Wie RURAL NEW-YORKER 
GREGORYS 
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E VERY valuable new variety of 
potato originates from a par¬ 
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produce many new kinds, colors, 
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Hybridized potato seeds offer a garden 
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Gregory 1921 Catalog Free 
Write today for free 80-page 
Gregory 1921 catalog. It de- 
scribes and illustrates our ffl- 
vegetable and flower seeds 
and gives valuable cultural 
details. 
J. J. H. Gregory & S 
Established in 1856 
60 Elm St., Marblehead 
Mass. 
apple barrel is the package most generally 
used in Ohio. 
Personally I should prefer to handle 
dry fruit in the operations of sorting, 
sizing and packing. This can readily be 
done by small glowers .>{ apples, even if 
the fruit be picked while wet with dew, 
by use of crates if the pples are placed 
therein by the pickers, and the crates 
allowed to stand a few hours where there 
is free circulation of air. before grading 
and packing the fruit. Indeed, a gener¬ 
ous supply of one-bushel crates in which 
to handle the apples from the trees to the 
packing-house, is one of the greatest con¬ 
veniences of which I know, in connection 
with the apple harvest. If possible, the 
crates should be of such dimensions that 
they will permit the picking baskets to 
be lowered within them when emptying 
the apples therein, thus preventing bruis¬ 
ing of the fruit, which would occur if it 
should be poured into the crates from 
the top of same. The filled cretes may 
then be gathered and taken to the packing¬ 
house or tent and temporarily stored 
while others are being filled. Apples 
standing thus in crates for a few hours, 
even though wet with dew when picked, 
will be found in good condition for grading 
and packing even where wrapping and 
boxing is practiced. f. ii. raltott. 
Ohio Experiment Station. 
Brushing 
am interested 
Peas 
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Big Catalogue illustrated with 
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R. H. SHUMWAY, Rockford, III. 
I am interested in your two articles on 
growing peas, Gradus and Telephone, both 
of which are my standby. I am a small 
trucker, hut find brushing the peas very 
costly, even though they pay. I sell all 
I can raise at 50 cents per one-half peck. 
Of course, I give full measure. Does If. 
IV. DeBaun brush or stake his peas? If 
1 could raise Telephone peas without 
brush I would put in all of five acres. I 
take a wagonload three times a week of 
all kinds of truck. Bo do others, but. I 
know for a fact families would not buy 
from me. only on account of Gradus peas. 
T have known lots of people say “You 
know she has the best peas.” and in that 
way I sell other vegetables to them. An¬ 
other thing I do to attract customers is 
•o have thyme, sweet basil and mint hid¬ 
den down in my parsley. “What for?” 
von will say. The smell gets them ; they 
go sniffing around, and first thing yoii 
know they see something else they want. 
Taking the season through. I run about 
$45 a day, with a boy to help me; could 
do better if I could run a truck. I am 
(12 years of age. so you see my time is 
nearly run. mrs. a. v. g. 
Manahawkin, N. J. 
We grow several acres of peas, but 
never think of brushing them or furnish¬ 
ing any kind of a support. The rows for 
small-vined varieties are spaced 8 ft. 
apart, while large-vined varieties are 
given more room. That is a very fine 
idea you advance about the value of 
thyme, sweet basil, mint, parsley, etc., as 
“trade getters.” Other readers of our 
paper would do well to adopt that method. 
R. W. DE BAUN. 
Drop of Cherries and Peaches 
I have a large ox-heart cherry tree 
whu-h blossoms profusely every year. No 
matter what the weather, the fruit forms 
'lid develops to the size of peas and 
larger; then most of it drops, so that 
the most I have ever picked in one sea¬ 
son for seven years is six quarts. The 
soil here is a light sand. My sour cher¬ 
ries do well. Can you give me any in¬ 
formation. or is there any treatment I can 
give to make that tree do its duty? Last 
vear nearly all my peaches dropped at 
different stages, all sizes, so that I had 
only half a basket from eight nice trees. 
I sprayed early in the Spring for scale, 
which is under control. g. p. a. 
Tottenville, N. Y. 
The dropping of the fruit of both cherrv 
and peach is probably duo to the pest 
known as plum eureulio. This little pest 
is the greatest enemy the plum grower 
has to contend with, for when allowed to 
pursue its course unchecked it often de¬ 
stroys the entire crop. The insect is a 
beetle resembling a weevil, and the eggs 
arc laid in the young green fruit. The 
skin of the fruit is punctured by the snout, 
and an egg is laid in the puncture. A 
crescent-shaped gash is cut in front of the 
puncture, and these may readily be found 
on the affected fruit. Fruits attacked by 
the eureulio usually drop before matur¬ 
ing. This occurs with cherries when they 
are about the size of a pea or larger. 
II ith plums the drop occurs when about 
half grown, and the larva or worm which 
hatches from the egg can be found at this 
time. Peaches are affected also, and the 
brown rot disease goes hand in hand with 
eureulio injury, as the disease enters the 
punctures made by the insect. Thus 
brown rot of peaches as well as the char¬ 
acteristic crescent mark and premature 
''••upping are symptoms with the peach. 
The poison spray during the Summer—- 
that is. arsenical spray applied after the 
petals fall—will help keep the pest in 
check. Jarring the trees and catching 
the mature beetles in a canvas is also 
practiced. Allowing chickens- to run un¬ 
der trees and cleaning up the injured 
fruit containing larvae is also of value. 
Old stone fences, where the beetles live 
over Winter, should bb removed from the 
vicinity of the trees; also clean up the 
weeds along the fences and roads. 
t. ii. r. 
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