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V1-113 RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 28, 
Hope Farm Notes 
T HIS week there are so many ques¬ 
tions on hand that we ought to an¬ 
swer them as we can: 
I notice, on page 1313, “Peaches for 
Columbia Co., N. Y.” your correspondent 
states, “We shall not put any more 
peach trees as lillers among apples, as 
we have become convinced that Wealthy 
or others of that shape are much better.” 
I am interested in knowing whether this 
is true because the peaches do not do 
particularly well in Columbia County, or 
whether he finds the apple fillers more 
profitable aside from the fact that peach¬ 
es do well. J. a. m. 
Lodi, N. Y. 
I seem to be the “we” in this case. 
No more peach fillers for me for the fol¬ 
lowing reasons. 1. Peach and apple re¬ 
quire different feeding, spraying and 
handling. We try to force the peach into 
eai’ly bearing, for its life is short at best, 
while the apples are to remain for years 
and we prefer a slower solid growth. 
Forcing the peach not only stimulates the 
apple, but gives it a poor shape. The 
big spreading peach tree soon fills out its 
space and the apple trees begin to climb 
up straight in the air—just where we 
do not want them. True, you can cut 
them back and bring them down, but 
they will not be well-shaped trees. We 
have ample evidence of this in our or¬ 
chard. The Wealthy apple tree makes a 
thin, rather small, head which does not 
interfere so much with the permanent 
trees. It gives us 10 crops or more be¬ 
fore it is necessary to cut or dig out. 
The peach may give five crops. The 
Wealthy sells well as a Fall apple with 
us. 2. Spraying. The apple trees must 
be sprayed at blooming time with some 
form of poison. Do the best you can, and 
yet more or less of this spray will be 
blown upon the peach trees. If you 
use enough poison to benefit tht apple 
trees your peach trees are burned—in 
some cases quite severely. There are 
still other reasons why I do not plant 
peach and apple together, yet I recognize 
the fact that some growers argue in 
favor of the practice. I will let them 
give their own arguments. 
In a general way would you advise 
sowing rye on muck land, the rye to be 
plowed under the following Spring, or 
would you prefer to have the muck lie 
idle during the Winter, which would 
subject it to frost action? The muck 
is now plowed. What would be the ad¬ 
vantage of sowing rye under such condi¬ 
tions? II. K. C. 
New York. 
This question was answered by mail 
in late October. It is, of course, too 
late to sow rye now. I should, however, 
in such a Fall as this, sow rye up to 
Nov. 1. While it would make but little 
growth above ground it would fill the 
soil with its roots, and in this way open 
it up more than the frost alone would 
do. Then the rye starting to grow in 
early Spring would help dry out that 
muck soil and fit it better for Spring 
plowing than if there was no living crop 
on it. Then also the living rye crop 
plowed under and limed would start fer¬ 
ments in that soil which the muck alone 
could not do. 
I am much interested in the Hope 
Farm man’s endeavor to induce apple 
growers to advertise their fruit instead 
of complaining of the badness of the 
market and indifference of the buyers. 
I enclose an advertisement to show the 
method we are following on our farm. 
I do not think either growers or buyer 
have yet woke up to all the possibilities 
of parcel post. In packing for mail 
we find it advisable to use a corrugated 
lining paper in the boxes as well as the 
usual paper and layer board and not 
put up a pack of more than 120 to the 
bushel. With smaller apples the box 
will probably go over the 50 pound 
limit, though some varieties of course 
weigh less than others. It is perhaps un¬ 
necessary to add that only perfect fruit 
is packed. 
“APPLES BY MAIL.” 
“Best quality Baldwin or Greening Ap¬ 
ples packed in standard Western box, 
sent post paid on receipt of $2.50. check, 
stamps or money order. Order now for 
Thanksgiving and Christmas.” 
Mailing limits Utica. N. Y. and Port¬ 
land. Me., Burlington, Vt., and Paterson, 
N. J. Beyond these limits we send by 
freight prepaid. E. P. 
Massachusetts. 
This appeared in a daily paper pub¬ 
lished in a city of about 100,000 people. 
Our own advertising is in a town of 
about 1,500. It has sold all our Bald¬ 
win apples already, and I am now try¬ 
ing it with Black Ben Davis—stating 
exactly what this variety is. I do not [ 
see what more we can do to show fruit 
growers the possibilities of the local 
town trade. A little advertising right 
in your home paper will sell most of 
your goods if you will pack them hon¬ 
estly and well. People write us asking 
where they can sell their apples when 
right in their own town are dozens of 
people who would gladly buy. The local 
paper is the best place for your local 
advertising. You can now send 50 
pounds by parcel post. Our own fruit 
is about, all sold already, and V; could 
easily have handled 500 barrels more. 
Why not buy and sell again? We want 
to make it a strong point that we handle 
only our own produce—picked and packed 
here. In the end that will pay us best. 
A few years ago there was quite a dis¬ 
cussion in The R. N.-Y. over a state¬ 
ment which the Hope Farm man made 
about a cow becoming drunk eating ap¬ 
ples. Well, that same question came up 
last night in a class discussion and the 
teacher vowed that he had seen it. Now 
as we remember it the scientific men 
held to the theory that it was an impos¬ 
sibility. We feel from our experience on 
the farm that such a thing is an utter 
impossibility, at the same time it is one 
thing to be convinced a thing is right 
and another to prove it. If the thing 
held true with cattle it would be equally 
true with humans, and from what we 
have seen in the way of boys eating ap¬ 
ples we think most of the boys on farms 
in the apple section would lx' confirmed 
topers by the time they were 18 years old, 
also with hogs. Our hogs always run 
in the orchard, and they simply gorged 
themselves with apples, but there were no 
tipsy swine, that is sure. c. I. 
New York. 
The Hope Farm man has his feelings 
like all the rest. There are two sub¬ 
jects which start these feelings into lan¬ 
guage, which has to be check-reined and 
blue-pencilled. One is the thought of 
the time I bought a couple of bathing 
suits at a big New York store. These 
suits were for my two big girls, and at 
the store I was referred to a couple of 
“salesladies” who went into close de¬ 
tails regarding my purchase. Never 
again! The other matter is this one of J 
“drunken cows.” Some years ago I 
came home to find the good old family 
cow flat on the barn floor in a dull 
stupor. She had filled up on half de¬ 
cayed apples. The hired man had some 
ice and was packing it around the cows 
head. Now while I never tasted much 
rum I know the smell of it, and I know 
that the stall where that cow lay smelled 
like the street in the western town where 
a reformed saloonkeeper smashed in the 
head of a whiskey barrel. Knowing the 
habits of the hired man I gave him the 
discredit until the local cow doctor came 
and said the cow was “drunk.” Then I 
thought on further examination that an 
appology was due the hired man. 
I mentioned this incident and a number 
of scientific men scoffed at the idea. The 
chemists, some of them experts at brew¬ 
ing, said it was impossible—that the tem¬ 
perature of the cow was too high to per¬ 
mit the formation of alcohol and so on. 
I thought at the time that these gentle¬ 
men never saw a cow after a feast on 
apples, but their scientific guns were too 
much for me. It was like those great 
German guns smashing the walls of Ant¬ 
werp. 
Then came our old friend. Dr. Sinead, 
on the other side. He showed that a cow 
has four stomachs—one of them capable 
of holding two bushels, more or less, of 
apples. These apples are not chewed | 
like the rest of the food, but remain in 
this great paunch at about the temper¬ 
ature suitable for distilling. The chem¬ 
ists told what ought to happen in the 
laboratory. Dr. Sinead told what would 
most likely happen inside the cow, and 
I thought he showed the possibility of 
this alcohol formation. No use compar¬ 
ing a man, a hog or a horse or anything 
else that carries a single stomach with 
the cow. Her great paunch or storage 
tub certainly puts her in a class by her¬ 
self when it comes to n distillery. I am 
obliged to confess that I lack the 
scientific knowledge required to argue 
with the chemists. At the same time the 
hired man and I still think that cow was 
“full”—I reasoning from observation— 
he arguing from experiences ! H. w. c. 
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chair when a young girl burst in on her. 
“Oh, grandma,” she said, “father has 
just fallen off the roof!” “I know, my 
child.” the old lady answered placidly 
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