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THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
October 2, 1915. 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
The Peach Season. — Our peaches 
never made a finer growth than this 
year. They were large and beautifully 
colored, yet the season was not satisfac¬ 
tory. The continued wet and “muggy”, 
weather caused the brown rot to spread 
through some varieties like wildfire, and 
the heat drove the fruit to early ripening. 
We plan to have a succession of varieties 
so as to avoid any large accumulation 
of any one sort, but this year they came 
together in a bunch, for the heat was uo 
respecter of variety. Considerable of our 
fruit was lost in spite of all we could do. 
I hear of growers who say they never 
lose a peach either through brown rot or 
any other cause, but I imagine that when 
we investigated such wonderful cases we 
should find one of several things: They 
have only one or two trees, the trees carry 
only half a dozen peaches each, or they 
have pigs running in the orchards to 
take care of every drop. I shall have to 
admit we lost part of our crop. 
The.Markets. —However, we sold our 
best fruit to good advantage, considering 
the wholesale prices of this year. Carloads 
of good peaches sold in New York at 15 
cents or even less per basket. It is doubt¬ 
ful if consumers ever got these for less 
than 75 cents. One thing about the auction 
sales is the fact that consumers who study 
these markets will know what the dealers 
actually pay* Knowing this they will be 
able to figure whether the retail price is 
fair or not. This is one way in which 
the auction sales can be used to help the 
consumer. We deal direct with the con¬ 
sumers and know what they want. In 
our public market it seemed that farmers 
were charging as much as or even more 
than the grocers or butchers were charg¬ 
ing for the same grade of goods. It seem¬ 
ed to me that this was just the 
way to ruin the market. There is no 
reason why a woman should come to a 
wagon and carry her purchases home 
when for the same money she can call 
up the grocer and have him deliver the 
goods. The very object of the market 
is to give the consumer a fair bargain 
and the farmer a fair price without com¬ 
pelling him to peddle from door to door. 
So we make prices at the wagon about 
80 per cent of what the dealers charge. 
In this way we get at least .‘50 per cent 
more than we would at wholesale. 
Dissatisfied Customers. — For the 
second time in all our experience we 
have had fault found with our goods. 
The first case was several years ago, on 
a shipment of apples. We know they 
were right when they left us, but the 
buyer let out a great howl- We simply 
sent his money right back and told him 
we wanted no more of his trade. The case 
this year represented a shipment of 
peaches to New York. We sent a dozen 
baskets at the suggestion of a neighbor 
who had the order but could not supply 
the fruit. The peaches were picked in the 
morning and shipped a few hours later. 
They were firm and sound, No. 1 fruit 
—just the same as others which carried 
well to the same city. l r et the next day 
we received a special delivery letter stat¬ 
ing that only 11 baskets were delivered 
and these contained fruit so soft and 
decayed that the odor was unbearable. 
“Not a single good peach in the entire 
shipment.” The buyer would not pay for 
the peaches and asked me to give $1.80 
which she paid for expressage! 
What about such a case? 
No doubt some of you have had such 
experience. The buyer is a stranger to 
us, but is reported perfectly honest in 
her dealings. We know these peaches 
were sound and firm when they left our 
place. We have sent the same kind of 
fruit in the same packages under thc- 
same conditions and to the same city by 
the same express company, and they ar¬ 
rived in satisfactory condition. The ex¬ 
press company accepted them in good con¬ 
dition, and the woman paid the express 
—though, as she says, the odor was 
“something terrible!” What would you 
do? I have put in a claim against the 
express company for the value of the 
peaches. That will bring the thing to 
a head and we shall see what condition 
the fruit was in when delivered. I want 
to be entirely fair about such things, 
as I know there are many sides to them. 
It is hard for fruit to stand up 
against the fearful heat we have been 
having, yet we have shipped right along 
without serious injury. 
Parcel Post Fakes. —I want to warn 
our people, however, against a very slick 
scheme which some of the city consum¬ 
ers seem to have learned from the fake 
commission men. You or some other 
farmer will advertise eggs, sausage, but¬ 
ter or fruit for direct sale, Some one 
answers your advertisement and sends 
money for sample. This gives good 
satisfaction, and more orders result — 
the goods being paid for promptly. Finally 
you get a letter stating that a number 
of people have seen your goods and like 
them. It will be possible, by grouping 
them together, to make up a large order. 
Do you want it? Of course you do, and 
the thing looks so good that you waive your 
rule of pay in advance in this case. You 
send a large order of potatoes, apples and 
other goods by freight. Then begins a 
long series of complaints and failure to 
pay. In the end they have your goods 
and you are forced to lose more or less 
of your money—in some cases all of it. 
These cases are not frequent, but they 
will happen, and the safe rule is to stand 
firmly for cash in advance after it has 
been demonstrated that your goods have 
given satisfaction. As a rule when peo¬ 
ple meditate such a hold-up they tell you 
how anxious they are to help you along 
and do good in the world! Let me tell 
you right now—that is one of the ear¬ 
marks of the gentleman who intends to 
do you “good” if he can. Before you pay 
too much attention to these characters who 
are so anxious to “do you good” it is well 
enough to read in the New Testament 
about the men who spent so much time 
praising themselves. 
The Corn Crop. —Month after month 
the government experts have been tell¬ 
ing of the wonderful corn crop that is 
coming to harvest. Many of us who have 
looked out upon day after day of rain 
have wondered where all this corn is! I 
did not expect to find much of it in this 
country, but the past 10 days or so of 
hot weather have done wonders in forc¬ 
ing the corn. We shall have the best 
crop iu our history. We depend on the 
dry fodder for wintering our horses, and 
tin* grain this year will pay the expenses 
of the crop. I shall have a good yield 
of flint corn for seed—better ears than 
ever before. You will remember that our 
corn is grown in the young orchards. The 
big dents are not suited for this orchard 
work, but the slender and short flints do 
not shade or rob the trees, while they give 
better fodder. Each year we seed a cover 
crop in the corn. Iu the Spring this is 
plowed under and lime applied ready for 
another crop of corn. Thus under this 
system the corn crop pays all expenses 
of cultivating the orchard, and we obtain 
good growth* This year’s corn crop is 
a great satisfaction, especially since the 
ears are so well matured. 
The Cover Crops. —This year we used 
rye, half and half, Alsike and Sweet clover, 
and rape and turnips. The wet weather 
has driven them all along. The Alsike 
is now larger than the Sweet, but I am 
sure the latter will come on later and 
smother out its companions. I have never 
felt that farmers give proper credit to 
Alsike clover. On such soil as ours it is 
far surer than Red. A small patch of Sweet 
clover seeded last Spring looks fine now. 
While a number of farmers and scientific 
men give great praise to this clover, I 
also know that many cool-headed observ¬ 
ers do not boil over yet Therefore, I 
do not try to “boom” it. The Sweet clover 
seems to be one of the things well worth 
trying—and trying, too, with an observ¬ 
ant and critical eye. Let us not take 
any man’s word for it, but try it our¬ 
selves. At any rate, this is an ideal sea¬ 
son for the cover crops. The wet weather 
drives these crops along, and makes them 
more necessary than ever. For these 
drenching rains will surely rush the 
nitrates out of the soil unless living roots 
are there to utilize the waste. Farther 
South, where the Winters are shorter and 
the growing season longer, great things 
are done with cover crops. ir. w. c. 
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