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A Chinese Fruit Merchant. 
T HE picture reproduced from Bulletin 
No. 100. Office of Foreign Seed and 
Plant Introduction, shows a fruit mer¬ 
chant sitting at one of the city gates of 
Tai an fu. selling the fruit of a spe¬ 
cies of haw lOratu'gus pinnatifida) of 
which orchards are often planted in Shan¬ 
tung. China. From these haws one of 
Potatoes After Strawberries. 
Are potatoes a good crop after plowing 
up an old bearing strawberry bed? Can 
I get good results from potatoes? If so 
what variety is best in Orange County, 
X. Y.V If not profitable, what crop 
would be? j. a. X’. 
We have obtained good yields of pota¬ 
toes on the soil of an old strawberry bed. 
The berries are usually well fed and 
heavily mulched wit 17 straw or manure, 
A Chinese Fruit Merchant Selling Haws and Persimmons. 
the best preserves of China is made. 
The tree has proven hardy in the East¬ 
ern I'nited States, where it has been dis¬ 
tributed. The haws are in tin 1 second 
basket, whereas dried persimmons arc 
in the lirst one. Preserves and jellies 
are made in the Middle West from some 
of our native haws, especially the black¬ 
thorn. Crataegus tomentosa, which has a 
pleasant-tasting fruit. 
Dorset and Other Pears. 
' >n page 4.°>4 E. (J. Miller says that he 
wants to say a good word for the Dorset 
pear, lie thinks they will keep till Feb¬ 
ruary, but I have them now at this date, 
April 5. The only fault I can find with 
them is that when cultivated they blight 
more than any other pear I have, and I 
have 5S different kinds, but some Dorsets 
I have in sod have not blighted any. 
But I get more satisfaction out of Win¬ 
ter Nelis than any kind I have in bear¬ 
ing. In H<> years I have never had a to¬ 
tal failure of crop, and they are as good 
eating as Lawrence, J-oscph ine. Bose, 
Angoulcmc, Anjou, Worden Seckel. Bait- 
hut or Seckel. Of course well-grown, 
large-size pears of any kind have a bet¬ 
ter flavor than small ones, and my 
W inter Nelis are most all as large as the 
largest Lawrence. Can you tell me any¬ 
thing about the following pears: (Jans 
Early, Longworth’s No. 1, White Star, 
which is claimed to keep in a common 
cellar till June, and Krull, which has a 
foliage more like an apple than pear? I 
have one that has been planted 10 years, 
and has never come into bearing. I am 
thinking of grafting it with Comice or 
Illinois Lincoln. c. n. g. 
Pennsylvania. 
Cedar Rust, 
I have read the article “Cedar Itust 
Experience” signed by C. V. G., Iowa, 
page 009. If the information that we 
get from others and from our own exper¬ 
ience is correct, cedar rust cannot be 
eradicated by the methods that (’. V. G. 
recommends. Cedar rust can possibly be 
checked by spraying with lime and sul¬ 
phur solution, but not eradicated. The 
only material that has ever showed over 
75% efficiency against cedar rust 
atomic sulphur. 
Maryland. 
It. N.-Y.—A\ e want a discussion of 
this point. Our own opinion is that the 
safest plan is to destroy the cedars. Has 
one experimented fully with spraying? ists generally. 
is 
IX. 
FASTER FLOWER TRADE IN NEW YORK. 
This year the severe storm of April 
brought heavy losses to the New York 
llorists. The greatest trade at Easter is 
in (lowering plants, and this stock was 
largely out of the growers’ hands before 
the weather changed. With heavy snow 
and a driving gale, transient trade was 
reduced to its lowest minimum, and the 
delivery of advance orders was greatly 
hampered. The greatest sufferers of ail 
were the curbstone venders, who sell 
cheap stock, such as Dutch bulbs. Cin¬ 
erarias, small Spiraeas, etc., to buyers of 
small means. To them the weather meant 
absolute disaster, thus cutting oil' an out¬ 
let for the growers’ surplus. Another 
class who suffered severely were those 
who sell in the open ..ir market in Union 
Square, a picturesque feature that recalls, 
annually, the flower markets in French 
and Belgian cities. One Brooklyn florist 
reports that in anticipation of his reg¬ 
ular trade he had about $500 worth of 
plants on hand, and on Sunday he had 
$•100 worth left. One suburban florist, 
when he realized the weather conditions 
on Saturday morning, telephoned to all 
i lie customers lie could reach, took their 
orders, and delivered them by motor, and 
this plan was doubtless followed by many 
« I hers. In addition to losses resulting 
from bad weather, the flower trade un¬ 
doubtedly suffered from economic depres¬ 
sion and the resultant demands upon phi- 
lantnropy, many churches cutting down 
Em amount ordinarily spent in flowers 
for decorating. I’rices showed little 
change. Easter lilies were in ample sup- 
lily. the plants retailing at the rate of HO 
to Ho cents a flower. Forced plants of 
Bumbler roses, especially Dorothy Per¬ 
kins. and other pink sorts, were favorites, 
selling from $1 up. Hydrangeas, the new 
French sorts, were in fine condition, sell¬ 
ing from 75 cents up. Acacias and heaths 
were used, in baskets for high-class trade*, 
alone or in combination, plants being a 
marked feature in artistic arrangements 
of this class. Azaleas were exceptionally 
fine, also Bhododendrons and Marguer¬ 
ites. these holding their usual popularity. 
Hyacinths, daffodils, tulips and lily of 
the valley were as plentiful as usual and 
sold at all sorts of prices, from 10 cents 
a pot up. In cut flowers, roses were a 
little higher than expected; carnations 
lower. Violets were plentiful : they have 
been sold so freely by the “Greeks” 
fevery street flower seller is known as a 
Greek) that fortunes in violet growing 
must be much scarcer than newspaper 
stories would lead us to imagine. A good 
many orchids were used for choice cor¬ 
sage trade, also the miniature roses, Irish 
Fireflame and Mignon (Mile. Cecile 
Brunner). However, it is evident that 
Easter, this year, was most discouraging, 
coming, as it did. at the end of a Winter 
that has provided a lean harvest for flor- 
generally, e. t. r. 
so that the soil is rich and full of humus 
the right condition for potatoes. The 
Irish Cobbler does well with us and re- 
mains the favorite variety for a medium 
ea rlv. 
Raise Calves Without 
Milk 
Save the cow’s milk for market. 
Make four times the profit on 
your calves by raising them on 
Blatchford’s Calf Meal * d 
Evory pound makes a gallon of rich milk food at one-fourth 
the cost of milk. Calf prefers it; arrows faster. 
( 0 [We make also Blatchford's Plff Meal 
the idea) food for young pigs at 
weaning time.) 
At dealers or write ua. Free Book 
—* “How to Raise Calves Cheaply 
and Successfully Without Milk." 
Blatchford Calf Meal Factory 
9 Madison St., Waukegan, III. 
HAVANA- 
steel WHEELS 
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Your exact measurements of 
arm is all wo need and wepruar- 
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your work is half done when 
you begin, and when finished 
you are only half tired. Make your 
work easy at small expense. Buy 
today. To-morrow never comes. 
Get our Free Catalogue 
Havana Metal Wheel Co. 
Box 17. - Havana, Illinois. 
T HIS trestle[carries trains weighing hundreds of tons each, 
day after day, year in and year out. In building it, the en¬ 
gineers used wood they knew, from test and experience, to be 
strong enough to carry the load, and durable enough to last. 
I he builder of that silo had to consider strength and dur¬ 
ability, just as the bridge builder considered it. 
But the silo man also had to be sure that his material would 
insure the proper fermentation of newly packed silage—that it 
would make the best silage. 
Bridge builder and silo builder—both selected the same 
material— 
Southern Yellow Pine 
READ THESE PROOFS— Here’s the Proof of Yellow Pine’s 
Strength , as shown by comparative tests made by the U. S Forest 
Service and the figures reproduced in R. S. Kellogg’s “Lumber 
and Its Uses,” 1914, a standard work on forest products. The 
table shows the relative breaking strength and crushing strength 
of the woods listed, the tests all having been made from selected 
pieces of perfect wood of the same size. 
\\ oods Tested Breaking Strength Crushing Strength 
Long Leaf Yellow Pine . . . . 8,630. . 4,280 
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White Oak.8,160. 
Beech.8,160. 
Slippery Elm.7,710. 
Post Oak.7,380. 
Cypress.7,110. 
Douglas Fir.6,340. 
Hemlock, Eastern.6,180. 
Black Ash.6,009. 
Silver Maple.5,820. 
Spruce, Red.5,710. 
Red Cherry.5,040. 
. 3,280 
. 3,180 
. 3,330 
. 3,960 
. 2,920 
. 3,270 
. 2,300 
. 2,490 
. 2,760 
. 2,170 
Here’s what an unbiased silo expert says in Bulletin No. 70, 
1912, Agricultural Experiment Station, Storrs, Connecticut; 
“A round, wooden-stave silo, taking all things into consideration, has proved 
most satisfactory. . . . Silage keeps best against wood and nothing is lost 
around the edges.” 
There are the facts. Consider them for yourself. Then 
consider the low cost of the Southern Yellow Pine silo, its un¬ 
equaled qualities as a container. Couple that with its strength 
and durability, and figure out for yourself whether a Southern 
bellow Pine silo isn’t the silo that is best for your pocket-book, 
and best for your silage. 
\\ e have no silos to sell you—there are a number of first class 
Southern Yellow Pine silos made, and you’ll make no mistake in 
any of them. y 
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