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L/LWinljji 10, 
DWARF TREES AS FILLERS. 
O. J. B., Syracuse, N. T .—On page 1023 
II. E. Van Deman gives a planting plan for 
an orchard showing permanent trees and 
fillers. What do you think of the plan of 
having dwarf trees for fillers, setting at 
first, say, 12% feet apart, or just half the 
distance shown in that plan? 
Ans. —There would be room for dwarf 
apple trees for a few years between 
standard trees set 25 feet apart, but they 
would need to be taken out within 10 
years, and I do not think they would 
pay very well in that time. The cost of 
the trees would be much more than if 
standard trees were planted. It would 
be better to set the orchard of standard 
trees 20 feet apart. This would place 
108 trees on an acre instead of 69, and 
the permanent trees would be 40 feet 
apart after the last thinning was done, 
which would be at 25 years or more 
from planting, leaving 27 to the acre. 
In some soils this might be too many 
to leave to attain their full development. 
I do not say that dwarf apple trees are 
not a commercial success, because there 
is no doubt that they have paid in some 
cases, but judging from what I have 
seen I think they are far better suited to 
PICKING AND PACKING APPLES. 
Can you tell me what it costs to pick 
and pack a barrel of apples, and what is 
considered a good day’s work? J. m. 
New York. 
We paid our men this year 15 cents a 
barrel for picking apples. Some of the 
growers pay by the day. For hobo help 
where kept and boarded $1.50 per day; 
for home help, that board themselves, $2.50 
and up. Packing, 10 cents a barrel; pick¬ 
ing and packing, 25 cents per barrel. An 
average day’s picking would be from 15 to 
30 barrels. The best day’s picking I ever 
had was 52 barrels. I do not know of a 
better record around here. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. delos tenny. 
I always hire my apple picking done by 
the day. I usually pay $1.50 a day. The 
number of barrels a man would pick 
would depend entirely upon the variety and 
size of trees. I have had men pick 25 
barrels a day on very full trees and large 
apples. I think of ordinary picking a 
good picker will average from 12 to 15 
barrels a day, and handle the fruit care¬ 
fully. I think the cost of packing right 
would be from eight to 10 cents per barrel; 
that also would depend largely on the size 
and quality of the fruit. One day this 
week four of us packed 74 barrels and 
did it right. j. h. Barclay. 
New Jersey. 
We reckon it costs 25 cents a barrel for 
picking and packing apples. With us, the 
man who packs does nothing else, he 
needs five pickers to keep him going. Or¬ 
chard hands are paid by the day of 10 
hours. Packers get $2.50 to $3; pickers, 
$1.25 to $1.50. As to the number of 
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small places, such as town or city lots, 
where several varieties could be grown 
on a limited space, h. e. van deman. 
Black Ben Apple. 
J. H. B., Morganville, N. </.—I would 
like to have an opinion regarding the Black 
Ben Davis apple, its growth and quality. 
Is the Black any improvement upon the or¬ 
dinary type, and in what way? 
Ans. —The Black Ben, as it is now 
called by the introducers and others, is 
the best of the Ben Davis class. It is 
not really better in quality than the old 
variety, but it is as large and as good a 
bearer, and very deep red, without any 
striping, and very attractive in the mar¬ 
ket. It is being grown quite extensively 
all over the country, and wherever that 
grade of apple sells it brings the highest 
price of its class. The buyers in the Far 
West really call for it, so I found by 
talking with the growers in Washington 
and Oregon during my trip through that 
country this Fall, and they pay, a good 
price for it. But it is a pity that the 
public will take such a poor flavored 
apple when there are better ones to be 
had. However, it keeps fresh and takes 
the eye of the buyer, even if the final 
consumer is disappointed when he eats 
it. But it is wonderful how little the 
average consumer knows about what is a 
really good apple flavor. 
h. e. van deman. 
Tall Cornstalks. 
The field corn I planted on the old mill- 
dam bottom all went to stalk; shot up like 
a boy of 14. No ears to speak of, but 
the stalks averaged 12 feet, with several 
13 feet and one 13 feet six inches. 
Pennsylvania. j. E. p. 
That is what you might expect in an 
old swamp or mill pond. Such soils are 
well supplied with nitrogen, but lack potash 
and phosphoric acid. The nitrogen drives 
the corn to leaf and stalk, but does not 
make good ears. Wood ashes or potash and 
bone used on such soil will “balance” 
the nitrogen and make grain. 
barrels that can be packed in a day much 
depends on conditions, size of apples and 
quality and character of orchard. An or¬ 
chard on a steep mountainside is slower 
work to handle than one on the level. 
Some years apples have many more “culls” 
than others, which means slower work. 
Virginia. Walter whateley. 
Most of the apples picked here are 
picked by the bushel; the price is usually 
four cents per bushel or 12 cents per bar¬ 
rel. The cost of barreling will vary from 
eight to 15 cents per barrel, according to 
how well the work is done, and according 
to the grade of fruit being packed. We 
have had 125 bushels picked in one day 
by one man. One of our neighbors’ boys 
two years ago picked 50 barrels in one 
day, but above is very exceptional. The 
average day’s work is probably about GO 
to 75 bushels. b. j. case. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
The average cost of picking apples when 
done by the job is about 10 cents per 
barrel, much the same for packing, but price 
varies above and below this according to 
size of trees or quality of crop. The pick¬ 
ing is generally done by the day, with 
common labor, while packing should be 
done by experts. Eighty bushels is as 
much as I have known a man to pick in 
a day, and 40 or 50 is considered a good 
day’s work in good picking. Scooting them 
into barrels over a; slide sorter is not con¬ 
sidered good packing here. One of our 
neighbors picked his entire orchard in one 
half day and then only had one-half bush¬ 
el of apples. lie did not take as much 
time as that spraying it. L. j. post. 
Kent Co., Mich. 
It is usual, with buyers and handlers of 
apples, to figure 15 cents per barrel as the 
cost of packing, and 10 cents per barrel 
as the cost of picking. Experience has 
shown me, however, that in a case of good j 
apples and well loaded trees, these figures I 
are high. I had one gang of men this 
year, which packed 1,900 barrels at a cost 
of 11 cents per barrel, and another gang, 
packed during one week, at a little less 
than 10 cents per barrel. Under similar 
circumstances, picking can be done for seven 
cents or eight cents per barrel. I con¬ 
sider 50 bushels per man as a fair day’s 
icking, and yet there are men here who 
ave picked 120 to 130 bushels in a day, 
working as long as they could see and 
stopping just long enough to eat. We fre¬ 
quently hear of these large records being 
made, and such quantities can only be 
reached by experts. In general, however, 
for the sake of the tree, as well as the 
fruit, which needs careful handling, I 
would prefer a smaller quantity picked 
with greater care, even at a higher price. 
The cost of barrels here for several years 
past, has been about 35 cents. This year 
we have had a special barrel made for our 
own fruit, from selected staves, and with 
two extra quarter-hoops, at a small addi¬ 
tional cost, believing that the difference iu 
the strength and appearance of the pack¬ 
age will enable us to secure better prices 
for the fruit. c. j. tyson. 
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