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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 8, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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Use of Small Evaporator. 
C. F., Mannsville, N. Y .—What is your 
opinion on buying a band fruit evaporator 
where one has from f»0 to 100 bushels of 
apples that go to waste every year? About 
how much would be the shrinkage after 
such process, and what would be a fair 
price for evaporated apples? Could you 
give the process of bleaching? 
A ns. —I do not understand exactly 
what is meant by a hand evaporator, 
but do not think it practical to build an 
evaporator for such a small amount of 
fruit, as the machinery needed for pre¬ 
paring the apples for drying, even the 
simplest with which good stock couid 
be made, would cost more than 50 bushels 
of apples would pay for. C .ie bushel of 
50 pounds green apples will make ac¬ 
cording to quality from six to eight 
pounds dried fruit, worth, according to 
quality and demand, from five to nine 
or 10 cents per pound. Apples are 
bleached by passing the fumes of burn¬ 
ing brimstone through the peeled apples 
for from 30 minutes to one hour, in va¬ 
rious kinds of boxes or cases, from a 
simple drygoods box to the large power- 
driven endless apron bleachers. If the 
inquirer can buy fruit from other parties 
near by at reasonable prices, and get 
sufficient help, it might be a good thing 
for him to investigate, as there is a fair 
profit in a well-managed evaporator. 
j. A. CRANE. 
R. N.-Y.—The correspondent means a 
small ready-made evaporator such as is 
offered for sale by some manufacturers. 
' CORN GROWING IN NEW JERSEY. 
We have been asked to describe some of 
the large crops of corn grown in New Jer¬ 
sey. Here is the actual record of one good 
crop grown 33 years ago : 
One acre was surveyed by a man paid to 
do it correctly and an accurate account of 
the labor and other expense of raising and 
harvesting the crop was kept. This was in 
1877, and some of the figures are not read¬ 
ily available. The land was a sandy loam, 
containing plenty of vegetable matter. The 
variety of corn was a white dent. It was 
planted in rows 3% feet apart, one grain in 
a place, 18 inches apart. Ten quarts of 
seed were used, planted May 12, dropped 
by hand and covered with a hoe. Twenty- 
two loads of manure were put on the land 
in the Spring before planting. T i*he crop 
was harvested, and when dry enough shelled 
and accurately weighed, and by weight (56 
pounds to a bushel) was 87 bushels and 43 
pounds. 1 omitted mention of the cultiva¬ 
tion. This was probably by one-horse plow 
and one-horse cultivator, and any weeds 
that escaped them taken out by hoe. 
Mercer Co., N. J. henry e. hale. 
A GREAT CROP OF GOOSEBERRIES. 
Last Summer the New Jersey State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society held a field meeting at 
Moorestown. It was a great success, and 
a number of fruit farms were visited. A 
report was made giving the statement of 
a gooseberry field on the farm of Arthur 
J. Collins. Somehow this report seemed to 
excite popular interest more than anything 
else which occurred at this meeting, because 
the gooseberry is not a common fruit in 
the sense that currants, raspberries or 
strawberries may be so called. At any rate 
the daily papers all over the country copied 
this item, which went everywhere, growing 
larger and larger in its statement the more 
it traveled. We have received numberless 
letters asking for the truth about this 
gooseberry crop, and therefore have ob¬ 
tained the following statement from Mr. 
Collins. 
It appears that eight years ago Mr. Col¬ 
lin-! planted two acres of Downing goose¬ 
berry plants. The plants were at that 
time one year old, and were of good stock. 
The land where the gooseberries were 
planted was at that time very stony and 
hard to work. It was in a fair state of 
cultivation, but rather high and dry. These 
plants were set five by four feet, and by 
actual count there were 4,000 of the plants 
or hills. There had been several good crops 
of gooseberries from this field, some good 
and others poor. The present Summer gave 
the bumper crop, for there were picked 16 
tons and 800 pounds from the 4,000 hills 
of gooseberries, as will be seen. This is 
an average of eight pounds per bush. The 
price was high, out we do not give it be¬ 
cause the whole crop is an exceptional one, 
due to a combination of splendid growing 
conditions and a particularly high price 
which would not be fair to give. 
This crop is not a fair average of what 
can be done with gooseberries. It is really 
an exception. Every year Mr. Collins says 
he has given that patch a dressing of about 
1.200 pounds of fertilizer to the acre. A 
mixed fertilizer suitable for corn or pota¬ 
toes is used. The plants are kept well cul¬ 
tivated. and after the picking season is over 
the whole thing is seeded to good peas or 
turnips. Nothing is done with this crop 
until the following Spring, when, of course, 
it is well rotted down. Then the ground 
is plowed, fertilized and thoroughly culti¬ 
vated until another crop is ready to pick. 
We are glad to give the facts about this 
crop. t We do not tell the story with the 
idea of suggesting that the gooseberry crop 
is something for every reader to rush into. 
Quite the reverse is true, for another year 
this same remarkable patch may prove some¬ 
thing of a failure. Farming or gardening 
is simply a matter of average, and if the 
grower can get one bumper crop out of 
three or five his average is a fair one. We 
might take some other year in this goose¬ 
berry patch and demonstrate from the fig¬ 
ures of that year that the crop was not far 
from a failure. Then again particular soil 
is needed for the gooseberry, and of course a 
man has to know how to take care of it. 
All these things must be considered, but 
the point we want to bring out is that 
there are possibilities in gardening in the 
Eastern States. These two acres of goose¬ 
berries will this year give a greater profit 
than many a 60-acre Western farm, and we 
are glad to show that New Jersey, after two 
centuries of cultivation, can and will come 
into the game for large production. 
THE CONSUMER’S DOLLAR. 
Our business is handled no doubt a little 
different from the usual way. We found 
out some time ago that the retailer wanted 
as much as the producer, so decided to do 
our own retailing. Consequently wc have 
two produce teams on the road all the 
time, and have regular routes and custom¬ 
ers. The prices given below are retail 
prices we are getting now : Tomatoes, two 
cents a pound ; potatoes, 20 cents a peck: 
cabbage, two cents a pound; shell beans. 
85 cents a peck; string beans, 20 cents a 
peck; apples, 25 to 35 a peck, according to 
quality; squash, two to three cents a 
pound, according to quality, whole squash 
selling for two cents, cutting th?ii we get 
three cents; cucumbers, 2% cent"! each; 
cauliflower, four cents a pound; onions, 30 
cents a peck; grapes, eight cents a pound ; 
peppers, eight cents a pound; eggs, 40 
cents a dozen; dressed chicken, 23 cents 
a pound ; vinegar, 20 cents a gallon. We 
sell sometimes at wholesale, but find the 
returns gen'-rally unsatisfactory, especially 
when selling to commission bouses. As an 
illustration we bad a small surplus of cab¬ 
bage, onions, and turnips last Spnug, that 
owing to the hot weather in March had to 
be disposed of. We fixed up 20 barrels 
of cabbage, 20 bags onions, and 20 bags 
turnips, split the shipment in halves, and 
sent half to each of two commission houses 
in Boston only a short distance apart. 
These goods were as near alike as we 
could make them, and both were shipped 
the same day, yet on a small shipment like 
that one returned $13.50 more than the 
other. From the way we knew the prices 
were at the time we were satisfied that 
$13.50 of our money was not returned to 
us. As there are five brothers of ns here 
it makes it easier for us to attend to re¬ 
tailing and give more attention to details 
than is usually the case when one or two 
men have it all to attend to. We have 
been here about five years, and are trying 
to build up a poultry, vinegar, fruit, pro¬ 
duce and stock business, and feel quite 
satisfied with our success up to date. 
Massachusetts. morey Bros. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker's 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
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FALL I9IO SPRING 1911 
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