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March 31, 19174 
I can help you out any on the 
“Greasy or Winter Pippin.” The only 
Greasy Pippin I know of is the 
apple more commonly known as the 
Ortley—grown to some extent here and 
used a great deal on the Pacific coast as 
a pollenizer to other varieties. It has a 
great many pippin names, but never 
heard it called “Winter Pippin”—though 
that might be purely local. This ap¬ 
ple would fit description fairly well, only 
is shy in the matter of the blush. Win¬ 
ter Pearmain is sometimes called Winter 
Pipj)in and being an old-time variety 
might possibly be the one your correa- 
pondent has in mind. It could hardly be 
the McAfee, as that is too much on the 
red order, and I do not think ever fig¬ 
ured to any extent in this State. I am 
most inclined, however, to believe that 
the apple in question is the (ieneva Pip¬ 
pin—and if so it has gone with the dodo 
and the auk where the woodbine twineth. 
Those I have mentioned were all apples 
of good quality, but I believe your in¬ 
quirer remembers them as they tasted 
with a boy's appetite. I remember the 
Robinson apples we used to eat at the 
“deestrict” school—I thought there was 
no apple in the world like it—but when 
I met it years later as the Stark, I was 
not so greatly impressed with it. 
HARVEY EOSEE. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—Can anyone tell more about 
those apples? 
Seed Corn and Crows 
Can you tell me how to treat seed corn, 
to protect it against crows and black¬ 
birds? I seed it with a pain drill, so 
cannot tar it very well, as it would stick, 
even if dried with sand. Birds commence 
pulling as soon as sprouts appear above 
ground. Would rolling land, before or 
aRer seeding, help any? I am surrounded 
by woods, so the birds have all the shel¬ 
ter they want; scarecrows do not bother 
them. Some European farmers told me 
they use a certain kind of acid to soak all 
seed grains, the birds will vomit after 
getting the first grain down their crop 
and touch no more. Is there anything 
like this known here? 
I.ong Island. HENRY c. differic. 
Every year we find it necessary to have 
a sort of “experience meeting” over this 
question. Let us have it early enough 
this year. We use tar on the corn. The 
tar is poured or smeared on the seed and 
well stirred in—then dried out with 
ashes. This works reasonably well, but 
there have been seasons when the crows 
or chipmunks dug up the tarred corn. The 
tarred corn will not work well in the 
drill. Several readers have reported good 
results from the use of pyrox on the seed 
and there are various commercial “re¬ 
pellents.” Some farmers depend on 
poisoned grain. Corn is soaked in a so¬ 
lution of strychnine and then scattered 
over the field after planting. Each year 
seems to bring some new and successful 
remedy, and we would like to hear from 
corngrowers who use machinery ’for 
planting. 
Boston Produce Markets 
APPLES I.V FAIRLY GOOD POSITION. 
Apples are the feature of leading in¬ 
terest in the line of staple produce. 
I)ealers seem confident of clo.sing out the 
limited stock at fairly steady^ prices. 
Commenting on the general situation. 
Hall & Cole remark; “There is a little 
fancy fruit for which dealers ask $6, but 
it is slow to sell and very little brings 
more than .$5.50. Prices range from 
that down to $3, but the market is rath¬ 
er draggy Native box apples range 
from 85c up for market boxes. New 
England apples in Western style pack¬ 
age do not sell well as a class. Nine- 
tenths of New England apples are more 
suitable for barrels or open boxes, and 
most dealers share this opinion, we be¬ 
lieve. Western apples are standardized, 
having certain fixed styles of package, 
grading and packing and they are fancy 
varieties. Eastern apples, as a class, 
have no fixed or reliable styles for put¬ 
ting up in fancy boxes and are not the 
right varieties for fancy trade. Only a 
very few New England growers get by 
with the box pack, and these two or 
three growers have the right apples, the 
right pack and an established reputa¬ 
tion in the market. The weak point in 
the apple market situation now, is the 
appearance of scald in the storage fruit 
on Baldwins and some other kinds. This 
development will tend to make holders 
more anxious to close out, now that the 
weather is much jwarmer. Baldwins 
anywhere are not improving at this sea¬ 
son. and dealers wish to keep their stock 
closed out closely, much of the stock is 
not attractive, probably 85 per cent, of 
the crop was only fair, and from that 
down to very ordinary. The trade has 
done well to dispose of it so far. Deal¬ 
ers who bought for storage will make a 
little money, but not much, because 
most apples were too pool'. There is 
more money in storing .$3 apples than 
.$2 apples. Russets are selling mostly 
around $3, going to a cheap class of 
trade. Good Russets are scarce and sell 
up to $4..50. There are quite a number 
of small, poor Eastern Ben Davis hard 
to sell at any price, bringing .$2.50 to .$3 
per bbl. Good Eastern Ben Davis bring 
$3.50.” 
POTATO MARKET .STILL SOMEWHAT UN¬ 
SETTLED. 
r.(esa interest is shown in the potato 
situation of late, the sensational features 
of the market having subsided. Maine 
stock .seems a little more plentiful and 
somewhat less firmly held. Demand lim- ' 
ited. many customers waiting as long as 
possible in hope of lower prices; trade is, 
therefore, quiet with only moderate 
changes in the conditions. At the office 
of the Farmer.?’ Union of Maine, the 
market was de.scribed as: “Very quiet, 
offerings light and practically no de¬ 
mand. A price of .$2..50 per bu. in bulk 
carload lots seems to be as close as the 
market can be quoted. Nobody can more 
than guess at the remaining stock in the 
hands of holders. Some estimates are 
three times the quantity reckoned by 
others. The extent to which the demand 
will be curtailed is ahso so uncertain 
that pi'edictions as to the course of the 
market the rest of the season seem use¬ 
less.” Considerable business is being 
done in seed potatoes, which are being 
sold at around $6 per 2-bu. bag in small 
lots delivered at Boston freight stations. 
Demand is chiefly for Green Mountains 
and Cobblers. There is some risk in buy¬ 
ing Early Rose in the open market, be¬ 
cause of mixture of so many strains with 
other and later red kinds, hence many 
buyers are taking Cobblers as an early 
market variety, while most of the de¬ 
mand for late varieties is filled with 
Green Mountains. 
Said a large dealer in seed potatoes: 
“We look for a good year for potatoes 
and do not expect planting to be over¬ 
done, because of the labor and fertilizer 
situation. The public will consume 
enormous quantities of early new pota¬ 
toes, if prices get down as low as $1 per 
bu., and growers should be able to make 
them pay at that figure.” 
No special feature appears in the gen¬ 
eral vegetable market. Dealers are still 
trying to sell onions at $8 or .$9 per bag 
for some of which they refused $10 or 
$12 not so long ago. Old cabbage is clos¬ 
ing out quietly at $7 to $8 per bbl. 
Beets, carrots and parsnips tend towards 
slightly higher prices with a range of 
$2 to $2.75 per box. Hothouse products 
in general are bringing good_ prices. 
Southern vegetables being in light re¬ 
ceipt. Hothouse lettuce is $2 per box; 
radishes $2; beet ^-eens $1.50; dande¬ 
lions $2.25. Mint is 75c per doz., to¬ 
matoes 50c per lb., rhubarb 6c per lb. 
BUTTER lilARKET FIRM. 
Extra Northern ci’eamery brings 
around 40c; dairy or farmers’ butter is 
quoted 30c to 36c according to grade. 
Butter in box and print form is closely 
sold up at about one cent advance above 
corresponding grades of tub butter. Said 
Green & Co.: “Supplies of choice butter 
are light and the old season will go out 
short. Best Western fresh make sells 
at 39 to 40c. We do not expect much 
increase in the make until after the first 
of May. Old cheese is about gone and 
the new goes on to the market at about 
one cent under the old.” Charles H. 
Stone & Co. comment as follows: “The. 
(Continued on page 490) 
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