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Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 15, 1924 
The Eastern Meeting of the New York 
State Horticultural Society 
Naturally enough, since in the Hudson 
Valley a greater percentage of the fruit 
is packed in fancy packages for dessert 
and special markets than in any other 
part of the State, methods of packing, 
shipping, and marketing should have been 
considered more in detail at the Eastern 
meeting of the N. Y. State Horticultural 
Society held at Poughkeepsie, February 
27. 2S and 29, than at its Western meet¬ 
ing at Rochester. That there is no cause 
for complaint on this score is evidenced 
by not only the program but also by the 
resolution offered by a member requesting 
a law that nothing smaller or poorer than 
2 1 4 in. “A” grade apples be marketed. 
The resolution was modified in committee 
and laid on the table by the society, but 
the trend of thought in the Hudson Val¬ 
ley is thereby indicated, that none but 
first-class, properly packed fruit should 
be offered to the consumer. 
Several times the question was raised 
as to what was the best thing that the 
society could recommend and foster that 
would put apple marketing on a surer 
profit basis and each time by almost com¬ 
mon consent the answers were something 
like this: "Find out what the consumer 
wants and give it to him.” It was pointed 
out that manufacturing concerns do not 
first manufacture their products and then 
offer them for sale, but rather either 
recognize or create the demand for them 
and then manufacture them in sufficient 
quantities to meet the demand. In the 
orchard game the process is more often 
reversed. 
It was felt that the consumer desired 
an honest pack of good quality fruit, 
the face of the package being representa¬ 
tive of the pack. The sale of the lower 
grades of fruit at a loss, it was pointed 
out, not only resulted in a loss to the 
grower through the poor prices received 
but also through a tendency to lower the 
market for the better grades. Cull piles 
should be larger, and more facilities 
should be offered for turning inferior stock 
into apple juice and other by-products. 
Advertising came in for its share of 
attention, of course, but the main effort 
was expended upon getting something 
worth advertising. The importance and 
widespread following of apple week was 
brought to the .society in a graphic and 
clever way by a representative of the 
International Apple Shippers’ Association, 
who remarked that the advertising done 
for apple week went so far as to try to 
convince young ladies that one apple a 
day would give them pearly teeth, pink 
cheeks, and curly hair, and that two 
apples a day would guarantee a per¬ 
manent wave! The Eastern States Apple 
Exposition, held last November in New 
York, was shown to have been of first 
importance in an advertising way but 
that much of the effort and good will 
would be lost if the activity was not 
continued again another year. One of 
the lessons from the show was the inad¬ 
visability of the use of the barrel for ten¬ 
der varieties of apples. McIntosh and 
Northern Spy were especially mentioned 
in this reaard. Moreover, it was said, 
the exposition was worth all that it had 
cost in that it showed how different the 
apples looked coming out of a barrel 
than when going in. Too much pressure 
was one of the more common faults 
though lack of uniformity in grading and 
poor run of fruit were others. Yet the 
honesty and standardization of packs 
must have increased greatly, since one 
speaker said 15 years ago only 10 to 15 
per cent of fruit sales were on an I. O. E. 
basis while today 85 to 90 per cent are 
made on those terms. 
The more technical part of the program 
was interesting and full of discussion. 
It was recommended that dusting be 
done "against the drift” and when condi¬ 
tions were dry. Dusting should be done 
before rains, especially when an effort 
is being made to control scab. Dil sprats 
were again recommended on old trees in 
cases where scale could not be controlled 
by lime-sulphur, but warning was given 
against continued use. The co-opera¬ 
tion-of the growers was solicited in an 
effort to erect a barrier against the Gypsy 
moth, which has already made its appear¬ 
ance in New York, by getting rid of ne¬ 
glected orchards and other harboring 
places and traveling points for the prog¬ 
ress of the insect so that it would not 
become established in the fastnesses ot 
the Adirondack or Catskill Mountains. 
Pear thrips and pear psylla received 
considerable attention, a suggested sched¬ 
ule for pear spraying being outlined 
which runs something as follows: (I) 
Miscible oil 5 gallons, nicotine sulphate 
1 pint, water to make 100 gallons, ap¬ 
plied early in the Spring when the adult 
thrips first appear on the buds; (-) lime- 
sulphur 11 gallons, water to make 100 
gallons, applied when the blossom buds 
separate in the cluster; (3) arsenate of 
lead 2V-> lbs., nicotine sulphate 1 pint, 
either in Bordeaux 2-40-100 or in the 
recent "Dry Mix,” just after the petals 
fall; (4) two weeks after the petals tall 
or in the Summer when psylla become 
abundant the preceding spray applied as 
an emergency measure. Nicotine dust 
was decllred to be effective in killing 
ad The P5 mosaic situation in red rasp¬ 
berries appeared to be clearing up rap¬ 
idly, for it was announced that by 
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Celery in Level Ground 
Wm. Perkins recently gave u.s his meth¬ 
od for planting celery. Do we understand 
him to say he makes no furrow or de¬ 
pression or trench in the soil when he 
sets the plants? W. A. B. 
Interlaken, N. Y. 
That’s just what I said, and for the fol¬ 
lowing reasons: If the celery is set ou 
level ground it is much easier to work it 
immediately after setting without cover¬ 
ing up the hearts. If it is set in a trench 
or furrow the roots are too near the sub¬ 
soil; if a hard rain comes before the 
plants get started, the soil is washed 
over the hearts, which will kill it, and it 
is much more trouble to cultivate in a 
trench, as the cultivator teeth will occa¬ 
sionally knock the soil down over the 
plants, and one will have to stop con¬ 
tinually to uncover, or have someone to 
follow on behind and do it. w. P. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MARCH 15. 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
They Must Do It Themselves . 457 
An Experience With Sweet Clover . 457 
Onions from Sets . 461 
Raising Pickles . Jbi 
Vitality of Clover Seed .- • • • 465 
Hope Farm Notes .472, 473 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Wants Co-operation of Dairy Leaders . 475 
Various Feeding Questions . 480 
Corn Flakes for Cows . -••• 480 
Grinding Roughage . *82 
Ration With Buckwheat . 482 
Feeding Milk Goat ...482 
Warts on Teats . 484 
Diseased Ferrets . 484 
Scours; Cornmeal for Sows .485 
THE HENYARD 
New York Egg Contest . 486 
Destroying Body Lice .486 
Connecticut Egg Contest . 488 
Canker . 488 
Roup . 489 
Paralyzed Pullet . 489 
Hen With Tumor .489 
Damp Henhouse .. 490 
Questions About Feeding . 490 
Poultry Management .. 490 
Production in Molting Period . 492 
Buttermilk and Growing Mash . 492 
Paralyzed Pullets . 492 
HORTICULTURE 
The Promise of Better Fruits ... 455, 456 
Nut Culture in the North . 456 
Why We Plow the Orchard . 457 
Some Northern Vermont Questions -457, 463 
Central Packing House for Grapes, Part 
XXI .458, 459 
Vines Fail to Hold Fruit . 459 
Lime With Green Manure in Vineyard. 461 
Poor Eastern Apples ... .. 461 
Apple Shoots Dying in Midsummer . 463 
Calla Fails to Do Well . 465 
How to Raise Celeriac . 465 
More About the Concord Grape . 467 
This Man Sold Pusley . 470 
Celery Again ... 471 
Controlling Black Spot on Roses . 473 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day . 
Bitter Orange Marmalade . 
The Rural Patterns ... 
Eggless Recipes .476, 
A Rural Teacher on Hot School Lunches., 
My Favorite Recipe for Sauerkraut . 
The History of an Apron .477, 
Blessings ... 
Phonetic Reading .... 
Embrooidery Designs . 
Canning Meat in Pressure Canner . 
Advice to the Beginning Housekeeper . 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Honey Vinegar . 
Closing of Local Schools . 
Pupil’s Right to Tuition . 
Incomplete Deed to Property .. 
Painting a Galvanized Tank .. 
Increasing Power from Storage Batteries. 
Hot Bottles Without Hot Water . 
Removing Soot from Copper Heaters . 
A Damp Storehouse . 
Thawing Frozen Pipe . 
Curing Turkey Wings .. 
The School Situation . 
Publisher’s Desk . 
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