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Feeding the June Way 
at Juneway Farms 
They don’t have June all year ’round up 
at White Bear, Minn., where Juneway 
Farms is located. But they do the next best 
thing—they approximate June pastures as 
nearly as" possible by mixing up a ration 
which contains June-pasture nutrients. And 
they feed it all year ’round. This is what 
resulted, last year, among the Juneway 
Holsteins: 
Cascade Pauline Mercedes made herself 
World's Champion senior 4-year-old, 305- 
day class, with 25177 pounds milk, 1024.94 
pounds fat. 
Heilo Oak Komdyke became World’s 
Champion 2 H-year-old butter cow, 305-day 
class, with 719.82 pounds fat. 
Beauty Madrigal Butter Maid produced 
over 20,000 pounds milk in 305 days. 
All three carried calves during their tests. 
BUFFALO CORN GLUTEN FEED 
is a substantial part of the ration fed to 
these cows. BUFFALO furnished most of 
the milk-making protein that helped make 
the above records. 
Mix up your ration with BUFFALO if 
you want consistently high production with¬ 
out sacrifice of good health. 
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A Chat on Apple Varieties 
For the Man Who Hhs an Acre or So, or Less 
M ANY of our fruits, 
and more of our 
vegetables are strictly modern (the to¬ 
mato, for instance which is both, has 
been really commercialized only two gen¬ 
erations). But the apple has been in 
circulation ever since passing one at 
the wrong time broke up the party in 
the Garden of Eden. 
A half-dozen quarters of old Earth 
claim to be the original territory. Sev- 
eral varieties of wild apples are still 
growing on the Tartar Steppes of Cen¬ 
tral Asia, and there are at least two 
distinct botanical types indigenous to 
North America. 
The coming New York Fruit Show is 
bound not only to make a lot of stir, 
but to yield a crop of new enthusiasts 
over apple growing, and this is well. 
There is no safer money crop for the 
cai'eful agriculturist than a “special” 
in fruits, and no fruit more reliable 
than the apple. Finally, the apple is 
not being over-planted despite asser¬ 
tions to the contrary from alarmed or- 
chardists already in the game up to 
their elbows. 
If the people of the United States 
could get good apples the year round 
(as they are entitled to them) at fair 
prices (which they are also entitled to) 
many a one would eat four where now 
•they eat but one—I had almost said 
fourteen. 
Heavy Plantings Looked gor 
It is certain that this fall and next 
spring that there will be more new 
apple plantings than in any twelve 
months since 1913—ten years ago. 
This discussion following is intended 
to help the average farmer, running 
an acre or so, the amateur just start¬ 
ing in, and the subui’banist who more 
than all others is necessarily hungry 
for advice. It is not directly intended 
as information for commercial grow¬ 
ers. Any commercial grower of ap¬ 
ples so headstrong as to accept ad¬ 
vice of one person or one periodical 
as to what varieties to plant, is riding 
' for a hai’d fall, if not for a cropper. 
The commercial grower should visit 
other oi’chards, conversing with their 
managers. He should seek the coun¬ 
sel of his State college authorities, and 
finally take into his full confidence his 
county agent. With these various in¬ 
formations gathered and well digested 
he should then go ahead upon his oivn 
best, judgment, although what follows 
will interest him so far as lie is main¬ 
taining an experimental corner some¬ 
where as every orchardist should. 
North of Latitude 42 .—The territory 
lying above the northern bounds of 
Pennsylvania and Connecticut is ideal 
for most of our winter stand-bys, and 
several fall apples of gi'eat value. On 
the other hand 'some of these, both fall 
• and winter, will not do well even as far 
, south as forty (Central New Jersey, 
Philadelphia, and so forth) while others 
that ai*c almost never successful in the 
colder belt do very well indeed ai’ound 
the fortieth parallel. 
Of course these parallels are irregu¬ 
lar, really extending in a direction 
somewhat paralleling the coast. Apples 
that thrive in New York State should 
also thrive in the mountains of western 
Maryland, while Long Island, New Jer¬ 
sey and Lancaster County fruit does 
equally well in eastern Maryland. The 
State of Pennsylvania, in its various 
counties, will grow both lists. 
With these isothermal parallels in 
mind then, let us venture to actually 
name for each season. 
The Staxxdard Varieties 
North of 42 .—Yellow Transparent, 
Duchess, Wealthy, McIntosh, Wagener, 
R. I. Greening, Baldwin, Spy. 
Supplementing these the following- 
have been very successful in' certain 
localities, especially under the highest 
cultui’e, but they are not as safe to 
plant in commercial quantities as are 
the above: Red Astrachan, Williams, 
Gravenstein, Fall Pippin, Palmer 
Greening, Delicious, Sutton, King, 
Bailey’s Sweet, Hubbardson, Wolf 
River, Stark, Red Canada, Roxbury, 
Russet and Swaar. 
Between 42 and 40 .—As a rule any 
of the above-named do equally well to 
fairly well down to about the fortieth 
parallel with certain 
notable exceptions such 
as the Gravenstein, Red Canada and 
Spy. 
However, even the best of them— 
the McIntosh, Baldwin and Greening- 
become fall apples in the lower lati¬ 
tudes especially when also on low alti¬ 
tudes—as Long Island and New Jersey. 
South of 40. —Here we begin to have 
a permanent change, the Jonathan, 
Grimes, Stayman Winesap, the New¬ 
town Pippin, York and Rome (and for 
summer, Rambo and Smokehouse) be¬ 
ing standard and leading although 
many of the winter varieties indicated 
above, as suitable for the middle belt, 
succeed nearly as well below forty. 
Special Vai’ieties 
For the experimenter and the care¬ 
ful gardener, especially if he be an 
enthusiast, the above lists may be' 
greatly enlarged. In fact, with two 
or thi'ee notable exceptions such as 
the Gravenstein, Baldwin, Swaar and 
Winesap, I have so far named few or 
no apples of highest dessei’t quality, 
leaving it to the reader to pick them 
out for himself, below: 
Yellow Transparent.— Early, tender, 
difficult to ship, seldom a commercial 
success. 
Astrachan. —Tree very tender (cank¬ 
er and collar-rot) does not bear early. 
Brings top price. Best jelly apple. 
Williams. —Poor grower, bears only 
alternate years and not heavily until 
twenty years old. No good for cooking. 
Duchess. —Very, very sturdy, bears 
young, resists insects. An O. K. filler. 
Excellent^ shipper. 
Gravenstein. —Requires high culture, 
best in quality, matures over long- 
period, but gets mealy immediately after 
prime, should be harvested daily by 
jarring off onto deep mulch like Wil¬ 
liams. Tree very tender—should be 
top worked. 
Wealthy. —Bears young and heavily. 
Makes fine filler. 
McIntosh. —Very vigorous grower, 
early persistent beai’er. Only faults, 
too tender, scabs easy and drops. 
Wagener. —High quality, but fruit 
knotty. Bears young. Good filler. 
Swaar. —The very highest grade in 
quality—and the homeliest. 
Stark. —Consistent bearer, fine keep¬ 
er, quality only fair. 
Delicious. —Disappointing, in size and 
color. Susceptible to scab. Requires 
high culture, and warm latitude. 
Baldwin. —There is no (commercial) 
substitute in sight. It is still “the best 
bet” in the middle belt, but freezes out 
at 44 or even 43. 
PROGRAM OF THE AMERICAN 
P0M0L0GICAL SOCIETY’S MEET¬ 
ING AT THE APPLE SHOW 
The annual convention of the Ameri¬ 
can Pomological Society is being held 
in conjunction with the Eastern Applfe 
Exposition and Fruit Show. Members 
on arriving should register at the 47th 
street entrance of Grand Central Palace. 
Tuesday, November 6 
10:30 A. M.—Addi'ess of Welcome— 
Charles S. Wilson, President New York 
State Horticultural Society. 
Addi’ess of Presiding Officer—Dr. L. 
H. Bailey, New York, or Paul C. Stark, 
Missouri. 
Repoi’t of Seci’etary-Treasurer—R. B. 
Cruickshank, Ohio. 
11:00 A. M.—Breeding Fruits—Dr. 
U. P. Hedrick, New York. 
1:00 P. M.—The Wilder Medal After 
Fifty Years—C. P. Close, U. S. D. A. 
2:00 P. M.—The Trend in Fruit 
Growing in the United States—H. P. 
Gould, U. S. D. A. 
3:00 P. M.—Developments in Fruit 
Growing in the Southeast—C. D. Mat¬ 
thews, North Carolina. 
4:00 P. M.—Reports^ of Standing 
Committees. 
Wednesday, November 7 
10:00 A. M.—^-Spraying and Dusting 
—Prof. F. C. Sears, Massachusetts. 
10:30 A. M.—Dry-mix Lime-sulphur 
—A. J. Fai’ley, New Jersey. 
11:15 A. Mi—Lubricating Oil Emul¬ 
sion—E. H. Slegler, U. S. D. A. 
( Continued on page 310) 
By DAVID S. KELSEY 
