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November 13, I 920 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Blue Store, 
Columbia Co., N. Y. 
“The date on our STEWART 
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the property of my' wife’s grand¬ 
mother. She had it from the 
time it was made. 
"I have use 1 it for the past 
34 years. Condition is good; 
lids slightly warped now. There 
have been no repairs required 
with the exception of about 20 
years ago I purchased some coal 
fixings. My wife says it is a 
good baker.’’ 
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(Signed) GEO. W. SMITH.” 
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General Farm Topics 
Storing Apples in Pits 
1 was told by an old friend that if I 
buried apples like potatoes, and cover 
them with a bed of straw 0 in. thick, 
and then sand, they would last in perfect 
condition until June. If this is so why 
are not hundreds of farmers enlightened 
about this fact? Many apples are now 
going to waste that may be stored in 
that fashion. n. a. 
Kiamesha, N. Y. 
When a youngster in school, studying 
certain writings of John Burroughs, I 
can remember distinctly the description 
of a Northern Spy secured from under 
the snow, dirt and straw, on a crisp 
February morning. My mouth waters 
even now as I think of the vivid des¬ 
cription of that crisp cold Spy taken 
from a pit in the ground. The custom of 
storing apples in pits is a very old one, 
and seems to have-gone out of style with 
our modern methods and practices. 
Apples will keep very well underground, 
and many an old farmer would never 
discard liis pit for a whole modern stor¬ 
age plant. 
In making a pit the first requirement 
is a well-drained situation. After select¬ 
ing the site dig the soil out about six 
inches and cover the bottom of the pit 
with straw. Pile the apples in a conical 
pile on the straw after sorting out any 
bruised or diseased specimens. Fruit 
must be clean, so that decay will not 
snread from one apple to another. 
Cover the pile with a. layer of straw about 
six inches deep, and cover the whole 
with about four inches of dirt, packing 
the soil solidly with a shovel. This will 
make the pile waterproof. I have never 
heard of using sand as II. G. suggests, 
and T should think it would be poor 
material, as the rains would go through. 
An opening should be left at the top a 
foot or more square, so that ventilation 
can be secured through the straw. A 
board raised on stones will exclude the 
rains from this opening. When the 
ground freezes about an inch a covering 
of manure can be thrown over the pile, 
and the board can be dropped over the 
opening at the top. Northern Spy apples 
will keep until May in such a pit, and 
I to x bury Russets have been known to 
last until June. One farmer says he had 
sound fruit July first. 
To remove the fruit from the pit an 
opening can be made at the base, and 
this can be filled with a burlap sack and 
leaves when not in use. „ A ditch for a 
drain should be made all the way around 
the pit, as good drainage is an essential. 
The pit described is similar to the dia¬ 
gram given with the article on cabbage 
storage, page 1739. t. h. townsend. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK |! 
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DOMESTIC. — Voldemar T. Kruglak, 
manager of the Rodina Company, a col¬ 
lection agency at 151 Avenue A, was ar¬ 
raigned in New York October 28 before 
United States Commissioner Samuel A. 
Hitchcock, on a complaint charging him 
with overcharging a -sick soldier for the 
collection of an allotment claim from the 
Government under the war risk insurance 
law. Agents are allowed to charge a fee 
of $3. Kruglak is alleged to have charged 
Andrew Towetik, a soldier. $93 for col¬ 
lecting a claim of $193. The complaint 
is made by Esther Kingsley, an investi¬ 
gator for the Bureau of War Risk Insur¬ 
ance. Kruglak waived examination and 
was held in $500 bail to await the action 
of the Federal Grand Jury. Towstik was 
a member of Company B, First Battalion, 
in the chemical warfare service, lie was 
gassed in France and discharged from 
the army January 24. 1919. He con¬ 
tracted tuberculosis while abroad, and is 
now in a Red Cross hospital. 
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, who escaped 
from his guards in Philadelphia last Alay 
after having begun a five-year sentence for 
desertion from the United States Army, 
is now in Germany, but avoids the occu¬ 
pied area, and is able to escape arrest. 
William Waixel and Jacob Fradue, 
wrecking contractors, testified October 28 
before the Lockwood Housing Committee 
in New York City that they paid $3,000 
to Robert I’. Brindell, president of the 
Building Trades Council, for permission 
to take contracts. George II. Clark, civil 
engineer, employed by the Holbrook, Cabot 
and Rollins Corporation, told the inves¬ 
tigators that he went to Brindell on be¬ 
half of Fradus and that the “Labor King” 
demand $7,500 as a “rake off” for him¬ 
self before he would permit the contractor 
to take over a job on which he was bid¬ 
ding. _Arthur Greenfield, member of the 
Metallic, Furring and Lathing Associa¬ 
tion, admitted reluctantly that at a meet¬ 
ing of his organization October 25 the 21 
members, acting under advice of the 
Building Trades Employers’ Association, 
destroyed records, which, he said, were 
of an incriminating nature because of 
their fear the documents might fall into 
1 he hands of the Lockwood committee. 
William Zaranko, president of the parent 
wreckers’ union, substantiated his story 
that 800 members of the union had been 
compelled under duress to join the coun¬ 
cil and to pay $10 from their weekly sal¬ 
aries of $44 to “some one.” 
The concrete steamer Cape Fear, a 
United States Shipping Board vessel, was 
sunk in the deepest part of Narraga’nsett 
Bay October 29 in a collision with the 
Savannah Line steamer City of Atlanta 
Nineteen of the crew and 34 of tv 
sunken vessel were unaccounted for. The 
Cape Fear sank in three ninutes about 
half way between Castle Hill, on the 
Newport shore, and Rose Island, going 
down bow first in 125 fathoms. 
Frank Fleck,’ believed to have been 
America’s last survivor of Custer’s band 
of Indian fighters, was killed by an auto¬ 
mobile on a suburban road near Toledo 
Ohio, October 29. Fleck, a ship carpen¬ 
ter, had made his residence in Toledo 
many years. 
After deliberating one hour and fifty 
minutes, a jury before Justice Bartow S 
Weeks, in the criminal branch of the Su¬ 
preme Court, New York, October 30 re¬ 
turned a verdict of guilty in the case of 
Isaac E. Ferguson, a Chicago lawyer, and 
Charles E. Ruthenberg, one-time Socialist 
candidate for Mayor of Cleveland, who 
were indicted for criminal anarchy. The 
defendants smiled when the verdict was 
read, and asked that sentence be imposed 
immediately. They were sentenced to 
not less than five years nor more than ten 
years at hard labor in State prison 
FARM AND GARDEN.—More than 
1,000 bales of low-grade West Texas cot¬ 
ton have.been turned over by the growers 
for the initial test shipment to Europe, 
the West Texas Chamber of Commerce 
announced at Fort Worth, October 29. 
The.plan is to ship 15,000 bales under a 
pooling plan, each farmer standing his 
share of the profit or loss. European 
markets, where the “holly” cotton is 'mar¬ 
ketable, will be picked for the first con¬ 
signment. 
The American Aberdoen-Augus Breed¬ 
ers’ Association is again importing a for¬ 
eign judge to pass upon the breeding cat¬ 
tle at the coming International Live Stock 
Exposition to be held at Chicago Novem¬ 
ber 2(i to December 4 next. John Philip 
of Dandaleith, Craigellachie, Scotland, 
who last year judged the Aberdeen-Angus 
at Argentina’s great show at Palermo, will 
do the work for the Yankee Doddie men 
at Chicago. This is the third successive 
year that the American Association has 
called in a foreign judge to place the 
breed award, and so successful has the 
plan been that it has been adopted by that 
live association.. One man of the highest 
standing as a judge of Aberdeen-Angus 
from outside the politics and prejudices 
of the American associations is the right 
idea, according to Secretary Charles Gray. 
Mrs. Philip will accompany the Scotch 
judge, visiting her daughter. 
We live about uve miles from Chester, 
1 a., our local market; good road. We 
are receiving retail 85c doz. for eggs; 
butter, Goo per lb.; G5c basket for tur- 
nips • JOc basket for potatoes; tomatoes, 
basket; small pumpkins, 10c; Lima 
beans, 60c per half peck; old hens, 45c* 
Jb.; sugar corn, 40<* doz.; good apples, 
80c basket; pears, 50c basket; milk, 15c 
retail; 10c wholesale. We have had fine 
weather since September 1. No frost tip 
to October 28. Most of the farms in 
Delaware County are small, and main 
crops are gardens and dairy. Bis; crops 
of corn and apples this year. Help is 
very scarce and the farmers are behind 
W1 “* their work^ Everything yielded 
well, but at the wholesale prices farmers 
are mone y* Wholesale prices aver¬ 
age 30 to 40 per cent less than prices I 
have given. Feed is high. Cows are 
high and everything we buy is high and 
everything we sell is coming down. Most 
farmers are planting some wheat; some 
of them have not seeded yet. Wheat is 
$2.20 per bushel here. E. H. B. 
Southeast Delaware Co., Pa. 
Farmers have their crops all secure, 
and are busy plowing and thrashing. 
Corn and potatoes were a fair crop; there 
was a large amount of rot among pota¬ 
toes. Price only $1 a bushel at stations. 
Dairy pr&spects are not encouraging, and 
many are decreasing their herds. Less 
grain is being bought. Butter, 65e lb.; 
eggs, 68c doz; hay, $24 per ton. 
Franklin Co., N. Y. 
Wheat, $2.10 per bu.; rye, $1.90; oats, 
70c; corn, $1.50, old, 1919 crop; buck¬ 
wheat, $2 per .100 lbs.; hay, $30 per ton; 
potatoes, $1 per bu.; cider apples, 40c 
per 100 lbs.; picked, 75c to $1 per bu.; 
cabbage, 2c per head or $5 per ton; milk, 
8c per qt. wholesale, or 12c retail; eggs, 
from GO to 72c per doz.; butter, GO to 65c 
per lb.; dressed pork, 20c per lb. 
Columbia Co., Pa. ir. D. M. 
Butter, 55c per lb.; eggs, 75c; drop ap¬ 
ples, 40c ptr 100 lbs.; buckwheat, $2.25 
per 100 lbs.; lard, 18c per lb.; potatoes, 
60c per bu. Hogs, live weight, 10c; 
dressed, 22c; milk, $3.90 per 100 lbs.; 
rye, $1.50 per bu.; wheat, $1.90 per bu.; 
new corn, 00c per bu., ears; oats, GOe 
per bu. Hay, Timothy, $30 per ton; 
clover hay, $25 per ton ; cottonseed meal, 
$2.75 per 100 lbs.; cows, grade, $60 to 
$125; registered cattle, from $200 to $500. 
Farmers are certainly not getting fair 
prices for their products, counting the 
price of labor. We should have a change 
or farmers will have to give up. 
Columbia Co., Pa. n. F. h. 
