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TI IK RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 20, 
RIGHT AFTER THE CONSUMER’S DOLLAR 
Direct Dealing With Buyers. 
Part I. 
T omatoes instead of peaches. 
—In common with many others who 
lost their peach crop the past season, 
through this part of the State,.the ques¬ 
tion as to what crop to grow to make up 
for the shortage in income, became a 
serious one. While in our case, both 
orchard and annual returns were com¬ 
paratively small, we found it no easy 
matter to find a substitute that would 
make up for the loss of the peach crop, 
but there was far from being anything 
lacking in the amount of labor required. 
“Great(?) minds run in the same chan¬ 
nel,” but to considerable disadvantage in 
this case, as so many others also made 
tomatoes a substitute, it would seem that 
it resulted in the lowest price probably 
ever known in some of the larger mar¬ 
kets in this part of the State; six cents 
per bushel in Rochester, for instance, as 
we learned from one of the growers. 
Raising the Plants. —Early exam¬ 
ination of buds gave assurance of fail¬ 
ure of peach crop in time to raise our 
own tomato plants. A miniature green¬ 
house, a cheap, home-made affair, was 
built over outside cellar door, and heated 
with old range boilers which gave out 
under the high pressure of the Dansville 
water, works. These were connected 
with the hot water system in the house. 
Enough seed was secured, as we esti¬ 
mated, for about 4000 plants, figuring ac¬ 
cording to a seedsman’s catalogue on 
1300 plants from an ounce. We bought 
three ounces, but when we began trans¬ 
planting from seed boxes into flats, the 
first half ounce of Earliana alone, gave 
us over 3000 plants, and the rest in 
about the same proportion, 6000 to 6500 
to the ounce, instead of 1300, and a total 
when planted of over four times as many 
as we figured on. With so many more 
than we planned for at first, there was 
abundant evidence that the marketing 
problem would be a serious one, if they 
ever ripened. Fortunately, in some ways, 
however, as it afterward proved, the sea¬ 
son was unusually cool, with frosts each 
month all Summer, and the crop matured 
very slowly. 
Handling the Crop. —We had a num¬ 
ber of Georgia peach carriers and extra 
tills left over from previous year’s sup¬ 
ply, and as they proved so satisfactory 
for handling and marketing delicate 
white peaches, we felt sure they would be 
just what we wanted for the fancy grade 
of tomatoes, and we found them to be so. 
The tills cost about one cent each and 
the carriers were used again and again. 
The first few pickings sold readily here 
in home market, direct to consumer, but 
as season advanced the supply from the 
gardens in town increased, and we were 
met more and more frequently with such 
replies as: “Yes, your tomatoes arc very 
nice, but we have plenty in our own gar¬ 
den now.” As tomatoes were ripening 
faster than we could find sale for lo¬ 
cally, the problem of reaching the next 
nearest market, Ilornell, about 22 miles 
distant from our place, became a seri¬ 
ous one. When we planted all these 
tomatoes, for we disliked to throw them 
away, we had hoped to have an auto 
truck of some kind to handle the crop, 
but we were faced with the fact that 
prices were dropping rapidly, leaving but 
little hopes of getting much out of the 
crop, and did not want to tackle the 
truck proposition under the circum¬ 
stances; besides, the State road was not 
completed, and it was necessary to make 
two rough detours, with some very steep 
grades, where it would have required a 
very good truck indeed to haul a one- 
horse load. 
Retail Trade. —Things looked blue, 
but we just had to get something out of 
those tomatoes, so I took one of the 
horses with about 50 carriers of fancy 
grade of ripe tomatoes, and left the other 
horse to handle the home trade. For 
perhaps an hour after reaching Ilornell 
sales were good, and it seemed as though 
I would soon sell out, but instead, it took 
nearly two days’ hard work to dispose 
of that first load. It seemed as though 
nearly everybody had a few tomatoes in 
their garden, whether they had anything 
else or not, and the problem became sim¬ 
ply to find enough women who either had 
no garden or not enough ripe tomatoes 
for immediate use, in order to dispose of 
all the load. With one or two exceptions 
the grocers showed very little interest in 
the tomatoes this first trip. I was a 
stranger to them, and they had not been 
accustomed to handling tomatoes put up 
in that way. The women folks, how¬ 
ever, seemed to appreciate getting good, 
ripe tomatoes put up in the neat little 
packages, and to find them not only in 
good condition, but as good in bottom 
as on top. When one is footsore and 
tired, hearing time after time, “We have 
plenty of tomatoes of our own,” it is a 
bright spot to make another sale, and as 
he tucks the change in his old tow bag. 
hears one of the children as she comes 
running with the empty basket, saying: 
“Mamma says they are the finest toma¬ 
toes she ever saw.” On the other hand, 
one feels differently, when a woman runs 
her fingers all through the basket, dis¬ 
arranging them, then after figuring and 
fussing, says, “I guess not any today.” 
Rut I finally had the satisfaction that 
every peddler enjoys, of “selling out” 
and starting for home. I. c. R. 
“For the Land’s Sake, use Bowker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
those who till it.”— Adv. 
Success with CLOVER, 
ALFALFA, Peas, Beans, Vetch 
and all other Legumes. 
A “catch” — bigger yield — 
greatest feeding value—richer 
soil for s ucceeding crops. 
Inoculate all Legumes with 
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NOBBE -HILTNER PROCESS 
Inoculated Not 
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Early plants make the 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
833 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
Grow Big, Luscious Strawberries 
Select hardy, prolific, carefully tested varieties. Grow them 
right. Even a small patch will yield big profits—one man made 
S200 on 1/5 acre of a standard variety. Tnink of the pleasure, 
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For full description of all worth-while varieties, read Alton's Book 
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THE W. F. ALLEN CO. 
72 Market St., Salisbury, Md. 
$1,000 an Acre 
Actually made growing the latest kinds of 
Ever-Bearing Strawberries 
THAT FRUIT SAME YEAR AS PLANTED 
Don’t buy until you write for my Free Catalogue telling 
what kinds to grow and how to grow them. 
C. S. K.EMPTON, Longmeadow, Mass. 
Grower of the famous Longmeadow Cantaloupe. 
Mr. Kcmpton was one of the first growers to take up the produc¬ 
tion of Kver- Bearing Strawberries.— (En. Farm and Home.) 
