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As Early as Cory and as Large 
as Evergreen! 
T HE ears have 14 to 18 rows of deep kernels like 
Evergreen but they mature as early as the small 
extra early kinds like Cory. These big ears coming 
on the market so early always sell for fancy prices. 
An extensive gardener wrote us August 9, 1820 : 
“Your selection of Crosby’s Beet cannot be praised 
highly enough. Whipple’s Early corn is wonderful and 
is selling in our market now for fifty cents per dozen. 
When some of the small early corn is only bringing thirty 
cents. We started to sell it July 30th and ' he first hundred 
dozen or so brought sixty cents. I planted half a bushel 
of it and should have bought that much more. 
“A patch of 4500 tomatoes of your strains of Bonny Best 
and John Baer are yielding us the biggest crop of fancy 
tomatoes we ha.ve ever gotten from staked plants and are 
selling at fancy prices with tomatoes a glut on the Phila¬ 
delphia market close by.” 
L. W. Humpton. Coatesville, Pa. 
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It will pay every gardener to plant some 
“Whipple’s Early” corn this year. It will make 
more money than any other variety. 
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Tine New Jersey Horticultural Society 
Pressing Topics. —Ever since Father 
Adam yielded to the arguments of his 
spouse and picked one too many apples 
from the first garden, it has been the 
fashion when <( good fellows get together” 
in fruit and vegetable circles to harp on 
age-old strain—production. How to get 
more and better fruit, fatter pumpkins 
and cleaner potatoes have always been 
the problems attacked by the growers as 
they met around the horticultural round 
tables or listened to the college specialist 
or the practical farmer giving advice. 
Quite a new note was struck in the forty- 
sixth meeting of the New T Jersey Horti¬ 
cultural Society held at the Chalfonte 
Hotel, Atlantic City, December 6, 7 and 8. 
Transportation and distribution were the 
two mains subjects which, together with 
problems of insect and plant-disease con¬ 
trol and the more efficient use of tractors 
were the outstanding features of the con¬ 
vention. Summed up in Professor Par¬ 
ley’s words: 
‘‘This year has seen the best and larg¬ 
est crop of apples ever grown in New 
Jersey, but the profit has not been large 
because of the difficulties of transporta¬ 
tion and distribution.” 
A Notable Meeting. —Both in regard 
to members present and number of ex¬ 
hibitors it was the largest meeting of any 
which the society has held. A total of 
500 exhibits of fruit and vegetables were 
arranged in the four large rooms turned 
over for the society’s use, and the whole 
was a creditable display of what New 
Jersey can produce when at her best. 
There were 31 commercial exhibits', 14 
of the 21 counties entered fruit displays, 
projects of the County Agents and Bureau 
of Markets were carried out in a demon- 
strational way, and the State Agricultural 
College took this opportunity to show re¬ 
sults of research investigations. 
Direct Sales. —Roadside markets and 
other distribution experiences empha¬ 
sized the following points : That roadside 
markets are a profitable way of dispos¬ 
ing of at least part of the products, but 
that the fruit and vegetables put on dis¬ 
play must be of good quality, well ar¬ 
ranged and w r ell advertised. Most impor¬ 
tant of all, customers must be able to get 
what they wmnt, whether it be cheap 
bruised fruit or perfect more expensive 
specimens. One farmer sells four grades 
of Elberta peaches, with prices in accord¬ 
ance, but he emphasized the importance 
of “selling Ben Davis as Ben Davis.” 
There are from 150 to 175 of these mar¬ 
kets along the shore, road in Cape May 
County alone, all doing a good business, 
one grower on his best day selling $300 
to $400 worth of produce. One big point 
in favor of this kind of selling is that 
tender, ripe fruit can be the more easily 
disposed of at roadside markets. 
Market Troubles. — In speaking of 
his distribution experiences during the 
past year, Hon. Emmor Roberts of 
Moorestowm laid the blame for the diffi¬ 
culty in marketing on the high, price of 
sugar, the failure of jellymen to buy the 
products, markets glutted with inferior 
fruit from the South, and railroad strikes. 
His suggested remedies were retail stalls, 
production of an extra good quality of 
fruit, more co-operation with the rail¬ 
roads, a better understanding of the coh- 
ditions of supply and demand, and stand¬ 
ardization of products. C. B. Lewis, at¬ 
tacking the problem, computed that of the 
1,600,000 bushels of apples consumed 
yearly in Philadelphia, about one-half are 
from local markets, the rest come from 
aw r ay. There are 4,000.000 bearing trees 
in New Jersey today and 6,000,000 due to 
come into bearing in a short time. If 
we had trouble finding markets for the 
fruit from 4,000,000 trees this year, what 
are we planning to do with that from the 
6.000.000 when it is produced? John F. 
Deegan, sales manager of the North 
American Fruit Exchange, suggested co¬ 
operative marketing as the solution of the 
problem, explaining its efficiency in the 
Far West, which is thus able to market 
boxed apples even with the added expense 
of freighting in sharp competition with 
those of local markets. The reluctance 
with which New r York and New Jersey 
have taken it up is to be attributed to 
the proximity of large marketing centers. 
President M. A. Blake, in his address at 
the evening meeting, emphasized particu¬ 
larly the need for a program of work 
and “organized effoi*t,” which is the slogan 
of the times. One of the most entertain¬ 
ing talks of the meeting was given by 
Horace Roberts of Moorestown at the 
Monday evening meeting, on a trip which 
he took to Europe last Summer. He 
found fruit a high, scarce and poor com¬ 
modity. 
Conserving the Surplus. — In line 
with the question of overproduction and 
what to do with the surplus, Prof. W. W. 
Chenoweth of Massachusetts Agricultural 
College suggested the establishing of can¬ 
ning factories in connection with or¬ 
chards. That such factories can be made 
to use up the culls profitably and at the 
same time net the grower a goodly profit 
has been proved by orchardists in Massa¬ 
chusetts who have made a “go” of it. 
The food value found in an apple was 
particularly stressed by him. 
Various Discussions. —Between 400 
and 500 people attended Tuesday’s ses¬ 
sions on fruit held both morning and 
afternoon. There w*as also a separate 
vegetable session in the afternoon. Peach 
and apple varieties were discussed. Dr. 
M. T. Cook spoke on peach yellows; 
C. IT. Connors on loss of trees in the 
experimental orchard at Vineland. Dr. 
T. J. ITeadlee, in speaking of the gipsy 
moth and Japanese beetle, held out 
hope that both could be exterminated in 
jtime. Nelson R. Peet of Rochester, N. Y., 
had some constructive suggestions for 
Jerseymen in his discussion of central 
fruit packing associations in Western 
New York. Home storage of fruits was 
a topic which attracted considerable in¬ 
terest, and W. W, Oley’s account of his 
experiences in planting 50.000 fruit trees 
in 1920 was a considerable help to his 
hearers. 
Farm Topics. —Dean A. R. Mann of 
the College of Agriculture, Cornell Uni¬ 
versity, was the principal speaker at the 
joint meeting of the society with the State 
Grange on the Steel Pier on Tuesday 
evening. He first reviewed the situation 
which farmers had been forced to face 
and then suggested remedies, which were 
being presented by the Farm Bureau 
Federation at the Indianapolis meeting 
that -week. He, too, stressed the impor¬ 
tance of co-operative associations as a 
“way out.” 
“We have come to the organization 
stage in country life. The food supply 
is and always will be the world’s greatest 
problem, but this problem will never be 
adequately solved until the peopl_e take 
a deliberate attitude of intelligence 
toward agriculture. 
Wednesday’s session had a live inter¬ 
est. Among other attractions Prof. H. 
W. Biley of Cornell University gave an 
instructive and amusing tractor talk. 
Dr. T. J. Headlee speaking on the rela¬ 
tive advantages of dusting and spraying 
for insect control, drew the conclusion 
that in New Jersey “dust does not hold 
up with spray in controlling curculio and 
codling moth, hut is practically as ef¬ 
fective for scab. A detailed account of 
the use of paradichlorobenzine in con¬ 
trolling peach borer, as worked out by 
the entomologists of the State Experiment 
Station, was presented by Dr. Alvah 
Peterson. 
Officers and Awards. —Officers for 
1921 are the same as for 1920, M. A. 
Blake, president; IT. G. Taylor, secretary ; 
IT. E. De Camp, treasurer. Only one 
change was made on the executive com¬ 
mittee and one on the delegates. H. W. 
Leeds of Locust Grove Farms, Westville, 
won the president’s cup with an unusually 
fine dis play of fruit. Lemuel Black, 
whose apples banked the back of the 
room, won second place. Other premiums 
were distributed from one end of the 
State to the other, about 14 counties hav¬ 
ing competed in the 25 apple display con¬ 
tests. A fruit-judging contest between 
students of the New Jersey College of 
Agriculture and a team from the Uni¬ 
versity of Syracuse, held in connection 
with the meeting, resulted in a victory 
for New Jersey. A demonstration of how 
cider can be kept sweet by sterilization, 
given by the Home Economics Depart¬ 
ment of the Extension Division, proved 
an extremely popular feature of the af¬ 
fair. I. N. 
Winter Storage of Tuberose 
Last Spring I bought some tuberose 
bulbs, and had good success with them. 
How should I care for the bulbs this 
Winter? I put them in the pit; will 
they be all right, or should I let them die 
down and store the bulbs in the cellar? 
Joelton, Tenn. Mrs. a. j. g. 
Tuberose roots should be stored over 
Winter in a warm, dry place, where no 
frost will touch them. A temperature 
of about 50 degrees is desirable. If kept 
moist and cool during the Winter the 
bulbs are likely to rot at the center. 
They should be lifted from the garden 
before frost, so that they dry off slowly. 
A pit or root cellar is too cool and damp. 
If the cellar is cool, without a furnace, 
such as is desirable for potatoes, it would 
not he very suitable, and an amateur with 
a few bulbs would find it desirable to put 
them in paper bags, after drying and hang 
in a kitchen closet free from mice. 
Birds and Fruit 
The Kansas Agricultural College says 
that a good crop of birds will go a long 
way towards making a good crop of fruit. 
We will guarantee that the man who 
wrote that never tried to cultivate straw¬ 
berries and cherries and to cultivate the 
robin at the same time. We have found 
songbirds the worst fruit thieves that we 
have even seen, and that is something of 
a statement, since we live in a territory 
constantly overrun by auto-hogs. There 
is very little use trying to keep a flock 
of robins on the place and expect to raise 
a crop of cherries or strawberries. 
