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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 5, 
FARMERS’ CLUB 
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THE STORY OF THE APPLE. 
A farmer picked this apple in his orchard 
in the West 
And put it in a barrel with some others 
of his best; 
Because they were so splendid he declared 
the price must climb 
And so he raised his figure on that barrel 
by a dime. 
The man who bought that barrel stuck a 
a label on the top, 
Then told the interviewers of a shortage 
in the crop; 
And when he came to sell it to a buyer on 
the floor 
lie added on his profit and a half a dollar 
more. 
The man who shipped that barrel stuck 
his label on it, tco, 
And talked of early freezes and the dam¬ 
age that they do; 
The man to whom he shipped it said the 
grower’s price was high 
And raised the oriee two dollars more than 
in the days gone by. 
The man who stored that barrel told of 
shortage in the pick. 
Of scale and other pests that make the 
apple orchards sick. 
And he put on five dollars to the cumula¬ 
tive price— 
And so it went, each handler taking out 
his little slice. 
O, when you eat this apple, may it fill you 
with delight 
To know that someone profits on each 
nibble and each bite. 
And, O, be glad you do not live so very 
far away 
From where the apple started, for think 
what you’d have to pay! 
—Chicago Evening Post. 
A FEW APPLE NOTES. 
You can count on me as an active mem¬ 
ber of the Apple Consumers’ League. I 
lived in Chicago many years, and know 
what apples would mean to the poor peo¬ 
ple in health and saving. Moving here, 
and seeing the shameful waste of apples, 
I am stirring up the growers to ship their 
culls, windfalls and surplus to the charity 
organizations of the cities as part of their 
charity work for the year. Keep pounding 
away on it during these Fall months. 
j. L. p. 
This is good work. Keep the cull 
apples away from the cider mills, and let 
the children or poor people in town have 
them. It will be like throwing bread 
upon the waters, for these windfalls will 
train a great army of apple eaters. Some 
of our readers are getting frightened be¬ 
cause millions of apple trees are being 
planted. They think there will be no 
sale for the apples. There are people 
enough in this country to eat all that 
can be produced. It is simply a matter 
of getting the apples to them at a fair 
price. The greater the love for apples 
the greater the demand. The earlier a 
person starts eating them the greater his 
desire. Therefore begin with the chil¬ 
dren. When a large company puts a 
new food product on the market they 
expect to give away tons of it as an ad¬ 
vertisement. Let apple-growers do the 
same. It is good business. The culls 
and windfalls will be eaten to the stem 
by city children. There “won’t be any 
core left,” but the taste will remain, and 
with it the demand for more apples. 
Why continue to seek an “El Dorado” 
of seedless apples? It is about time to put 
this subject in the class of perpetual mo¬ 
tion machines on which the Patent Office 
has placed a ban and refuses to grant 
patents thereon. Apples are so eagerly 
sought for and so thoroughly enjoyed by us 
down here that when we do get them we 
eat seeds, segments, calyx and stems— 
the entire core—in fact with us “there 
ain’t gwine to be no core.” v. n. 
Dallas, Tex. 
It is human nature to want “some¬ 
thing new.” The gentlemen who boom 
seedless apples are not very promising 
members of the Apple Consumers’ 
League. They are trying to sell stock 
in a company formed to float this apple. 
The old company had comparatively few 
trees and did not much care for more. 
Their object was to form “subsidiary 
companies” and sell stock to suckers. 
They would have picked up millions if 
their boom had not been pricked. Our 
plan is to discuss these seedless apples 
frankly as we learn about them, so that 
the public may realize how common they 
are. 
People in this town (Staunton, Va., pop¬ 
ulation 1,200) have gone “apple crazy.” 
Everywhere you see people who wish to buy 
an orchard, or who are going to set one 
out. This is sure to mean failure to lots 
of people who will not give an orchard 
the proper attention. Another industry 
which I think will surely hurt the apple 
business is the hard cider business. Al¬ 
though I am not strictly on the “water 
wagon,” at the same time I am a lover of 
apples, and think that the apple should 
not be put to so low a use. This hard 
cider, after being doctored, is sold in “dry” 
territory, and is consumed by the most ig¬ 
norant and low class of people. The places 
where it is sold are always called “cider 
joints.” This should 'not be. r. u. n. 
You are right—it “should not be.” 
Hard cider will ruin any business that 
it works into, and ruin any army of men 
along with it. What a shame that this 
cull fruit cannot be sent to market, sold 
at a fair price and let working people 
have the “timber” for apple pie and 
sauce. The big stories told about apple 
culture will lead many misfit people to 
buy land and plant orchards. They have 
neither the knowledge nor the nature 
qualifying them to raise fruit, and the 
future has little besides worm holes for 
them. 
SELLING CORN IN STACK. 
I have just sold the corn and fodder 
(unhusked), standing in the field, for $50 
per acre. The cost was about as follows: 
Plowing, per acre.$2.20 
Harrowing .90 
Seed and planting . 1.70 
Cultivating, twice. 1.00 
Hoeing . 2.00 
Cutting . 1.60 
$9.40 
The seed, planting and hoeing are esti¬ 
mated, being my own labor, but the other 
work was all hired, and is the actual cost. 
The producer received better than 35 cents 
on the dollar in this case, and a pretty good 
profit for cheap New England land. How 
many acres of $100 and $200 corn belt land 
will show a profit of $40 or 400 per cent 
over cost of cron? No manure or fertilizer 
was used. The yield was about 60 bushels 
shelled corn per acre, and variety white 
flint E. P- k- 
Connecticut. 
R. N.-Y.—Here is another pointer for 
Western farmers. Cheap and poor New 
England farm land gives $50 per acre 
for an expenditure of $9.40. What west¬ 
ern farmers can show any greater profit? 
We have had several questions as to the 
value of standing corn per acre—cut and 
shocked or as it grew. In some places 
there is a market for such corn crops, 
but of course no one could estimate its 
value without going through and exam¬ 
ining it. _ 
Plowing Up Alfalfa. 
I read on page 943 about a man who 
has had what you call an unusual ex¬ 
perience with Alfalfa, because he got a 
good stand after plowing it up. The 
best way to make it grow is to plow, 
disk, harrow and otherwise try to ex¬ 
terminate it. It takes several plowings 
to kill it. J. W. B.’s Alfalfa didn’t 
come up again from the seed but from 
the old crowns. It is the common prac¬ 
tice of farmers here to double-disk their 
Alfalfa each Spring to make it grow 
well, and one plowing will have the same 
effect. If your Alfalfa does not grow 
well just try to exterminate it; so long 
as you are not too strenuous about it, 
and see what you get. burd hedly. 
Nevada. _ 
“Are there any bacteria in this ice 
cream soda?” asked the Summer girl. 
“You didn’t mention them in the first 
place,” replied the new attendant, firmly. 
“If you’re going to change your order 
you’ll have to get another check.”— 
Washington Star. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
T HE upper 
illustra- 
t i o n shows 
how the Ster¬ 
ling Broiler 
rests evenly 
over the fire. 
You first lift 
up the entire 
end of the top, 
with the handy lifting key 
plate. Does away with open¬ 
ing the broiling door and 
poking the broiler over soot 
and ashes to the fire, only to 
burn the meat and broil it 
unevenly. 
Then seebelow how easily the meat 
slides out onto the plate—because the broiler opens frontward not 
back ward. This is only one of 20 superior features of the 
which is best for all broiling, boiling, baking, roasting, cooking of every 
kind, and heating water in the ample reservoir. Starting with a cold 
Stove, you can get a hot, even fire in 20 minutes with the Sterling. 
Our book tells—Send for it, whether or not your dealer handles the Sterling. 
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While Trees Are Dormant 
Many trees not sprayed during the Fall for Scale 
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