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September G, 1913 
place I like. But I believe the prosperity of 
the State ami the best good of the whole 
people rests largely with the farmer on the 
back hills. If these farms arc to be turned 
over to the woodchuck and the foreign 
immigrants, or left to go back to the 
original brush, then we have failed in our 
part. And it is as sure as fate that our 
present type of nineteenth century farmer 
will not toil through the mud eight months 
out of the year. r. l. h. 
Schuyler Co., N. Y. 
Commercial Fruits for Western New York 
Practical Knowledge Wanted.— 
Farmers and fruit growers generally are 
undoubtedly planning to extend their 
planting of fruit trees, and it has occurred 
to me that a general discussion of the 
best commercial varieties for particular 
regions or localities might be well at this 
time. Personally, I have had a lot of 
experience the last few years with misfit 
trees on this fruit farm, which I have 
operated for the past five years. I would 
like to learn the opinions of your corre¬ 
spondents, Mr. Weed and Mr. Rogers, 
from this county, as to what they consider 
the best varieties of fruits to plant in the 
near future. 
Poor Varieties. —It would be nearly 
as valuable information to know what not 
to set. as it would what to set. The first 
year I came here I was compelled to re¬ 
move over one-half of the bearing peach 
trees, as the varieties were practically 
worthless from the standpoint of the com¬ 
mercial orchardist. With peaches, we 
have removed such varieties as Late 
Crawford, Smock, Niagara, Lamont, 
Teats’ Favorite (a very late white-fleshed 
poor quality fruit, that will not net 
freight to market). Early Crawford and 
Carman. The serious faults of the above 
varieties are as follows: Not produc¬ 
tive ; too late in maturing to be of good 
quality and market to advantage; one 
side of the fruit to be over-ripe and the 
opposite side very green; white-fleshed 
varieties sell for less than yellow fruit, 
and generally white peaches do not stand 
up as well before reaching market. From 
our experience we concluded to set only 
Elberta peaches, and take no chances on 
questionable varieties. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, SEPT. 6, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
Farming in the Granite State, Part II. 1291 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 1294 
Notes As To Profiteers Figures. 1296 
Human Nature and Beet Pulp. 1296 
Farm Investments. 1296 
Misrepresentation in Sale of Farm. 1296 
Building on Rented Land. 1296 
Benefits of Potato Associations Eradicating 
Thistles . 1296 
Farmers’ Week At Storrs, Part II. 1298 
Unoccupied Farms. 1298 
Destroying Burdocks. 1302 
Hope Farm Notes. 1306 
Soil Analysis; Poultry Ration. 1306 
Controlling Corn Smut. 1307 
Value of Alsike Clover. 1307 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Butter Fat At 40 Cents per Pound. 1306 
Figuring Contents of Silo. 1306 
Statement of a Wool Sale. 1306 
Report of Gov. Smith’s Milk Committee.. 1309 
Comment on the Milk Report. 1309 
The Wool Situation. 1309 
Concrete Manger. 1312 
Garbage Tankage or “Stick”. 1312 
Milking Quality. 1312 
Summer Silage. 1312 
Feeding for Milk. 1312 
Fitting Sow for Exhibition. 1312 
New York Federation of Sheep Growers.... 1314 
Salt Pork for Bloat. 1314 
THE HENYARD 
Ailing Chicks. 1321 
Forcing Water to Henhouse. 1321 
That Wonderful Wisconsin Hen. 1322 
Henhouse Construction. 1322 
White Wyandottes and Black Feathers.... 1322 
Controlling Red Mites. 1322 
Egg-laying Contest. 1324 
Ailing Chicks. 1324 
Leg Weakness in Turkeys. 1324 
Balancing a Chick Ration. 1324 
Intestinal Worms in Turkeys. 1324 
HORTICULTURE 
How Fruit Growers Are Becoming Dairy¬ 
men . 1289, 1290 
Commercial Fruits for Western N. Y . 1292 
Paper-Blanched Celery. 1298 
Layer and Potted Strawberry Plants. 1307 
Old Plaster Around Trees. 1307 
Notes from a Maryland Garden. 1301 
Stock for Grafting Cherries. 1301 
Hogs Gnaw Orchard Trees. 1302 
The Father David’s Peach. 1302 
Propagating Boxwood. 1302 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Housekeeping on the Pacific Coast. 1300 
More About Cooking Fish. 1304 
From Day to Day. 1310 
Embroidery Designs. 1310 
Crocheting a Sweater. 1310 
Sweet Cucumber Pickles. 1310 
Controlling Moths . 1310 
Lemon Syrup for Lemonade. 1310 
A Help in Canning. 1310 
Preserving Elderberries, Rhubarb and Plum 
Tomatoes . 1311 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Those Dirt Roads Once More. 1291 
The Story of the Vitamines—Part III.... 1294 
Sure Cure for Woodchucks. 1293 
Raising Pheasants . 1293 
Lightning Rod Agents. *296 
Keeping Out Trespassers. 1296 
Dog-training Book Wanted... 1296 
Countrywide Produce Situation. 1298 
The Truth About the Robin. 1300 
Can Angleworms Rain Down?. 1304 
A Queer Water Creature. 1304 
Expansion and Contraction of Belt. 1320 
Power Applied to Trailer..... 1320 
Door for Round Barn... 1320 
Electric Power for Hand Grinder.. 1320 
Trouble with Piston Rings. 1320 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Apples Replacing Peaches. —The 
freeze during the Winter of 1917 and 
1918 killed about two-thirds of our ma¬ 
ture Elberta trees, and the same num¬ 
ber of young Elberta trees which were 
used in replacing all of the above varieties 
of peaches ; so that now we have rather 
lost faith in the peach business and are 
planning to extend the apple planting. 
Of the 34 varieties of apples which are 
on this farm, there are but four which 
I would care to use in starting a new 
orchard; namely Rhode Island Greening, 
McIntosh. Wealthy and Duchess of Olden¬ 
burg. If the apple harvesting period 
could be extended by ‘having earlier va¬ 
rieties and later maturing varieties to 
use the time profitably around the above- 
named four varieties I should be pleased 
to learn about them. 
Cherries and Tears. —We have quite 
a planting of Montmorency cherries, 
which is undoubtedly the best and only 
commercial variety to use. Blight has 
raised so much havoc with our pear and 
quince trees, that I could not plant those 
and feel any assurance that I would be 
repaid for labor and money expended in 
growing trees. We have also had un¬ 
fortunate results with a 12-year-old Bur¬ 
bank plum orchard. These trees have 
been a losing proposition for the past five 
years, in spite of everything we could do 
in the way of pruning, cultivating, spray¬ 
ing and fertilizing. We are now about 
to remove this orchard and replace it 
in the Spring with something that prom¬ 
ises better returns. 
Recording Failures. —In conclusion 
it would seem to me that if some record 
could be kept at the State College or 
experiment station of those orchards that 
have failed, because of not being suitable 
varieties for the particular localities in 
which they are growing, it would con¬ 
stitute valuable information for prospec¬ 
tive orchardists. The experience we have 
had with them has been very costly in 
time and money, and we certainly intend 
to plant only tried varieties of kno'wn 
value for this particular locality in the 
future. ( iias. wm. wilbor. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. _ 
Dried Grasshoppers as Feed 
Every year a story goes the round of 
the papers about the Western business in 
selling dried grasshoppers. It is usually 
the story of some woman who lost her 
crops to grasshoppers and then proceeded 
to make these insects pay for what they 
stole. She caught and dried the hoppers, 
pressed them into cakes and sold them as 
chicken feed. The story m repeated year 
after year, and we have wondered how 
much there is in it. Has the selling of 
dried hoppers ever been commercialized? 
The following notes tell the story as we 
get it: 
It is true that grasshoppers, caught 
by the grasshopper catching machine, 
are dried and, used as poultry food. 
This is done locally, and to my knowledge 
no attempt has been made to commercial¬ 
ize this project. When grasshoppers are 
abundant they are caught at the rate of 
two bushels every 15 or 20 minutes, left 
in sacks to die and then spread out in the 
sun to dry. I do not know of any market 
for these hoppers, but the farmers are 
using the dried hoppers for their own 
poultry. GEO. GILBERTSON, 
Ass’t State Entomologist. 
South Dakota. 
In Western and Central Nebraska 
grasshoppers have been very abundant for 
several seasons past', and of course a 
vigorous campaign has been waged against 
them. The principal method of fighting 
them has been by the us£ of poisoned 
baits, and of course hoppers killed in that 
way are not used for chicken feed. Nor 
are the hoppers caught in the ordinary 
kerosene pan or hopperdozer useful as 
chicken feed, because of the kerosene odor 
and taste. But quite a number of farmers 
use a grasshopper-catching machine in 
which the insects are caught alive and 
killed by some method which will not 
render them distasteful to poultry, and 
usually these are used as chicken feed. 
I have no accurate data as to what pro¬ 
portion of the grasshoppers killed are 
utilized in this way, but it must be small. 
So far as I am aware no one has at¬ 
tempted to commercialize the drying and 
shipping of grasshoppers in Nebraska, or 
has sold them as chicken feed on any 
large scale, though I am not sure but 
that, this would be a feasible thing to do. 
Nebraska. myron h. swenk. 
State Entomologist. 
In some localities in the northwest part 
of this State grasshoppers are caught in 
hopperdozers and sacked, being allowed to 
dry in the sacks. This is feasible only in 
extremely dry sections or in unusually 
dry seasons. Farther west, in Oregon, 
Utah and Wyoming the practice is more 
general. I am not aware that the drying 
of grasshoppers is carried on commercial¬ 
ly in this State, hut am informed it is 
in the dry regions further West. 
WILLIAM A. I.IPPINCOTT, 
Kansas Agricultural College. 
SCOTT’S ROSEN RYE 
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