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given to the packer and crated accord¬ 
ing to size, care being taken to avoid 
mixing sizes in the same package. The 
containers .should be lined with heavy 
paper. 
Small investments in tape, ribbon, 
. wrapping paper and stencils return large 
rates of interest, and more important than 
this, develop a substantial and dependable 
trade. Fig. 517 shows celery well packed 
for retail trade. M. I). butler. 
The Eclipse of the Apple 
Give a thought to the apple. It needs it. 
That noblest of all fruits has entered an 
eclipse. Through no fault of its own, it 
has lost caste in the markets and on the 
tables of the nation. Where once it. was 
the favorite of all fruits, it is now rejected 
with scorn. Where once it was plentifully 
produced, it is now all but unknown. 
The reason is not difficult to discern. 
The choice varieties of apples have been 
largely abandoned in favor of others of 
inferior quality but of showy appear¬ 
ance and of prolific yield; and apple cul¬ 
ture lias declined in those regions where 
the fruit is produced in perfection of 
flavor; and has increased in regions where 
flavor is lacking. 
That is taken from the Boston Trtins- 
vript. It may lx< true of New England, 
but with us, this year, there is no indica¬ 
tion of a decline in any demand for good 
apples. The crop is light as a result of 
natural causes, but prices are good and 
local demand excellent. We find our cus¬ 
tomers calling for the standard old vari¬ 
eties like Spy, Greening and Baldwin. 
Those who have come to know McIntosh 
rail for that variety, and openly prefer 
it to any Western fruit. For many years 
Baldwin was the standard apple for New 
England. The frightful Winter of two 
years ago did great damage to Baldwin 
orchards, and many growers will sub¬ 
stitute McIntosh in future plantings. This 
variety grows well nigh to perfection in 
certain New England soils, and will be, 
we think, the future apple for that sec¬ 
tion. It is a storage apple, and when 
handled properly will bring new fame to 
the Eastern States. We cannot, see any 
“eclipse” for the apple. It looks more 
like a new sunrise. For many years to 
come Europe will be forced to buy our 
fruit, and the domestic demand will he 
greatly increased. When the Eastern 
growers are organized as Western grow¬ 
ers are. and are prepared to make a stand¬ 
ard pack and co-operate in advertising, 
they w ill be able to control the market, 
for their fruit is evidently superior. We 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, NOV. 1, 1919 
FARM TOPICS 
Selling Direct to the Consumer.1601, 1602 
A Booster for Farming. 1602 
Building a Manure Pit. 1603 
An Inspiring New York Family. 1606 
Your Squash and Pumpkins. 1610 
If the Farmers Strike . 1610 
Farm Help Problems . 1610 
Americanization on the Farm . 1610 
What Science Has Done for the Peat Bogs 
of Sweden. Part II. 1611 
Gov. Smith and New York Agricultural 
Dept . 1617 
Agriculture in the League of Nations .... 1617 
Northern Ohio Notes . 1626 
A New Silo from an Old One . 1626 
Farm and Garden News . 1629 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Pasture and Barn Notes . 1602 
Trouble from Impure Milk . 1617 
Freemartins . 1622 
Winter Ration for Guernsey . 1622 
Feeding Value of Sugar Beets . 1622 
The Cow and the Woman . 1622 
Weaving and Tongue Lolling. 1622 
Milk and Livestock . 1624 
THE HENYARD 
Eight-hour Day for Hens ..'... 1617 
HORTICULTURE 
A Big Baldwin Apple . 1603 
Preparing Celery for the Retail Trade ... 1603 
Types of Baldwin Apple . 1604 
Eclipse of the Apple . 1604 
Treatment of Box Hedge . 1604 
Garden Notes from New England. 
Part n. 1605, 1606 
New England Fruit Exhibit . 1629 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Woman’s Land Army . 1612 
Aunt Jane Wins . 1618, 1626 
The Woman and the Agent . 1619 
vtie Problem of Paying Children . 1619 
The Home Dressmaker. 1620 
P'v’s and Girls . 1621 
The. Pastoral Parson . 1608, 1609 
“A Successful Farmer's Wife” . 1615 
The Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman . .. 1630 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Packers’ Advertising . 1610 
“Service Demands Pay” . 16in 
A Wavne Co., N, Y., Woman Talks . 1610 
Loss Due to Strikes . 1617 
Shall We Pay the Debt Twice . 1617 
Corncob Syrup; Water-proofing Cardboard; 
Cider from Drops .. 1628 
Rat Poison and Hogs . 1628 
Ink from Poke Berries . 1628 
Making Tar Soap and Milk Chocolate ... 1628 
Cider Questions . 1628 
Publisher’s Desk . 1634 
‘Pie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
think there is sure to bo :i revival, and re¬ 
organization of the apple: growing indus¬ 
try iu the Eastern States. Many of the 
old orchards and old-time methods will 
disappear, and younger men and newer 
trees will make over the business. No 
danger of any “eclipse.’ 
Different Types of Baldwin Apple 
Without wishing to detract from the 
editorial on page 1548, regarding different 
types of Baldwin apples, I would suggest 
that continued observation is necessary to 
separate chance variations, due to tem¬ 
porary conditions, from fixed variations 
of type. In this connection T may call 
attention to the difference in shape of 
apples, depending upon which blossom of 
a cluster is fertilized, as discussed by 
Prof. Whipple in the proceedings of the 
American Society of Horticultural Sci¬ 
ence for 1917. In this article he divides 
the blossoms in a cluster into three 
groups according to their location, aud 
from the measurement of a large number 
of apples shows that the center blossom 
produces a long, short-stemmed apple, 
while those blossoms farthest from the 
center produce longer-stemmed, more ob¬ 
late fruit. “One must see the fruit to ap¬ 
preciate the marked range of variation.” 
As the time of opening of a blossom de¬ 
pends upon its position iu the cluster, and 
as weather conditions may determine 
which blossom of the cluster produces the 
apple, these weather conditions may de¬ 
termine whether the fruit for any given 
year shall be of the oblong or of the oblate 
type. l’AUL THAYER. 
Ohio Experiment Station. 
Treatment of Box Hedge; Lawn Fertilizer 
A part of my box hedge is very nice 
and thrifty and is about 12 in. or IS iu. 
high. Most of it is smaller and does not 
look well nor seem to grow. What kind 
of fertilizer should be used on the hedge, 
also on the yard to make the grass grow 
more thrifty? On the south side are sev¬ 
eral large maple trees and under those 
trees the ground is bare except for short 
weeds. When is best time to trim box 
hedge? M. E. 1*. 
South Dennis, N. .T. 
Pure hone meal applied iu liberal quan¬ 
tity on each side of the hedge and worked 
into the soil will give good aud lasting 
results. Do not be afraid to use it. liber¬ 
ally, as it will not injure the hedge, as 
would be the case with some fertilizers if 
applied in too large a quantity. Nor 
will any of it he lost, as bone is not 
readily soluble in water, therefore it will 
not leach out and be lust by evaporation 
or washing deep into the soil; its fertiliz¬ 
ing constituents are made available f>>r 
plant food through decay, and as the 
process of decay is gradual, varying with 
the size of the particles, the plants will 
make use of it all and none will be lost. 
For the same reason I prefer bone meal 
as a lawn dressing. Tt may be applied 
any time of year without loss, but prob¬ 
ably the most suitable time for applying 
is early Spring, as soon as the snow is 
cleared off. As for the bare spots under 
the maple trees, these should be given a 
coat of air-slaked lime this Fall, and in 
the Spring a liberal quantity of bone 
meal stirred into the soil, and sown with 
shady nook mixture of lawn grass seed. 
Trim the box hedge next Spring. K. 
Seeding New Lawn 
Is October a good time to sow a lawn? 
I have two large maple trees, and would 
like to make a lawn under them. What 
kind of grass seed would be best for such 
a lawn? I have dug and raked the soil 
very line, and put on it 80 lbs. of lime 
mixture which is 96 per cent lime and 
4 per cent bone fertilizer. Is this all 
right? j. s. 
Utica, N. Y. 
Tt is rather late to seed lawn to grass 
now; better wait until next Spring and 
seed it down as early as the ground is 
dry enough to work well. 1 would use at 
least 4(1 lbs. more bone just before seed¬ 
ing. For the open ground use any of the 
general-purpose lawn mixtures catalogued 
by the old reliable seed houses, and under 
the trees use a mixture prepared especi¬ 
ally for such situations which can also be 
purchased from the same source. K. 
"I HAVE slavishly followed your seien- 
tiiie course in chicken - culture, hut 1 
<< 
don’t get any eggs.” “That's the only 
flaw in the whole blamed proposition,” 
said the man who wrote the book.— Louis¬ 
ville Courier-Journal. 
The 
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To make it Right, boil 15 minutes 
after boiling begins. Add cream 
and sugar as desired.The flavor 
resembles a high-grade coffee, 
but it contains no caffeine, 
and is "free from coffee harm. 
No Raise In Price 
Made by 
postum Cereal Co. Battle Creek. Mich. 
Sold by grocers. Two sizes, 154 and 25? 
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