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THK KUKAi. NEW-YORKER 
1417 
TREMENDOUS WOOD GROWTH. 
T HE SWAN APPLE.—I am a con¬ 
stant reader of The It. N.-Y. 
Among other articles several years ago, I 
noticed that Mr. Frank J. Schwan, of 
New York, had a new apple which it was 
alleged the elder Schwan had brought 
with him from the old country in the 
shape of a number of grafts, which lie 
had top-worked on a mature tree, and 
that he had taken a number of these ap¬ 
ples to an apple show in New York State 
and passed them out as samples to differ¬ 
ent apple-growers, who had pronounced 
the apple first-class in every respect, but 
could not name it. After reading this 
article a letter was sent to Mr. Schwan, 
with request that he sell some grafts of 
the tree. IIis answer was to tin effect 
that he was propogating all the cuttings 
that he could make from the tree, and 
that in future years trees could be 
bought of this variety if he were success¬ 
ful in propagating. Last Fall another 
letter was sent to Mr. Schwan and he 
advised that this Spring, 1914, he would 
have for sale young trees of this variety, 
which he then named the Swan apple. 
In due time an apple tree of this variety, 
was received here. It was a beautiful 
young tree, standing about four feet high 
from ground to the first branches. The 
tree was planted and trimmed and the 
cuttings were saved in cold storage until 
the buds began to push. A Black Ben 
Davis apple tree growing in the lot 
whose trunk was about two inches in 
diameter, had four branches, each of 
which was cut off at the proper distance 
from the main trunk and a graft of these 
buds was put on each of the four branch¬ 
es. An article, on page 1178, describes 
four months’ growth of an apple graft, 
and in an article, on page 1283, there is 
another notice of a growth of graft, dur¬ 
ing the season, of five feet, from a Belle- 
flower bud, set the previous August, the 
first example showing a growth of three 
feet L'uree inches, and the second one of 
five feet, during the season. Each of the 
grafts of the Swan apple set on the Black 
Ben Davis, just as the leaf buds were 
beginning to push on the Black Ben tree 
last Spring, grew, and each one of these 
buds on each graft shows a distinct and 
separate bud growth to the length of six 
feet six inches, not varying an inch and 
a half in any one hud’s growth. To my 
mind the result is astonishing. 
A Remarkable Grape Graft. —To 
give you another instance of remarkable 
growth, in our vineyard here we had a 
seedling grape which measured an inch 
and a half in diameter at a height of 
two inches above the ground. Being 
worthless as far as the fruit was con¬ 
cerned, it was cut off at an inch above 
the ground and two grafts of Prof. Mun¬ 
son’s Captivator were set in the stump 
and the grafts treated in accordance with 
A. S. Fuller’s advice for Fall grafting. 
This Spring the covering was taken off, 
and owing to the position in which the 
root was standing, the growth did not 
push until late, but one of the grafts 
united and now shows a growth of 1G 
feet. At the same time another large 
grapevine having a stump diameter of 
about an inch and a half was cut off an 
inch from the ground in the same way, 
and two grafts of Montclair, seedling 
grape of Corby’s were set and treated 
in the same way. Both of these grafts 
united last Spring when they were un¬ 
covered in March, and each graft shows a 
growth of 15 feet six inches to 10 feet. 
Another grape, the Carman, originated 
by Prof. Munson, was cut off at the same 
height from the ground and treated in 
the same way with the insertion of an 
Iona graft. This was uncovered in the 
same way this Spring and now shows a 
growth of over nine feet. Three Dela¬ 
wares and two Duchess grapes were 
planted in separate holes with the strong 
roots of a Dogridge resistant vine beside 
each, and when they grew to the proper 
length, one each of the Dogridge shoots 
was inarched on the three Delawares 
and two Duchess, and they took admir¬ 
ably in each instance. The Duchess grew 
to a length of about 15 feet last Sum¬ 
mer. and the Delawares to over 10 feet 
each. In June a Ilorwath method of 
budding was practiced on a Dogridge 
with a Quassaic bud. This bud united 
and the growth from it is over seven 
feet at the present writing. Another 
Dogridge in its green state was decapi¬ 
tated in June about a foot above the 
ground, and a green graft was taken off 
a Jefferson and inserted, tied with raffia 
and covered with ground, and this graft 
has grown to a length of about eight 
feet. This account is sent you simply 
to show what wonderful things nature 
is capable of doing. It is the most won¬ 
derful process, and one to be deeply stu¬ 
died and of absorbing interest. 
Pennsylvania. joiin K. gross. 
Apple Packers and “Kickers.” 
W E do no often give name and ad¬ 
dress in The R. N.-Y., because 
most of our people do not want us to do 
so. Here is one, however, to put on rec¬ 
ord : 
N. T. Willis, 
Chappaqua, 
N. Y. 
The point about Mr . Willis is that lie 
wrote a letter to the New York *S tun, in 
which he said he could not find an honest 
apple grower in the East: 
The fraud practised in packing apples 
is a disgrace to the State. Last Winter 
I paid $6 for a barrel of Wiuesaps bear¬ 
ing the name of an up-State packer; paid 
carting and expressage to my home, 30 
miles out of town, and got for my pains 
and expense about a half bushel of Wine- 
saps. while the rest of the barrel was 
filled with some miserable little yellowish- 
green fruit or vegetable unfit to feed to 
the hogs. Every good apple I got cost 
me approximately 15 cents. 
Then Mr. Willis goes on to tell the old 
story about Western apples of inferior 
quality—but well and uniformly packed: 
This is only a repetition of previous ex¬ 
periences, and I now buy apples only by 
the box. the Western kind. They are of 
inferior flavor to New York apples, not 
old shoes, clods of dirt and other trash. 
It is not sympathy the New York State 
apple packer needs, it is something else. 
This is hard language. How much of 
it is deserved? We handle hundreds of 
barrels of apples each year—all in bar¬ 
rels or smaller packages direct to the con¬ 
sumer. We make a fair price and en¬ 
deavor to deliver fair fruit. About 10 
per cent, or rather more of our custom¬ 
ers are “kickers” who are never satisfied 
and who seem to think they will lose pres¬ 
tige if they ever admit that the goods are 
satisfactory. What Mr. Willis says re¬ 
minds us forcibly of the arguments of 
our small proportion of “kickers.” We 
have tried the experiment of personally 
selecting the finest fruit of the entire 
crop. It makes little difference—these 
customers fear it will be considered a 
weakness if they do no.t “kick” about 
something. The great majority of our 
customers are fair and appreciative. We 
do not know Mr. Willis. No doubt he 
has fair cause for complaint, but there 
are two sides to this apple business as 
with everything else. 
Weight of Wood. 
I N reply to your query on page 1313, I 
will say that one cord of dry hickory, 
or maple wood weighs 4500 pounds; 
White oak weighs 3850; Beech, Red and 
Black oak weighs 3250; poplar, chest¬ 
nut and elm weighs 2350; Northern pine 
weighs 2000. Green wood weighs 25% 
more. One pound of coal is equal to 
pounds of dry wood of any kind. 
Vermont. edwin M. isurditt. 
This information is taken from a book 
of useful information by William Kent, 
and is as follows: 
Wood when newly felled contains a 
proportion of moisture which varies very 
much in different kinds, and in differ¬ 
ent specimens ranging between 30 and 50 
percent, and being on an average about 
40 percent. After eight or 12 months 
ordinary drying in the air, the propor¬ 
tion of moisture is from 20 to 25 per¬ 
cent. The weight of a cord of different 
woods, throughly air dried, is about as 
follows: Hickory, or Hard maple 4.500; 
White oak 3,850; beech—Red and Black 
oak 3,250; poplar, chestnut and elm 
2,350; The average pine 2,000. 
New York. c. o. chase. 
The answer to the question as to the 
weight of wood on page 1313 can be got¬ 
ten from the Forest Service, Washing¬ 
ton, D. C. The only tables I can find 
now give the weight of air-dry White 
oak as 49.94 pounds per cubic foot, and 
chestnut as 41.20 pounds per cubic foot. 
According to the size of the sticks and 
the care taken in piling, wood will run 
from 30 to 40 to 80 or more cubic feet 
to the cord. Green timber will weigh 
from 20 to 40 per cent, more than dry. 
It would probably be safe to estimate 
split wood (six-inch face) carefully piled 
as about 75 cubic feet per cord' while 
limb wood might not be more than one- 
third as much. Alfred c. weed 
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Five years ago he chose Big 
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What’s more, his greeting is just as 
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and every other morning through the 
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fiSH brk ^ 
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; 
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