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THE KU L NEW-YORKER 
October 23, 1915. 
be sold to those Long Islanders who 
grade their produce up to a high standard 
of excellence for sale to city folk. 
“No member of the Grange will be al¬ 
lowed to stick the stamp on a shipment,” 
Mr. Hartman explained, “unless the 
quality of his produce is high enough to 
bring repeat orders from city customers.” 
Surely that is one good way to bring 
about standardization of farm products. 
The Suffolk Grange people think it will 
build them a big direct-marketing reputa¬ 
tion and they propose to push it. For 
what good does it do to have a fine 
Grange selling service that can dispose 
of crops direct—if you do not maintain 
a name for high-grade goods? 
JOHN It. COLTER. 
Orchard Grading Table. 
We are frequently asked to show a 
packing or grading table, such as is used 
by the expert apple growers of New 
York. Fig. 469, page 1265, shows such 
a table in the orchard of G. S. Warren, 
Monroe County, N. Y. The apples are 
picked from the trees and brought in 
baskets to this table, which has a canvas 
bottom so that the fruit can be handled 
carefully. Then they are graded by size 
and quality and barreled direct from the 
table. In many cases women and girls 
are used to sort and grade, and they be¬ 
come very expert in tbe business, as they 
have a naturally quick eye. and after 
some experience they acquire excellent 
judgment in assorting by size. Work of 
this sort must be done rapidly, for the 
season is short, and there are many bad 
days when work cannot be done to ad¬ 
vantage. Therefore in apple picking time 
long days and active hands are the rules. 
The table here shown is a typical one, 
and it will give good satisfaction. 
Harvesting Beans ; Clean Seed. 
The two pictures on page 1265 show 
how beans are harvested on the farm of 
M. C. Burritt in Monroe County, N. Y. 
We have had a good many inquiries from 
people who want to know how the beans 
are harvested by machinery, and these 
pictures show the operation better than 
any number of words could do. As will 
be seen, the beans are pulled by machin¬ 
ery. The vines are sliced off under 
ground. Knives, which are not shown 
in the picture, project under the row, and 
as the machine is driven along these 
knives work under ground, cut off the 
roots, and leave the vines behind as 
shown. The workmen then follow with 
forks and throw the beans into windrows 
for concentration and curing. Thus the 
beans are pulled by horse power rapidly 
and well. Then they are thrown into 
the windrows and later piled in cocks, 
somewhat like clover hay, where they are 
left for a while to cure before stacking 
and thrashing. This farm shows good, 
clean cultivation, and a good crop of the 
beans. In smaller patches the beans are 
pulled by hand, the dirt shaken from the 
roots, and the vines thrown together into 
windrows or cocks, but on the larger 
farms where there is a considerable acre¬ 
age, the bean puller on wheels is used 
as shown in the picture, and it makes 
rapid work in the bean harvest. 
In talking about bean growing, the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture refers to the 
heavy losses from diseases which have 
been suffered this season. Much of this 
disease seems to have been carried in the 
seed beans. The Department advises 
growers to select the seed beans in the 
pod, and not to wait until after thrash¬ 
ing. The advice is to pick the pods 
which are free from all spots, and thrash 
these separately. Clean seed on clean 
land is the best way of avoiding bean 
diseases. There are two bean diseases 
commonly prevalent, antliracnose and 
bacterial blight. Both attack the pods 
and spot them. They penetrate and en¬ 
ter the bean. When the beans are plant¬ 
ed these diseases attack the young seed¬ 
lings. The bacterial blight is conveyed 
by wind. Clean seed and crop rotation 
will give best results, and old bean 
ground where diseases have prevailed this 
year should not be planted next year. 
The surest thing, however, that a bean 
grower can do is to start with clean seed. 
Get seed from your own crop if possible. 
Select in the pod and take only those 
pods which are free from all spots. These 
spots mean that the disease may be hid¬ 
den in the beans, even if they look clean. 
When you come to thrash the seed look 
over the pods again, and make another 
rejection of all that show spots. This is 
a simple way of starting with clean seed 
on clean ground, and a practical way of 
avoiding bean diseases. 
Tioga County, N. Y., Crops. 
Preliminary to going dry on October 1, 
being the second county of the State to 
banish the saloon from its borders, Tioga 
County, N. Y'., has experienced one of 
the wettest seasons of its history. The 
Spring rains merged into Summer 
rains, and the latter continued with few 
and brief intermissions until September, 
and have been frequent, though not con¬ 
tinuous, since. The Summer has been 
cool, as well as wet. The first hay crop 
was rather light, but the second cutting 
made possible by so much rain, has 
brought the total amount at least up to 
the average. Pastures have been lush, 
but there has been much complaint of 
great and unusual variation in milk flow, 
generally ascribed to “watery grass.” 
The potato crop is so light as to be ac¬ 
counted almost a failure. Conditions for 
the spread of blight were almost ideal 
and that fungus accomplished its work 
early and thoroughly; many farmers who 
ordinarily sell potatoes will come dan¬ 
gerously near to being obliged to pur¬ 
chase their own Winter supply. Corn 
has done well, in spite of the cool wea¬ 
ther. Silage corn is first class and husk¬ 
ing corn good. Oats were an unusually 
good crop but were harvested with great 
difficulty, most pieces being over ripe 
long before they could be cut. Wheat, 
a secondary crop in point of size, suffered 
the same fate; no boats with which to 
get onto the fields. Buckwheat a gen¬ 
erally good crop and being harvested safe¬ 
ly. Fruit, “few and scattering.” Alfal¬ 
fa culture is spreading over the county. 
Success with it is variable but sufficient¬ 
ly encouraging to keep the acreage con¬ 
stantly increasing. Prices; Potatoes, no 
shipping as yet, 50c. at local stores. 
Buckwheat, $1.60 per cwt. Day, $8 to 
$15. Milk, Borden’s schedule. Butter and 
eggs, a few cents under New York quo¬ 
tations. Feed prices: Corn and corn- 
meal, $1.60 per cwt. gluten feed, 
$1.40; wheat feed. $1.50; buck¬ 
wheat middlings. with some hulls, 
$1.25; oil meal, $2; bran, $1.25; wheat 
middlings, $1.70; Red Dog. $1.80; cot¬ 
tonseed meal, $1.75; brewers’ dried 
grains, $1.50. M. B. D. 
The Maine Potato Crop. 
The condition of the potato crop in 
Maine is much better than expected, also 
the prices higher, having reached, in some 
sections, nearly $2 a barrel, which shows 
that the prices are on the upward move, 
and are expected to reach a record price 
for this time of the season. Although a 
great many farmers are selling enough 
potatoes to meet their present obligations, 
there are a large number of growers hous¬ 
ing their entire crop, with expectations of 
getting much higher prices. While the 
yield is much less than last year, it is a 
lot better than the growers anticipated, 
when digging was first started. It is 
noticed this year, that the potatoes are 
more uniform in size and also less rot 
than in former years. Many growers 
have already finished digging, while 
others probably will not get through un¬ 
til the latter part of the month. The 
outlook in the northern part of the State 
is very satisfactory to the farmers, as 
high prices are badly needed this season, 
to offset the great loss which the growers 
suffered last season, when potatoes 
reached a very low mark. w. H. B. 
Oct. 8. Cold as Greenland this morn¬ 
ing, ground covered with snow. A good 
many potatoes dug, and now that frost 
has overtaken the green corn, farmers are 
rushing to fill their silos. Potatoes not 
an average crop, some fields terribly rot¬ 
ted, crop light and quality poor. Very 
little ripe corn here. Hard frost Aug. 
26 cut many fields of corn and potatoes. 
Our own corn was just silking, and in 
blossom, hence not one stalk in 1,000 has 
any sign of an ear on. Pretty poor pros¬ 
pect for much Jersey cream in such sil¬ 
age. It is reported that farmers who 
filled their silos as many did, immediate¬ 
ly after that August frost, have nothing 
but a mess of rotten soup. I heard of 
one man who went up into his silo and 
it had settled down from the top door¬ 
way so he thought he would jump down 
in and see how it was (No! He wasn’t 
drowned) and he jumped down in the 
length of his legs. f. r. e. 
Waupaca, Wis. 
Oct. 9. Butter, dairy, 30; creamery, 
35. Milk, wholesale, 3%, retail 6c. 
Cows, new milch, $75; strippers, $30 to 
$40. Hay, white-top, $10 to $12; Tim¬ 
othy, $20. Potatoes, 60c. per bushel. 
Apples, practically no crop. Eggs, fresh, 
42. E. D. B. 
Monticello, N. Y. 
Oct. 7. Hops (good) to-day are sell¬ 
ing for 25 cents; butter, 30 cents; cows, 
all the way from $40. $50, $60. and very 
choice ones at $80. Potatoes in the open 
market are 55 cents per bushel; oats, 55; 
apples, $1 per bushel. Lambs, fat, from 
$4 to $5 per head ; wool sold in the Sum¬ 
mer for 25 cents per pound. The farm¬ 
ers tell me the potatoes, especially on 
heavy clay land, are rotting to some ex¬ 
tent. M. T. S. 
Malone, N. Y. 
Oct. 7. Ilay, No. 1 Timothy. $17.50; 
clover, $16; Alfalfa, farmers ask $20 to 
$25 a ton here. Wheat straw. No. 1, 
$8; No. 2, $6.50 to $7. Wheat is $1 for 
the best. Corn and oats have made a 
sudden drop this last week, corn 73c.; 
oats, 40c. The potato crop here was not 
large, an average of 100 bushel to the 
acre. I have only heard of two or three 
who have 200 to 300 bushels to the acre. 
The best price by the shipper is 53c.; 
some market men get 75 cents a bushel 
in small lots. The corn is very late this 
Fall. Some are still filling silos and 
every one in the midst of cutting corn. 
There has been but little wheat sown yet, 
most have plowing to do, as they sow 
wheat on corn ground where crop was 
p.ut in silo. Milk per cwt. was for Sep¬ 
tember $1.55 at the shipping station, and 
is $1.70 for October. Farmer butter, 40c. 
per pound; eggs, 38c.; chickens, young, 
22c.; old, 20c.; young ducks, 22 to 25c.; 
squab guineas, $1 per pair dressed. Cows 
are very high when you want to buy. At 
a recent sale near here cows sold from 
$85 to $137. They were only grade Hol¬ 
stein cows of good size with big udders 
the sale day. If you have one to sell the 
best you can get would be $25, and she 
would have to be large size. Veal calves 
are 10c. a pound for best. 
Unionville, Pa. J. C. W. 
Milch cows that are fresh or due to 
freshen soon $60 to $80, according to 
age, size and quality. Veal calves 10c per 
lb., live weight. Cheese, 15%c per lb., 
wholesale; butter retails from 30c to 35c 
per lb. Milk $1.65 per 100 lbs. to Hood 
with a premium; Bordens $1.70 with pre¬ 
mium. Apples retail from $2 per bbl. to 
$3.50 for fancy stock, such as Snow, 
Spy, Wolf River, McIntosh. Eggs re¬ 
tail at 30c per doz. Potatoes 50c per 
bu. Cabbage retail at five cents each. 
Hay $18 to $20 per ton. Horses are 
cheaper than they have been in years; 
they range in prices from $85 to $175, 
according to size, age and condition. 
Gainsville, N. Y. u. l. t. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
New England Fruit Show, Mechanics’ 
Building, Boston, Mass., October 23-30. 
Winter Short Course, University of 
Missouri, Columbia, Mo., Nov. 1 to Dec. 
17, 1915; Jan. 10 to Feb. 26. 1916. 
Fifth annual apple show, Indiana Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Indianapolis, Nov. 
6-13. 
Chrysanthemum Society of America, 
annual show, Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 10- 
14. Special show, San Francisco, Cal. 
Paterson Poultry Association, annual 
show, Paterson, N. J„ Nov. 10-20. 
Wisconsin 'State Potato Growers’ As¬ 
sociation, annual convention, Marinette, 
Wis., Nov. 17-18. 
Bergen Co., N. J„ Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Hackensack, N. J., 
Nov. 24-27. 
International Live Stock Exposition, 
Chicago, Nov. 27-Dee. 4. 
New Jersey State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Winter meeting, Freehold, N. J., 
Nov. 30-Dec. 2. 
Auburn Poultry Show, Auburn, N. \ T ., 
Nov. 30-Dec. 4. 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa., 
Dec. 24. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Reading, Pa., Dec. 
6 - 11 . 
Pacific International Live Stock Ex¬ 
position, No. Portland, Ore., Dec. 6-11. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., Jan. 3-8, 1916. 
Vermont State Poultry Association an¬ 
nual show, St. Albans, Vt., Jan. 18-21, 
1916. 
National Western Stock Show, Den¬ 
ver, Colo., Jan. 17-22, 1916. 
National Feeders’ and Breeders’ Show, 
Fort Worth, Tex., March 11-17, 1916. 
O’Brien —“So the landlord lowered the 
rent for yez. He’ll save money at that.” 
Casey—“How so?” O’Brien—“Shure, 
it’s less he’ll be losin’ when ye don’t pay 
it.”—Punch. 
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40,000 St. Regis Raspberry Plants 
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For Sale-The Hemingway Farms 
offer their surplus German cattle beets—$G per ton, 
F. O. B. Less than car loads at $7 per ton; pur¬ 
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tenon h, white leaded 
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