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5THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 10, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Mildew on Peaches. 
M. G., Smithsburff, Md .—I have a few 
young poach trees in the third Summer, 
and the last two Summers the foliage gets 
covered with a white mold, and almost 
stops growth of tree. Can anyone tell 
what to do for it? Some fruit was on the 
trees, and it became spotted with this 
mold and resembles sores on the flesh. 
Ans.— This is undoubtedly the ordi¬ 
nary mildew of peach and roses. We 
have just finished making an inspection 
of the peach orchards in the Smithsburg 
district of Maryland, and find this rather 
common, although usually we see but 
little of it. It is caused by a fungus 
which grows chiefly on the outside of 
the fruit and leaf, and so is much easier 
to reach with sprays than most of the 
fruit diseases. I have not sprayed for 
this disease especially, but suppose al¬ 
most any fungicide which could be ap¬ 
plied to peach would control it if ap¬ 
plied before the disease has made any 
progress. Spraying after midsummer 
would not be of much yalue, and I be¬ 
lieve the early spraying would do more 
to cqntrol it. The chief injury seems 
to be in making an entrance for the 
brown rot. J. z. mor'IoN. 
Evaporated Sweet Corn. 
W. P. D., Phoenixville, Pa .—I have about 
three acres of sweet corn which I desire to 
dry. Has any one dried sweet coin on a 
commercial scale? How is it done and' 
what machinery should I purchase to boil 
the corn, cut it from the cob and dry it 
in the best labor-saving manner? 
Ans.— My experience in handling 
dried sweet corn is limited, but I do not 
see why it could not be made and placed 
on the market at a good profit. It cer¬ 
tainly is a desirable product made on 
the farm for family use. The ear should 
be cut when in good “roasting ear” state 
to prevent the grains shriveling up too 
much. Whole ears are placed in boiling j 
water for about 15 minutes which will 
cook the corn about half done. This 
cooking solidifies much of the juices and 
prevents the “milk of the grains” from 
wasting when cut off the cob. The corn 
can then be spread out in the sun where 
it will soon dry, or it can be placed in an 
ordinary fruit evaporator and dried like 
fruit. This process will make a brighter 
product and is a quicker process. Care 
should be exercised in not raising the 
temperature too high, since a crust 
would form on the grains which might 
injure the sale but not the quality of the 
product. Ordinary kettles placed in a 
furnace will do for boiling the corn. A 
wooden crate can be made to fit the 
kettle into which the ears of corn are 
placed. The crate can be lowered into 
the kettle by means of a rope and pulley 
and can also be easily taken out. A 
little thought along this line will enable 
any one to make such an outfit at small 
expense. A good evaporator will cost 
about $15 and usually can be purchased 
of dealers that handle canning machin- | 
ery. There is a machine also used for 
cutting the corn off the cob, but 1 have 
found a good sharp knife in the hands 
of a good workingman quite satisfactory. 
Virginia. R. H. price. 
CROP NOTES. 
Weather conditions with us have been 
about as follows: Very wet Spring, dry ; 
month of June, scattering showers early 
part of July, latter part of that month very 
heavy rains, one night bordering on to a 
cloudburst; August, good growing weather, | 
a good steady rain once per week. 
tiardenville, N. Y. h. f. w. I 
The hay crop was one of the largest 
for many years, wheat was normal, oats 
good. Early potatoes are a large crop. I 
planted one-sixth of an acre and received 
•14 bushels, some that weighed two pounds, 
but the late potatoes will not yield as 
well. We have had no rain since the first 
part of July, with the exception of a few 
small showers. The corn is badly in need 
of a good shower, and also the pastures. 
Pasture is very short. Cows are higher 
jn price, but milk advanced from $1.30 to 
$ 1.00 per hundred, which we think is a 
good price for milk for this month. 
Annville, Pa. H. H. z. 
We are suffering for rain in this part of 
Ohio, and though some localities have had 
showers recently the greater part of our 
se< lion is parched. There are countless 
railroad fires and farmers are afraid to 
leave their homes near railroads for fear 
of not finding them when they return. The 
pastures are brown and bare and live stock 
is suffering for grass. The corn crop is in 
grave danger and gardens are about ruined. 
It is impossible for grocers to get vegeta¬ 
bles from any source and they say they are 
selling a great deal of canned stuff. We 
have cabbage, tomatoes and a few lima 
beans and a little sweet corn, but nothing 
to what we have had other years. The 
leaves are failing as if it were October and 
flowers are ruined. Vegetables men say 
they have not had such a season in twenty 
years. It is fearfully hot and the dust is 
thick and stifling on the country roads. 
K'entoh, O. m. i. k. 
Farmers, IIoll Your Wheat.—I am in¬ 
formed by one of the largest millers of the 
country, who manufactures nearly a thou¬ 
sand barrels c± flour per day, that if the 
farmers of this country will show a ten¬ 
dency to hold on to their wheat this Fall 
such a course Will bring an increase 1 in the 
price of wheat from six cents to 10 cents 
per bushel. But on the other hand if the 
farmers of the United States show a ten¬ 
dency to hurry their wheat to market such 
a course would have a tendency to reduce 
the price of wheat from six cents to 10 
cents per bushel. Here are words of coun¬ 
sel that we ask readers to consider. If you 
can hold your wheat without great incon¬ 
venience and not offer it for sale until 
Winter, the chances are that you will get 
a better price for it than if you sell it at 
once. w. K. GREEN. 
Twenty-Cent Cotton. —During the past 
week newspapers have scare-headed the fact 
that cotton for August delivery has sold 
up to 20 cents, a record price for recent 
years. This was not the result of crop 
conditions or manufacturers’ demands, but 
merely the artificial conditions created by 
a speculative war. Certain speculators had 
sold cotton agreeing to deliver it in August, 
but when they tried to buy the cotton to 
make the deliveries they found it all in 
the hands of other speculators, who would 
not sell except at a fancy price. The 
“shorts” had to deliver the cotton or suffer 
business disgrace so they paid the fancy 
price, about six cents per pound more than 
they would have to pay for cotton for Sep¬ 
tember or October delivery. A few farmers 
may have profited by this sudden jump in 
price, but the industry as a whole is in¬ 
jured by every such speculative flurry. The 
actual market value of cotton depends upon 
the crop and the manufacturing demand. 
Those speculators, who are parasites on 
legitimate trade, try to confuse the public 
mind by many words while picking the 
pockets of cotton growers and manufac¬ 
turers, as well as their fellow speculators 
when opportunity offers. European manu¬ 
facturers are thoroughly disgusted with this 
state of affairs and are rapidly developing 
the raw material supply of their possessions 
in India and Africa. The East Indies 
alone will produce about 4,500,000 bales 
this year. Some of our cotton planters 
and mill men are trying to get the indus¬ 
try on a safer and cleaner basis and all 
such efforts deserve the moral support of 
all who are interested in production and 
manufacture, as well as any help in clear¬ 
ing out speculative abuses that the Govern- 
ment can lawfully give. w. w. H. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
FARMERS’ FENCE 
/v is a strong, durable, neat looking 
even-mesh fence, made with 
“The Knot That 
Cannot Slip” 
Different from all other ties, 
clamps, weaves or welds on the market. Cannot 
slip to mar the galvanizing; does not cause the 
wire to break just beyond the joints; has no 
protruding ends to snag animals. Sample knot 
and catalog free. Write today. A postal will do. 
AGENTS WANTED. Dealers and farmer agents where 
we are not represented. Write quick for choice territory. 
FARMERS’ FENCE CO., Box 804 Bellefontaine, Ohio 
YsTOPCAmiNG WATER, 
4 
It's a need- 
yjff less waste 
of time and 
strength. Don’t 
you know that it 
would be money in your 
pocket to have a pump 
bring the water from the 
old well just where von 
need it— in kitchen, yard 
or barn? We make pumps 
from $3 to $300. 
All you have to do is to 
Put a 
A 
PUMP 
RELIABLE FARM 
WHEROOU 
WANT 
WATER 
Send for our free book— 
“WATER BUPPLY FOR THE HOME.” 
It tells how best and most economi¬ 
cally to solve the water problem in the 
country. Get it and study your case. 
The Goulds Mfg. Co •> Seneca Fails, N.Y. 
GET THE BEST 
A Good Spray Pump earns 
big profits and lasts for years. 
THE ECLIPSE 
is a good pump. As 
>practical fruit grow¬ 
ers we were using common 
sprayers in our own orchards 
—found their defects and 
invented the Eclipse. Its 
success forced us to manu¬ 
facturing on a large scaie. 
You take no chances. We 
have done all the experi- 
:nting. Large fully illustrated Catalog 
d Treatise on spraying FREE. 
3RRILL & M0RLEY, Benton Harbor, Mich, 
POTASH 
Will You Sow Clover in 
Your Wheat Next Spring? 
If so, prepare for it now. If there is not 
enough available plant food for both, the wheat 
gets the best of it and the starved clover dies 
during the summer. Clover requires three 
times as much Potash as wheat. Hence a 
fertilizer for zvheat, rye or winter oats, to be 
followed by clover, must be high in Potash 
as well as phosphate. If your brand does not 
carry 8 per cent, of Potash, buy some muriate 
of potash and bring it up. 
You or your dealer can buy it 
from us in carload or ton lots 
Write for prices, and also for our new free pamphlet 
on Fall Fertilizers, which will show you how to make 
over the old brand or to mix a better one at home for 
less money. 
GERMAN KALI WORKS, Continental Bldg.,Baltimore,Md. 
Gold Coin Stoves are Guaranteed 
and Freight Prepaid 
“ONE YEAR’S TRIAL and YOUR MONEY BACK IF 
NOT SATISFIED” is OUR WRITTEN GUARANTY 
Some people have Died Gold Coin Stovei for 30 years. No better stoves made. 
We pay freight charges—both ways if you don’t find the 
stove satisfactory. You have one year to try it in. 
Buy direct from our factory at wholesale prices and 
save from $5 to $20. Compare our prices with your 
dealer’s for his best stoves. 
We insure safe delivery—polished, ready to set up. 
Send for 104-page Catalogue with Price-List—Free. 
It illustrates all our stoves and ranges—gives our plan and offer which saves you money, 
GOLD COIN STOVE CO., 3 Oak Street, Troy, N. Y. 
MAKE YOUR OWN TILE 
One man can make 300 to 600 perfect tile a day 
oil" FARMERS’ CEMENT TILE MACHINE 
At a cost of $3 to $5 per 1000. The only farm tile machine 
that does not require hand tamping; the only farmers’ machine 
operated by either hand or power. Machine makes 3, 4, S, 6, and 
8 inch tile, IZ% inches long. Our WATER-PROOF FLEXIBLE 
CASING holds tile in perfect shape till set. NO PALLET. 
Ten Days’ Free Trial. If after 10 days’ trial it does 
not meet with entire satisfaction, return at our expense. The 
price of the machine will be saved in making your first 2000 
tile. CAN YOU AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT IT? 
Write to=day for illustrated catalogue. 
FARMERS’ CEMENT TILE MACHINE CO., BOX 604, ST. JOHNS, MICH. 
The Call of the 
Southeast 
To the man looking for a home, where productive lands, 
favorable climate and abundant rainfall make the best 
paying farm locations in America the Southeast is now 
the unequaled section. Land from gi.OO to $40.00 an 
acre near to the heart of the country and close to the 
best markets. The largest returns from alfalfa and 
other hay, wheat, corn and all truck crops. Lands un¬ 
surpassed for stock and poultry raising, and dairying. 
For fruit growing no region is more profitable. The 
Southeast has opportunities for every kind of farming. 
The Southern Itntlwny will help you to find the 
desired location. Send for publications to 
M. V. RICHARDS 
Land and Industrial Agent, Southern Railway, 
1341 Pennsylvania Ave,, Washington, I). C. 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES 
have been built up by Quality trees from a small 
beginning to the largest nursery in America—more 
than 2000 acres devoted to growing trees, plants, 
vines and ornamental stock. Buy of a responsible 
grower and get what you pay for. Address 
HARRISON’S NURSERIES, 
Box 421, Berlin, Md. 
PEACH TREES 
FALL 1910 SPRING 1911 
We are prepared to quote prices and enter 
orders now for just what you want of our 
own grown trees. Don’t be disappointed 
again the coming season but order now. 
JOS. H. BLACK, SON 8 CO., -:- HIGHTSTOWN, N. J 
LIG0NIER, IN0 
N. WERTHEIMER & SONS, 
We offer best quality of White Winter Rye 
at $1.25 per bushel, freight prepaid, bags free, 
to all our customers for the next four weeks 
Samples sent on application. 
N. WERTHEIMER & SONS, LIG0N,ER - IND 
CELERY, BRUSSELS SPROUTS AND 
CELERIAC, best variety line plants 
$1 per 1.000; 10,000 for *7.60. J. C. SCHMIDT, BRISTOL,PA 
CABBABE, 
SEED WHEAT 
Gypsy, Nigger, Poole and Harvest King. Highest 
yielders. Heaviest weight per measured bushel 
at Kxp. Sta. Recleaned. Grain bags and samples 
free. Low price. Write PROSPECT SEED 
FARM. Madison, O. 
POOLE WHEAT —Recleaned, ready to sow 
C. C. VALE, 
Write for prices and samples. 
New Carlisle, O. 
Send for CIRCULAR to Originator of 
, -■ ;- JONES WHEATS 
St. Louis Grand Prize and Red Wave Wheats. 
A. N. JONES, No. 118 Summit Street, Batavia, New York. 
Peach and Apple Trees 
For fall or spring planting. Prices right; stock 
right. MYER & SON, Bridgeville, Del. 
Apple and Peach Trees _I, % ,l ffl^iS 
SALESMEN WANTED 
Mitchell’s Nurserv, Beverlv, Ohio 
STABLE MANURE 
for sale on cars. McGirr Sons, 
534 West 29th St., New York City. 
That German Rye. 
THREE CROPS IN ONE YEAR possible. 
Write me for particulars. 
FRANK HYDE, PEEKSKII.L, N.Y. 
ONE QUART OF STRAWBERRIES 
KEVITT’S SYSTEM. Send for my Mid-Summer 
Catalogue, T. €. KEVITT, Athenln, N. J. 
Qtraufhorru Plante the Best varieties. 
OMQnUGlIj lldlllo Descriptive catalogue 
free. BASEL PERKY, D. 18, Cool Spring, Del. 
Apple Rarrels 
—LOW PKICE; PROMPT 
SHIPMENT. It O B El KT 
GILLIES, MEDINA. N.Y. 
FOR. S A.IjE. 
Fruit farm in central Pennsylvania, containing 
about 300 acres, having on it 4,000 apple trees, 700 
pear trees, 000 plum, 000 peach and 100 cherry 
trees. Three springs of water; good buildings. 
The plum, peach and cherry trees are all bearing; 
1,000 of the apple and 300 of the pear are bear¬ 
ing this year; 2)4 miles from good market. For 
particulars write C. 0. TEMPLETON, Tyrone, Pa. 
SEEDS FOR FALL PLANTING 
Catalogue Free. 
Choice varieties seed wheat, rye, winter 
vetches and grass seeds; also spring 
flowering bulbs for fall planting. 
HENRY A. DREER, Philadelphia, Pa. 
