1913. 
'l'HE KURAIj NEW-YORKER 
1206 
CROPS 
PENNSYLVANIA APPLE NOTES. 
The apple crop varies greatly in Centra 
Pennsylvania this year. Some farm or¬ 
chards were well loaded with fruit, while 
others within a few miles did not pro¬ 
duce enough for family use. This is 
largely due to elevation, as we had heavy 
iate Spring frosts, and the lower loca¬ 
tions were of course hardest hit. Not¬ 
withstanding reports from over the coun¬ 
try that the apple crop is not large, buy¬ 
ers refuse to pay over 50 to 60 cents the 
bushel for Winter apples here. Varieties 
like Smokehouse and others ready for im 
mediate use command 75 cents in the 
local market. The Codling moth larva 
was busy this Summer, and there were 
many “windfalls” before picking time in 
orchards where there were apples. Most 
of these were wormy, otherwise not near 
so many would have fallen. Of course 
when apples are nearly ready to pick 
high winds will blow down some sound 
apples. One good dose of poison admin¬ 
istered at the proper time has very 
materially checked the ravages of the 
Codling moth, and farmers generally 
seem well pleased with the operation. 
There is surely a great contrast between 
trees properly sprayed and those not 
sprayed at all for this insect. It is of 
course quite impossible to hit all the 
worms with one spraying, but where 
trees produce a full setting of fruit, the 
windfalls will amount to only a proper 
thinning. But I have seen unsprayed 
trees, and especially Baldwins, with 
about three-fourths of their crop on the 
ground before picking time, and prac¬ 
tically every apple wormy. 
The San Jose scale is still with us, 
and more plentiful than ever. The ap¬ 
ples in most orchards show the character¬ 
istic scale marks, while some are so badly 
affected as to be almost unsalable. Un¬ 
favorable weather conditions and other 
causes resulted in very little spraying be¬ 
ing done for scale last dormant season, 
ind nothing was done during the Summer 
towards checking the scale. Thus the 
scale insects have had a picnic of it, and 
have apparently made good use of their 
opportunity to feed and multiply. The 
“new” parasite has not yet made its 
appearance here, or at least not that I 
can discover. These gentlemen do not 
know what they are missing by not visit¬ 
ing our neighborhood, as we have plenty 
for them to eat, and will give them a 
hearty welcome. Some effort may be 
made here next Summer to propagate the 
parasite, though I am inclined to believe 
that until Nature fetches them around 
they will hardly prove a success. In the 
meantime we expect to spray with lime- 
ulpliur, and if anything, apply the solu¬ 
tion stronger than before. We know 
by experience what spraying will do. but 
we do not yet know about the parasite, 
and so cannot depend on it till further 
developments. david plank. 
Pennsylvania. 
Eggs 20: cream 25; potatoes $1 to 
81.20 per bushel; Spring chickens 12; 
hens 10; no ducks or geese raised here. 
This is a dry farming district, 150 miles 
cast of Denver. • It has been a very 
dry hot season, gardens almost total 
failure. All field crops very short, feed 
very scarce. I am on a Government 
claim of 320 acres; this is a new county, 
and there is no fruit except that shipped 
in. C. Y. 
Cole, Col. 
In common with most sections of the 
Stat§, Tioga Co., N. Y., suffered the 
most severe and prolonged drought during 
the past season that it has been the mis¬ 
fortune of any of its inhabitants to re¬ 
member. A killing frost June 10 and 
one Sept. 10 set the limits to the growing 
season and gave the county just three 
months of Summer during 1913; may we 
never see another like it. In spite of 
all this, some limited sections received 
occasional showers during the Summer 
and produced crops of average abundanep. 
In general, however, the hay crop was 
good, oats were very light, early pota¬ 
toes were practically a failure, late po¬ 
tatoes not all dug and ranging from noth¬ 
ing, to a fair crop in favored localities 
which escaped the frost, corn crop light 
and frosted before being cut, buckwheat 
very light, apples few, cabbage poor, new 
seeding poor. Milk goes to New York at 
no advance over last season’s prices. Be¬ 
cause of shortened forage crops, incrcas- 1 
'“S Price of grain, and necessity of early 
tail feeding, cost of production will be 
increased. The Dairymen’s League is be¬ 
ing organized throughout the county and 
nnds the farmers in a very receptive 
mood. They see their finish if they don’t 
organize. Local prices received by the 
armors: Hay .$10 to $15 per ton, pota- 
toes 6.j offered, none selling; buckwheat 
_ t.it) per cwt.; dressed pork 11; veal 
J'. live weight; butter 37; eggs -18 for 
'' lute, brown about five cents less. Milk 
f' tober $1.70, and November $1.80 per 
"’itli a possible 10 cents additional 
or barn score and another 10 cents for 
high test in butter fat. Most farmers 
c, one, and some both of these premiums, 
•o-tny farms selling to Westerners, $15 to 
t !lcre for the least desirable, $50 
jo $100 per acre for those ranking as 
hm class. M. B. D. 
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