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Crops and Farm Notes 
Hay has been bringing $15 to $20 per 
ton, loose, in the barn. Oat *>, 82c per 
bu., deliverc 1 at the mill. Buckwheat, $3 
per 100 lbs. No corn sold, as it is all 
used on the farm. Potatoes, $1 per bu. 
Butter, 45c per lb.; eggs. 40c per doz. 
During Winter and early Spring eggs 
brought GOc and butter 55 to 60c. Hogs 
are now bringing 17 to ISc per lb., live, 
and veal calves lT^c; 14 and 15c ba 
been the average price for the season. 
Crops are looking good here. Corn more 
than an average at this time of year. 
Hay is a big crop. Oats ai*e not looking 
as good as usual, owing to the extreme 
wet last Spring. Potatoes are late and 
bugs plentiful. No early apples and very 
few late ones. Milk that goes to the 
cheese factories brings $2.65 to $2.S0 per 
100 llis. i. w. G. 
McKean Co., Pa. 
Hay crop on meadows that have been 
limed and manured good; other meadows 
light. Corn looks good for the time it 
has been planted. Potatoes fair, with 
lots of bugs. Oats will be t bort; straw 
just beginning to bead. No apples, cher¬ 
ries or plums, a few pears; will be quite 
a lot of cane berries. E. G. S. 
Broome Co., N. Y. 
Farmers are in the midst of baying. 
The crop is medium on meadows that 
were not pastured too close last Fall. 
Oats are short, owing to the hot, dry 
June. The acreage is about the same as 
usual. Potatoes are backward and some 
fields have a poor stand. A small acreage 
was planted, but I have not heard any 
farmers wishing they bad planted more 
as yet. Bugs are very numerous. Corn 
is looking well mostly; a good acreage 
planted. Long Island Luce’s Favorite is 
very popular around here for silo corn; 
am growing some myself this year for the 
first time. It is six feet tall at the 
pi'escnt time (July 16) and bids fair to 
go six feet more (not so bad). Help is 
more plentiful than a year ago, but 
farmers are not hiring much, as they can¬ 
not afford it—wages are too high. 
Oneida Co., N. Y. n. E. T. 
The New Jersey Horticultural “Run” 
The change in the bolding of the Sum¬ 
mer meeting of the N. J. State Horticult¬ 
ural Society seemed to meet the approval 
of many members, and being greatly fav¬ 
ored with delightful weather*, a large and 
enthusiastic company met July 11 for the 
auto tour iu Monmouth County. Nearly 
50 members of the State Horticultural 
Association of Pennsylvania also joined 
in making the meeting a success, after a 
strenuous run the day before through 
the orchard sections of Gloucester, Cam¬ 
den and Burlington counties. The fol¬ 
lowing extract from the descriptive cir¬ 
cular. handed to all as they arrived, best 
explains the plan of this outing: 
“The plan upon many such tours is to 
visit places where favorable weather and 
the application of science and extra skill 
has resulted in a perfect crop. The Sum¬ 
mer meeting committee believes that it is 
of equal or of more importance at such 
meetings to also see orchards and farms 
where unfavorable weather conditions, 
diseases, insects and other factors have 
resulted iu damage to crop prospects. It 
is only in this way that people in general 
come to realize the difficulties, disappoint¬ 
ments and losses in fruit growing and 
farming. The crop of orchard fruits is 
quite variable this year in New Jersey 
and the stops arranged for Monmouth 
County give a fair idea of the range. Up¬ 
on this tour you will see orchards where 
the crop is light because of the unfavor¬ 
able weather last Spring; varieties of 
apples which have suffered from blight; 
peach trees defoliated because of several 
factors, and in contrast you will see 
orchard’, with full crops of fine fruits in 
which the skill of the owner or manager 
speaks for itself.” 
The meeting point was the home of 
Bit ard Carr, a few miles west of Free¬ 
hold, beautifully situated, with ample 
buildings planned for raising horses. 
These orchards of the leading varieties 
showed they had received very careful 
cultivation, and the 100 acres in apples 
and less in peaches promised fine crops 
until blight and a heavy windstorm ma¬ 
terially reduced the fruit. Most of the 
plantings were inspected on foot, but as 
the farm was left the cars were lined up 
for a run past part of the orchards, and 
when on the old training track on the 
return, over 80 cars were counted and a 
lot more were found waiting our arrival at 
the grove of Charles It. Applegate, a near 
neighbor, where the stop was made for 
lunch and a short informal meeting after¬ 
wards. Mr. Applegate has large orchards 
of mature English Codling apples which 
•bore good crops for three successive years, 
but the blight, which seems especially 
fond of this variety, has seriously reduced 
the results this year. From here the 
route lead through the attractive town of 
Freehold and the adjoining potato section 
with the well-kept farms and farm build¬ 
ings, which must be seen to be appreci¬ 
ated. 
The Brisbane orchards near Farming- 
dale were next to be visited and the vis¬ 
itors were especially interested in this 
stop; 3,500 apple, 500 Keiffer and 500 
dwarf Duchess pear tres were in these 
blocks and were described at the last an¬ 
nual meeting at Atlantic City. By care¬ 
ful management under the supervision of 
the Horticultural Department of the N. J, 
Agricultural Experiment Station, these 
trees, from being only an expense, were 
made to nay a handsome profit the first 
year. 
The different spraying methods and ma¬ 
terials used to subdue the various fungus 
and insect troubles were carefully des¬ 
cribed and good fruit and in paying quant¬ 
ities should result again this season. At¬ 
tention was also called to the substitu¬ 
tions of varieties sent to this orchard; 
one block of supposedly Stayman trees 
proved to have one tree true to name; 
another of 300 trees planted for Graven- 
stein have proved to be almost worthless, 
as several growers in different parts of 
the State can testify, all the trees coming 
from the same nursery at that time. It 
is quite time that some method was found 
to hold nurserymen responsible for such 
serious mistakes. These misfits are good 
growers and bloomers, little fruit results 
and that little of no account, and all 
must be top-worked or torn out, and 
many years time lost in getting the or¬ 
chard into profitable bearing. 
We have all heard the old saying about 
“The little farm well tilled”, and we 
were privileged to see it when we reached 
the farm of J. Perrine Hulsart & Sons 
near Manasquan, whose plantings do not 
cover as many acres as some others 
passed on the tour, but these have re¬ 
ceived the best of care and the reputa¬ 
tion of the fruit grown tells the story. 
Anothe.r topic under discussion at At¬ 
lantic City finds a soluitou here, as they 
grow only “varieties of fruit for the sea¬ 
shore trade”, often not having enough 
to supply all their regular trade without 
hiding some for the late comers. 
The market gardens just back from the 
ocean resorts were next passed and the 
well-kept places of Howard Slocum and 
E. A. Sexsmith were seen growing the 
usual crops adapted to intensive culti¬ 
vation. Earlier in the afternoon the 
Kressler vegetable farm was seen with 
its novel method of suspending the irriga¬ 
tion pipes, thus getting rid of the posts. 
Necessarily the rows cannot be very long 
with this type. The members and visi¬ 
tors were fortunate at this busy season 
to find good accommodations in Asbury 
Park at the Albemarle and adjoining 
hotels so that after a good night’s rest 
and a dip in old ocean for those not 
afraid of the low temperature, an early 
start was made up the ocean drive to the 
Highlands, passing on the way homes of 
the extremely wealthy, and also beautiful 
places much more moderate in their sur¬ 
rounding, but looking far more homelike. 
At the top, where a stop was made to en¬ 
joy the view, the height above the ocean is 
said to be 260 feet, the highest point be¬ 
tween Maine and Florida. From this 
point the whole of Sandy Hook can be 
seen, and the bay which it encloses, with 
its sails and motor boats, pound nets, 
etc., like a picture below, probably the 
most unique view on the whole coast. 
It was too hazy to see the shores of 
Staten Island or Long Island, but to 
those cueing the entrance of New York 
Harbor for the first time it made a last¬ 
ing impression. 
The large fruit and asparagus farm of 
William T. Hendrickson was the first, to 
be looked over, and a number of cars 
were met here whose owners were not 
able to make the whole tour. These 
orchards were particularly interesting, 
both in the number of varieties, condition 
of the trees, the record for successive 
crops which some blocks had, and best 
of all, the promise for this year of an 
abundant harvest on such a large pro¬ 
portion of the trees, both apple and pear. 
By heavy mulching with marsh hay the 
effort is made to save the fruit which 
drops after having been left on the trees 
to secure as much color as possible, so 
hard to get on some varieties like 
Williams Red. Middletown for lunch 
brought all on time to enjoy the bountiful 
provisions provided for us by the Girls’ 
Canning Club of the Middletown Town¬ 
ship High School which was passed at 
Leonardo on the way to Mr. Hendrick¬ 
son’s. After lunch all gathered in the 
Baptist Church to he cordially welcomed 
by its pastor. Rev. Horace It. Goodchild, 
and to hear just a very little of the his¬ 
tory connected with this part of this 
very historical county. Then Drs. Cook 
and Ileadlee, and Prof. A. J. Farley had 
some timely advice for us that exhibition 
fruit may be ready for our exhibit at 
Atlantic City on December 1-2-3, as well 
as to secure the best prices for what is 
to be sold. If the New Jersey growers 
do not secure fruit free from disease and 
insect blemishes it is not because the 
Experiment Station men do not try in 
season and out to explain how this' can 
be done. 
The cars were then taken for a trip 
through the Edwin Beekman orchards, 
mostly mature trees carrying heavy loads 
of apples. Some of these trees are on a 
hill too steep to cultivate, yet blight was 
worse on this block than on others where 
good cultivation had been given. These 
trees show what can be done by proper 
pruning, feeding and spraying and show 
great improvement since the society vis¬ 
ited this farm in 1911. Quite a long run 
next took us past the well-kept farm of 
August 2, 1019 
James O. ITendrickson, at one time presi¬ 
dent of the Society, his large asparagus 
field and young trees interplanted with a 
splendid patch of cantaloupes were well 
worth noticing. This section sends large 
shipments of asparagus, tomatoes, pep¬ 
pers, eggplants and early turnips to the 
New York markets. J. L. Hendrickson, 
near Hazlet, also has a fine orchard of 
mature trees. The last halt was made to 
see the hillside orchards of D. H. Taylor 
near Holmdel, an object lesson in the im¬ 
provement which can be made in lands 
lacking humus by proper management. 
Mr. Taylor . successful in growing some 
of the less known varieties, among them 
the Deacon, which has attracted atten¬ 
tion whenever exhibited at the meetings, 
and the visitors were especially interested 
in seeing these apples on the trees. The 
tour ended at this point, and the ears 
started on their homeward journeys, or 
back to the ocean for another night. All 
seemed well pleased with the arrange¬ 
ments made for their enjoyment and feel¬ 
ing that the two days had been well spent 
in seeing what is being done in other 
sections, and all feeling that they had 
learned something worth while. H. 
A Fertilizer Man at the Cornell College 
of Agriculture 
Getting Together.— A few weeks ago 
saw the most unique “short course” that 
any college of agriculture in this country 
has ever before attempted—a week’s ses¬ 
sion on soils and fertilizers where the 
audience was a group of men who have to 
deal with the manufacture and sale of 
commercial fertilizer over a large portion 
of the United States. Executives, chem¬ 
ists, sales managers and salesmen, with a 
few factory men thrown in, made up the 
one hundred men who had been selected 
by the fertilizer industry to spend a week 
at the college of agriculture for the good 
it might do them. The extent of territory 
represented may be visualized by naming 
the four corner points—Houlton, Me.; 
Madison, Wis.; New Orleans, La., and 
Atlanta, Ga. Most of the men came from 
within the square—all except one, and he 
came from Aberdeen, Scotland. The con¬ 
ference began on Monday morning at 9 
o’clock and closed on Friday at 4 p. m. 
Between those hours all of the days and 
some of the evenings were given over to a 
rapid fire of lectures, demonstrations, field 
trips and discussions, In a very large 
measure the success of the meeting was 
due to those men of the faculty of Cor¬ 
nell and other institutions who made up 
the program. G. W. Cavanaugh, A. R. 
Mann, H. O. Buckinan, E. O. Fippin, A 
T. Wianeko, F. D. Gardner, L. L. Van 
Slyke, Lewis Knudson, H. J. Wheeler 
and the others formed a battery of speak¬ 
ers hard to equal and impossible to beat. 
Soluble or Insoluble. —Farmers and 
fertilizer men alike are continually using 
the terms soluble and insoluble and re¬ 
verted as applied to phosphoric acid. 
What do they mean? No man who sat 
before Prof. Cavanaugh and saw him 
show how soluble phosphoric acid reacts 
and how insoluble phosphoric acid does 
not react will ever again have any doubt 
as to the relative value of acid phosphate 
and raw rock. Neither will the reversion 
of phosphoric acid again be as misty as 
it may have been in the past. When 
soluble phosphoric acid is reverted before 
one’s eyes and then changed back again 
by the same processes as are going on 
continually in the soil, there is painted 
a picture which will never be erased. 
Trof. Buckman came in for his share by 
showing how a soil may be decidedly 
something other than it appears, and how 
the type of soil may vitally affect the fer¬ 
tilizer which a crop needs. 
Reclaiming Abandoned Farms.—■ 
Prof. Gardner struck a responsive chord 
in telling of the work in Pennsylvania 
where abandoned farms have been re¬ 
claimed by liberal use of plant food. 
The average fertilizer salesman has had 
to confront for years the fallacious teach¬ 
ing that fertilizer runs down soils, and 
here was a man who could prove that it 
was the lack of plant food that caused 
land to be abandoned. Prof. Gardner’s 
pictures of the Snow Shoe experiments 
were truly inspirational. 
The Middle West. —The newer soils 
of the Middle West, too, came in for their 
share of attention. Prof. Wianeko of 
Purdue, in speaking on “The Fertility 
Problem of the Corn Belt States,” care¬ 
fully detailed the fertilizer needs of these 
newer soils, and ended with a carefully 
worked out series of high-grade formulas 
designed to care for all crop needs of that 
section. 
The Business Side. —Soils and fertil¬ 
izers and their effect on crops were not 
the only features of the program. The 
business and legal side came in for its 
share, as well. Dr. L. L. Van Slyke of 
Geneva, spoke on the “Service of a Fer¬ 
tilizer Control,” and in a humorous way 
gave an insight into the human side of 
the control chemist. It was perhaps re¬ 
markable that fertilizer salesmen and a 
control chemist could associate for a day 
and leave, each feeling that the other man 
was a good fellow, and that he himself 
had obtained much good from association 
with a man who nominally stood across 
the fence. It was a sign of the times and 
a sign that was good. Each of the other 
speakers left his mark as well, so that one 
hundred men associated with commercial 
agencies came away from an educational 
institution taking and leaving a better 
feeling and a greater respect than had 
ever before existed. E. G. M. 
