iShc KURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Plant Potatoes right. One man 
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Adjustable Pickers take care of 
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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th Street, New York 
Varieties for the Home Garden 
(Continued from page 1S7) 
mer squash. Early White Jtush ; Winter 
squash, Warted Hubbard and the 
cushaws; eggjilant. Black beauty; sweet 
potatoes. Xaucy I hill and Eclipse Sugar 
Yam of the sweet, moist-lleshed type. 
Southern Queen (or Ihiyman) and Yel¬ 
low .Ter.sey of the dry, mealy-lleshed 
group. The .Jersey i.s the earliest m:itur- 
ing variety, and seems best adapted to 
conditions in Northern sections, as well 
as to the tastes of the consumers in 
that section. The Southern (Aiecn is 
easily the best variet.y to keep in storiige, 
and it attiiins higli qualit.v toward the 
end of the storiige soiison, being ver.v dif¬ 
ferent from the fresh product, Goldeu 
self-blanchiiig is still the favorite viirioty 
of celery for Summer and Fall use, while 
AWnter Queen is very .satisfactory for 
storiige and AVintcr use. 
These varieties cannot be expected to 
make good everywlicre, or under all con¬ 
ditions. But most of those varieties have 
been found satisfiictoiy in Viirious places 
by many gardeners, and since these are 
varieties whicli are pretty well known, 
the seed of them should bo more eiisily 
secured. Besides the commonly grown 
and well-known sorts of vegetables, there 
are many others which are little grown, 
being neglected through ignorance or pre¬ 
judice. Among these may be mentioned 
such crops as kale, colliirds, Swiss chard. 
New Eciiliind spinach, (’liincse cabbage 
or I’c-tsiii, eiulivi', chicory, parsley, okra, 
salsify. Winter radishes. kohlrabi, 
celeriiic, cos lettuce or romiiine, Multi¬ 
plier onion and .Tormsalem artichoke. 
Some otlU'r vegetables which are still 
new to most of us are sea-kale, globe 
artichoke, Ca.'^aha and Honey Dew 
melons, and for the far South, the 
dasliceii and cliayote. Evm-y gardener 
should make a practice of trying out some 
of tlii'se less common crops on a small 
.scale each year, and some of them will 
be sure to lind a permanent place in our 
home gardens. 'riiese nsi'ful vegetables 
should not be so universally neglected as 
they have been. In this year of seed 
shortage of most of our staple sorts of 
vegetables, it is even more necessary that 
we diversify oiir garden crops, so as to 
relieve somewhat the demand for those 
kinds of sei'ds which are scarce, .f. T. r. 
N. Y. State Fruit Growers’ Association. 
Recent Meeting at Rochester 
PAIiT III. 
“('entral llou.se J’acking" was the sub¬ 
ject of an address by I’rof. Jiees of the 
New A ork State (’ollege of Agriculture. 
He de.scribcd the various types of central 
packing houses in the State, lie said at 
present he believed the cold storage houses 
could best serve the com'munit.v where lo¬ 
cated. The economic iirinciples are funda¬ 
mental, and are practiced in all central 
packing houses. It may be said there 
has been an evolution h’om the simple 
packing sheds in the orchards, to the well- 
equipped and organized packing houses 
We now have. Central packing bouses 
and co-operativo marketing are necessary 
combinations, for standardizi'd grades of 
fruit must precede successful marketing. 
Instances that may be cited are the Cana¬ 
dian and the California systems. 
At the present time prospects are good 
for a large apple crop in 1!)1S. Labor 
will be scarce and high, and it seems to 
be the best proposition for large fruit 
growers to bring their fruit to welFor- 
ganized cmitral packing houses baviug 
large graders driven by gasoliue power. 
AA'e w'ill reduce the cost of pickiug also, 
because the grower can concentrate his 
force on the picking work and becaii.se he 
is not obliged to give his attention to 
packing at the same time. 
Mr. Morrell said his exiierience is that 
private or individual packing houses will 
cost more, except where the grower i.s an 
expert packer, and has gbo<l facilities. 
The small 'grower seldom is prepared to 
pack his own fruit so it will sell for high¬ 
est prices. I think he can afford to pay 
20 cents a barrel fur good packing. Mr. 
Bradley said in the central packing bouse 
in his locality they had been able to pack 
for 15 cents a barrel. 
In any community there are a few 
factors which must receive attention in 
the successful establishment and opera¬ 
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operated by an individual, a joint stock 
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good business principles must be followed. 
The investment must be kept as low as 
consistent with securing proper location, 
buildings and equipment, at the same 
time it must be sufficient to provide these. 
There must alsp be available ample funds 
to take care of opei’atiug expenses. 
(Continued on page 1951 
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