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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 14, 
RANDOM FRUIT NOTES, 
Orchard Owner And Tenant Sys¬ 
tem. —The orchard tenant system is not 
developed to the extent in Ohio, that it 
is in Michigan and in other States. Con¬ 
trary to the declaration of W. S. Pullen 
of Hillsdale County, Michigan, who has 
concluded that the tenant system has not 
paid him as it should, Mr. Hutchison, of 
Elyria, Ohio, who is engaged in the ten¬ 
ant system in a smaller way, declares it 
pays. lie states he leases the trees for 
three years, returns the owner one-third 
the crop, and in one case the owner is to 
furnish him barnyard manure for fertil¬ 
izing the orchard. He has live sons, and 
has reduced the tenant system to a fam¬ 
ily affair, and divides the profits with the 
sons that participate. Mr. Fullen was 
compelled to hire all labor, figured on 
paying himself a salary, wear and tear 
on equipment and maintaining a large 
force in harvesting. Mr. Pullen gave 
one-half the apples on the trees for a 
five-year period. Mr. Pullen declared to 
the writer on several occasions that the 
farmer could better afford to handle his 
orchard than could a tenant. The farm¬ 
er is convenient to the field, has his fam¬ 
ily to assist in the work of the orchard in 
the rush season, and the cost and keep 
of outside labor is less for the farmer 
than for the tenant. G. B. Stone and 
. S. A. Green, Hillsdale County, Michigan, 
tenants, who own orchards, declare that 
the grower who already owns a well-de¬ 
veloped orchard may branch out in the 
tenant business with greater profit and 
assurance of success than the man who 
owns no orchard and relies solely on the 
tenant system as his source of income 
and profit. Mr. Hutchison is an owner 
as well as tenant. 
Returning To Barnyard Manure.— 
The grape growers in the Lake Erie 
fruit belt are realizing more than ever 
before the value of barnyard manure as 
a fertilizer for their vineyards. One of 
the smaller growers having a score of acres 
in vineyard, declares that barnyard ma¬ 
nure is his most efficient fertilizer. He 
has restricted his vineyard to 20 acres, 
keeps about 20 or 30 more acres for 
his dairy, and supplies from his half 
dozen cows a good quantity of manure 
for the vineyard. The vines so treated 
showed vigor equal to the best in the 
North East section, while those which 
did not receive the manure appeared only 
average. Another grower of 80 acres 
considers barnyard manure so essential 
in producing high quality of grapes, that 
he established a large barn for the pur¬ 
pose of feeding steers during the present 
Winter. He planned on feeding one for 
each acre, and should he do no better 
than secure gain sufficient to reimburse 
him for feed purchased, the manure he 
believed would pay for labor, interest on 
money, and possible loss. It is neces¬ 
sary for this grower to buy all hay and 
grain for his stock, and pay good prices. 
The growers generally agree that every 
grower should have his cow, and for the 
soil to hold its own, live stock will find 
a place in case a rearrangement should 
occur in the agricultural system of the 
belt. ny. J. 
MARYLAND PECANS AND PERSIAN 
WALNUTS. 
Mr. Thomas J. Lea, in his article on 
page 170, entitled “Nut Notes fi;om 
Maryland” shows us two things about 
the progress of agpiculture, particularly 
along the lines of trees; first, the great 
value of seedlings to get new varieties; 
Second, their great uselessness to propa¬ 
gate the new variety when it is obtained. 
Mr. Lea loves trees and is planting 
Seeds of various kinds and carefully 
inursing them. It is through such love 
that we have had developed nearly all 
our good kinds of trees. Let us hope 
that it will be continued by many other 
such tree lovers, but that it may also go 
on systematically in the agricultural ex¬ 
periment stations, which are in a posi¬ 
tion to do it systematically and con¬ 
tinuously from generation to generation, 
once they can get their minds turned in 
that very practical but unfortunately 
Slow-yielding direction. 
Mr. Lea’s point about his two Pers¬ 
ian walnut trees blooming two weeks 
apart opens up the real point of the 
;whole field. Every nut tree is a law 
unto itself. We never can tell when 
some wonderful quality is going to pop 
put, but when it does appear, we must 
stop the suicidal policy of trying to 
propagate it by seedlings. Planting 
seeds is fine if you are after the develop¬ 
ment of new varieties, but when you 
have got a new variety, you can plant 
100 seeds from it, wait 20 years, and dis¬ 
cover that 99 are relatively worthless, 
while one may be good. So the work 
of variety creation and the work of 
propagation are entirely different. 
We should long ago have had a good 
Persian walnut industry here in the East 
if we had known how to propagate walnuts 
as we do apples. We now know how to 
propagate them, due largely to the skill 
and patience of W. N. Roper, of Peters¬ 
burg, Y T a. I have found a Persian wal¬ 
nut tree of merit enough to try out, and 
am getting scions from it and having him 
graft me some trees which I expect to 
be giving me nuts in from seven to 10 
years from the time I send him the 
scions. That is much faster than any 
seedling is likely to do, and then, too, 
I know what kind of nuts they will be, 
for they will be like the parent, and the 
tree being on Black walnut roots, will 
grow much more rapidly than the parent 
Persian walnut did on its own roots. 
In conclusion, I want to urge the tree 
lovers to go on with their planting of 
seeds for the discovery of new varieties 
and to stop it for propagation. They 
must turn to the grafting knife or the 
budding knife either of themselves or of 
the expert. In the meantime, all per¬ 
sons having trees of even suspected merit, 
of pecan, or Persian walnut, or of good 
hickories, should communicate the im¬ 
portant facts, along with samples of nuts, 
to Dr. W. C. Deming, Secretary of the 
Northern Nut Growers’ Association, 
Georgetown, Conn., who is giving much 
valuable time to the propagation of this 
exceedingly constructive piece of work, 
which will undoubtedly give us several 
new industries in a few decades. 
We need particularly to know how far 
north the pecan tree actually grows. Dr. 
Deming found a great big one, nine feet 
in circumference, in Connecticut the 
other day, and I think it is quite likely 
we shall find some pecan trees in Canada 
yet, if The R. N.-Y. people just talk 
about it to their neighbors. Tree crops 
are to be the agriculture of the future. 
They beat the puny little grasses to a 
frazzle. J. russell smith. 
“Did you see where a woman in Chi¬ 
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sometimes?” “Well, there are plenty in 
more towns than Chicago who have a 
man in the house that growls all the 
time.”—Baltimore American. 
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