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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 6, 
CultiMYourSoil 
Your crops will get abetter start 
and have a stronger, healthier root 
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Carefully compiled 
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Asparagus for Buffalo. 
1 IIAVE about five acres of asparagus, 
green, coming into bearing this 
Spring, and I would like your advice 
in regard to length of cutting above the 
ground, also what make of buncher to 
use. What size bunch is best seller in 
Buffalo market? Would it pay to grade? 
Would you advise wrapping butts in par¬ 
affin paper? How and in what should 
they be packed? L. N. D. 
Ionia, N. Y. 
I do not think there is any size of 
asparagus bunch that takes especially 
well in the Buffalo market. It comes in 
at at first tied up pretty small and the 
bunches grow larger as the crop season 
advances. I should not care to buy a 
buncher, for anybody can make a good 
one easily out of a few strips of board. 
Cut as low as you can afford to go below 
the ground and not injure the plant. 
Grading as to size and length helps the 
sale decidedly, but I have never seen the 
bunches wrapped in waxed paper or any¬ 
thing else. That would interfere with 
the examination of them by the consumer. 
Bundling or crating so that the stems 
will not be bruised is all that is neces¬ 
sary. If you have a good crop to mar¬ 
ket in Buffalo next season the thing to 
do is to come here a few days before 
it is ready to begin cutting; go to the 
Elk Street Market, and make an arrange¬ 
ment with a reliable jobber to handle the 
asparagus as it comes in. By that time 
the city markets will be filled with south¬ 
ern asparagus and you can see how it 
looks. A word with your jobber as to 
how he prefers to have the bunches put 
up and shipped will be all that you will 
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Potato and Fruit Conditions. 
A RECENT issue of Tiie R. N.-Y. 
states that potatoes are retailing at 
$1.25 per bushel in the city, also I 
see that apples are selling two or three 
for five cents from the push-carts in the 
streets. People who pay these prices 
should know how conditions are here, and 
perhaps their influence could be enlisted 
to secure more rational distribution of 
farm products. 
Here last Fall few tried to pick apples. 
There was some call from buyers early 
at $1 per barrel, and evaporators offered 
30 cents per hundred. These prices were 
accepted by some, but evaporators soon 
reduced to 10 cents. Most of them shut 
down or never started. Buyers refused 
to take any picked fruit. Most of the 
fruit went to the hogs or sheep. I have 
an old orchard that was in bad shape 
when I came here. Instead of trimming 
out the new wood, as is customary, I 
cut out the old tops and dead limbs. The 
old trees have borne finely since. Last 
year there were probably 500 bushels. 
We put 50 bushels of the finest King 
and Baldwin one ever looked at in the 
cellar but there is no market. The sheep 
got the balance and grew fat. A neigh¬ 
bor fattened a dozen hogs on his fruit. 
I noticed the people on a big fruit farm 
near here loading a car with loose apples, 
but did not hear what they brought. 
The potato situation is worse. Tubers 
have to be harvested by hard work. Here 
they were just about double the usual 
yield, but many put in beans last season, 
thus reducing the acreage. A few days 
ago I asked a buyer about potatoes. He 
said they might possibly load a car some 
time. Price would be 30 cents or less. 
In 1909 the crop locally was about like 
this season. I had 400 bushels with a 
seven-mile haul. Buyers here did not 
want them, but finally an outside man 
came in and offered 25 cents. I drew 
two or three loads and fed remainder to 
stock. At the same time my people lived 
in Elmira, about 20 miles from our ship¬ 
ping point, and paid 20 cents a peek 
at the grocery. 
A recent paper spoke of destitution in 
New York City, and some one claimed 
that 800 people died of starvation each 
year. It would seem that in times of 
plenty handlers of produce could shove 
it along at an easy price instead of try¬ 
ing to make the profit so great that poor 
people were unable to use eatables like 
fruit and potatoes. When nature is lib¬ 
eral. farmers would gladly load at any 
price, thus realizing about as much 
money even with more labor. At the 
other end cheap produce would fill many 
an empty stomach and move a surplus 
rapidly into consumption. This is the 
plan pursued by overloaded manufact¬ 
urers or dealers. A recent closing-out 
sale at a small reduction in a nearby 
town attracted people from a long dis¬ 
tance. The crowd was so large they had 
to. close the doors at times. One would 
think a sale of nice fruit or vegetables 
would relieve the market where people 
are hungry. But the whole system of 
moving farm produce is a disgrace to 
the intelligence of the people. Here the 
buyers kick and refuse to touch our 
stuff in times of plenty. There the price 
is beyond the reach of the poor. Here’s 
hoping that our new State Market Com¬ 
mission may find a way out, even if 
some of the smart fellows who are rob¬ 
bing at both ends have to go to work. 
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