The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Farm and Fruit Notes 
Late Harvest. — Hay - making and 
wheat harvest are later this year than 
lias occurred for a long time. Jrne 21 is 
the date when the mowers are usually 
started in Pennsylvania, if season is 
normal, but this year most of the hay is 
being made in July. Wheat harvest often 
begins—and sometimes ends—about July 
4, but as I write (July 7) wheat is not 
yet ready to cut. though it is now color¬ 
ing fast. A fairly good yield of wheat 
is in prospect unless hail or wind lodges 
the grain before it can be cut. The hay 
crop is probably below the average yield, 
but heavier than early estimates. Corn 
and oats are working double time to make 
up for lateness in seeding. Oats look es¬ 
pecially promising, while the corn crop 
is largely dependent on Summer showers 
and a late Fall. 
Harvest Hands. —These are not plen¬ 
tiful. but most of the farmers have secured 
enough of them to harvest the crop with 
a little extra effort. Many laboring men 
employed away from the farm will ar¬ 
range to help out in harvest, if possible. 
An old rule in vogue here for years still 
works out to the advantage of both farmer 
and laborer. According to this rule, the 
harvest hand works six days during hay¬ 
making and wheat harvest for a four- 
horse load of hay. Rainy days are not 
included. Of course, the hand is expected 
to complete the harvest, and the time over 
six days is paid for at the current rate. 
This enables a laboring man to keep a 
cow or horse, if he desires. Hay is priced 
at $30 the ton, with very little for sale, 
except in exchange for work in the har¬ 
vest field. Corn fodder and corn are also 
frequently given in exchange for help in 
corn harvest. 
Cherries. —Notwithstanding consider¬ 
able frost just at blooming time, the 
cherry crop has been fine here this season, 
and the housewife has been doing her best 
to can a plentiful supply in case of a crop 
failure next season. There are few cherry 
orchards worthy the name, just trees 
standing here and there along feuces or 
secluded corners, which bear great crops 
of fruit. Most of the trees are seedlings, 
with fruit ranging in size from medium 
to small, but here and there a farmer 
has succeeded in growing a nursery tree 
of some standard sort, like Black Tar¬ 
tarian. Gov. Wood. Schmidt. Windsor or 
Yellow Spanish. In fact. I wonder that 
more effort is not made to produce the 
better sort, when one considers the ad¬ 
vantage of having the larger fruit. Pick¬ 
ing and seeding small cherries is a la¬ 
borious task, and the larger fruit is also 
generally of bettor quality. Grafting 
cherries is difficult, and starting uursery- 
grown trees is quite as much so. but 
when a person is successful in starting 
such a tree there is something to look 
forward to in the way of luscious fruit 
for years to come. The price for cherries 
here this season varied from 20c the 
quart for the larger kinds to about half 
that price for the seedlings. Those who 
had trees shared with those who had 
none, and those who could pick did so 
“on shares,” while others bought them 
ready picked at the prices stated. 
Apple Borers. —I cannot caution the 
farmer too much with reference to watch¬ 
ing for borers in the young apple trees. 
In our soils these insects seldom attack 
trees planted in the heavier limestone 
soils, but in slate or shale soil they are 
almost sure to become troublesome. There 
are preventive measures, but the trees 
should be looked after just the same, 
and if any appear, cut them out with a 
sharp knife, taking care not to injure the 
tree more than necessary. The secret of 
success lies in getting after the worms 
while they are small, and that means 
frequent and careful examination of the 
base of the tree trunk. Look for traces 
of sawdust; the pests are very minute 
at first, but it is then that they can be 
destroyed without injury to the tree. It 
may be classed as an all Summer’s job. 
Huntingdon Co., Pa. david plank. 
Leading Fruit Varieties in Pennsylvania 
The Pennsylvania State Board of Ag¬ 
riculture gives the following information 
about varieties: 
Five hundred and twenty-one commer¬ 
cial apple growers in Pennsylvania re¬ 
port to the Pennsylvania Department of 
Agriculture their leading varieties, as fol¬ 
lows : 
Stayman’s Winesap. 155 
fork Imperial. 132 
Baldwin . 122 
Northern Spy. ..i.... 34 
Ben Davis. 15 
Jonathan. 11 
Rome Beauty. 9 
Smoke House. 9 
§. in s. 7 
Greening . !..!..!!!!!!! 7 
Grimes Golden. 7 
Delicious. 0 
Total .521 
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three hundred and thirty-seven eom- 
niercial peach growers in Pennsylvania 
report their leading variety as follows: 
Elberta . 
Belle of Georgia 
barman. 
Champion .. * *) 
Hale. 
Crawford !!!' * 
270 
30 
1G 
11 
6 
4 
Total 
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. 337 
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