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The great meeting of the fruit growers 
and vegetable growers which is aimnally 
held at Hartford, Conn., the first week 
of February, has come and gone. The 
school children of Hartford were espe¬ 
cially interested in this meeting, as a 
new ff’iiture of cooked food.s from fruits 
and vegetables was added this year. Some 
of the young girls from the Hartford 
High School and the ronnectient Agri- 
cnltur:il College gave demonstrations in 
preparing and serving food.s. This proved 
a very attractive and instructive feature. 
From the male side of the house the 
tojiics which commanded most attention 
were spraying, maintaining fertility, and 
marketing of the products. 
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ough sprayings. The troubles which 
cause most spraying in f'onnecticut are 
scab, rust, spots and in insects we have 
San Jose scale, Codling moth, some of 
the aphids and where pears are grown, 
the psylla. Much interest was shown in 
the dust sprays, but by far the largest 
proportion of our growers use the liquid 
Sjirays. 
With our presmit commercial relations 
the question of maintaining fertility, and 
the conser\’alion of the soil’s productive 
qualities came in for much discussion and 
consideration. Dr. H. H. .Tenkins of the 
Xcw Hiivcn Station, gave this year’s re¬ 
sults of unfinished work in soil fertility 
at the station Tn his results nitrate of 
soda appeared to he a A'ery strong factor 
in crop production, among trees, ^lany 
are hoginning to use cover crops of some 
kind to keep up fertility and physical 
condition of the soil. tJeorge Drew, of 
Greenwich, uses both Crim-son clover and 
rye, so, ing as best fits his conditions 
and circumstances, 1 ut giving it time to 
become thoroughly established before 
hard freezing weather comes. He thus 
feels that the rapid growth of tree is 
checked and the wood will ripen and 
harden better. Others use only rye, 
while there are not a few who cultivate 
till about the middle of July, then allow 
weeds to gi'ow as a cover crop. T'he ex¬ 
cess of food is thus taken from the tree, 
the weeds hold the .soil during the Win¬ 
ter, and are then turned under in eax’ly 
Spring, adding humus in this way. If 
these grow t< o rank, however, they may 
be troublesome in gathering the crop. 
On this account sonic do not favor this 
practice. Then, too, after the first frost 
they do not form further root growth, 
and there is quite a long pei-iod when 
there is no crop to take up the leaching 
fertility. 
Some few have used A’otch on a small 
scale, :ind where it does well it is a mo.st 
excellent cover crop. If sown early, as 
it should be, it forms a perfect carpet-, 
like cover, and root and tree are alike 
protected. It is of great value to add 
nitrogen. The seed being very expen¬ 
sive. [Many feel they cannot afford It 
unless they are certain it will do well, 
which has kept people from using it for 
this purpose. 
Rye is probably used more as a cover 
crop all around than all other crops com¬ 
bined. It can be sown very late and get 
a fairly good start, and then will come 
on so early in Spring that the grower can 
get at the plowing early in the season, 
and get growth started. Many of our 
liotato growers use rye with marked suc¬ 
cess. It rarely fails, is cheaply applied, 
and wJiere no other cover crop will suc¬ 
ceed it may do very well. 
One or more reported having used oats 
as such a crop. They grow rapidly and 
when sown early enough will be heavy. 
These freeze and fall over the soil for 
protection as weeds do. In the mulch¬ 
ing of strawberries there have been ex¬ 
amples of successful mulching with oats. 
Those lint on with the la.st cultivation 
will become high before freezing weather 
and then fall over the plants for .Hieir 
protection in the Winter and during the 
freezing and thawing of early Spring. 
In this way one may mulch strawberries 
very cheaply. It is much better than 
hare ground all Winter and in the pick¬ 
ing season. I have used raking from the 
lawns very successfully for this purpose, 
and it makes a good outlet for the raking 
where it is done. 
In marketing the trend is strongly in 
the direction of co-operative effort. Two 
of our largest growers, who have for- 
merlv stood for the individual market, 
admitted this year that in their estima¬ 
tion co-operative selling must come. 
A. T. s. 
Boston Produce Markets 
POTATOES AND ONIONS STILL SOARING. 
The ^'xtreine rise in both potatoes and 
onions has been accompanied with con¬ 
siderable speculation among the dealers. 
At times the market got entirely out of 
liand. and quotations changed even while 
bargain.s were being made. Potatoes 
seem largely to have passed out of own¬ 
ership of grower.s into the hands of miit- 
illenien. When the price went above $7 
per bag, it pried loose a great many po¬ 
tatoes from original growers, and but 
few of them seem to have held on for 
higher prices. With onions in the grow¬ 
ers’ favor, according -to a large producer 
at Xorthamptou, there were nearly 40.- 
0(K> bu. in storage in the Upper Valley 
the middle of tho month. This means 
that some growers had been getting the 
benefit of the rise to $12 or $1.5 per KXl 
Ib.s. The market is still excited and pre¬ 
dictions of higher prices of both pota¬ 
toes and onions are a feature of the sit¬ 
uation. Other standard vegetables have 
shown comparatively little activity. Na¬ 
tive cabbage is steady at $8 per bbl. 
Rcets hold at $2 to $2.2.5 per box; pars¬ 
nips and carrots $2. Hothouse stuff has 
tended upward since the big freeze in 
the South and it looks like a fine season 
for the Boston gardeners, despite coal 
.and labor drawbacks. Lettuce is $1 to 
$1.25 per box; radishes $1 to $1.50; dan¬ 
delions $2; jiarsley $5 per box; choice 
hothouse tomatoes bring 50c per lb.; 
mint 7.5e per doz.; mushrooms from 50c 
to (>5c per lb. 
BETTER DE.MAND FOR APPLES. 
The apide market at last seems to be 
re.sponding a little to the higher price 
movement, and demand is reported con- 
siderabl.v more active. Receipts have 
been light except for nearby lots by mo¬ 
tor truck, and the market is beginning 
to draw more freely from cold storage. 
There is a lirisk call for Grade A Bald¬ 
wins at $4 to $5. wliile B’s and ungraded 
sell at $2.50 to .$.‘>.50. Uraffberries are 
as dull and draggy as ever, with the best 
selling at .$5 to $0 per bbl. Southern 
strawberries are 25 to 50e and scarce 
on account of the freeze. 
FIRM VALUES IN BUTTER. 
Quiet conditions surround the butter 
iiuu'ket, with but little of the excited 
buying for future needs seen in some 
other lines. The reserve supply is not 
large, but the season is at hand when 
the fre.sh make should rapidly increase. 
Quotations range around 40c for the 
best, but there is little extra iu the mar¬ 
ket, and cold storage stock is preferred 
to most of the lower grade stuff of the 
regular make. Firsts and extras from 
storage range from 87 to 89c. The cheese 
situation continues very confident at bet¬ 
ter than 25c for York State extras. 
EGG PRICES HOLD WELL. 
Receipts have been moderate for so 
late in the season, and prices held up 
considerably later than usual, hanging 
well above 40 at a time when they have 
in other years tumbled to 80 or even 20. 
T’nder such condition a .sudden increase 
of arrivals might be expected to upset 
the market. But general surroundings 
are such that few dealers seem to be 
looking for A’ery low prices even with 
heavy receipts. Extensive buying for 
storage is anticipated here. 
PLENTY OF LIVE STOCK AT BRIGHTON. 
IJberal receipts' at the local stock- 
yards seem to have checked the rising 
tendency for the time, hut selling values 
have held about steady. Some fane, 
steers reached 11c, but 9 to lO^/^c was 
the general range for good steers and 
oxen and 5 to 7c for cow.s. Calves .sold 
from 11 to 13c. Hogs go rather slowly 
around 12%c. Sheep sell at 7 to 10c; 
lambs 10 to 12e. with few on sale. 
Milch cows range from $125 for a large, 
heavy yielder, down to $40 for scrubs, 
which is about what they are worth for 
beef. There is a good supply of excel¬ 
lent milkers selling around $70. G. B. F. 
Feb. 20. Wholesale quotations at 
Lynchburg. Va.. were: Old fowls, 15 
and 10c; Spring chickens, large, 14 and 
15c; small. 18 and 20c. Butter, fresh 
in prints. 82 to 85c: Virginia hams 20 
to 25c; sides 10 to 17c; shoulders 10 to 
17c; eggs. 82 to .85c: turkeys, 20 to 25c; 
dressed. 80 to 85c. Hogs, 12 to 13c. 
Lynchburg, Va. l. w. w. 
This section produces for market: Milk, 
most of wliich until the past few months 
was said to the Bordens, next shipping 
stations and chee.se factories, with a few 
making butter. At present all milk sold 
is at League prices. The Levy shipping 
plant at Edmeston is getting much more 
than the Bordens because they first came 
to League terms. Potatoes are the main 
market crop. Prices began at 75c per bii. 
and Avent to $1.50. !Many farmers keep 
large flocks of poultr.A’ and mostly ship 
their eggs fresh to XeAv York, getting 
nearly or quite top quotations for “nearby 
fresh!” One case sent last week netted 
51e per doz. About three miles east is 
quite a sheep ranch, as they have at pres¬ 
ent 400 of various breeds, quite a large 
number of them being Persians, one rain 
having cost $3,500, also some other quite 
good ones, both male and female. They 
are hoping to produce some first-class furs. 
Not much doing in coavs just at present; 
good ones Avorth from $G0 to $100 or 
more. C. B. 
Otsego Co., X. Y. 
