American Agriculturist, January 6, 1923 
Henry 
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All In A Life-Time 
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A Netv York boyhood; at the Fifty-first 
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Feelers in Real Estate; great days in 
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Enance. 
Making Wilson President. 
Ambassadorship to Turkey during the 
war. 
Special Mission to Poland. 
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The Cabbage Market 
Methods Must Change to Stabalize the Supply 
S EVERAL weeks ago the bottom 
dropped right out of the cabbage 
market, both in New York City and at 
loading points. Growers were unable 
to realize more than $2 or $3 per ton. 
Of course, few 
sales were made 
at such figures, 
and dealers 
shipped but little 
when it was ap¬ 
parent that it 
would find a 
market overload¬ 
ed and quoting at 
but $8 or $10 per 
ton, or even less. 
With the supply 
thus cut off, 
prices began to 
pick up, and at 
the time this is 
written q u ot a - 
tions in New 
York lie between $20 and $26. The 
PAUL WORK 
slump came at about the time when 
cabbage had to be taken from the field 
or lost, with the result that a good deal 
was unharvested. Thus was some of 
the 1922 bumper crop disposed of, but 
not moved. The financial condition of 
the farmers encouraged early sales. 
Now it appears that prospects are 
much better for reasonable prices dur¬ 
ing the coming months—now that com¬ 
paratively little remains in the hands 
of producers. 
The Same Old Story 
The same story has been relateo 
many times before, and events will 
doubtless take the same course many 
times in the future. Harvest time sees 
supply at the peak, and any commodity 
that must be held for later sale tends 
to pass from weak hands to strong. 
It is doubtless best for the small pro¬ 
ducer who cannpt or will not thoroughly 
learn the storage game and provide 
himself with favorable storage facili¬ 
ties to sell early. Both of these are 
large undertakings and call for a type 
of skill that is clearly distinct from the 
skill necessary to produce well. 
The average difference between No¬ 
vember and March prices is, to a great 
extent, taken up in shrinkage, interest, 
labor and equipment costs, to say noth¬ 
ing of the risk which is accepted and 
which deserves its reward. Even the 
fall seller has much to gain through 
careful study of markets and the devel¬ 
opment of bargaining ability. Perhaps 
most important of all is the production 
of a quality which tends to make buyers 
come to the seller. 
Reports from cabbage sections indi¬ 
cate an increasing tendency for pro¬ 
ducers, either singly or in groups, to 
provide storage houses and to be ready 
to sell at such times as seem most 
opportune during the winter. 
Canners are Well Organized 
The New York State Canners’ As¬ 
sociation, with some 75 concerns and 
perhaps 125 factories, was able to 
muster as strong an audience for a 
State meeting as the 35,000 commer¬ 
cial vegetable growers of the State. 
At their annual session, recently held 
in Rochester, they took no uncertain 
position with regard to the few re¬ 
maining factories which do not work 
under fair sanitary conditions. They 
are enlisting the help of the two State 
experiment stations in connection with 
raw product and processing problems. 
Secretary J. P. Street feels that there 
is an excellent opportunity for the de¬ 
velopment of an asparagus canning 
industry in the State. Little seems to 
have been said at the meeting about 
the relations between canner and 
grower. 
Advertising Sauerkraut 
It took a good imagination to select 
the “Old Sauerkraut Barrel” as the 
basis for a campaign of national adver¬ 
tising. Yet the Saturday Evening Post 
recently carried a full column layout 
lauding the virtue^ of this homely food. 
It quotes nutrition experts regarding 
the value of the mineral salts, the vita¬ 
mins, and the lactic acid ferments 
which saukerkraut contains. The read¬ 
er is offered a booklet of information 
and recipes. The campaign is backed 
by the National Kraut Packers’ As¬ 
sociation. 
Thus do the middlemen think more 
of our commodities than we. Thus do 
they fight a battle in which we are 
interested, and most of us are content 
to believe that our concern ends when 
we have made delivery at loading sta¬ 
tion or factory. 
Gardeners Hear of Jersey Practices 
Not long ago Cornell students who 
are interested in vegetable production, 
both regular and winter course, gath¬ 
ered to listen to C. H. Nissley, Exten¬ 
sion Specialist for New Jersey. Niss¬ 
ley believes in 5-6-50 home-made Bor¬ 
deaux for potato and celery blight, as 
well as other fungous troubles where 
it fits. High pressure and three nozzles 
to the row insure thorough work. He 
believes Borbeaux dust is still in the 
development stage. 
The speaker told of the open market 
for can-house tomatoes at Swedesboro. 
Contracts are not common in this sec¬ 
tion, and the loads are hauled to town 
to await the pleasure of the buyers. 
In more than one instance the buyers 
have offered exceptionally high prices 
on a morning when the supply was 
light. The result is heavy picking, 
and two mornings later they are able 
to make purchases at their own figure. 
The manipulation has been as wide as 
from 18 to 43 cents. 
New Jersey Vegetable Gardening 
Practices 
Brookdale, N. J., is a center for 
horse-radish production. The sets are 
stored in sand over winter, and are 
planted nearly horizontally in rows in 
beds. After they have made part of 
their growth, the upper part of the 
root is lifted without disturbing the 
bottom. The side roots are then rubbed 
off with a woolen cloth. They are 
again covered, and the process is re¬ 
peated some four weeks later. This 
scheme, of course, greatly increases 
the cost of production, but it results in 
a product of, exceptional quality and 
yields frequently reach five to six tons 
per acre. 
Bergen County sweet corn growers 
have standardized on a few types of 
this crop, and they have built up a fine 
market in New York. Their product 
is distinguished by dark husks and long 
“streamers,” or leaves at the tips of 
the husks. John Handwerg, of this 
county, has made fine progress in seed 
improvement, Atlantic County grow¬ 
ers are beginning to standardize on a 
few types of muskmelons. 
Japanese Onion Resembles Ebenezer 
Japanese onions are being grown in 
South Jersey. This is a slow growing, 
flat onion of remarkable keeping qual¬ 
ity. There is reason to believe that it 
is the same as Ebenezer, which has 
been grown in Western New York for 
many years, and which is also planted 
in certain sections of Iowa. Ordinarily 
sets are grown from seed and the mar¬ 
ket crop is grown from the sets. 
The scarcity of manure and the bet¬ 
ter control of plant bed diseases are 
encouraging the use of flue-heated hot¬ 
beds for sweet potatoes. 
Professor Nissley recently told the 
Boston Market Gardeners’ Association 
how they grow crops in Jersey. Such 
men should be freely exchanged for 
meetings in the different states, for 
they are certainly full of suggestive 
ideas. 
Grape Pruning—Grape pruning is 
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heavily enough. A strong vine should 
be pruned to carry not more than twen¬ 
ty to fifty buds, and weaker vines' will 
do best on even less buds. Too many 
buds will form too much inferior fruit, 
sapping the vitality of the vine. Eight 
canes with about six buds each is a 
good proportion for a strong vine. 
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