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THE RURAL NEW-VORKKR 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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EXPERIENCE WITH FILBERTS. 
Having had acquaintance with im¬ 
ported filbert plants for the last 11 years 
my conclusion ran contrary to your ad¬ 
vice given on page 1200. Filberts can 
be raised right here in New Jersey and 
kept healthy, but it all depends on what 
interest the man takes in the plants. I 
am surrounded by wild hazels and have 
not lost one of the bushes I take care 
of, personally, from blight. I lost four 
by muskrats undermining the bank of a 
small pond and drowning the plants, and 
one by burning grass. Wet soil and ar¬ 
tificial heat are sure death to filberts. 
As to propagation, I prefer raising from 
nuts. If I plant carefully selected nuts 
00% will come true, some might come in¬ 
ferior -and some will be superior. My 
largest nuts come from seedlings. This 
nut is 10 days later than the others. Has 
climate any influence in ripening? If 
planted in the garden, in rows, the little 
trees will be one foot or higher by Fall. 
If taken out carefully without injuring 
the tap-root they will grow without set¬ 
back, whereas layered plants will sulk 
for about two years until they have a 
tap-root, consequently no tree is lost; be¬ 
sides in a year like the last, a great many 
of the layers die from drought, but seed¬ 
lings came through all right. I have 
about 100 bushes from one to ^11 years 
old of nine different kinds. I planted 
the first of October. GO nuts and 40 the 
middle of the month, my first Fall plant¬ 
ing, and have about 300 or more to go 
in in the Spring. 
Nuts have to be fully ripe and care¬ 
fully selected and kept to insure good 
results. I collect from each tree the nuts 
separately and take the choicest for seed. 
A large nut is always the best seller, but 
some of good medium size with very 
thin shell have a sweetness and flavor 
surpassing all others. Nuts bought from 
the store do not grow. I plant all with 
shell. I had my setbacks and paid for 
my hobby, but am determined more than 
ever not to give up even if I should lose 
some by blight, for where there is a will 
there is a way. n. A. F. 
This man has the right sort of pluck, 
and will probably succeed where others 
would fail. He certainly deserves suc¬ 
cess and may have the best ideas on the 
subject of filbert culture. If the seedlings 
he grows keep close to the parent type, 
they are good enough for practical pur¬ 
poses and the propagation of the plants 
as he grows them is cheap, and they have 
a far better root system than layered 
plants would have. I have seen some 
quite old and prolific filbert bushes in 
New Jersey that were not affected with 
Might and there may be more exemption 
from this disease in some places than in 
others in the Eastern States, but the 
general experience is that sooner or later 
it will affect them. However, severe 
and persistent cutting out of the first 
signs of the blight* may prove practical 
and it is to be hoped that many may suc¬ 
ceed with filberts. II. E. VAN deman. 
Irrigation in Western Kansas. 
[The papers have printed a number of 
reports about irrigation in the dry west¬ 
ern part of Kansas. This work is said 
to give good results in flat, narrow val¬ 
leys through which a stream runs. There 
are many such locations in other parts of 
the country. The following note shows 
what Kansas is doing.] 
The State Agricultural College is as¬ 
sisting in the irrigation movement in 
western Kansas. As you are no doubt 
aware, western Kansas is a great fertile 
prairie .but on account of our climatical 
conditions our rainfall does not afford 
sufficient supply of moisture for the prof¬ 
itable growing of crops every year. We 
have not been so very aggressive in the 
development of irrigation in western Kan¬ 
sas, because we have such a large terri¬ 
tory of land that can easily be cultivated 
by dry farming methods. Western Kan¬ 
sas has a number of water courses, but 
these are dry during a greater portion 
of the year. Along some of these streams 
there are wide valleys which are under¬ 
laid with strata of sand and gravel, and 
it is in this sand and gravel that we en¬ 
November UP, 
counter large quantities of water. There 
are, perhaps, three or four million acres 
of this shallow water land in western 
Kansas, all of which can be economically 
irrigated by pumping. It has only been 
within the last four or five years 
that any development along this line has 
been carefully carried out. The results 
while not satisfactory uniformly, have 
been very encouraging, and I feel that it 
will only be a few more years until the 
shallow water area of our State will be 
irrigated. 
In many places the people in the State 
are filing on Avater rights from our natu¬ 
ral water courses. At Great Bend, Kan¬ 
sas, a number of farmers have filed for 
water rights out of the Walnut River. 
During the extremely dry season through 
which we have just passed this creek af¬ 
forded water enough even in the driest 
weather to irrigate more than a thousand 
acres of land; in ordinary seasons it 
would irrigate a much larger area. This 
valley, like all of the others in the west¬ 
ern part of the State, is underlaid with an 
underflow that may be encountered at 
depths ranging from 15 to 40 feet. 
Very cordially yours, 
H. B. Walker, 
State Irrigation Engineer. 
Angers Quince. 
In reply to A. M. of New York City, 
asking about what to do with some little 
quince trees that -were imported from 
Holland, by a neighbor to use as stock 
for dwarf pears, and given to him be¬ 
cause the man left and did not need 
them, they are of the Angers variety, 
which is very commonly used for that 
purpose. The Angers is a French variety 
that is not very large in fruit and ripens 
rather late, but it is usually good to 
bear. It would be well to bud or graft 
at least a part of the trees to some bet¬ 
ter varieties, such as the Orange, Meech 
and Champion. The soil* in which the 
trees are to be planted should be rea¬ 
sonably fertile and kept well cultivated. 
In about five or six years from planting 
they should begin to bear, and with 
proper care should continue to do so. 
H. E. VAN DEMAN. 
Protecting Tree Trunk. —An Ohio 
reader asks about using lime-sulphur at 
the strength of five water to one’^con- 
centrated lime-sulpliur as a paint or 
smear to keep vermin from gnawing fruit 
trees. We have never used such a wash, 
nor can we find anyone who has used it 
at this strength. We might try it on a 
few trees as an experiment but could 
not advise its use on a large scale. Some 
of the mechanical protectors will pay 
better. A smear of fresh blood on the 
tree will keep rabbits away and the Ohiq 
Experiment Station recommends this 
wash or smear: Sulphur four pounds; 
yellow ocher, four pounds; flour, four 
pounds; linseed oil, 4 pounds; turpen¬ 
tine, four ounces; asefoetida, four ounces; 
dissolve in one pint alcohol; six eggs. 
Stir with these materials enough butter¬ 
milk to make a thick mush; then add suf¬ 
ficient sweet milk to make a thin paste. 
Apply with a brush. 
CROPS. 
Wheat So; oats 40; rye 60; hay $14 
per ton. Apples $2 to $3 per barrel; 
potatoes 50. E. B. T. 
Conklin, Mich. 
Apples, per bushel 80 to $1.10 ; pears, 
Bartlett, $1.50 Kieffer, 60 to 70; pota¬ 
toes 75 to 00; tomatoes 40 to 50 ; onions, 
per cwt, $1.90 to $2. Q. C. 
Brunswick, O. 
Potatoes 60 to 65 at stations; red kid¬ 
ney beans $2.75 per bushel; white $1.90 
to '.$2; oats 50; hay $12 a ton. There 
is no fruit in this section this year, and 
the produce buyers are not buying any. 
Bennington, N. Y. F. P. 
Wheat, per bushel 90; oats 50; corn 
78; potatoes, white, $1; sweet, 80; hay 
$17 per ton; apples 50 cents a basket; 
eggs 32; celery 10 cents a bunch; cab¬ 
bage seven cents a head, very scarce. 
Easton, Md. T. M. W. 
Clover hay in mow, $10; Timothy hay, 
in mow, $12; wheat, at warehouse, 90; 
corn, 55; oats, 40; clover seed, $6; Tim¬ 
othy seed, $2; potatoes shipped here (at 
car), 90. Apples but few in this locality, 
from $3.75 to $4.50 per barrel. Butter, 
best country, 30; eggs, 30. Cattle, best 
shipper, $7 per hundred ; hogs, $7.25. 
Canal Winchester, O. c. v. M. 
Eggs 30; comb honey, fancy, 15; cab¬ 
bage $1.25 per hundred. Wheat 75 cents 
a bushel. Alfalfa hay $7 per ton in 
stack. Following are the prices on things 
that have to be shipped in : Potatoes $1.40 
to $1.75 per hundred; corn 75 cents per 
bushel; apples $1 per bushel; peaches 80 
t.b $1 per box; grapes 35. Not much 
fruit or garden crops raised here. 
Ft. Morgan, Col. J. w. J. 
Prices paid to farmers at this date, 
Nov. 17. are about as follows: Potatoes, 
55 to 60; oats, 36; hogs, live, six to 
seven cents per pound ; dressed, eight to 
nine; dressed beef, 10; Spring chickens, 
12, live; Spring chickens, dressed, 14; 
old hens, 10 and 12; creamery butter, 30 
to 35; milk at retail, seven cents per 
quart; hay, $12 to $14 per ton ; cows, 
$40 to $100 for common and grades. 
Antigo, Wis. E. D. G. 
Corn ranges from fields of nothing but 
fodder to about 18 bushels per acre. Ear 
corn, 55; wheat, 60. Small gx-ain was 
very poor; a few fields of wheat made 
15 to 18 bushels per acre. Dry weather 
and grasshoppers damaged all crops. The 
garden crops were a failure in our neigh¬ 
borhood. Potatoes are worth $1 per 
bushel. There is not much fruit raised in 
this country, and not any in this vicinity. 
We pay from $1.15 per bushel for apples 
at the car on track at Arnold to $2 at the 
stores. J. w. C. 
Arnold, Neb. 
Producers appreciate the good roads 
this season for hauling potatoes and other 
farm products. Almost all crops were 
short this year, potatoes not over one- 
third crop, average 50 to 100 bushels per 
acre; very small in some fields at that; 
worth 70 cents at railroad now. Buck¬ 
wheat very poor, six. to 15 bushels per 
acre. Corn, hardly worth mentioning; 
all crops badly frozen Sept. 10. which 
stopped all growth. Fall feed was very 
short and not very good; cows badly 
shrunk in milk flow. Some farmers are 
feeding silage uoav. The average farmer 
has a hopeful spirit, and is looking for 
better crops and times in the near future. 
They are doing considerable Fall plowing 
and getting readv for the Winter. 
Elk Creek, N. Y. v. s. c. 
The following prices were paid to farm¬ 
ers of this district for the Aveek ending 
November 15: Wheat. 90; old corn. 70 
to 72; noAV corn. 53 to 65; oats, 38 to 
45; barley, 50 to 55; rye, 55; Buck¬ 
wheat, $1. Apples, 75 to $1 bushel, good 
ones scarce; Kieffer pears, 50 to 60; 
cabbage, 70 cents per dozen heads; sweet 
pumpkins,* five to 10 cents each ; sweet 
cider, 20 cents a gallon; turnips, 50 
cents a bushel; kraut, 10 cents a quart; 
dressed chicken, 38; live chicken, 15; 
fresh pork, 35 to 38; dressed duck, 38; 
mixed hay, $12 to $34 and $15, according 
to amount of Timothy ; no straight Tim¬ 
othy for sale. I am working for a gro¬ 
cery company and get quite an inside 
A’iew of this 35-cent dollar. Cabbage Ave 
retail at three cents per pound; Ave buy 
for one cent a pound; chickens, live. 33, 
and sell for 35, live, and 38 to 20 dressed. 
Potatoes are mighty scarce. Our last 
car cost 71 cents in the cellar. We sell 
for 90 cents a bushel and 25 cents per 
peck. h. 
Fort Wayne, Ind. 
The Fungi that Cause Plant Disease. 
By F. L. Stevens, Professor of Vege¬ 
table Patholoy and Dean, College of 
Agriculture, Mayaguez, Porto Rico. 
This is a technical work, intended to 
introduce to the student the cryptogamic 
parasites affecting economic plants in the 
United States. Written purely from the 
scientific standpoint, it discusses and 
identifies these Ioav forms of plant life 
AA'hich in turn prey upon the higher ones. 
Published by the Macmillan Company, 
New York ; 754 pages, numerous illustra¬ 
tions. Price, $4.00. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth aud 
those Avho till it.”— Adv. 
Apple Trees that 
Produce Bi^ Crops 
An Ohio apple orchard of l 1 /? 
acres has produced in the past three 
years 1,945 bushels of fruit, giving a 
net profit of $815. This is better than 
any farm crop you ever grew—five 
times what you can get from corn, 
or wheat or potatoes. 
Harrison Fruit Trees Are 
[ Budded from Bearing Orchards ! 
These trees have the bearing quali¬ 
ties of the parents—that’s one reason 
why our trees “make good” under the 
hardest conditions. Then, too, we sell 
only the trees avc grow—trees that are 
grown to produce big yields. 
Our 1914 Catalogue tells about our 
methods. Fifty pages, many pictures, a 
book of facta for fruit-growers. Write 
toduy for a free copy. 
HARRISONS’ NURSERIES 
Box 394, Berlin, Maryland 
HAMILTON MADE 
SPRAYING HOSE 
Will spray your trees for several years for one 
cast One trial sufficient to convince. 
14-inch PERFECT SPRAY HOSE-6 ply 
50 feet, pieces coupled. 
14-inch STERLINGWORTH reel spray hose 
Made in 500 feet lengths. 
Either grade will stand 600 lbs. test and will be 
satisfactory for any power or hand sprayer. 
S15.00 for 100 feet; cash with order. Freight 
paid to your station, ^-inch Perfect spray hose, 
SI .00 per 100 ft. less than Vinch. Shipped 
direct from factory the day order is received. 
HAMILTON RUBBER MFG. CO. 
TRENTON - - - NEW JERSEY 
Morrill & 
Morley Way 
Tho ECLIPSE Spray Pump 
has been in service 20 years. 
Durable,efficient,economical. 
The U. S. Department of 
Agriculture uses it, and 
you can make it profit- 
ablo in your orchnrd, vine¬ 
yard or potato field. 
Catalog Bent free, on 
request. 
Morrill 8 Morley 
Mlg. Co., Box 4, 
Bcoton Harbor, Mich. 
Eclipse Spray Pum 
“FRIEND” SPRAYERS MAKE GOOD 
“Friend” Mfg. Co., Gasport,N. Y. Muir,Mich., Nov. 11,1913 
Gentlemen:—Our outfit, afterhandling our 40-acre orchard and 
Rome outside for two years, is in the best of shape. You may 
figure that we will boost the “Friend” at all times. 
Very truly yours, N. B. Hayks 
San Jose Scale Killer 
KIL-O-SCALE is the most reliable rem¬ 
edy for scale. Ready for use by simply mix¬ 
ing Avith water. Also Lime sulphur and 
Spraying Outfits. Write for catalogue. 
Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa. 
v H There will NEVER he enough nuin- 
H her one apples—AIRWAYS too many 
U cider apples. Don’t waste your time 
ij and your trees growing inferior grades. 
[ tt Use “Scalccide” the one sure spray for , 
V H San Jose scale, and produce number j 
M H one fruit. “Scalecide" is 100# efficient li 
m/I a ST a ' nst scale and has marked fungi- /£ 
By/ cidal properties. Used by best orchard- /fe 
Wf ists the world over. Endorsed by Ex- ISS 
W/ periinent Stations. Our SERVICE /fl 
JJ DEPARTMENT furnishes everything /n 
/ for the orchard. Write today to Dept. 
' for new booklet—“Pratt's Hand- 
book for Fruit Growers” and “Scale- 
cide the Tree Saver.” Both free. /MIS, 5® 
B. G PRATT COMPANY /A Bor 
50 Church Street New York City /JHr 
S >VRKT CLOVEK SEED—The true white blooming variety. 
(MolilotUB Alba.) Write for fro o iamplo of n«w crop, 
seed and latest prices. DEN BY FIELD, Sheuanfloah, low* 
Muriate of Potash 
for 
Home Mixing 
Fertilizers 
WILCOX FERTILIZER CO. 
Manufacturers of Wilcox Fertilizer 
“Fertilizers that Fertilize” 
MYSTIC CONNECTICUT 
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'Pile Rose, Parsons. 1.00 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
363 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
300% FERTILIZER SALE INCREASE 
W. F. Hamilton, R. R. 1, Syracuse, N. Y., increased sale of 
MARTIN SLAUGHTERHOUSE FERTILIZERS from 50 tons in 1912 
to 150 in 1913. C. E. Campbell, Branchport, N. Y., increased from 
125 to 247 tons. Responsible Agents wanted at once. Prices right. 
D. B. MARTIN CO., 706 Penn Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
