ism. 
1347 
High-grade New York Spitzenburgs. 
The problem of growing prime Spitzen- 
burg apples in New York seems to have 
been solved by Glenn H. Tinklepaugh, 
of Sodus, who this year will have one 
carload of fancy fruit from about 25 
trees. The fruit has been inspected a 
number of times by buyers who have un¬ 
animously pronounced it the finest Spitz- 
enburg stock seen this season in the 
State. So much praise was given this 
fruit that Mr. Tinklepaugh has sent five 
barrels to Chicago for the mid-Winter 
fruit show to be held there. The ex¬ 
hibit will be shown on plates. This 
grower takes great pride in this section 
as an “apple area” and insisted when the 
arrangements were perfected that each 
plate should bear the placard, “Grown at 
Sodus, N. Y.” These Spitzenburg trees 
have been bearing for the last nine years 
and have uniformly presented a worthy 
crop, this year being the banner season. 
There are on the farm over 0,000 fruit 
trees of various kinds and ages. Over 
2,000 young trees will come into bearing 
next year. The farm lies in close prox¬ 
imity to Lake Ontario and while this is a 
factor in its productivity, scientific man¬ 
agement is the force that is counting 
heavily in the success of the big fruit 
farm. See picture, page 1343. a. ii. p. 
THE RURAL 
Limitations in Regard to Debts. 
Will you let me know how many 
years it has to be before a debt is out¬ 
lawed in the State of Ohio? w. o. 
Strictly speaking, a debt is never “out¬ 
lawed.” There is always a moral obli¬ 
gation to pay, but to put an end to litiga¬ 
tion all of the States of the Union have 
laws limiting the time within which an 
action can be brought to enforce the pay¬ 
ment of a debt, and in the State of Ohio 
an action upon a debt upon an express 
or implied contract which is not in writ¬ 
ing must be brought within six years after 
the cause of action accrued, but it must 
bo remembered that in all these States, 
and in this case, if a payment has been 
made upon the debt within six years last 
past, or a written acknowledgment has 
been made of the debt or a promise to 
pay has been made and signed by the 
party to be charged, then, in those cases, 
an action may be brought on the debt 
within six years after such payment, 
acknowledgment or promise. 
Line Fences. 
Superphosphate and Acid Phosphate. 
One man offers me “superphosphate” 
and another acid phosphate. What is 
the difference between them? s. K. 
For practical purposes there is no dif¬ 
ference. “Superphosphate” may be called 
a polite name for acid phosphate. They 
are obtained by mixing finely ground 
phosphate rock with sulphuric acid. This 
“cuts” the rock and makes the phosphate 
available. In the fertilizer trade a so- 
called “double superphosphate” is made 
as follows: Fine ground phosphate rock 
is treated with a great excess of sul¬ 
phuric acid, so that when the sulphuric 
acid is drawn off it brings with it in the 
form of free phosphoric acid substantially 
all the phosphoric acid that was origin¬ 
ally in combination in the phosphate 
rock. The mixture of sulphuric acid and 
free phosphoric acid is then used to treat 
a fresh quantity of very high-grade finely 
ground phosphate rock. The resulting 
product is a very high grade double super¬ 
phosphate containing about 40% water 
soluble phosphoric acid and 5% reverted 
phosphoric acid, or 45% “available” 
phosphoric acid. Dissolved bones are also 
called superphosphate. 
A purchases a farm on which there 
grows a wooded piece adjoining B’s mea¬ 
dow. A pastures his cows in the wood 
lot and after about three months A’s 
cows get into B’s meadow. B notifies 
A to remove his stock and threatens suit 
if cows are again found in meadow. A 
calls B’s attention to the fact that the 
stone wall is a line fence and that one- 
half of the maintenance belongs to B. 
To this B retorts that by a verbal agree¬ 
ment with a previous owner he main¬ 
tains the part of the wall through which 
the cows did not go. A is willing to do 
his part of maintaining the line fence, 
but thinks B should bear an equal share. 
J. B. 
A verbal agreement made by A’s pre¬ 
decessor with B as to which part of the 
line fence they would separately main¬ 
tain is not binding upon A, and in a dis¬ 
pute of this kind A should call in the 
fence viewers to decide the controversy, 
or A may go ahead and build and main¬ 
tain the fence and then complain to the 
fence viewers who may order B to pay 
his share of the work of the repairing 
done .by A. This would seem to be a 
good case to be decided by the fence 
viewers. 
Grain in the Orchard. 
On page 1207 you give the experience 
of F. R., Ilummelstown, Pa., on allow¬ 
ing grain to mature in the orchard. You 
say “we have seen the same thing in our 
own orchard.” Surely, then, I am not 
the only one who has had the same ex¬ 
perience in my orchard, and it requires 
three years hard work to overcome the 
bad effects of allowing grain to mature 
among trees. I am not a farmer, but 
The It. N.-Y. is just what I need, be¬ 
cause it contains valuable information 
on bees, poultry and the orchard, j. p. 
Ono, Pa.. 
R. N.-Y".—Every year we caution our 
readers not to let small grain mature in 
a young orchard. There will surely be 
trouble if this is permitted. In a very 
wet season there will not be so much 
damage, but there is always a period of 
drought before the grain matures, and 
it will suck the life out of the soil. 
Cotton Ginning Report. 
Up to Deceber 1 the total amount of 
cotton ginned in this country amounted 
to 121,081,100 bales, or 26,559 bales more 
than at the same ‘date last year. De¬ 
tails by States follow: 
Aliens Holding Property. 
Can a non-citizen buy a farm in the 
State of New Jersey (father and brother 
are citizens of the United States, but 
non-citizen was born on the other side 
of the ocean) or must non-citizen get 
papers before he can buy? w. o. 
A non-citizen, that is, an alien, may 
purchase land within the State of New 
Jersey, and may hold the same to him 
and his heirs and assigns forever as 
fully as any natural-born citizen of the 
United States may or can do, and it is 
not necessary that he should have taken 
out his first papers before he can buy 
the property. The only exception to 
this is that an alien of a country which 
is actually at war with the United States 
at the time cannot purchase property. 
An alien, subject to the same exception, 
may take lend by descent or devise with¬ 
in the State of New Jersey the same 
as natural born citizens of the United 
States could do. The rule in the above 
cases holds good in nearly all of the 
States, although some of them make it 
necessary that the alien should have 
taken out his first papers before pur¬ 
chasing the property, and in some States 
the laws allow aliens to acquire property 
if the country from which they come al¬ 
lows our citizens the same right. 
States. 
1913. 
1912. 
Alabama . 
1.365.888 
1.161.4S2 
Arkansas . 
789,038 
659,505 
Florida . 
58,490 
48,630 
Georgia . 
2.064,792 
1,564,428 
Louisiana . 
340.086 
343,323 
Mississippi . 
955,588 
817,707 
No. Carolina . 
622,746 
754.569 
Oklahoma . 
761,439 
869.278 
So. Carolina. 
1,161,437 
1.041,089 
Tennessee . 
304,502 
208.721 
Texas . 
3,571.331 
4,314.821 
Other States . 
85,763 
70,3SS 
The Winnipeg Grain Exchange reports 
that the farmers of Western Canada have 
thus far this year marketed 143,000,000 
bushels of grain, receiving 890,000,000 
for it. 
Buckwheat As a Nurse Crop.—I 
would like to learn the experience of New 
York and Pennsylvania farmers in seed¬ 
ing the various kinds of grass and clover 
seeds with buckwheat, as a nurse crop. I 
realize that much depends on the condi¬ 
tion of the soil and the amount of rain¬ 
fall, but the same would apply also to 
seedings with oats, barley or Winter rye, 
and I want a comparison as to buck¬ 
wheat and the other crops mentioned. 
Michigan. p. M . 
R. N.-Y.—W ill some of our farmers 
give experience? 
NEW-YORKER 
Co-operation With Ohio Farmers. 
The Agi'icultural Commission of Ohio 
is to combine the two positions of county 
agent, or counsellor, and the superintend¬ 
ent of the county experiment farm, and 
will confirm appointments to the position 
of county counsellor in such counties only 
as have voted to establish county experi¬ 
ment farms. An effort will be made to 
have the general assembly provide funds 
for the payment of salaries of such su¬ 
perintendents and counsellors, by the 
State. The commission will encourage 
the cooperative buying and selling of agri¬ 
cultural products and supplies and assist 
in organizing farmers into cooperative 
associations, but in no case shall an em¬ 
ployee of the Agricultural Commission 
serve as financial officers of cooperative 
organizations. Its agents and employes 
may secure prices and advise as to quali¬ 
ty but in no case shall they recommend 
or indicate a preference as between per¬ 
sons, firms or corporations manufactur¬ 
ing or selling any agricultural products 
or supplies, or make contracts for the pur¬ 
pose or sale of the same. 
The Agricultural Commission of Ohio 
is a new department of the State govern¬ 
ment which recently took over the work 
done by the State board of agriculture 
and other bodies of a similar nature. 
Benj. F. Gayman, formerly chief inspec¬ 
tor in the State dairy and food depart* 
ment, is secretary of the commission. The 
general offices are at Columbus. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
Rural New-Yorker and you’ll get a quick 
reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee 
editorial page. 
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Saw Tables, Wood Sawing Outfits 
on wheels. 6 horse-power gasoline 
engine, $115.00. Ice Hoists. 
Catalogue Free. 
PALMER BROS., Cos Cob, Conn. 
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Stone Crusher 
Get one of these crushers for crushing trap rock or 
any other stoue for concrete or road making. 
Big money makers for farmers having 4 to 
12 H.P. Take on neighboring contracts 
and machine will soon pay for itself. 
Write for catalog, prices and trial offer. 
NEW HOLLAND MACHINE CO. 
Box 41 New Holland. Pa. 
Free Box of Samples 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
St. Mary’s Poultry Club, first annual 
show, St. Mary’s, Pa., December 1S-19. 
Poultry Show, Madison Square Gar¬ 
den. New York. December 26-31. 
New Jersey Farmers’ week. New Jer¬ 
sey Experiment Station, New Brunswick. 
December 26-31. 
Forty-first annual meeting, New Jer¬ 
sey State Board of Agriculture, Trenton, 
N. J., January 29-30, 1914. 
Farmers’ week, Pennsylvania State 
College P. O., December 29, 1913-January 
3, 1914. 
Vermont Dairymen's Association, an¬ 
nual meeting, Rutland, Vt., January 6-8, 
-l J J.'X • 
New York State Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Convention Hall, Rochester, N. 
Y., January 7-S-9, 1914. 
Peninsula Horticultural Society, annu¬ 
al Winter meetiug, Easton, Md., January 
13-lo, 1914, 
Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, convention and trade exhibit, 
Springfield, Mass., January 15-16, 1914. 
Vermont State Poultry 
seventeenth exhibition, St. 
January 20-22, 1914. 
Ohio State Horticultural 
nual meeting, Cleveland, O., 
23. in connection with the 
Ohio State apple show. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
annual meeting, Richmond, Va., January 
Annual Corn Show, Pennsylvania Live 
21-23, 1914. 
Stock Breeders’ Association, Pennsylvan¬ 
ia Dairy Union, Pennsylvania Horticul¬ 
tural Association, York, Pa., third week 
in January, 1914. 
Ohio Corn Improvement Association, 
Mansfield. O., January 27-30, 1914. 
Western New York Horticultural Soci¬ 
ety, Rochester, N. Y., January 28-29-30, 
JLl/JL-i. 
1 armors’ W eek, Ohio State University, 
Columbus^ Ohio, February 2-6. 1914. 
Sixth National Corn Exposition, State 
H™ u , nds > Dallas, Texas, February 
JLU-24, 1914. 
Massachusetts Agricultural College, 
Amherst, ten-weeks’ Winter course, Jan¬ 
uary 6-March 13, 1914. 
Thirty-ninth annual meeting of the 
American Association of Nurserymen 
Cleveland, O., June 24-26, 1914. 
sent to your station charges prepaid. All 
sizes, 2 inches to 20 inches. Delivered 
prices quoted on request. 
THE E. BIGL0W CO., New London, 0. 
LOW-DOWN FARM TRUCKS 
Association, 
Alban’s, Vt., 
Society, an- 
January 20- 
Fifth Annual 
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pleased to furnish you our free catalog of same. 
On account of the ease with which work can 
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HAVANA MKTAL WHEEL CO., Box 17, HAVAS A, IIX, 
No matter what work you want to do, 
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Gasoline Engines are approved and labeled 
by the Underwriters. They carry the heavi¬ 
est loads, with ease. Material and work¬ 
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