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Ihe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
July 1010 
Condition of the Apple Crop 
Apples, Livingston County. 20 per cent 
of last year or less • Yates County, 10 per 
cent; Tompkins County, 50 per cent; 
Wayne County, 30 to 40 per cent; Or¬ 
leans, Monroe, Niagara and Genesee coun¬ 
ties vary, 30 to 50 per cent in localities. 
A little early yet to say, since fruit is 
dropping badly. Peaches still declining 
and. they are dropping off; will be a light 
crop ; double last year’s, perhaps, s. F. 
Geneseo N. Y. 
Very few early apples grown here except 
for home consumption. There are a few or¬ 
chards about here that have good crops, 
but the great majority have very few or 
none. Generally estimated. 10 per cent 
of a crop. There may be more than 
that, but the quality, on account of fun¬ 
gus and scab, will not be as good as usual, 
and will doubtless reduce the barreling 
stock and increase the proportion of dry 
stock. Very few Kieffers, slightly more 
Bartlett. No peaches in this vicinity 
raised commercially. Practically no cher¬ 
ries. Plums are very spotted. T have 
two acres of full crop, but it is not the 
rule in the few plum orchards about here. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. F. E. R. 
Apple crop light, pears light, cherries 
light. S. H. M. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
I made a trip with Mr. O. M. Taylor 
of the Experiment Station, week of June 
6, looking over the fruit from Rensselaer 
to Newburg. Apples run from 30 per 
cent Winter varieties to 50 or 00 per 
cent Summer and Fall varieties. Pears, 
more Bartlett than any other variety, 
running from heavy in a few orchards 
to none in others. Seckels very thin ex¬ 
cept one or two orchards. Kieffers from 
10 to 25 per cent. Clapp very ^spotted. 
40 per cent, probably; Bartlett. 50 to 60 
per cent, and Seekel, 15 to 20 per cent. 
Peaches mostly fair to a good crop. Cher¬ 
ries. practically none except a few Mor- 
rellos north of Kingston; from there 
south. 60 to 75 per cent of most varieties. 
Grapes promise a rather heavy crop in the 
Hudson Valley district. Gooseberries con¬ 
fined to a few growers, but bushes loaded 
well with fine fruit. Currants, about 
60 per cent south of Kingston; north of 
that point not over 20 to 30 per cent of 
rather poor quality. Raspberries prom¬ 
ise rather well, but many growers are al¬ 
ready badly in need of rain, and a week of 
hot, dry weather would reduce the pros¬ 
pect wonderfully. Because of scarcity of 
cherries and currants and the short straw¬ 
berry season, prices should be good. 
Strawberries promised well, but two 
weeks of hot. dry weather, just at a crit¬ 
ical time, reduced both quantity and qual¬ 
ity greatly, and many who were waiting 
for prices to go down must go short for 
preserving or hustle at higher prices, as a 
couple of pickings will finish most of 
them, the season being shorter than usual. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. wm. hotaling. 
The prospects for apples are not very 
good, as it is very dry in this section. I 
would judge about a half crop. Peaches 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, JULY 5, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
The Cost of Some Farm Crops.1041, 1042 
The Business of a Vermont Farm..'... 1042 
Field Meeting of the Holmdell Potato Club 1042 
Some Curious Freaks of Corn... 1043 
More About Transplanting Alfalfa. 1043 
Crops and Farm News. 1049 
Hope Farm Notes.1050, 1051 
Asparagus Beetle . 1051 
Sweet Clover on Cut-over Land. 1051 
Up-State Farm Notes.... 1053 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 1056 
Sulphur, Manure and Phosphate. 1060 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Selling Milk by Butterfat. 1053 
A Discussion of Milk Plans. 1053 
Wool Marketing . 1053 
The Use and Abuse of the Self-feeder.... 1056 
Ayrshire Cattle Sale. 1056 
Coming Live Stock Sales. 1056 
Drying Off Persistent Milker. 1058 
Cleaning Separator . 1058 
Unsatisfactory Cow . 1058 
Trouble with Cream. 1058 
HORTICULTURE 
Misfit Trees; Wolf River for McIntosh.... 1044 
Rye Mulch in Peach Orchard. 1044 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1047 
Dividing Rhubarb . 1951 
Condition of the Apple Crop. 1944 
Garden Notes from New England. 1045 
Blackberry Rust . 1045 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Pickles as Good as Your Grandmother Used 
to Make—Part II. I960 
From Day to Day. 1054 
How I Carrie T on Kindergarten Work m 
My Home—Part II. 1054 
The Rural Patterns. 1054 
Thrift Hints by a Country Woman. 1054 
Relishes Worth Trying.1054, 1055 
Embroidery Design . 1055 
Filet Yoke . 1055 
Satisfying Economy . 1055 
Homemade Yeast . 1055 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Events of the Week........... 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
Buffalo Markets . 
Editorials .. • 
Hold cn to Your Liberty Bonds 
Back-to-the-Lander’s Plans ... 
Bonus to Discharged Soldiers.. 
An Old Man in Clover. 
More About Hill Roads. 
A Trip to Florida.. 
Publisher's Desk 
... 1048 
... 1048 
... 1048 
... 1052 
... 1052 
... 1046 
... 1046 
... 1046 
... 1046 
... 1058 
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very scarce, as the frost this Spring 
killed about all the buds. J. E. S. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
The apple erop iu sight is light to me¬ 
dium. There were never so many blos¬ 
soms as this Spring, and most of the 
blooming period was favorable. Plenty 
of sunshine, bees and pollen, hut there 
seems to have boon a great lack of vitality 
in the fruit buds, so that the set is gener¬ 
ally disappointing, especially so in the 
case of Greening. King. Northern Spy 
and Ben Davis. Baldwins that were due 
to bear this year. Newtowns, McIntosh and 
Wealthy have medium and well distribut¬ 
ed setting. I cannot at present place an 
estimate of over 50 per cent on the gen¬ 
eral crop at maturity. This partial fail¬ 
ure is, in my opinion, due to the severe 
frosts of April 25 and 26. Pears and 
cherries are very light. W. S. teator. 
Dutchess Co.. N. Y. 
The prospects for fruit are very light. 
No sour cherries; few pears; light crop 
peaches. The apple crop is not in shape 
to estimate. It will be light enough at 
best. S. P. S. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. 
Prospects arc for a very light crop of 
all kinds of fruit in this section. Apples 
in particular are very light; not more 
than 15 per cent of a normal crop. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. T. c. 8. 
It looks like a good crop of apples of 
both early and late varieties; would like 
to do considerable thinning, but help is 
not obtainable. The pear crop is fairly 
good Bartletts are a full crop. Seckels 
about 75 per cent. Peaches are spotted, 
some having a good crop, others very 
light, white-fleshed varieties making the 
best showing, as a rule. J. R. Cornell. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
Most varieties of apples blossomed well, 
but very uneven, some coming out quickly 
and others opening very slowly. This is 
the apple year for this section. Last 
year was the lightest crop of any year in 
mv memory as regards all apples, hut 
Ben Davis. All trees but Baldwin 
seemed to blossom and set full this 
Spring, hut when the June drop set in. 
or even before, nearly everything seemed 
to come off. The only variety in my or¬ 
chard showing a full crop is the Wealthy : 
nothing else shows over 25 per cent of a 
crop. Greenings especially are set for 
large apples. My Wagoner. 100 trees of 
them, that always bear this year and 
bear very heavily, are now about 12 td 
IS inches apart; apples should be very 
large. My orchards have been sprayed 
three times. I never saw finer apples on 
the tree. I have snrayed a number of 
orchards around the country, having 
bought the apnles. The apples in these 
orchards are the same as mine, without 
exception. Peaches blossomed very full, 
hut were badly killed by the late frost. 
The crop here will he light, but.being 
scattered over the trees will be fine qual¬ 
ity. c. r. shons. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
The fruit crop in this section is very 
poor; no fruit of any kind except berries; 
once in a while a tree with a few apples, 
and other fruit, the same practically not 
worth picking. We could not find and 
pick a bushel of cherries in a day. A 
very few pears, the lightest crop I ever 
knew. Wheat is looking fine; oats and 
barley will not be worth cutting; corn is 
looking fair, but small. Some potatoes 
not planted yet; the late potatoes that are 
planted are not up. Ground is so dry 
and hard people cannot plow. There 
were some peaches, hut they are all 
dropping off. Some fine pieces of grass; 
others very light. Some farmers are cut¬ 
ting grass. We need rain very badly; 
have not had a sprinkle here in over two 
weeks: showers in other sections. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. F. D. ir. 
This county (Bourbon) joins Missouri, 
and we are just 100 miles south of Kan¬ 
sas City. We produce wheat, corn, Al¬ 
falfa. small fruits, mules, cows and sor¬ 
ghum syrup. The syrup mill manufac¬ 
tures from 3.000 to 4,000 acres of cane 
per year, and syrup retails here for 00c 
for a 10-lb. pail. The mule market does 
a business which runs into the millions 
yearly. The new Borden’s Condensery. 
costing $250,000, is handling between 50.- 
000 and 60,000 lbs. of milk daily, for 
which they paid $2.40 per 100 lbs. of 3.5 
per cent milk in June. Some are quit¬ 
ting. some new ones are beginning; I am 
in neither class, as I am a member of the 
Non-Partisan League and also Grange 
Deputy for this county. I believe the 
farmers are waiting a chance to cast a big 
Socialist vote, or at least to knock out the 
old system of graft and pillage at the 
first opportunity. Our different Subor¬ 
dinate Granges buy collectively of nearly 
everything, but tiio largest transaction 
was 50 grain binders and 60,000 lbs. of 
twine at one purchase, thereby saving 
almost $2,000. Wheat is fairly good; 
will probably average 20 bn. in this coun¬ 
tv. and will begin to harvest about June 
25. The Kansas State Grange is to 
meet at Fort Scott December 8-11 next. 
Corn is very backward, and the ground 
is too wet to cultivate, as we have had 
showers every day or two for three weeks. 
Do you have any cheap milk from Kansas 
to knock your price at the condensaries 
there? GEO. PURDY. 
Bourbon Co., Kan. 
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