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T hat is what Oliver Grahl, 12 years old, m 
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nave oeen aomg me worn 
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ever since we put in the Big 
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man with a wheelbarrow.’* 
(Signed) ED. GRAHL. 
The Dairy Farm Orchard 
No. I. 
Mo.st of the farmers in this part of 
Oswego County, N. Y., are engaged in 
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j for the crop was forced down by the 
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as buckwheat, beaus, fruits and the 
various kinds of berries, and nearly all 
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our own farm one of the most paying of 
such crops is the apple orchard. Most 
of the farmers of years ago made the 
mistake of setting either too far apart 
are gone now except a few trees of 
Greensboro and Oldmixon. The last is 
too shy a bearer and I would set no more 
of them. 
Our Buttons were true to name, but the 
fillers were rather mixed. Some kinds 
were nothing but seedling apples, but 
some were more suitetl for fillers than 
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bardston and got a bright red apple that 
looked as if it had been varnished which 
we at first thought was the Black Ben 
Davis. However, an expert was in the 
orchard several years ago at picking time 
and he pronounced it Winesap. From 
the fourth year they have borne such 
large crops that we have been obliged to 
thin them. Last year for the first time 
they failed. We sprayed wdth lime sul¬ 
phur from the bottom of the barrel and 
burnt the foliage and apples so they did 
not set. The Suttous in the next row 
carrier iD<4K.e uictt 
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Potatoes grown by C. T. Canfield, of Whatcom Co., Wash. The row 32 feet long, seed dropped 
9 inches apart. April 30th, yielded 12754 pounds. The culture was level and soil kept loose. 
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or too close together. The trees tire 
from 2S to 32 feet aptirt. This is too 
close for a good orchard, and too far 
apart to cut out every other tree. We 
have one small orchard that was set only 
28 feet. At this distance we would cut 
out every other tree, hut the best trees 
seem to he in clumps, and if we should 
do so it would leave us with a lot of 
poor trees we do not want. :ind remove 
many of the best ones. So we are cut¬ 
ting out the poor kinds and wetikly trees 
where they are close to the good ones. 
This makes an uueven-lottking orchard, 
hut is the host we can do. 
In 1800 we decided to set a oniiill or¬ 
chard of ICO trees. About tliat time 
there was a good dettl of discus.sion as 
to the merits of the high or low head. I 
thought the low-head men had thh best 
of the argument, and decided to head 
them low. I wrote to several nurseries, 
but none of them had two or three-year- 
old trees with low heads, so I bought 
one-year trees and formed the head my¬ 
self. Several years ago one of my neigh¬ 
bors stopped at the orchard when we 
were picking the fruit and said : “I have 
made a lot of fun about tliose little 
trees hut gue.ss I will have to take it all 
hack.” I wrote to several of tlie best 
authorities as to Varieties, and got a lot 
of contradictory advice. I was most im¬ 
pressed by a letter from the late Prof. 
Van Demau that if the P.aldwin did well 
with us to plant Sutton, that it was a 
better apple, more of an annual bearer, 
and a better grower. Acting on his ad¬ 
vice we planted every permanent tree to 
that variety. IVe planted the Suttous 
42 by 48 feet. :uk1 planted a filler each 
way,' so the orcliard was 21 by 24 feet. 
We made the rows wider north and 
south; the crops we raised for several 
years were rowed that way, so all would 
get the sun on both sides of the row. 
We used as fillers early-bearing Winter 
apples, about 50 peach and an equal 
number of pear trees. Only one kind of 
peaches was a paying crop. The Greens¬ 
boro began to hear the first year, and 
bore a crop nearly every year. They 
seemed to he much hardier in buds than 
any other kind and as the peaches were 
planted for our own use we had quite a 
lot'of varieties. However, all the peaches 
with their tougher and tliieker foliage 
were hurt but little. Rome Beauty also 
was soiiK'what scorched hut not as badly 
as the Wiuesap. oeou(;k w. kogeus. 
The Cost of Food 
I was interested in “A Man’s Thoughts 
on Food Conservation,” and tvould like to 
ask M. B. D. if 25 cents per week in¬ 
cludes dried beans and all canned veg¬ 
etables as w"ll as all vegetables stored, 
squash, cabbage, etc. Also, where fresh 
fruit, canned fruit and spices of all kind 
come in. o. s. R. 
The amount given did not cover canned 
fruit, spices, etc. The list was intended 
only to cover the ordinary supply of sub¬ 
stantial food that is consumed. There 
are extras, of course, the value of which 
would he hard to estimate, but they are 
not essential or constant in supply. We 
doubtless tise far less canned sauce and 
pastry thaji most families of the same 
size; and pickles, which are an essential 
part of the menu of many families, are 
very seldom seen upon our table; not be¬ 
cause we cannot have them, hut because 
we have never formed the habit of eating 
them regularly. Eating has become so 
much a matter of habit, instead of neces¬ 
sity, in American families, that there is 
little uniformity in practice. The greater 
part of us eat far beyond our needs and 
if a faint glimmering of common sense 
occasionally induces ns to let up a bit 
our good cooks immediately become 
alarmed because of our loss of appetite 
and endeavor to find something that will 
tempt us. They usually succeed, too. 
We fall easily. If this war could per¬ 
manently remove from tuoir reach one- 
half of the food consumed by well-to-do 
people in this country, there are few sac¬ 
rifices that they could make that would 
not be more than compensated for; and 
yet, if a scarcity of fine wheat flour or 
sugar threatens, there is a scramble to 
stock private store rooms that is more 
than disgraceful. In view of the need 
abroad, it is cowardly selfishness which 
only national calamity can adequately 
punish \is for. M. n. d. 
The Seedman : “I want a few colored 
illustrations of beets and tomatoes.” The 
Artist: “Life size?” The Seedman: No, 
catalogue size.”—Melbourne Australasi¬ 
an. 
