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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 31, 1924 
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Leading varieties Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry’ 
Gooseberry, Currant, Grape plants ; Asparagus, Rhubarb’ 
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10 MILLION FOR SALE 
Fine Field grown stock. 12 leading varieties. Cab¬ 
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GLADIOLI 
Beautiful u n n a m c d varieties. $1.75 
per 100, prepaid, all blooming size. 
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SZ per 100. Howard No. 1 7 Strawberry Plants, S 1 2 per 
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STANDARDIZED PLANT NAMES 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
333 West 30th St. New York City 
Garden and Farm Notes 
The Future of Eastern Apples 
I was very much interested in the 
opinions of three apple growers on page 
791 of The R. N.-Y. as to whether we 
should let up on apple planting. I say 
yee, by all means, and take care of what 
we already have planted ; 85 per cent of 
the growers, producing 5,000 or more 
bushels of apples, are doing so at a loss, 
and there is not a grower in the East 
who is producing A1 fruit in the above 
quantity. Quality is the only thing that 
will ever get a man anywhere worth get¬ 
ting to in the fruit game. 
We have at the present time a lot or 
“millionaire orchardists” who count their 
trees by the 10,000, and more starting in 
this Spring in this section. They will 
fill the markets with more trash, and that 
will help the Western grower and the or¬ 
ange producers. We hear a lot about 
storage from experts at the present time. 
In 1922 I put in 550 bushels of apples— 
Wagener, McIntosh, It. I. Greening, 
Baldwin, Spy, Stayman, etc.; also in 
3923 the same amount and varieties. I 
finished taking them ou.t the first week 
in May. Each year I had less than one 
bushel of unsalable apples to take out 
of the above, and they were stored in a 
common house cellar. Last Winter I was 
asked to make some exhibits at the fourth 
annual fruit show held at the University 
of California, in which 22 States compet¬ 
ed. Massachusetts made a big showing 
of her beautiful McIntosh. Cornell Uni¬ 
versity made the exhibits for New York 
State, showing many Ii. I. Greening and 
McIntosh. Michigan also was there with 
her many kinds, as well as Idaho, Ore¬ 
gon, Washington and California. Al¬ 
though shipped more than 3,000 miles, 
the first prize on McIntosh, Spy and Gil- 
liflower was awarded to our exhibits; 
also the sweepstake prize for the most 
uniform exhibit as to shape, size and 
color, regardless of variety, was awarded 
to my Northern Spy. I won second on R. 
I. Greening, first going to a California 
grower. All other Greenings from the 
East were thrown out on account of 
color. GEO. H. LINCOLN. 
Lackawanna Co., Pa. 
New York Apple Receipts Heavy 
More apples were received in New 
York City to April 30 this season than 
were received during the total 1922-23 
shipping season according to a review of 
the New York City apple market on the 
main crop just issued by the U. S. Bu¬ 
reau of Agricultural Economics. Total 
receipts for the 1922-23 season were 14,- 
635 carloads compared with 15,522 car¬ 
loads this season and about 11.350 car¬ 
loads for the 1921-22 season. The re¬ 
view shows that 60 per cent of the ap¬ 
ples received were from the barreled ap¬ 
ple area and 40 per cent from the boxed 
apple territory. Of the barreled apples 
75 per cent were New York State grown 
and 10 per cent were from Virginia, 
while 65 per cent of the boxed apples 
were a product of the State of 
Washington and 15 per cent more 
were from other Pacific Coast States. 
Many of the barreled apples received in 
New York are sold on the Barclay 
Street Pier, but seldom was it cleared of 
current receipts. Supplies were steady 
and liberal and the almost unvariable 
slow demand for ordinary stock, which 
classification much of the New York 
State apple came under, caused a carry¬ 
over from day to day. The large amount 
of this ordinary stock undoubtedly had a 
depressing effect on the market. First 
class stock sold well. Prices were 
slightly higher than last season during 
September, but for October, November 
and December they were about the same 
as in 1922, and after the first of the 
year prices continued low. A year ago 
there was an improvement of 25 to 50c 
per barrel each month. Pennsylvania and 
Maryland receipts, which were sold at 
pier 25, were not heavy at any time and 
were usually cleaned up daily, selling at 
prices comparative with those in other 
sections of the city. By the middle of 
December cold storage apples (barreled 
stock) were being used quite freely. 
About the first of October New York 
Greenings, A2 y 2 , ranged $4 to $5 a bar¬ 
rel, which was maintained until the last 
week in the month when a range of $5.50 
to $6 a barrel was reported. The high 
point of $6.50 a barrel on best stock was 
generally held from early November un¬ 
til the middle of December. To the mid¬ 
dle of January $6 was about top price 
and for the rest of the season price 
ranges widened due largely to more or 
less scald. After the first of March, 
sales on Greenings were reported all the 
way from $2.25 to $5.50 a barrel, sales 
on good stock seldom exceeding the $5 
marl. B. W. S. 
Grafting the Sweet and Sour Apple 
On page 621 was an article entitled 
“The Curious Sweet and Sour Apple,” 
with explanation of how it came to be 
that way. In this section there are sev¬ 
eral trees that bear apples sweet on one 
side and sour on the other, the sweet side 
much lighter in color than the sour. This 
combination was procured by taxing a 
graft from a sour apple tree and one 
from a sweet, splitting the grafts through 
the center the whole length, then taking 
one of the sweet, also one of the sour 
halves and putting them together with a 
little wax below the bud. Then graft as 
usual. In a few years a graft from this 
tree will bear the same kind of apple. 
Ohio. E. L. BANSOM. 
Countrywide Produce Situation 
PRICES BATHER WEAK; THREE MARKET 
MYSTERIES ; SOME EARLY LINES HIGH ; 
BUSINESS STILL SLOWING DOWN ; 
WHEN TO MAKE FARM IMPROVEMENTS. 
The features of the first half of May 
were the slump and recovery in onions 
and the declines in southern strawberries. 
There was something like mystery in the 
low prices for southern onions. The 
crop was not very large and the quality 
was good, yet prices were far below last 
season and are still 50c or more below 
those of a year ago, although there was 
a good recovery around the middle of 
the month. Old onions ended poor and 
cheap, which perhaps accounts for the 
harsh market treatment of the early new 
crop. 
WHY PRICES DECLINE 
The decline in strawberries is the re¬ 
sult of increasing supplies but these sup¬ 
plies are not large enough to explain 
why prices are somewhat lower than last 
year. There were not so many berries 
because the season is later and the crop 
no larger. This is mystery No. 2. Onions 
were No. 1. Number 3 is the price of 
old potatoes. Why are they no higher 
than a year ago although the supply 
available is lighter and quality is good 
for the time of year, while new potatoes 
are not in heavy supply? Apples are 
low, too, but here the answer is plain in 
the unusual size of the stock in cold 
storage. 
Perhaps the foundation reason why 
many farm products seem too low is that 
they are sharing a general price setback 
which shows itself in iron, steel, cloth, 
automobiles, lumber, and a whole list of 
goods. Farm products being low in the 
first place ought not to have joined the 
list but possibly they have to some ex¬ 
tent. 
A few things are high. Florida toma¬ 
toes touched $10 for a 24-quart crate in 
Chicago. Southern cabbage reached as 
high as $100 per ton at one time. 
SLOWING DOWN 
Business is still slowing down. The 
let-up shows most in factories turning 
out cloth, railroad equipment, building 
material, and in coal mining. The usual 
explanation is that we have caught up 
with war-time shortage and cannot use 
such large supplies of manufactures now. 
Some say there is too much politics, a 
light demand for export, high cost of pro¬ 
duction and high taxes. These, of course, 
are part of the trouble. In some sec¬ 
tions workmen have less money to spend 
on farm produce. On the other hand, the 
closing or part-time schedule in factories 
has turned loose a few good men just 
when the farmers need more help. 
It is not a bad plan for the farmer to 
set aside a few dollars for a hard-times 
fund and to use it when there is plenty 
of cheap labor and material for such 
jobs as drainage, fencing, new building 
and repair work. Many farmers missed 
a good opportunity in 1921 for lack of 
such a fund or the nerve to use it and 
have been discouraged from such im¬ 
provements by the high cost ever since. 
Traveling through the country, one notes 
a lack of paint, shingles, fencing wire, 
good machinery, and drain tile. The 
time to buy and use them is when every¬ 
body complains of hard times, men are 
looking for work, and prices have come 
down. G. B. F. 
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CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, MAY 31. 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Thirteen Years on the Farm .. 829, 830 
Use of Seaweed as Manure . 830 
One Man’s Power to Produce Food .. 831 
A Farmer and a Garden . 831 
Hope Farm Notes ...836, 837 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
The Milk Problem . 839 
THE HENYARD 
Feeding Young Chicks . 846 
Is This the Record? .... 846 
Cod-liver Oil for Chicks . 846 
Cause of Leg Weakness in Chicks . 846 
Egg-laying Contest . 848 
Permanganate of Potash as a Disease Pre¬ 
ventive . 848 
HORTICULTURE 
Mr. Mole Is At It Again . 831 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Talks With a Trained Nurse .. 833 
Boys and Girls .840, 841, 844 
The Pastoral Parson . 842 
The Home Dressmaker . 843 
A Farm Woman’s Notes . 844 
Attention to the Aged and Deaf . 844 
Balanced Ration for Humans . 844 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Ownership of a Line Tree ..«. 830 
Long Distance Truck Runs . 831 
Ivy Poisoning and Chapped Skin . 833 
Control of Bright’s Disease . 833 
A Product of the Great City . 837 
Editorials . 838 
The Rural School Meetings . 839 
The New Co-operative Law . 839 
Electrocuting Rats . 844 
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Orjrk Strawberry Plants — New ground 
OvJVf Senator Dunlap—$2.00, postpaid. 
Season is late. Plants still in fine shape. 
The long, strong, clean, heavily rooted kind, 
that produce the big berries. Trimmed 
ready for setting. 17th year. Send now. 
J. E. HAMPTON & SON, Bangor, Mich. 
Millions of Cabbagec J ELEitYpia B nu 
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$2.50 per M ; $1.75 per 500. Special prices on large 
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H. F. HUBBS - Kirkville, N. Y. 
LORSALE—’•WILSON’S" Soy Beans... $3.85 Bush. 
Cow Peas. 3.75 
Mixed Peas and Beans. 3.50 “ 
Joseph E. Holland Milford, Delaware 
our low price. Farmer 
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& SONS Melrose, Ohio 
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