^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
937 
Cherry and Other W. N. Y. Crops 
The sour cherry harvest opened in 
Western New York under the most fav¬ 
orable auspices since the industry became 
firmly grounded as one of the important 
branches of the fruit belt’s area. _ Ideal 
growing weather and fine condition of 
the trees for so disastrous a Winter as 
last insured success. 
The canneries are taking most of the 
yield, consisting of the Montmorency 
and English Morello varieties, the price 
being six cents per pound delivered at 
the receiving stations of the factories. 
Sweet cherries, of which there is a much 
smaller acreage, bring seven cents per 
pound. The yield has been very good 
on such trees as weathered the Winter. 
Many of the older trees of this variety 
have died after throwing out their 
bloom, the heavy Winter calling on so 
much of their vitality that they lacked 
the life to carry out the fruition period. 
Tw'O hundred farmerettes have en¬ 
gaged for the cherry harvest in Sodus, 
lilO of them being on the Sodus Fruit 
Farm and making the largest camp on 
record so far in the State. Otlmr units 
are located on the B. J. Case farm, the 
Dr. Andrew farm and the Boiler farm. 
The girls were recruited in Rochester 
and comprise students from the high 
schools and the city normal .schools. The 
general arrangements for the camps were 
under the direction of ^liss Ethel R. 
Arey, of the New York State Food Com¬ 
mission. in co-operation with the 
Women’s Tjand Army and the Women’s 
Farm Ijabor Reserve. 
The daily schedule for the girls is 
somewhat rigid though not savoring of 
hardship. Barracks were improvised 
trying conditions. Meetings have been 
held to arouse patriotic sentiment 
towards salvaging the crop. Mdiere in 
ordinary years from 1.50 to 200 “floaters” 
came in during .Tuly to help in the har¬ 
vest. hardly more than a score showed 
up this year. The price quoted on evapo¬ 
rated black raspberries this year is 
around 55 cents per pound, which is con¬ 
siderably in excess of the usual price. 
The harvesters are paid three cents per 
quart. 
I'each growers in Niagara County have 
completed ,a census of prospects upon 
which they base a prediction of less than 
33 per cent of last year’s yield for this 
season, or something less than 350 cars. 
They hold that the grower niiist get at 
least ,$2.50 a bushel in the orchard in 
order to realize any profit this year. In 
addition to last Winter’s severity they 
attribute part of the poor showing to 
the excessive rainfall of the last two 
seasons. Wayne County will practically 
have no crop this year. One prominent 
grower reported finding a solitary peach 
in his large orchard. In Williamson, 
Teats Brothers have lost large blocks of 
their trees and are replacing them with 
young trees. In normal years they often 
make season shipments of over two hun¬ 
dred cars of peaches. In their orchards 
the young trees stood the winter better 
than the bearing ones. 
A plant will be erected in Batavia for 
the utilization of skim-milk and soy 
beans as the principal ingredients in the 
making of cream, buttermilk and butter 
products. It is planned to operate a 
number of trucks 25 to 40 miles out of 
Batavia to pick up the milk. Brodiic- 
I 
Hauling Cherries to a Western N. Y. Canning House 
and something of a military discipline 
maintained. All the camps were placed 
accessible to I.ake Ontario and swim¬ 
ming was arranged for one of the princi¬ 
pal diversions. The daily order was ar¬ 
ranged as follows; Rise, 5:15; break¬ 
fast, () :3(); on the job, 7; lunch. 12; 
rest hour, 12 :30-l :30 ; work, 1:30-5 :30 ; 
dinner, (5; swimming, 7:30; to bed, t); 
lights out, 9 :.30. Smaller units have 
been sent out to other places for work 
on various crops and these will be aug¬ 
mented as the season advances. Palmyra 
has a Tinit of 10 girls on berries and 
beans; 15 at Hilton on cheri-ies; 10 at 
Alton on cherries; 30 at (leneva on cher¬ 
ries and beans, and .six at Ro.se on the 
muck i)lots. 
Incidental with the handling of the 
cherries by the canneries a new tem¬ 
porary market has been opened up in 
the utilization of the pits by the gov¬ 
ernment in the manufacture of gas numks 
for the army. Cherry pits, peach pits 
and cocoanut shells are used for their 
charcoal content in the air filter chamber 
of the masks. It is said charcoal inade 
in this way is far superior to the filter¬ 
ing charcoal from wood used by all the 
other nations and the government is 
desirous , of contracting at an attractive 
figui-e for all available supplies of these 
heretofore waste materials. The price 
named to AVayne county canneries was 
$7..5() per ton. 
The raspbei-ry hai-vest opened in good 
shape and the crop everywhere is the 
most favorable for years back. The can¬ 
neries made contracts in the early part 
of the year at 10 cents per quart, which 
is the highest price in years. After 
many years of experimenting the Colum¬ 
bians liave proved best ad.-ipted to the 
Bake Ontario district where so many 
canneries are found. Some Cuthberts 
ai-e grown also but the acreage is much 
smaller. The black raspberry, once 
standard throughout Western New Y'ork, 
still is heavily cropped in the Dundee 
district but elsewhere has yielded to the 
Columbian, which is more resistant to 
di.sease and of longer life. The Dundee 
blackcap crop is very large this year, the 
bushes having brought on the yield under 
ideal conditions. However, one difliculty 
is that of harvesters. The usual influx 
of transient labor is not in evidence thi.s 
year and with what local labor is avail¬ 
able the crop is being gathered under 
tion will commence on October 1. The 
parent company, the Neutral Creamery 
Company of Buffalo, is capitalized at 
$50(),0f)() and will also start a branch at 
l.ancaster similar to that planned for 
B.atavia. 
The Apple Shippers’ Association is 
urging that growers lose no time in plac¬ 
ing their orders for barrels, now that a 
fair crop is a.ssured. The talk of barrel 
famine is declared to be groundless if 
the growers Avill at once place their 
ord(M-s with the cooperages. AA’hile 
much of the barrel material comes from 
jMissouri and Arkansas the railroad ad¬ 
ministration has anticipated the early 
needs, and i)laced such materials on the 
priority list. C’ontracts are now being 
made on a basis of 85 cents i)er barrel, 
which may be called a stabilized price. 
A. ir. p. 
Winter-Killing in Orchards 
During the fearful and long-continued 
cold of last Winter great damage was 
done to apple trees in the Northern part 
of the country. A few reports follow. 
AVe want further statements, so as to 
know the real facts : 
The damage to apple trees certainly is 
serious in this section, especially Bald- 
win.s, the main commercial apple. In our 
orchard nearly every Baldwin was killed. 
I have (Iravenstein about 12 years old 
that have leafed out, but look to be in a 
weak condition. I have not seen any 
damaged trunks. I know of no attempt 
to do anything to overcome the damage. 
I am inclined to believe that nothing can 
be done. The heart of the limbs show 
damage. McIntosh, Red Astrachan and 
A’’ellow Transparent in orchard with 
Baldwin do not show damage. c. S. A. 
New Hampshire. 
AA’liat you say on page 830 about a{)- 
ple trees I think is quite true. I started 
a very small orchard of one-year-old 
trees in the Fall of 1915, and I can cer¬ 
tainly see a marked contrast between the 
Baldwin, Spy, Greening and AA’ealthy. 
Having just a few trees (about 50) I 
have been able to give them special care ; 
sprayed eight times last Summer for the 
apple aphis, and protected the trees from 
the jack rabbits with lime-sulphur, stock 
solution and roof paint. Everything was 
going tine until .Tack Frost got busy last 
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