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Oie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 18, 1918 
Notes on the Apple Crop 
Wo stnrto<l jiink spray on apples May 
2 and find all variotios that did not yield 
a full eroj) last year showinfj a good 
hlofiin this year, I'aldwins among the rest. 
.Indging a normal crop at K)0, our pros- 
peet now for fruit would stand about 120. 
We are going to give the orchard a thor¬ 
ough spraying, even though our help is 
limited. I see no Winter injury from 
cold or mice work. uuaxt o. iiitchixgs. 
(inondaga Co., X. Y. 
There is a full bloom on most varieties 
of ai)])les. Of course, trees which had a 
heavy load last year are quite light thi.s, 
but. on the whole, I would say the bloom 
is a full average. Sour cherries in this 
section could hardl.v have been fuller, and 
tin* same is true of some apple trees. We 
have a few trees of an old variety. 
Orange IMppin. an early Fall variety, that 
aie [lacked with bloom. .T. II. Barclay’s 
(irchard on Wednesday was a beautiful 
sight \vith bloom and in perfect condi- 
. tion. Wild trees in the woodlainks seemed 
full of bloom, as well as in the orchai'ds. 
Coos Co., N. J. II. G. TAYI.OU. 
I think this will be one of the gre.atest 
ajiple y<‘ars we h.ave had in some time. 
All varieties are going to blo.s.som (piite 
generally. This is normally an off year 
for Oreenings, bnt Oreenings only bore a 
partial crop last year, so they were able 
to set fruit buds again for this year. All 
Italdwins. so far as I have noticed, will 
blos.som full. The severe Winter did not 
seem to hurt the apjilc buds, although a 
f(>w trc(‘s were noticcal that had burst the 
bark on the trunk after the coldest snap. 
Peach wood is killed back very severely. 
1 do not Ixdieve Seneca f''ounty will Jiro- 
duce an Elbert a peach this year. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. av. a. iiasrett. 
Fp to the i»resent T can onl.v si)oak 
of my own orcliards as to crop ])rospects. 
I think it will be apparent a little hater 
th.at much damage has been done to cer¬ 
tain' of the more tender varieties of apple 
trees, and that following in the wake of 
the p.ast nnnstially severe Winter Ave shall 
s('e many sickl.v tia'cs. Many of my 
<Jra\’enst(*in tre(>s of IS to 20 years, bciiu- 
tifnl and thrifty and in various situations 
fav'orable or otherwise as to air drain- 
ag(‘. I lind this Spring Avith loosened bark, 
mostly on the north side of the_ trunks, 
fiom the ground nj) to the limbs; in a few 
cases all aronnd. and in many cases <'ven 
down to the roots, a foot deep in the .soil. 
1 have heard of damages of similar nature 
in other orchards. Baldwins, to my aa’oii- 
derinent and surprise, considering how 
Avell they Avere apiiarently thriving la.st 
year, shoAV a great deficiency of bloom. 
Creenings also are not particularly prom¬ 
ising. Many other varieties are normal 
or heavy in blossom. ^McIntosh and Jon¬ 
athan. with me. strong. Do you realize 
that the Jonathan is a Avonderful apple? 
I had last Fall a full yield of Jonathans, 
the mo.st beautiful fruit that I ever grew. 
It always sells well. It thrives on a cer¬ 
tain loam soil here, and if I Avere starting 
any new jjlantation of aiiples I Avould 
like to grow many Jonathans. 
Dutchess Co., X. Y. av. s. teatok. 
Bakhvins are irregular; some trees 
show good bloom, whih* many others show 
little or no bloom. Other A’arieties ])rom- 
ise well. Xo peach bloom Avhatever. 
Other fruits ]»romise well to date. 
Orange ('o., X. Y. .t. 15. couNEl.L. 
jilied that, and that got the rabbit; he 
did not care for that .sort of dope on his 
eats, and the cofFe(‘ berries grcAV fine 
iind Avere literally covered Avith pods, but 
.liick Frost got them before they ma¬ 
tured. lk)AA’(‘Aa‘r. we are trying them 
again this year, for Ave have' had them 
before and knoAV Ave can raise them. The 
beans AA'hen parched taste A'ery much 
like j)e.anuts and are a fine coffee substi¬ 
tute. So if this Avar continues it is up 
to a great many ix’ople to use something 
cheaper for .a stimulant. "We tried dry¬ 
ing the chicory, or French endive root, 
to use as coffee substitute, but found it 
very bitter. 
We also dried green beans, peas and 
okra. The okiai proA'eil A'ery nice. We 
took; the tender pods. Avashed and sliced 
them, and strung them on strings; then 
AA'e hung them close to the kitchen stove 
until rattling dry. It Avas A'ery good for 
soups and stews, and this year we in¬ 
tend to dry more. 'We did not care for 
the beans or peas, ju.st considered our 
time and vegetiibles Avasted. They prob- 
abl.v are all right Avhere peojde have 
plenty of ci-eam and butter to season them 
uj) Avifh. We usually manage to go to 
our cellar instead of the corner grocery 
in the months that we do not go to our 
garden, and Ave manage accordingly to 
find i)lenty. M’ilh all the good adA'ice 
in JTie K. X.-Y. it Avould be our fault if 
Ave did iK>t. 
Ye.sterday we found fi nice lot of ten¬ 
der sour dock greens; scu'ved Avith plain 
boiled rice Ihese gia'ens make a A'cry good 
dinner. We also A’ery often huA'e a dan¬ 
delion stew ; the A'ery smell of it cooking 
Avould liven uj) any lost api)etite. 1 en¬ 
close rule for making: 
Dandelion J'out-fait (quickly done) — 
Take a pint of Avell-Avash<>d dandelion 
leaves, using the young buds loo, a half 
dozen pfitatoes of medium size cut in 
small pieces, a jiinch <*f celery seed, tAvo 
tablespoon fills of chopiied jiarsley, four 
onion.s, salt, Avhite pei»j)er. a tablespoon- ' 
fill of butter and a cuiiful of iieAV milk. 
Four on these a (piart of boiling Avater 
and boil rapidly one-half hour or until 
[lotatoes are done. E. k. you.xg. 
Illinois. 
Countrywide Produce Markets 
THE POTATO OUTLOOK. 
The 
close. 
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the 
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are 
Notes From an Illinois Garden 
have been Avanting to rejiort about 
“Hope Farm Annex’’ to our aspara- 
bed ; it is doing AA’ell, and the sprouts 
a great teinjitation. We decided not 
to cut them this year, no matter hoAV fine 
they Avere. This cold Spring is making 
asjiaragus A'ery backAvard. an’d that which 
does come out is blue Avith the cold. Our 
bed early Avas a perfect mat of pepper 
grass, but AA’e Iuia'c it all nicely cleaned 
noAv .and expect to keep the Aveeds down 
Avith our Planet Jr. We are noAv 
bunching in half-pounds and as the 
sprouts become more plentiful Ave enlarge 
the bunches and sell at 10 cents per 
bunch at private sale. Those bunches 
Avhich are left over the store sells for us 
at tAVO jier cent, but Ave find that bettej- 
than peddling. I Avas amused .at the 
heading of the “Brevities” about the rab¬ 
bits having a jireference for Soy beans. 
AVe found that out la.st year; Ave had tAvo 
long roAvs of Soy beans. AVe use them 
for coffee substitute and jirefer them 
greatly to commercial substitutes, but Ave 
idanted an extra lot in order to have 
enough to try for other cooking ])ur- 
jioses, and Ave found that something Avas 
destroying them ; all the neAV groAvth 
Avould be nibbled off; but it Avas not long 
before Ave found the culjirits. ' There Avas 
a Avhole rabbit famil.v just feasting on 
them. AA’e tried spraying Avith the mix¬ 
ture Ave sprayed the pigs Avith. thinking 
that the tar and carbolic Avould be an 
antidote for “Br(>r Babbit.” but they 
liked them better than ever. I dare say 
it Avas a sort of Thousand Island dress¬ 
ing for their salad. AA’e then consulted 
our druggist. AA’as there a Avay of jiois- 
oning the rabbits? He thought that if 
the poison Avas applied strong enough to 
kill the rabbits it Avould also injure the 
tender groAvth of the jilants. and he sug¬ 
gested kerosene emulsion. So Ave ap- 
old potato season is drawing to a 
('arlot movement last Aveek fell to 
barely .’100 cars jicr day, Avhile the move¬ 
ment of neAV jiotatoes increased to nearly 
150 cars per day, so that nearly one-half 
of the stock coming to market is the ncAV 
crop from the South, mainly from Florida 
at jire.sent. The Southern growers have 
been disappointed almost as badly as 
those in the Xorth. They have been get¬ 
ting only per barrel the past month, 
hardly enough to cover cost of production 
under presiuit conditions and not over 
half the jirice ruling in the middle of May 
last yeai'. At that time there Avere no 
old iiotatoes in the market and the mar¬ 
ket held steady as a rock all through the 
early part of the season. This year there 
has been iihmty of idd stock ready to come 
to market at the slightest improvement 
of iirices. AVithout doubt, thou.sands of 
I’iirloads of old jiotatoes Avill never be 
shipjied. Some of the shijijiing stations 
have closed already because the farmer.s 
did not think jiotatoes Avorth grading, 
luuiling and jiacking at the prices offered. 
It is reckoiH'd that at least 1,0(K) carlots 
in the ('olorado district Avere spoiled by 
freezing, but there are still jilenty left to 
jilace (Colorado in the Aveek’s column as 
the leading shipjier and plenty of stock 
to sell to cattle feeders at 15 to 20 cents 
per hundred pounds. In the Maine jiotato 
section groAvers are more fortunate in 
having a Avell establi.shed starch industry. 
Avhich has been paying 75 cents to ;jtl.25 
per hundred pounds for average stock. 
AA^estern groAvers have been hard hit this 
year and no doubt acreage will be greatly 
reduced. Beports from some jioints indi¬ 
cate only from one-half to tAVO-thirds of 
last year’s acreage. The abundance of 
seed may induce considerable late jilant- 
ing. but at jiresent the outlook is for a 
decided reduction. Prices at the country 
shijiping stations in bulk to groAvers range 
from (iO to 85 cents jier hundred jiounds 
in the AA’est and DO to .$1..‘>.5 in the East. 
(Mly markets are slightly lower; standard 
Avhite kinds range from .$1..”.5 to .$l.(i5 
for large lots in bulk. A few markets 
ri'ached $2 for favorite kinds. Xew pota- 
to(‘s have been selling Avhole.sale iiround 
.i;5. 
THE O.XTOX 5IARKET. 
Old onions are cleaning uji sloAvly at 
a Avide range. Soft sjirouted stock sold 
as loAV as 25 cents jier bag in Xoav A’ork 
and hard, sidi'cted stock reached ,$2.2,5 in 
the same market. The range in central 
aiul___Eastern markets Avas mainly ,$1 to 
.$1.75 jK'r 100 Jiounds. Shijnnents are now 
at the rati' of over eight or nini' cars 
daily, mostly from Xcav York and Xcav 
England. ’I’exas onions have been selling 
bi'tter than Avas expected, because A'arioii.s 
conditions of Aveather and ear supply, not 
to mention A’oliintary holding back of the 
crop, have restricted shijnnents, but mar¬ 
kets haA’e been Aveak. ranging from $1.50 
to $2 Jier crate. The crate eipials about 
one-half a bag in contents. These prices 
are .somewhat loAver than prevailed last 
year at this time, but fully equal the 
prices in the preceding year. Only care¬ 
ful handling of the Texas crop ha.s pre- 
A’ented ab.solute demoralization of the 
markets. 
CAERAGE. 
Another croji hard to sell is the enor¬ 
mous supply of early cabbage from South 
('arolin.a and adjoining States. These 
cabbages have been coming at the rate of 
1,000 cars per Aveek lately. Old cabbage 
is jiractically out of market, but there 
was no call for such heavy sujijilies of 
new stock. Prices have been falling to a 
basis of li/j to 2% cents per pound in 
leading Xorthern markets, and demand 
Avas Aveak enough to suggest even further 
decline. 
OTHER TRUCK CROP.S. 
Tomatoes and straAA’berries continue 
the most .satisfactory to groAvers of any 
Southern crops. The prices have held as 
high or higher than last year, notwith¬ 
standing the liberal shipments. Apjdes 
and oranges being short in supply, the 
jiublic has taken freely these other pro¬ 
ducts. Tomatoes have been bringing 
about ,$4 per crate in the large Xorthern 
markets, fully double the price received 
at this time in Ifllfi and 1917. Straw¬ 
berries at times haA’e been in very strong 
demand and sold Avholesale in A’arious 
cities at about .SO cents per quart for 
best lots and the general range for good 
stock most of the time lately has been 15 
to 2,5 cents. Xortb C’arolima has been a 
heavy shipper this year, but T,ouisiana 
shipjied much less than expected. Arkan¬ 
sas and AA’est Tennessee are noAA' at the 
front and A’irginia will soon folloAA’. Mo.st 
of the Southern truck has been selling 
rather slowl.v on account of the liberal 
rf'ceipts. Asparagus has been coming 
chiefly from X’ew .Tersey at the rate of 
ten cars jier day and jirice declines to ,$.‘1 
per dozen wholesale in leading markets. 
String beans haA'e been selling Avell at 
from .$.‘5 to .$4 jier crate, although shiji- 
ments Avere twenty cars per day last 
Aveek. Apjiles are noAV moA’ing only 20 
cars per day, nearly one-half starring 
from Xcav York State. Besides these, 
the only important fruit arrivals are a 
few hundred cars of Falifornia oranges 
and rile liberal arrivals of Southern straAA’¬ 
berries. G. R. F. 
Government Crop Report 
The estimate for May jiuts the 
Avheat yield at 572.557.000 bushels. 
AA’inter 
AA’ith 
in Sjiring Avheat a 
a billion bushels is 
the incera.sed area 
yield of more than 
looked for. 
Bye is jiut at 82.020.000 bushels, or 22,- 
000.000 more than last year. 
Day is estimated at 107.5,50.000 tons, 
or about 15.000,000 more than last year. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
July 24—X .1. State Horticultural So- 
ciet.A’ Field Meeting, Glassboro. X. .1. 
Aug. 2G-.50—Ohio State Fair, Colum¬ 
bus. O. 
Oct. 10-19—Xational Dairy ShoAv, Col¬ 
umbus, O. 
'riie Summer field meeting of the XVav 
,T ersey State Horticultural Society Avill 
be held at (llassboro, Gloucester (’ounty. 
X’. ,T.. .Tilly 24. A’isitors from other States 
are invited to attend this meeting and 
look over the large orcharding interests 
in that vicinity. IIoAvard G. Taylor, 
Biverton. X. ,1.. is the secretarA’. 
“For the I.and’s Sake, use BoAA’ker’s 
Fertilizers; they enrich the earth and 
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