt. 
Butter at the store (take it out in trade), 
30; cream at the shipping station, 28 
cents per pound butter fat; eggs, 20. Al¬ 
most all vegetables four cents per pound; 
potatoes, $1 per bushel. Very little fruit 
raised here; some young orchards just 
commencing to bear. Corn, 02; oats, 
33; flax. $1.20. e. l. c. 
Chamberlain, S. D. 
FRUIT GROWERS!! 
ATTENTION!! 
This is the year to have apples. The 
value of thorough spraying is now real¬ 
ized. You can’t do it with a hand pump, 
neither can you do it with a worn-out 
or inefficient power sprayer. The 
“Friend” Co. at Gasport is still selling 
machine*—new and used—at special 
early prices to induce deals now (before 
winter) at a saving of more than five 
times the interest on your investment. 
Many prominent growers have bought. 
Write or call at once. 
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GASPORT, Niagara County, N. Y. 
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So accurate they are used for weighing 
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Never freeze—the Patented Bearings are 
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GINSENG SEED FOR SALE 
500,000 home grown seed at $1.00 
per 1,000 in lots of 5,000 or over, 
J. A. THOMAS. • 4 Bellevue Place, Auburn, N. V. 
Pekkewa Dl«i»4e- Beets - Lettuce, Kobl-rabi- 
liaDDagc rldllTS $| per 1000. Tomato, Sweet 
Potatoes. $1.50 per 1000. Cauliflower. Peppers. $2 per 
1000. Sent! for list. J. C. SCHMIDT. Bristol, Pa. 
FOR SALE-^fe 
H. K. CKANDALL, 
RYE ANI) WINTER 
mixed, S3 per bn. 
- Wilawana, Fa. 
Standard Apple Barrels 
Car lots or less. ROBT. GILLIES, Medina, N. Y. 
Fall-Bearing Strawberries 
I grow the best tested variety—it is the " Superb.’, 
20 plants, $1.00; 100 plants, $3.00. Order now. 
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FRUIT TREES flND PLANTS at Reasonable Prices. 
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TREES FOR FALL PLANTING 
Direct from our Nurseries. Our immense 
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etc., enables us to quote lowest prices. 
Write at once for Catalog and Prices. 
L'AMOREAUX NURSERY CO.. - Schoharie, N. Y. 
700,000 Fruit Trees half agent’s prices. Strong, 
healthy, all first quality and guaranteed true. All 
Dansville grown and Fresh Bug. No San Jose Scale. 
Special bargains for fall planting. Illus. Catalog free. 
DENTON, WILLIAMS & DENTON, Wholesale Nursi-rymon 
as Eliu Street, Dannville, N. Y. 
HITCHINGS APPLE 
NEW RED TWENTY OUNCE 
Write for history of this apple 
H. S. WILEY & SON, Box C,Cayuga, N. Y. 
I*le-SEED CORN ON 
to 2 pounds. Send 15 cts. for sample ear, pay post¬ 
age and write for prices. S. LAUER, Blaudon. Pa. 
Harrison Catalogue for 1914 
All its fifty pages have been revised, TtT f 
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Light-bearing and occasional-bearing trees are 
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Many trees can be saved that would die before Spring if unspra.yed. 
“SCALECIDE” will positively destroy San Jose and Cottony Maple Scale , 
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