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Tahe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 17, 1917 
Commercial Fruit Culture 
Fruit Varieties for Hudson Valley 
T have just bought a farm, and wish 
to set out plants and vines this Spring. 
I would appreciate advice as to the best 
varieties of the following plants or 
vines: Strawberries, red raspberries, 
blackcaps, blackberries, gooseberries, 
(very large), and both green and dark 
red, cherry, currants and black cur¬ 
rants. M. A. Y. 
White Plains, N. Y. 
These varieties suggested are for home 
or for family use, and very different 
varieties should be planted for market. 
Almost every variety has its good and 
bad points. For instance, take the 
Marshall strawberry, which is the very 
perfection of size and quality, yet it is 
not productive enough under field cul¬ 
ture to be a profitable market berry, 
and the reverse is true of the Klondike, 
one of the very best market berries, yet 
its productiveness and ability to stand 
long distance shipping are not a valued 
asset on the table. Beginning with the 
varieties of strawberries, Michel’s Early 
is one of the best for early; Marshall 
and Brandywine for midseason, with 
Gandy for late, will round out their sea¬ 
son. The old reliable Cuthbert red rasp¬ 
berry is still one of the best, and its 
long season is such that one needs only 
the one variety. The same is true of the 
old Gregg blackcap. I doubt if there is 
a better all-round blackcap today 
among their new varieties. The Min- 
newaska blackberry was the best we 
grew, but seems to have dissappeared 
from the nurserymen’s lists and so I 
would set the Eldorado for second 
choice. The American variety Downing 
and the English Industry are both good 
gooseberries. Fay’s Prolific or Wilder 
for red. White Grape and Black Cham¬ 
pion make a complete list of currants. 
FLOYD Q. WHITE. 
score the ’oarl; on the trunks vertically 
after growth starts in the Spring, making 
three or four incisions, at about equal 
distances apart. k . 
The Future of the Fruit Business 
Some years ago we made a statement 
that the time was approaching when the 
exports of nuts and fruit from this coun¬ 
try would be of greater value than ex¬ 
ports of wheat. This created much 
amusement among agrictiltural authori¬ 
ties, and it seemed entirely improbable, 
yet had it not been for the extra demand 
caused by the Euroi)ean war there would 
have been little difference this year in 
values of these two exports. In 1910 
the value of fruit exports alone was $18,- 
50.5,000, in 1915 this was nearly double 
or a total of $.34,2.30,000. This was in 
face of the fact that shijjments of ap¬ 
ples to England and Europe had largely 
been discontinued on account of the wax*. 
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Corn —Golden Bantam, extra ear* 
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Lettuce<- Brittle Ice, large head, 
crisp and mild. 
Radish — Rapid Red. quickest 
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Another Tree Doper 
Bore a hole in the trunk of the tree, 
slanting downward, on the south side, as 
the sun draws the sap to that side of the 
tree. Don’t bore toward the heart, but 
keep in the sap wood. For large trees 
boi'« an inch hole from 4 to 5 inches deep; 
then insert a tablespoonful of the powder. 
Small trees should be treated in propor¬ 
tion, down to a half-inch hole and a tea¬ 
spoonful of the powder. Then plug the 
?olo with dry wood or cork. All large 
irees should be treated in two places. 
This refers to “Thompson’s Scale Cure 
and Germ Destroyer,” which seems to be 
the latest tree dope. Agents for this 
stuff are reported in northern Ohio and 
Michigan. They claim that this stuff 
“purifies the sap” and puts the ti-ee in 
a fine, healthy condition. Di.sease, borers, 
scale and all the rest “cannot exist where 
this tree powder is used.” We have ex¬ 
posed these tree powder humbugs over and 
over again, and it can hardly be possible 
that any readers of The R. N.-Y. will 
invest in such things. We know, though, 
how plausible these agents are, and how 
they play upon poor human nature. One 
of them might go into a country home 
and tell how the doctor, by giving a small 
injection of some drug, under the skin, 
can quiet a severe pain. He offers that 
as proof that his tree powder will do the 
same. Or he will take some person with 
a headache, get him to soak his feet 
in hot water. 3’he pain is quieted—and 
thei’e is further evidence for the tree 
powder. There is no use arguing with 
these fellows or talking with them. 
Their so-called remedy is opposed to the 
laws of plant life as understood by the 
best authorities we have, and there is 
.absolutely no sense in throwing your 
money away on such stuff. 
Some Unsprayed Fruit. Fig. 164. See page 404 
Under normal conditions this export 
fruit trade would have reached nearly 
$40,000,000, or more than the export 
value of wheat under conditions which 
prevailed before the war. At the close 
of the war. the exports of fruit will be 
largely increased. The demand will be 
greater, and we must remember that 
some of the finest orchard lands in Eu¬ 
rope have been ruined or seriously in¬ 
jured by the armies which have marched 
through or occupied them. Some grow¬ 
ers are inclined to take a rather dis¬ 
couraged view of the future of the fruit 
business. Personally, we do not think 
this view is ju.stified. True, there have 
been heavy plantings of orchards, but 
Trouble With Kieffer Pear 
I have an orchard of Kieffer pears 
abont eight years old, and it seems to me 
that the bark around the trunk is rotten ; 
it seems to cr.ack off. I think the trees 
are hidebound. Do you think it would 
pay me to cut them with a knife in the 
Spring? L. V. 
Highland, N. Y. 
Keiffer pear trees should not become 
bark-bound at this age, unless they stand 
in very poor uncultivated soil. The 
trouble is nio’e likely to be due to sun- 
scald. However, it will do no harm to 
Effects of Spraying. Fig. 165. See page 404 
the demand has also increased, and with 
better methods of distribution a much 
larger proportion of the crop can be han¬ 
dled to advantage. There will also be 
unquestionably an increased demand 
from Europe for high-class fruit. The 
tendency will be to keep the culls and 
poor fruit back from the market more 
and more as all begin to realize that this 
class of stuff interferes seriously with 
market conditions. 
On the whole thei-efore, we feel justi¬ 
fied in predicting a better market; bet¬ 
ter times fdl’ the fruit grower, but iu or¬ 
der to reach these conditions there must 
be improved marketing facilities, and 
finally cooperative work iu packing, han¬ 
dling, grading and shipping. 
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