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THE RUFLA-Is NEW-YORKER 
February 19, 
“LISTING” CORN IN NEW YORK. 
Rtmler. —Do you know of any oases where 
corn has been planted by “listing,” as is 
practiced in the West? This method is to 
drill the corn on the ground and plow a 
ridge over it by turning light furrows from 
either side. 
Ans.—I have not known of any East¬ 
ern farmers handling the corn crop in 
this way, and it docs not appear to me 
that listing is adapted to Eastern con¬ 
ditions. As I understand the matter, the 
advantage of listing is that the corn is 
planted deep in the ground and the 
earth filled in around the growing plants, 
so that by the time hot, dry weather 
arrives the roots are deep in the soil 
and not so much affected as they would 
be if near the surface. This manner of 
planting might work very well in the 
sandy soils of Long Island and Saratoga 
County, but for the fact that these soils 
are usually quite poor and are not likely 
to have an abundance of plant food 
available in the bottom soil. In this 
respect they are entirely different from 
Western soils, where the deep portions 
are as rich or richer than the surface. I 
should not expect, therefore, that even 
in these sandy soils we would find list¬ 
ing an altogether desirable method. 
Cornell. j. l. stone. 
WESTERN NEW YORK HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
Part I. 
Following the president's address the re¬ 
port of the committee on garden vegetables 
was made by Richard Wellington, assistant 
horticulturist at the Geneva Station. He 
said the past season had been a serious one 
for vegetable growers in general owing to 
prolonged droughts; and while some crops 
were satisfactory in some sections all sec¬ 
tions suffered loss in one or more crops. 
Long Island was favored during the latter 
part of the Summer with more rain than 
most other sections, but reported poor po¬ 
tato yields. Cabbage was very poor in West¬ 
ern New York, and many other crops were 
light in some sections. The precipitation 
was the lowest since 1882. Aphis had been 
plentiful in all sections and some crops 
suffered severely from this pest. The seed 
question is one of prime importance to the 
vegetable grower, and if he cannot be sure 
of obtaining seed of the same strain each 
year he would better save seed of his own 
growing from the vegetables he makes a 
specialty of. This is especially important 
in tomatoes and vine vegetables. Experi¬ 
ments have been made at Geneva in crossing 
well-known varieties of tomatoes with a 
view to increasing yields. Plants from the 
cross-bred seed were planted under exactly 
similar conditions with the original. A very 
heavy increase in yield was obtained the 
first year from the cross-bred plants, and 
the increased yield continued through the 
next two years. After this, however, the 
cross-bred variety only equaled the parent 
(Livingston’s Stone). He asked members 
interested in vegetable culture to experiment 
and report results to the society. 
A report on dwarf apples started quite a 
discussion. President Barry believes they 
have a place, but not in the commercial 
orchard. Mr. Powell thinks they are valua¬ 
ble in a commercial way under some con¬ 
ditions, but advises planting deep so that 
ihe trees will eventually become standards. 
Prof. Hedrick said that in their experiments 
with dwarf apples the claims made for 
dwarfs had not been substantiated. They 
came into bearing no earlier, their fruit was 
no larger than the same variety on stand¬ 
ards and they required- more labor in culti¬ 
vating rather than less. 
Mr. T. B. Wilson reported for the legisla¬ 
tive committee the laws that were of in¬ 
terest to the fruit grower. The effect of the 
bill against adulterated vinegar was felt by 
growers in the price paid for cider apples 
last Fall. A bill requiring the printing of 
the contents on packages containing Paris 
green and other insecticides is protecting 
the farmer and fruit grower from adultera¬ 
tions. A law is now in effect preventing 
apples and pears from outside of the State 
being marked as New York fruit even if re¬ 
packed in the State. A law to prevent the 
introduction of plant diseases and insects 
through shipment into the State by inspec¬ 
tion of all such shipments by the State in¬ 
spectors at points of destination is being 
enforced very thoroughly. The committee 
reported in favor of the Lafean bill and a 
motion was carried that it be taken up as a 
special order the following day. This action, 
to allow members to become fully acquainted 
with the measures of the bill, And be able 
to vote understandingly. A motion that the 
report of the legislative committee in favor 
of the bill and that the society endorse the 
measure as a whole was subsequently car¬ 
ried. This bill is a compromise on the old 
Porter bill by the various sectional interests. 
It provides “that for the purpose of inter¬ 
state and foreign commerce and commerce 
within the District of Columbia or the Ter¬ 
ritories of the United States, the term 
“closed package for apples” shall apply to 
any barrel, box or basket in which the ap¬ 
ples cannot readily be seen or inspected.” 
The . standard box must have a capacity of 
“not less than two thousand three hundred 
and forty-two cubic inches when measured 
without distension of its parts.” A standard 
basket must have the same cubic contents 
as the box, basket measured level full. The 
dimensions for standard barrel are “length 
of stave, 28^ inches; diameter of head, 
17% inches; distance between heads, 26 
inches; circumference of bulge, 64 inches 
outside measurement.” The section of the 
bill making standard grade received most at¬ 
tention and is briefly as follows : Standard 
grade must be “apples of one variety, whic-li 
are well-grown specimens, hand picked, ot 
good color for the variety, normal shape, 
practically free from insect and fungus in¬ 
jury, bruises, and other defects, except such 
as are necessarily caused in the operation 
of packing, or apples of one variety which 
are not more than 10 per centum below the 
foregoing specilications, are standard grade 
“U. S. Size A,” if the minimum size of the 
apples is two and one-lialf inches in trans¬ 
verse diameter. Two and one-quarter inch 
apples under the same condition of grade 
make “U. S. Size B.” and two inch apples 
make “U. S. Size C.” All these apples must 
be U- S. standard grade, the letter indica¬ 
ting size only. A U. S. Size C. Fameuse 
would mean as good a package of apples for 
the variety as a IJ. S. Size A. would mean 
on a package of Kings. This law is not com¬ 
pulsory, but gives the honest packer a 
chance to protect himself by using a guaran¬ 
teed mark of quality. This mark canuot be 
used without packer’s name and address. 
A statement was made at this time that 
the New York market was discriminating 
against the larger apples from the North¬ 
west, and a car of apples containing over 
20 per cent of three and a half tier pack 
was discounted. 
The first address of the afternoon was 
“Progress of the Canadian Experimental 
Farm System”' by III - . Wm. Saunders, di¬ 
rector of the Canadian Experimental Farms. 
He said Canada’s agricultural area was so 
vast that it was but imperfectly realized. 
In 1886 an act was passed to establish five 
experimental farms in Canada, one of these 
to be a central farm and headquarters of 
the director and the other four, branch 
farms, to be located in different parts of 
the country to solve problems peculiar to 
that section. The farms were chosen with 
a view that they should be as near an av¬ 
erage to the section for which they were to 
solve problems as possible; also that they 
could be readily visited and so located that 
they could not help but be seen. The cen¬ 
tral farm is at Ottawa and comprises 450 
acres. Here 20 acres are devoted to forestry 
experiments, and 3,000 varieties of trees and 
shrubs can be seen in the botanical depart¬ 
ment which covers 65 acres. It has been the 
object of the station to teach farmers the 
importance of maintaining fertility, the fol¬ 
lowing of judicious rotation, the importance 
of early sowing, the choosing of productive 
varieties suited to their conditions and the 
importance of plump and selected seed. One 
of their most difficult problems has been 
to bring about a change in ideas, especially 
among the older farmers. As the new coun¬ 
try began to be settled they realized the 
importance of the new settler starting right 
by adopting the best methods, and they 
pushed work in that direction accordingly. 
Large picnics are held at the experimental 
farms to get in touch with the farmers and 
get the farmers interested in the work of 
the farms. Grains have been brought from 
all over the world for testing, and many 
crosses made. Their most productive vari¬ 
eties are results from some of these crosses. 
Dairying, stock breeding and poultry have 
all received much attention. Much work has 
been done in crossing apples to get varieties 
that would prove hardy in the Northwest. 
At the farm at Agassiz, British Columbia, 
1,200 varieties of standard apples have been 
tested. Lately a few smaller farms have 
been established, in the sections that are 
settling rapidly, to supplement the work 
of the other farms. One of these is at Fort 
Vermillion, 600 miles north of the United 
States. These farms have gained the confi¬ 
dence of many of the Canadian farmers. 
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