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1  resistant  than  other  varieties  and  produced 
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112.  U.  S.  Bulletin  No.  1015-1922). 
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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
Fruit  Notes  from  Missouri 
I  have  arrived  at  that  state  of  mind 
where  I  refuse  to  trap  or  kill  wild  game 
for  pleasure,  or  even  for  food,  but  I  have 
come  to  it  slowly,  starting  from  a  mur¬ 
derous  boyhood  that  thought  it  sport  to 
shoot  birds  indiscriminately.  Now  I  keep 
my  fruit  farm  as  a  safe  preserve  for  rab¬ 
bits  and  quail  against  all  marauding 
hunters,  but  they  still  have  enough  ene¬ 
mies  of  the  animal  and  bird  kingdom  to 
keep  them  shy  and  afraid  of  all  men. 
Favorable  seasons  in  l!)22  brought  about 
a  noticeable  increase  in  the  number  of 
quail.  The  rabbits  are  with  us  always — 
in  good  seasons  or  bad— and  would  he 
legion  if  it  were  not  for  their  many  ene¬ 
mies,  among  which — on  our  home  domain 
• — the  cat  easily  ranks  first. 
Without  respect  to  the  number  of  rab¬ 
bits.  young  trees  must  always  be  pro¬ 
tected.  A  famous  old  brand  of  axle  grease 
used  to  be  employed  by  some  as  a  repel¬ 
lent  and  found  good,  but  a  friend  who 
tried  a  modern  make  killed  his  trees.  I 
have  used  paper  a  great,  deal,  but  much 
of  the  quickest  form  of  application  and 
quite  reliable  I  find  to  be  rancid  butter, 
melted.  One  can  swab  this  on  a  tree  in 
one-tenth  of  the  time  it  takes  to  wrap  it, 
and  no  rabbit  will  more  than  take  a 
smell. 
.So  fiir  our  coldest  weather  has  been 
around  15  above.  Some  cabbage  shel¬ 
tered  from  the  north  wind  was  uninjured. 
Cauliflower,  so  far,  has  been  a  failure  in 
this  latitude  ;  it  does  not  head  till  after 
frost,  and  has  not  time  to  make  large 
heads.  I  shall  try  some  planted  early. 
Nobody  raises  celery  for  market  in  this 
region,  but  I  find  it  grows  splendidly 
under  ordinary  culture  and  without  irri¬ 
gation  ;  it  should  be  profitable.  We 
banked  a  small  lot,  then  later  threw  over 
it  dead  tomato  tops  and  on  this  piled 
strawy  manure.  Now  (in  January)  it 
comes  out  in  perfect  condition,  and  far 
more  tender  than  the  commercial  kind 
we  buy  at  the  grocer’s.  I  shall  see  how 
long  it  will  keep  in  this  way.  Irish 
potatoes  are  pitted  here  without  ventila¬ 
tion,  and  never  rot.  Turnips  without  a 
chimney  will  rot  rarely,  but  carrots 
always.  Cabbage  will  keep  well  quite  a 
while.  Celery  packed  away  in  a  box  in 
a  dark  cellar  shows  no  sign  of  decay. 
What  a  boon  a  convenient  cold  storage 
plant  is !  'We  filled  a  number  of  orange 
boxes  with  apples,  and  now  bring  home 
a  box  at  a  time,  just  as  we  need  them. 
The  charges  on  these  boxes  are  10  cents 
a  month.  After  the  Summer  apples  the 
Jonathan  was  the  next  candidate  for 
favors,  as  attractive  in  quality  as  it  was 
in  color,  but  its  early  season  was  en¬ 
croached  upon  by  the  Delicious,  which  by 
reason  of  its  sweet  flavor  is  edible  almost 
from  picking  time.  It  is  this  flavor  that 
makes  if  the  universal  favorite.  The  lit¬ 
tle  child  here  among  his  first  utterances 
learned  to  distinguish  (he  “Lishy”  apple 
from  all  others  and  to  call  for  it.  Were 
it  not  that  it  is  surpassed  by  certain 
kinds  as  a  late  keeper  I  should  feel  justi¬ 
fied  in  discarding  from  the  family  or¬ 
chard  all  other  Winter  varieties.  If  is 
unexcelled  in  productiveness,  while  still 
maintaining  a  vitality  that  insures  un¬ 
usual  size  for  its  fruit.  Its  shape,  too, 
is  so  distinctive  that  there  is  little  chance 
of  mistaking  it  among  others. 
Last  September  I  had  the  pleasure  of 
meeting  a  distinguished  company  of  hor¬ 
ticultural  professors  at  Louisiana.  Mo., 
whither,  they  had  assembled  to  investigate 
the  merits  of  the  new  apple,  Golden  De¬ 
licious.  The  principal  claim  for  this  ap¬ 
ple,  whose,  parent  tree  was  found  in  a 
West  Virginia  orchard,  is  that  it  is  equal 
U\  the  Grimes  in  quality  and  to  the 
Winesap  in  long-keeping  endurance.  It 
has  an  aristocratic  shape,  somewhat  after 
the  form  of  the  red  Delicious.  A  large 
number  of  young  trees  have  been  dissem¬ 
inated  over  the  country  for  the  purpose 
of  giving  it  a  thorough  trial  and  discov¬ 
ering  its  strong  and  weak  points.  One 
of  the  novel  sights  that,  we  saw  in  being 
conducted  through  the  extensive  orchards 
of  Stark  Brothers  was  a  lofty  hill  of 
even  conical  proportions  which  had  been 
terraced  from  base  to  summit  and  planted 
throughout  to  the  new  apple,  Golden  De¬ 
licious.  These  terraces  are  in  the  form 
of  a  winding  road,  up  which  we  were 
carried  in  automobiles.  In  examining  a 
large  commercial,  orchard  of  young  two- 
year-old  frees  I  discovered  that  there  was 
far  from  uniformity  in  the  views  of  hor¬ 
ticultural  professors  as  regards  systems 
of  pruning.  It  is  fortunate  for  us  that 
flie  apple  tree  is  willing  to  produce  gen¬ 
erously  under  any  system. 
T,.  R.  JOHNSON. 
Cape  Girardeau  Co.,  Mo. 
Burpee's  Annual 
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Burpee's  Annual  is  a  complete  guide  to 
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illustrated  in  the  colors  of  nature. 
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----------------------  TEAR  HERE  Rmmmmmmmmmmmwmmmmmmmmmm 
We  are  now  having  a  good  run  of 
sleighing.  No  ice  has  been  secured  yet. 
Farmers  are  busy  in  doing  chores  and 
trying  to  get  coal  enough  to  keep  warm. 
I  think  it  a  great  piece  of  profiteering  on 
coal  that  the  people  are  called  thus  to 
suffer  that  some  may  become  rich.  Is  it 
not. the  duty  of  the  President  or  Congress 
to  inquire  into  this  matter  and  remedy 
it?  What  would  happen  if  the  farmers 
put  a  corner  on  wheat  or  potatoes,  etc.? 
Would  there  not  be  something  doing?  A 
few  steers  are  being  fattened  in  this  sec¬ 
tion.  Stock  of  all  kinds  doing  well. 
Light  pork  in  good  demand  at  13c  per 
lb. :  wheat,  $1.40  per  bushel ;  barley,  65c  ; 
corn.  95c.  Contract  beans  were  a  failure 
with  many  :  red  kidneys  did  better. 
Ontario  Co.,  N.  Y.  e.  t.  b. 
W.  ATLEE  BURPEE  CO. 
Seed  Growers,  Philadelphia. 
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