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September 20, 1919 
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With Straw Spreading Attachment 
With this spreader you can drive through 
doors and narrow places, as the box is only 
38 inches wide, yet you can spread the 
manure in a wide even sheet. 
It is low down, easy to load, strongly 
constructed, light in draft, and the second 
beater thoroughly pulverizes the man¬ 
ure, spreading it in a wide, even sheet 
beyond the wheel tracks. One lever 
operates the entire spreader. 
This spreader can also be equipped 
with a straw spreading attachment which 
is illustrated here. It is easily attached 
and spreads straw in a wide, even sheet, 
thinly as you desire, even on windy days. 
Straw is worth from $4 to $8 a ton as 
fertilizer and as a top dressing for winter 
wheat. 
You can make more profit from your 
manure and straw 
with this Moline 
spreader. 
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Commercial Fruit Culture 
What Apples to Plant 
If you wore to plant a now applo or¬ 
chard, what varieties would you select, in 
view of your past experience? 
We find Northern Spy the best, variety 
for our location. Rome Beauty, McIn¬ 
tosh, Twenty Ounce, Wealthy and Olden¬ 
burg do well with our method and market. 
What proves valuable in our location 
might prove a failure with others. 
GRANT O. JtXTCITINGS. 
Onondaga Co., N. Y. 
Tompkins County is practically out of 
the apple belt, and for that reason the 
answers I shall give should not he regard¬ 
ed as affecting the general commercial ap¬ 
ple situation. So far as I am concerned 
personally I shall expect to cater to stu¬ 
dent trade, and for that reason I shall 
plant the following varieties and shall 
continue with these varieties: Fameuse, 
McIntosh, Tompkins County King. North¬ 
ern Spy. These varieties do well here 
and make a satisfactory succession for 
local distribution. Tompkins County 
King does as well here as anywhere. I 
am growing it on Spy stock, but in the 
future I think I shall top-worth Tolman 
Sweet. The latter variety makes better 
growth than Spy. King grows more rap¬ 
idly than Spy and makes unsightly trees. 
I am not convinced, however, that any 
damage results. DONALD reppick. 
Tompkins Co.. N. Y. 
We would plant Duchess. Wealthy and 
McIntosh for Fall, and Baldwin. R. I. 
Greening and King for Winter. 
Niagara Co.. N. Y. e. o. denton. 
( I would say of apples that Baldwin and 
Greening are still good varieties; King. 
McIntosh. Wealthy and Duchess. Elherta 
peach is the best, bearer and shipper there 
is. Yellow St. John is a rich peach, hut 
not good for heavy planting. 
Niagara Co.. N. Y. elbert l. baker. 
From our experience here anyone plant¬ 
ing an orchard should stay by the old 
well-known kinds. Baldwin, Greening. 
Spy, King. Wealthy. From what I have 
seen the McIntosh has proved itself com¬ 
mercially as a boxed apple, frank stone. 
Oswego Co., N. Y. 
R. I. Greening. Baldwin. Maiden Blush. 
Hubbardston. King, Wolf River. R. I. 
Greening has been my greatest money¬ 
maker. but I think probably my land is 
especially adapted to this variety. I have 
a. neighbor throe miles distant who is get¬ 
ting more from Baldwins than from 
Greenings. Here lies the secret, of the 
I whole thing; choose a variety adapted to 
| your soil. A soil survey man visited my 
orchards a few years ago and took bor¬ 
ings. When lie tested the soil in my Sut¬ 
ton and Hubbardston orchard he said. 
“You have made a mistake; you should 
have kept on planting Greenings.” I be¬ 
lieve lie was right. It would pay any man 
to have his soil tested by an expert before 
setting an orchard. Another thing, don’t 
choose a variety because it promises well 
on young trees. All young trees have nice 
fruit. When they get older it may not 
he so nice. Choose those that have been 
proven by the test of time. I wish to call 
attention to Bulletin 70. entitled “The 
Fruit Industry of New York State.” pub¬ 
lished in 1916. Albany. N. Y. On page 
760 is an article h.v II. .T. Wilder, soil ex¬ 
pert. entitled. “Soil Types for Varieties of 
Apples.” This ought to help anyone who 
is thinking of planting an orchard. The 
bulletin may now be out of print, but 
should he in the hands of every fruit 
grower if possible. w. A. BASSET. 
Seneca Co., N. Y. 
I set out a young orchard four years 
ago. These are the varieties: Duchess, 
Wolf River. Opalescent, McIntosh. Bald¬ 
win. King. T have two large hearing or¬ 
chards and they have some of each of the 
varieties named and T like them. 
Monroe Co.. N. Y. c. o. BARCLAY. 
Baldwins and R. T. Greenings have 
proved to be h.v far the best two varieties 
for commercial purposes in this locality. 
If planting a good-sized orchard I would 
nlant some Northern Spy and Roxbury 
Russet sparingly. For earlier use, Duch¬ 
ess, Wealthy and McIntosh. A few of 
several other varieties might he selected 
for home market. As for peaches, I do 
not find any varieties that pav very well 
except the Elherta. The J. II. Hale has 
not fruited long enough to arrive at def¬ 
inite conclusions, hut so far they are not 
satisfactory in this locality. Chair 
Choice on good loamy soil seems to do 
pretty well, coming just after Elherta. 
Niagara Co., N. Y. f. s. hall. 
Personally, I Nvould only recommend 
four varieties: Baldwin, Rhode Island 
Greening. Wealthy and McIntosh. Weal¬ 
thy is paying me better than any other va¬ 
riety. C. n. MILLS. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
I am of the opinion that there will be 
heavy plantings of apple and peach by the 
commercial orchardists within the next 
few years, although they will be tempted 
to defer planting in anticipation of lower 
prices later on. However, it will be many 
years before trees take a material drop, 
<lue to the shortage of foreign seedlings. 
In the past the planter wasted a lot of 
time and effort exploiting new varieties 
with no reasonable success. For the past 
two years the old standard varieties of 
apple, such as Baldwin, Northern Spy, 
Jonathan, McIntosh and Wealthy, also 
the Elherta and Crawford varieties of 
peach, seem to be the leading varieties, 
and they are the varieties [ would plant 
for a commercial orchard. 
Livingston Co., N. Y. f. m. HARTMAN. 
I am not familiar enough with peaches 
to give you any advice, but on apples, 
from my own experience and observation, 
I agree with you that we do not want 
too many different, varieties. There is 
one thing that apple growers are begin¬ 
ning to look into, and that is they want 
apples that will come in rotation after 
they begin to harvest, so that they may 
keep their help employed more evenly. 
Of all the varieties they have tried to im¬ 
prove on, I do not think they have suc¬ 
ceeded for Western New York and found 
anything better than the Baldwin and 
Rhode Island Greening. The Northern 
Spy is a good apple and a good seller, hut 
only does well in a few favored places, 
and the same is true of the King. McIn¬ 
tosh is coming into favor as a commer¬ 
cial apple along the lake, where it gets 
good color and sells for a good big price, 
for it is an all-around-year good eating 
apple, stands up well in’cold storage, and 
I have taken it out in April and find it 
was fine_ flavor at that time of year. 
Duchess is a good early apple, to be fol¬ 
lowed with Wealthy, which is coming into 
good favor among consumers, followed by 
McIntosh, Rhode Tsland Greening and 
Baldwin. w. p. Rogers. 
Wayne Co., N. Y. 
Defective Cider 
We bought last year a small hand cider 
press and grinder, but the cider made with 
it is thick, brown looking and does not 
have a pleasant taste. Will you let me 
know the cause and remedy, as we have 
thoroughly scoured arid scraped it several 
times? E R iS 
West Cornwall, Conn. 
Of course it would he impossible to state 
exactly the trouble with the small cider 
press and grinder without an examination. 
In buying a press the old truth still holds 
that it pays to give enough to get a re¬ 
liable article. An ideal mill would have 
no metal in contact with cider or pomace 
except aluminum, which is perfect in its 
resistance to fruit acids. However, it. is 
an easy matter to contaminate cider after 
its manufacture by placing in foul con¬ 
tainers, as musty barrels. The cellar 
where stored also has a bearing on the 
matter. I once knew of a cellar in two 
parts, one part fully excavated and fin¬ 
ished and the other left shallow, in which 
cider would only age properly into good 
vinegar in the finished part. Repeated 
attempts to carry on the process in the 
shallow part resulted in failure. Probab¬ 
ly more trouble comes about through foul 
containers than through direct faults of 
the press and grinder. The most effective 
way to clean barrels is by the use of live 
steam. Tf a good head of steam can he 
turned, into a barrel with its bung-hole 
down it will loosen any impurities, and 
the water from the condensed steam will 
carry them out. at. the bung-hole. Barrels 
or casks which have been sulphured should 
he given the same treatment. This will 
remove all traces of sulphur compounds. 
a. n. p. 
Canned Strawberries; Old Paint 
I just noticed some one asked how to 
keep strawberries under the liquid when 
canned. An expert told us, at one of 
our demonstrations, that placing the can 
in the sun would, after two or three hours, 
cause the berries to absorb the syrup and 
retreat to their proper place at the bottom 
of the can. She said that this treatment 
would also restore the color when the 
berries looked faded, as they sometimes 
do. I have not tried it, because we have 
had none to can fur several years. 
By accident we discovered something 
that may he of use to the inquirer who 
wished to know what to do with dry paint. 
We had a can of outside white that was 
given up as spoiled, it was so hard, and 
left out-of-doors uncovered all Winter. 
This Spring to our amazement we found 
the paint had softened, and after scraping 
the top off carefully, was thinned with 
turpentine and used to paint beehives. 
This paint is perhaps not as good as it 
once was, hut in these days of high prices 
we were glad to have it. 
One must he very careful not to leave 
any paint where chickens or cows will 
get at it. Some valuable cattle were 
killed in this vicinity not long ago by 
eating some white lead which a painter 
had thrown away. They ate it all. and 
the only reason the whole herd was not 
poisoned was that there was not enough 
lead to go around. Can someone tell us 
a safe way of disposing of dry paint? 
We were told that burning was not satis- 
factorv, as the ashes would he poisonous. 
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