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EW-YORKER 
at the pruning all the time it is not too 
cold and stormy to stay in the trees. It 
takes some time to out the 40 to 50 solid 
cords (100 to 150 lineal cords) of stove 
wood needed each year for our stoves and 
furnaces. On stormy days there is work 
repairing equipment: crates, wagons, har¬ 
ness, engines, etc.; oiling harness and all 
the other jobs that are left until a more 
appropriate time unless the need for the 
article is so great that it must be repaired 
at once. We can generally figure on get¬ 
ting about two weeks of comparative rest 
about the end of August, and we usually 
take a little breathing spell when the Fall 
crops are safely under cover. Outside of 
this the problem is not to find something 
to keep us busy, but to know what must 
be done and what can be put off. 
Stock ani> Poultry. — Many ask 
why we do not go into stock feeding, 
poultry-raising or some other form of ef¬ 
fort to keep from wasting our Winter 
“slack time.” Poultry-raising might work 
well into such a scheme if we could be 
assured that it would not interfere with 
the essential work in Spring and early 
Summer. We figure that the working 
lours during the proper spraying season 
are worth at least $100 each, so an incu¬ 
bator full of chicks which might happen 
to be ready to take off on such a day 
would have to come off before daylight or 
after dark. This is the only time when 
these two lines of business would conflict, 
except for the different mental attitude 
necessary for success in each. This dif¬ 
ference of mental attitude is also respon¬ 
sible for the fact that most fruit men do 
not go into the stock business. A success¬ 
ful fruit-grower usually has not the train¬ 
ing nor the inclination to be a successful 
stockman. Possibly it would be a parallel 
case if we were to ask a glass manufac¬ 
turer why be did not take up the making 
of artificial ice during bis slack period in 
the Summer. 
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year with intense activity as any branch 
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January 18, 1910 
pears to possess these qualities, hence the 
suggestion. 
Popcorn is as easily grown as flint corn. 
The cultural principles are essentially the 
same. If properly managed, the cost of 
husking is but little more. To insure 
good popping qualities, however, there are 
two important “kinks” to be observed. 
The first is to furnish it with an ample 
supply of potash. Six hundred pounds 
per acre of a phosphate carrying 10 per 
cent of potash, is none too much. Then 
the corn must be allowed not only to 
ripen hut to become fully mature and dry 
while upon the stalk. Then it must be 
husked and cured without being stacked 
and allowed to “sweat.” This requires a 
longer season than can be depended upon 
in Northern New England, hut selected 
ears of a good strain of popcorn, and so 
grown, will show a popping percentage 
pretty close to 100 per cent. c. o. o. 
R. N.-Y.—We shelled one of the ears 
sent us by Mr. Smith, on Christmas Day. 
a little over 100 days from harvesting, and 
found that it will “pop.” 
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The Culture of Popcorn 
On page 1375 there appears a photo¬ 
graph of an car of popcorn grown by A. 
Yail Smith, of Connecticut. So far as 
can he determined by the photograph, this 
corn would score pretty well up to 100 
points, and it appears to be of a first-class 
quality. Now, popcorn is one of the 
easiest of all plants to cross-pollenize, 
naturally, and the resulting crosses are 
almost invariably of an inferior quality. 
A strain of really good popcorn is ex¬ 
ceedingly difficult to find, and if this is 
as good as it appears to be, I suggest that 
Mr. Smith engage in the business of 
growing popcorn for seed. 
Statistics regarding the acreage or pro¬ 
duction of popcorn in the United States 
are not available, but it is known that 
the demand so far exceeds the supply that 
the price has gradually been climbing for 
the past few years, until, at t.ie present 
time, almost anything bearing the name 
and a resemblance to popcorn, retails at 
25 cents a pound, even though its pop¬ 
ping quality may be less than 40 per cent. 
A moderate to fair yield of popcorn 
would be in the vicinity of 1.000 pounds 
per acre, and, could a strain be introduced 
which would be tender, of good flavor and 
have a popping average around 95 per 
cent, it would command double the price 
quoted. Even at the present price it 
would be an exceedingly profitable crop 
to grow. That shown by Mr. Smith ap- 
Fruit Trees on Every Farm 
With the radical changes taking place 
in all things agricultural, our methods 
and practices, once sound, must constantly 
be revised. I am seriously questioning 
whether it will not be necessary to make 
a marked distinction between the man 
who grows fruit for home use and the 
commercial operator. A little surplus is a 
big burden today. The necessity for the 
extreme of production and the limitations 
of man power force the utilization of 
every agent possible to increase net rev¬ 
enue. Successful fruit growing hinges 
upon natural air and water drainage, well- 
selected stock, a good knowledge of indi¬ 
vidual tree characteristics in pruning, 
generous fertilizing, complete protection 
by spraying, and, in many cases, wise and 
thorough thinning. The man whose aim 
is to supply the home must have his time 
taken by other and larger duties, while he 
who attempts a commercial proposition 
can afford to equip himself with all the 
machinery and appliances for operating at 
least waste of man power. For this rea¬ 
son I would cut your 100 trees to 50. 
Maine lost nearly 1,000.000 apple, pear, 
cherry and plum trees during the Winter 
of 1917-18. So many varieties were in¬ 
cluded that one hesitates today about ad¬ 
vising. In nearly every section the less 
of Baldwins, both young and old trees, 
was heaviest, so in those sections this va¬ 
riety must for the present, at least, he 
dropped. 
Here is a hint as to what I would set 
in Central Maine for a home supply: 
Early Harvest, Yellow Transparent. 
Duchess, Gravenstein. Wealthy, Nodhead. 
McIntosh Red. R. I. Greening and North¬ 
ern Spy, two trees each, and for experi¬ 
mental purposes one each of Delicious. 
Opalescent. Winter Banana. Jonathan 
and Winesap. For plums, one each of 
Burbank, Red June, Imperial Gage, 
Moore’s Arctic, Satsuma. For pears, one 
each of Seckel, Bartlett, Flemish Beauty 
and Bose. This last the hardiest of all 
with me. For quince 1 find none but the 
Orange will stand our Winters, and that 
freezes back yearly. 
The Waddell peach will live here, but 
the fruit is so large and attractive outside 
and so inferior within that I have rooted 
them out. The early Carman and Elbertu 
have given some good crops, hut nearly all 
went out last year. We get a mercury 
drop to 2G to 32 below two or three times 
during the average Winter, and this is a 
little chilly for peaches of good quality. 
We cannot have cherries and birds, so I 
discard the cherries. The man who grows 
plums, especially the English varieties, 
must carry at all times a sharp knife, a 
good angle saw and alert eyes. Even 
the Japanese will cultivate the pest, black 
knot, and it requires nerve to amputate 
a large limb or cut below infection on the 
trunk. 
Allowing for cherries. I have cut your 
100 to 50 trees, which will be all the en¬ 
ergetic farmer can watch out for and not 
neglect other duties. Caring for these an 
abundance of luscious fruit for the family 
will be insured under fair climatic con¬ 
ditions. No man seeking, or wishing, the 
health, happiness and comfort of his fam¬ 
ily can afford to neglect abundant fruit 
supply covering the year. . 
* Maine. dr. g. m. twitchei.l. 
