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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
The Fruit Outlook 
Early fruits have been very light. 
Cherries practically none; strawberries 
scarce, 24 to 26c per qt. lowest price. 
Prunes, half crop only ; pears seem to be 
a fairly good crop; grapes only half a 
crop, and apples here, and what I hear 
from people in other sections about one- 
fourth crop. We had so much wet weath¬ 
er that we could not spray our apples, 
and reports from most sections assert that 
many scabby apples will be harvested 
this Fall. I think that apoles will com¬ 
mand a fancy price this Fall, so making 
up for the quantity by bringing a higher 
price. I am in favor of limiting the crop 
and not continually working against the 
farmers’ interests. Let farmers unite and 
dictate the price, and not. the middleman. 
Hammer hard at this. We must succeed. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. J. a. t. 
We have a very poor show for apples 
and peaches, about one-fifth of a crop; 
most early varieties of apples did not 
set at all. King and Baldwin a fair 
showing, very few Greenings; these are 
staple varieties. Early kinds. Duchess, 
Wealthy and McIntosh, are fine, what 
we have at home: have not 6een many 
others, as season has been so short and 
work so rushing, but I and my neighbors 
think this is a fair estimate. B. J. w. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. 
There are no apples to speak of; the 
trees blossomed full in the Spring. I 
think the rainy season was too much for 
them. What few there are seem to be 
dropping off. H. T. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. 
Apples in Orleans will not be over 20 
per cent of a crop. Peaches and pears 
are very light crop; in fact, all fruit. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. d. c. 
There are a good many apples grown 
around this section. This year I should 
say not more than one-half crop. There 
are but very few peaches in this locality, 
and none this year. A few cherries and 
a few plums. V. T. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
We have just passed through the June 
“drop.” which has been rather more se¬ 
vere than usual; the outlook here at the 
present writing is about as follows: 
Peaches. 50 per cent. Carman showing 
better than any other variety. Apples. 
Baldwin, not over 10 per cent of a crop 
(Dr. Barrus of Cornell, who called re¬ 
cently, states that Baldwins are making 
a poor showing generally) ; Ben Davis 
comes up smiling, as usual, with pros¬ 
pects of 100 per cent ; McIntosh is a good 
second, with a showing of SO per cent; 
Newtowns. 75 per cent; Greenings and 
Twenty Ounce, about 50 per cent. 
Among pears, Bartlett and Seek el about 
50 per cent, and Keiffers not over 25 per 
cent. C. w. S. 
Orange Co., N. Y. 
This locality is devoted chiefly to gen¬ 
eral farming, although nearly every farm¬ 
er has an apple orchard; not much other 
fruit except a few cherries grown for mar¬ 
ket in this immediate vicinity. The fruit 
prospect is poor to very poor, caused (it 
is supposed) by the week of. Winter 
weather we had late in the Spring. The 
outlook before the freeze was fairly good. 
I have a small orchard of Montmorency 
cherries, from which I expected to har¬ 
vest two or 2 1 /y tons of fruit. I may get 
500 lbs. A neighbor with a larger or¬ 
chard expected four or five tons. He 
may get one. A farmer about three 
miles from here who has quite a large 
apple orchard estimated his crop (before 
the June drop) at 1.000 bbls. and ordered 
500 barrels as a starter. He now says 
he thinks he will have enough to fill 100 
of them. In my own apple orchard the 
blossoms were very scattering and the 
apples are still more so. J. f. w. 
Ontario Co., N. Y. 
The estimate for Orleans County on 
apples is 45 per cent, but personally I 
think 35 or 40 per cent nearer correct. 
Peaches are about 50 per cent of a crop, 
cherries practically none, not over 5 per 
cent; pears very light, about 10 per cent 
of a crop. G* c. w. 
Orleans Co., N. Y. 
Apples are light and peaches are lighter. 
Plums are scarce and prunes all gone. 
Very light crops of cherries. Pears are 
also light crop. ^ B. P- a. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. 
The apple crop will be very light, and 
no small fruits. Garden strawberries 
were light and scarce, and prices high. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. L. B. 
The prospects for the apple crop in 
this section are very poor. While the 
trees blossomed full the fruit did not set. 
The same can be said of peaches; cher¬ 
ries are scarce and pears will be the 
same. w. L. B. 
Cayuga Co., N. Y. 
We find that the Hiley, Carman and 
Champion peaches about here have drop¬ 
ped so the trees are practically clean of 
fruit. These bloomed rather early and 
the April blizzard (the 26t.h) caught them 
open. Elbertas were a little later and 
fruit set fairly well at first, but has 
dropped so it looks now like a light crop. 
Belle of Georgia set and hung on better. 
Connecticut. W. S. P. 
Crops in general are backward. Po¬ 
tatoes not looking well; peas need rain. 
Corn late. Strawberries in good condi¬ 
tion and selling at 25 to 30e per basket 
at the roadside. A few peaches, but no 
crop to speak of. Tomatoes looking good. 
No crops as yet taken t market except 
early spinach. Tomatoes, sweet corn, 
cabbage, peas, string beans and peppers 
largely raised. Oats principally for home 
consumption. Very little wheat or rye. 
It is a truck and vegetable raising section, 
with a dairy here and there to supply the 
home demand. J. B. B. 
Morris Co., N. J. 
Oats 75 to 80c; hay, No. 1, in mow, 
$28. Butter, 65c; cheese, 31 to 31%c. 
Hogs, live, 15 to 17c per lb.; bulk, 8c; 
cows, beef, 7 to 8c. Cows, milch, .$75 to 
$100. Milk, League prices. It is a lit¬ 
tle early to tell anything about crops as 
to quality and quantity : that depends on 
season. The quantity, I think, will be 
scarce. The eight-hour day and the day¬ 
light saving will make a food shortage. 
There are hundreds of acres that will not 
be worked this year. Men want $150 for 
a month’s work, or play, on the eight- 
hour basis; at 5 o’clock they are done 
(4 o’clock Lord’s time), just the time of 
day to handle hay and grain. Farmers 
cannot pay the price. With some more 
fool laws the people in the cities will go 
hungry. If it were not for the tenant 
farmers working from 12 to 16 hours a 
day there w r ould be a shortage right off. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. w. B. G. 
Pennsylvania Fruit Notes 
The Cicada. —The locusts have about 
done their work and are starting for their 
long home. The adults will die. while 
the newly-hatched generation will bury 
itself in the earth till another 13 or 17- 
year period, as. the case may .-be. It is 
said that both the 13-yea.: and the 17- 
year broods met on top of the ground 
this year. . But" to .my recollection they 
were not more -numerous this year than 
either 13 years or 17 years ago. How¬ 
ever, some damage has been done to the 
young apple orchards. They are cer¬ 
tainly badly stung, and many twigs are 
breaking off. We shall do some pruning 
just as soon as we can see what will 
break. The larger twigs which have been 
stung will probably pull through without 
breaking. The peach trees do not seem 
to have been stung to any extent. 
Tree Tanglefoot. —We covered some 
700 or 800 young apple trees with this 
substance last Spring. It is too early yet 
to determine just how much good has 
been done, but there is no question that 
a great many crawling insects are caught 
in this way. Unfortunately an occasional 
lady bug is also put out of business. We 
used a 25-lb. pail of the tanglefoot for 
the number of trees mentioned, the trees 
Varying considerably in size. The direc¬ 
tions call for a band three to five inches 
wide about the trunk of each tree, but 
we finally cut this down to two inches, 
which seems to make a oand quite wide 
enough. The band should entirely en¬ 
circle the trunk, and should be just below 
base of limbs. If too. low down dirt will 
be splashed up against Ihe tanglefoot 
during rains, thus obstructing its useful¬ 
ness in watching insects. After a little 
practice the substance can be applied 
quite rapidly, notwithstanding it is very 
sticky and hard to manipulate. Simply 
cut a stout paddle, say two inches wide, 
and dip into the tanglefoot, taking just 
enough for one band. In applying be sure 
every particle of the bark is covered 
within circle. 
High Prices. —Early fruits are a 
pretty short crop in Central Pennsylvania 
this season, and prices are correspondingly 
high. Both sweet and sour cherries are 
not plentiful and are rotting quite badly. 
They sella readily at 15 to 25 cents the 
quart in the Harrisburg city market, and 
are almost as high in the smaller towns. 
Strawberries were also a light crop, and 
sold for about the same money as the 
cherries, or even higher. Raspberries are 
more plentiful, but have brought as much 
July 12; 15)19 
as 35 cents the quart. Both red and 
black raspberries are in greater demand. 
Apple Tree Borers. —Notwithstanding 
pressing work we managed to get over 
our apple trees last Spring in quest of 
borers. Previously we were obliged to 
wait till after harvest to begin this work. 
We expect to look over them again about 
midsummer, and again in the Fall. If 
possible the first examination should be 
made early in Spring before the full 
grown larvae are ready to leave the tree. 
We usually dig away the soil about base 
of trunk a week or more before we are 
ready actually to dig out the borers. Thus 
any sawdust which they throw out after 
the ground is away will help to locate 
them. But after about May 1 it is hardly 
advisable thus to leave the base of the 
trunk exposed. The purpose of hilling 
up is to compel the moth to deposit her 
eggs farther away from the roots in order 
to make the digging out process easier. 
If a cavity is left, even for a week after 
the laying season begins the moth, which 
will Jay as low down as possible, will 
naturally deposit her eggs down in the 
cavity. Then if the soil is hilled up about 
trunk of tree after eggs have been de¬ 
posited down below level of soil the hill¬ 
ing process will simply make matters 
worse. For this reason we dig away the 
soil, look for borers, and immediately hill 
up again, except for the early Spring 
hunt, when the tree trunk is left exposed 
as explained. 
Twig Borers. —The damage from these 
insects is usually very slight. The larvae 
is more of a yellowish color than that of 
the root or trunk borer, the latter being 
more nearly white. They bore out the 
heart of the twig a foot or so from the 
tip. The twig breaks off at this point 
and hangs down. This is similar to the 
damage done by the locust, only the 
locusts have been a hundred times more 
destructive than we have ever known the 
twig borer to be. . t i 
Cutting Sprouts. —If time permits 
we expect to cut out the apple sprouts or 
“sap suckers” from center of trees during 
July. This is better than to leave them 
till Winter. The wounds will partly heal 
this season, and the sap which these 
sprouts take up is needed for necessary 
parts of the tree, as well as the fruit. 
Pennsylvania. david plank. 
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