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Tfc RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Notes from the Ox-team Travelers 
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Thanksgiving Day, 1923, we were at 
Boise, Idaho. We camped at the ball 
park and watched the football game, and 
of all the craziest games invented, that 
is the limit; I presume 'because we don’t 
understand it, and that must be the rea¬ 
son the French do not take kindly to our 
great American game, baseball. Novem- 
24, 1923, we camped in a small town, 
Mountain Home, Idaho. The population 
is mostly French and Basque. There 
they have several ball courts. They use 
a vacant lot beside the tallest buildings, 
with a wire netting 20 or more feet above 
the roof of the building. The wall of the 
building is plastered smooth with cement. 
There the French amuse themselves, usu¬ 
ally Sundays and holidays, with a soft 
ball and a paddle the shape of an oar, ex¬ 
cept in length ; it is about two feet long. 
I have forgotten what they call the game, 
but a native American told me it was 
nothing unusual on a Sunday afternoon 
to see thousands of dollars change hands; 
they even get so excited about the game 
that they pummel each other. 
This is the season of thankfulness; we 
are thankful we don’t have to hitch up 
and travel the highway at this time; if 
so, we would not do it. The nights are 
damp and frosty, and those “tar-baby” 
highways are too slick for our three- 
cylinder ’mobile. We would not go a mile 
per day, if at all. If the gravel space on 
either side were both together on one 
side animal teams could travel as well as 
four and five bushels of fruit, and hand¬ 
some fruit, too ; in fact, those I shipped 
to the cannery brought me a “bouquet.” 
They did not reject a single box ; all first 
class. The manager took home for his 
own use my stock; he stated I sent in the 
finest tomatoes they received this season. 
Compliments are fine; they rather smooth 
the rough edges in life, but $15 per ton 
does not make wages for the picking 
alone, say nothing for planting, sorting, 
transportation, so I’m through growing 
tomatoes for canneries. IIow anyone 
can expect to get by on high-priced land, 
as here prevails, is beyond my compre¬ 
hension. J. C. BERRANG. 
Protecting: Roses in Winter 
The following advice about protecting 
roses is given by Chas. G. Adams, secre¬ 
tary of the Auburn (N. Y.) Bose So¬ 
ciety : 
“The object of this communication is 
to warn new beginners that while they 
have probably made their selections from 
the most gorgeous blooms the Teas and 
Hybrid Teas can produce, we fear they 
will be greatly disappointed next Spring 
to find their efforts all in vain in this 
climate, unless they use great care in 
protecting their bushes from the effects 
of our severe Winters and the freezing 
and thawing of the Spring time. If 
properly protected, most all of the 
This is the cast at one of the potato trials recently held in New Jersey. In the 
front row are: Clerk, defense counsel, defendant, judge and prosecutor. Standing 
are the witnesses—growers, local banker, dealer and County Agent. The co-opera¬ 
tion of the local forces has been an outstanding feature in these trials. 
cars. Perhaps the main highways will be 
built so some day. 
Come have a slice of Winter water¬ 
melon ; we have plenty. The barn floor 
is full, a room in the house is full, and 
the cellar is full. We scarcely can tread 
without stepping on a melon. They do 
taste good, even if out of season. My 
landlord is so optimistic; last Summer, 
when I was sweating and scolding him 
for not providing me water for irriga¬ 
tion, I made the remark : “We’ll get our 
melons when out of season and no one 
will want to buy them.” “Oh, don’t wor¬ 
ry ; they will sell.” So here they are, 
plenty of them ; help yourself. 
Well, now I have tried farming in Ore* 
gon. True it is, the stuff does grow with 
irrigation; it, is really wonderful what 
crops one, can grow, but it requires more 
labor, considerably more than in the 
East, and if one has water enough, and 
gets it when needed, the results are bet¬ 
ter, but what’s the use? It is the same 
old story; big crops, big expense to har¬ 
vest, small price for product. When the 
season is over one finds he has just been 
running around a ring, getting nowhere; 
the man who handles your product and 
the money-lenders ride around in limous¬ 
ines, while you walk. I sent 53 bushel 
boxes of pears to the packing-house Au¬ 
gust 19. I sorted and graded them before 
shipping. IWhen the returns came back 
one-third, or 15 boxes, were rejected; no 
pay. The head man of the packing-house 
looked over our orchard before the pick¬ 
ing started ; he pointed out several trees 
and said : “Don’t pick those for 10 days 
or two weeks. They are Aujous; not 
ripe yet; we pay $80 per ton for those.” 
September 1 I sent them 17 boxes. When 
they reached the packing-house they de¬ 
cided they were not Anjou, but a better 
pear, and shipped them back to Ashland 
Fruit Association to handle. When the 
returns came 'back to us we received 
$1.70. Nominally these pears weighed 
800 lbs. I’m sure if I had kept the pears 
here and fed them to the hog I could have 
made 50 lbs. of pork, at 12 cents the 
pound. If I dhop that in half, I still 
would have a margin, so I would not feel 
like kicking myself and being angry at 
the other fellow. 
Next came the tomatoes; many times I 
heard people remark as they drove by on 
the highway: “Look, that fellow has a 
fine patch of tomatoes.” Sure I had; 
there were many plants that delivered 
choices roses are hardy in this climate. 
Unprotected, they will not survive. Dif¬ 
ferent rosarians have different methods 
of protection. 
“It is only my purpose here to state 
the simplest and most universally used 
one to protect tender roses; namely, to 
heel them up 8 to 10 in. with soil, just 
after the first light freeze in November, 
filling up the intervening space with light 
straw, leaves, manure, or evergreen 
boughs. This method protects them main¬ 
ly from the alternate freezing and thaw¬ 
ing, from bitter Winter winds and from 
hot Winter suns. Other methods involve 
spiking them down, covering with bur¬ 
lap; some burying them in soil; but for 
all ordinary purposes, heeling up 8 to 10 
in. will do the trick. This soil should 
not be removed until April, after frosts 
are over. Excellent and satisfactory re¬ 
sults are thus obtained. Don’t fail to pro¬ 
tect your roses or you will have to buy all 
new plants next Spring. Bear in mind 
that they must be protected in this cli¬ 
mate.” 
Pruning Everbearing 
Raspberries 
Will you give me advice in regard to 
the care of everbearing red raspberry 
bushes? I am always at sea as to what 
canes to cut out, as they bear all the 
time. I never have good results in re¬ 
gard to yield, which is small in propor¬ 
tion to the patch. f. f. 
White Plains, N. Y. 
It is a general rule to cut out the 
canes that have fruited. They can be 
told by the fact that they become hard 
and brittle, and drop their leaves fairly 
early. So long as they are bearing fruit 
they should be permitted to remain, but 
when they have boi-ne a crop they are of 
no further value, and should be removed. 
The main difference between the true 
everbearing raspberry and the common 
kind is that the former frequently bear 
fruit on the current season’s shoots late 
in the season. In California a regular 
system of pinching canes so as to have 
successive fruiting from different canes 
is pi-acticed with success, but it is doubt¬ 
ful if it could be used to advantage in 
this section of America. h. b. t. 
“Tell me the worst, doctor; I can 
bear it.” “My bill will be $250.”—Louis¬ 
ville Courier-Journal. 
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