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<1'HE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 30, 1915. 
Best Varieties of Peaches 
In order to have peaches all through 
the season Greensboro and Nectar are 
the best early varieties which I am ac¬ 
quainted with. They ripen together. 
Then comes Carman, followed by Heiley 
and Champion; then Belle of Georgia, 
and close on the Elberta; Stevens’ 
Rareripe and Fox come next, both good 
standard varieties. Iron Mountain and 
Salway are the other two, and only very 
late varieties we are planting. We are 
now (Oct. 7) picking Iron Mountain. So 
much depends on locality, markets, etc., 
as factors in the matter of varieties; one 
should not be too free in his advice to 
other growers. Charles e. lyman. 
Connecticut. 
For our use here we have found the 
following works very well: Greensboro, 
Waddell, Carman, Slappey, Belle of 
Georgia, Elberta, Stump, Fox, Smock. 
I would prefer more yellows, but do not 
know of good ones. You could probably 
add Salway, but it is too late here. 
There are a few others that are good 
peaches in some sections: Kalamazoo, 
Stevens and Champion. We fruited two 
new ones this year that I like very much. 
New Prolific, yellow, midseason, and 
Gold Mine, yellow late. I would plant 
the latter to try out. a. o. gui.ley. 
Connecticut Agricultural College. 
In reference to varieties of peaches 
practical to plant in order to obtain a 
continuous succession throughout the 
year, I would suggest the following in 
order of ripening, the relative amounts 
desirable in my opinion being indicated 
by the numerals from 1 to 10: Greens¬ 
boro, 2: Carman, 7 : Champion, 4; Belle 
of Georgia, 5; Elberta, 10; Fox’s Seed¬ 
ling, 8; Iron Mountain, 2; Krummel's 
October, 1 
The relative amounts of each variety 
desirable as indicated above, is based not 
entirely on the relative merits of each, 
but the overlapping of varieties and prob¬ 
able market conditions of each have been 
taken into consideration. In other words 
we have arrived at these figures from the 
results of a number of years, as indi¬ 
cated by our records. There are a num¬ 
ber of newer varieties of unquestioned 
merits, but I have not gone far enough 
with them to be sure of my results. 
Burlington Co.. N. J. jos. barton. 
The Belle of Georgia is a good peach to 
follow Carman. Tree very prolific and 
hardy. Belle is closely followed by El¬ 
berta. A. T. HENRY. 
Connecticut. 
You are right in advocating a succes¬ 
sion of peaches. Greensboro, Carman, 
Ileiley, Belle of Georgia, Elberta, Rex 
or Late Elberta. Fox’s Seedling, Krum- 
mel’s Late make a succession and a good 
list tor business. iiorace Roberts. 
New Jersey. 
We have not tried many of the new 
varieties that have been offered, but the 
following list of old varieties that we 
know about we shall plant if we are go¬ 
ing to plant another season, ripening 
about in the order named: Nectar, Car¬ 
man, Ilieley, Belle, Early Elberta, El¬ 
berta, Frances and Fox Seedling. We do 
not th>nk for *his section of the country 
that Carman and the early varieties will 
prove as profitable as they have in the 
past, except such years as the crop is 
small in Southern and Central New Jer¬ 
sey, Delaware and Maryland, as Elberta 
from these sections will come in in com¬ 
petition with' our Carman and early 
peaches, and being of better quality and 
appearance, sells more readily. 
Connecticut. barnes bros. 
Lye for Peach Borers. 
In your issue of September 4, page 
108(1. 'is an article on “Hot Lye for the 
Peach Borer/’ Do you believe this 
worth a trial? I have 5,000 trees to look 
after and if any help of this kind can 
be obtained, it will be a welcome as¬ 
sistance to the knife. There have been 
so many mixtures offered that are “sure 
cure’’ that 1 hesitate to risk the lye 
without your assurance that it’s safe to 
do so. E - A - B - 
We doubt it. Our experience with the 
hot lye was not entirely satisfactory. 
The trouble is to keep the liquid hot on 
a cold Fall day. In a large orchard 
there must be some plan for having a 
fire on wheels or else there is a great 
deal of work in carrying the hot liquid 
from a central cooking place. The hot 
lye will not be of much service in killing 
borers unless the gum is first scraped 
from the tree trunk and when that is 
done it is not much more work to dig 
out the borers with a knife or wire than 
it is to carry the lye and pour it on. 
We gave up the practice and have gone 
back to the old plan of digging out the 
borers. 
Protection for Cabbage and Cauliflower 
There are thousands of immature cab¬ 
bage and cauliflower which will be al¬ 
lowed to go to waste in the next GO days 
which would make good heads if planted 
in a trench and covered lightly with 
leaves. They will continue to grow when 
the temperature is above freezing, and 
there will be no worms in them. This is 
my experience covering over 30 years. 
Simply Jay them in the trench and cover 
the roots, well pressed down with your 
heel, and cover with leaves or litter. 
A. c. WORTH. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Oct. 15 it was an¬ 
nounced that six German naval officers 
interned with their vessels at Norfolk, 
Va., had broken their parole and escaped 
with several sailors, on a small yacht. 
Coast guards are searching for them, and 
the U. S. authorities have revoked all 
leave of absence for others interned on 
the two German cruisers at Norfolk. 
Oct. 19 it was found that three other 
German officers had fled. It is believed 
that many more have taken advantage 
of the generous treatment given them. 
Secretary Garrison’s plan for the re¬ 
organization of the United States army, 
approved by the President without alter¬ 
ation, provides for increasing the first 
line of defence from fewer than 100,000 
to more than 500,000 men. This is the 
necessary minimum agreed on by experts, 
and has been provided for by the creation 
of a new “continental army” of 400.000, 
in addition to the regular forces, which 
will be increased to about 129,000, ex¬ 
clusive of hospital troops and other non- 
combatants. The total appropriation 
asked for is $184,000,000, or $72,000,000 
more than last year. The “continental 
army” will consist of men trained in 
Summer camps, similar to that at Platts- 
burg, N. Y.. and they will be obliged to 
enlist as regulars for six years. Two 
months in the Summer of each of the 
first three years will be devoted to in¬ 
tensive training. During the remaining 
three years of the enlistment the men 
will be on furlough. 
Seven boys took a joy ride, Oct. 16, at 
Englewood, N. J., after helping them¬ 
selves to a touring car which Prosecutor 
Thomas J. Iluekin had left standing in 
front of the Englewood Theatre. As a 
result of the wild ride one is dead and 
four are in the Nyack Hospital. The 
two others, who are not seriously injured, 
are held in the Nyack jail on charges of 
manslaughter. The dead boy was Arthur 
Allan Wenzell, 16, a son of Albert Beck 
Wenzell, a New York illustrator. His 
neck was broken. 
Rural free mail delivery in the Arctic 
Circle is the latest accomplishment of 
the Winnipeg post office. On November 
29 the first of these Arctic rural mail 
carriers will leave Edmonton, Alta. He 
will go as far north as Fort McPherson, 
delivering letters to settlers and squat¬ 
ters on the way. He will start by rail¬ 
road and go to Athabasca Landing, then 
by stages, horse and cutter, and when 
the trails get too heavy he will use a 
dog sled. On December 29, January 28 
and February 25 other mails will leave 
for various parts of the Arctic Circle and 
Ilersehell Island, headquarters of San 
Francisco whalers. No letter must weigh 
more than half an ounce' and preference 
will be given to those registered. If pos¬ 
sible newspapers will be taken. 
Miss Katherine Dahlgren, the daughter 
of Mrs. Drexel Dahlgren, of New York, 
who has been driving a 120-horsepower 
racing automobile in the Berkshires this 
season, has been notified by the Massa¬ 
chusetts Highway Commission that her 
license to drive an automobile in the 
State has been suspended because she 
has operated her car in an improper 
manner. Miss Dahlgren has appeared 
three times before the District Court on 
a variety of charges, including operating 
the automobile with the muffler cut out 
and speeding and operating the automo¬ 
bile in a dangerous manner. She was 
fined twice for speeding through the prin¬ 
cipal streets of Stoekbridge at more than 
90 miles an hour. 
Two electricians employed in the fac¬ 
tory of the iEtna Explosives Co. at Em¬ 
porium, Pa., were arrested, Oct. 16, un¬ 
der suspicion of causing a recent explo¬ 
sion that resulted in the death of four 
men and the destruction of 285,000 
pounds of smokeless powder. The firm 
is said to be making explosives for the 
Allied armies. 
Oct. 16 a motor train on the Union 
Pacific plunged into Fancy Creek, near 
Randolph. Kan.; 37 injured and 20 dead. 
A majority of the passengers were wom¬ 
en school teachers on their way to a 
convention. The accident was due to 
a bridge partly undermined by heavy 
-rain. 
Two women and three children were 
burned to death, a man and his wife 
were so badly hurt that they probably 
will die, and several other persons re¬ 
ceived minoT injuries when a fire, start¬ 
ing in a coal bin early in the morning 
swept through a tenement on Third Ave¬ 
nue, near 116th Street., New York City, 
Oct. 17, practically destroying the struc¬ 
ture. 
Secretary Wilson of the Department of 
Labor revoked, Oct. 18, the order requir¬ 
ing all second class passengers on incom¬ 
ing steamships at New Y T ork to go to 
Ellis Island with immigrants for exam¬ 
ination. He will appoint a committee 
to arrange some other way of examina¬ 
tion. The order was issued because the 
decrease of immigration since the war 
had cut down inspection forces so that 
it was impossible to give separate in¬ 
spection to second class passengers. 
Oct. 19 New Jersey voted on three 
amendments to the State constitution. 
The amendment giving the vote to women 
was defeated by about 51,320 majority. 
Captain Simon B. Brunn, of the steam¬ 
ship Alaska, who was on his bridge 
continually for five consecutive days 
while rescuing the passengers of the 
wrecked steamer Mariposa on the Alaska 
coast recently, died of exhaustion at a 
hospital in Ketchikan. Alaska, Oct. 18. 
Captain Brunn rescued 79 persons from 
the Mariposa. 
By issuing 16 warrants, Oct. 16, call¬ 
ing for the arrest of persons alleged to be 
practicing law in this city without a li¬ 
cense, Chief Magistrate McAdoo took the 
first step in a campaign to rid New York 
of 250 unauthorized “lawyers” who are 
said to be in business among the foreign 
population. Unlicensed practitioners 
have been able to play upon the ignor¬ 
ance of newly arrived immigrants, it is 
alleged, because the word “notary” means 
lawyer in many European countries. 
The American note accepting Ger¬ 
many’s proposal to settle by arbitration 
the problems arising out of the sinking 
of the William P. Frye was made public 
at the State Department Oct. 38. It 
was dispatched to Berlin on October 12. 
The controversy has lasted several 
months, each government sending several 
notes. Both admitted early in the dis¬ 
pute that it could be arbitrated, but this 
government has withheld its consent to 
that procedure pending assurances from 
Germany as to the course she would pur¬ 
sue with regard to American commerce 
during the negotiations. 
An indictment was returned by the 
Federal Grand Jury at New York, Oct. 
18, charging Franz Itintelen, a high Ger¬ 
man official, who recently left this coun¬ 
try, and Andrew D. Meloy, a real estate 
operator of this city with conspiring to 
defraud the United States by endeavor¬ 
ing to forge an American passport with 
which Rintelen could safeguard his 
journey back to Germany. Rintelen, it 
is said, finally got out of this country on 
a Swiss passport. His indictment led to 
a rumor that he would never be brought 
back for trial for the reason that he had 
been shot as a spy by military command 
in London. 
For his left hand, which was cut off 
at his wrist by an automobile truck 
George W. Powell, a dock worker, of 
Himrod Street. Ridgewood, N. Y., was 
awarded $12,000 by a jury in the Queens 
County Supreme Court, Long Island 
City, Oct. 18. 
Fourteen men were killed at the Gran¬ 
ite Mountain mine of the North Butte 
Mining Company, Butte, Mont., Oct. 19, 
by an explosion of 500 pounds of giant 
powder. Eight men were seriously in¬ 
jured, one probably fatally. The cause 
of the explosion has not been determined. 
Inspired by race hatred and a desire 
for loot, 20 Mexicans, who claimed to be 
followers of Luis de la Rosa, leader of 
the so-called Texas revolution, held up 
and robbed a train near Olmito, Tex., 
Oct. 18, killing three men and wounding 
four others seriously. Venustiano Car¬ 
ranza has now been recognized as head of 
the Mexican government by the United 
States, Chili. Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia 
and Guatemala. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Univer¬ 
sity Horticultural Society of Ohio State 
University will hold its fifth annual 
show of fruit and vegetables during the 
second week of December, Columbus, O. 
The Amherst Poultry Association will 
hold its second annual show, Amherst, 
Mass., Jan. 18-19, 1916. 
President Wilson abolished the Kansas 
national forest of 138,000 acres Oct. 14. 
It will be open to entry November 1. 
Professor Henry It. Francis of the 
landscape extension service of the College 
of Forestry at Syracuse, N. 1\, is just 
completing a field study of the 300 mile 
highway which is being planned by the 
Massachusetts Forestry Association and 
which will run from Boston westward 
nearly to the New York line and then 
turn back eastward to Cambridge. 
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State size required. W. STANLEY, 50 Church St., N. if. 
Finest quality new crop Clover Honey in new 60-lb. 
cans, at O^c. per pound. Samples, 10c. For larger 
quantities write for price. 
Miss Nettie Muth,Station A, Cincinnati,Ohio 
RAW FURS WANTED 
Highest Cash Prices. Liberal assortments. Send 
for Price List. 
SAM’L LKAVIS, 153 W. 39th St., New York 
RAW FURS 
All who are interested in these two words, write 
for a reliable circular of prices, ready in November. 
LEMUEL BLACK, - Lock Box 305, Hightstown, N. J. 
TRAPPERS 
Along in November when furs get prime, JIM KLLlS will 
issue a price list that any fur shipper can understand. 
There won t be anything flashy or sensational about it. 
but the prices quoted and tile prices paid will be the 
same, and that’s all any fair minded Man expects. 
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goods aiid game trophies we sell, taxi¬ 
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