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FIVE CENTS AN EASTERN GARDEN SPOT Farming Possibilities of the Dela- ware — Maryland — Virginia Peninsula. im* In a publication recently issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company regarding the "Farming Possibilities of the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia Peninsula,' it says: "There is no more ideal section for agriculture on the North Ameri- can continent than the Delaware- Maryland Virginia Peninsula. "This conclusion has been reached not because the most luxuriant crops are always produced there, but be- cause at the present time the Penin sula offers the best all-around ad- vaiitages for farming. By 'the best all-around advantages for farming' is meant, not only fertility of soil and convenience to markets, but also the price of land together with those ele- ments which make life agreeable — delightful climate, hospitable neigh- • bors, modern improvements, schools and churches. Nowhere are all these things more happily combined with moderate prices. "The fertility of the soil is unsur- passed; the Peninsula is dotted with , orchards and farms from which the yearly product amply sustains this statement: farms which in many cases are not for sale or whlcb briag the highest prices. | "This region always has been and always will be primarily agricultural. Other industries are there, and very rich ones too, but the country was so evidently laid out for tillers of the soil that it would be unnatural '^ to struggle for supremacy in lines of endeavor where others have an equal ohance. when nature has given the I eninsula such a handicap in the field of agriculture. "That land of such great value should be lying idle and that the Peninsula should at present offer such unusual opportunities for home- F seekers is due to natural causes. When the cry. 'Go West!' was raised. Peninsula farmers, like those ; from all the Eastern States, left their fertile fields which had been depleted by misuse, and went in search of virgin soil. Soon they found what every one now knows. '. that there is no land which will con tinue to yield good crops under usage which takes everything out of the soil without putting anything back. Once settled In the West, how ever, they stayed there and began the use of fertilizers and methods of f rop rotation which could have been more profitably employed on the ground they had deserted. "The stream of population con tinned to flow out toward the Mif sissippi until the most available lan'l was occupied and prices were very high. The New England States soon became devoted to manufacturing al most exclusively. Much of the land vacated there and In other parts of the East has been taken up by im migrants coming from old countries where intensive farming has long been necessary on account of the density of the population and the great value of the land. Many oi them have become rich from the profits of truck raising on these Eit stern acres. "Tlie flood of immigration has nev- er been directed toward the Penin- sula, however, as it is situated out of the natural route of persons en- tering the country, and it has not been exploited by immigration agents. This is why we find on the Penin- sula a population as strictly Ameri can as any in the United States: a population untroubled by the fac tions and class prejudices which in- evitably arise where different races bodies of water tempers the climate in winter, and as the Peninsula ranges from five to only fifty miles ;u rc^s ai its widcsst f <."?•. I it is : » i- stantly played over by cooling breezes in siimmer. Latitudinally it could not be more fortunately placed: it is far enough south to Insure a large percentage of simny weather in winter, but not too far to preclude the growth of any fruit or vegetable common to fiie temperate zone, all of which flourish in its kind and varied soil. "Speaking of this territory, a writer Eighfy-four principal cities of the United States are within 500 miles of the Delaware — Maryland — Virginia Peninsula are going througli the first stages of , the amalgamation process. "Both in population and in wealth all of the Eastern cities are steadily increasing. The people live more luxuriously every year, and the man who is in a position to cater to thi.-? luxuriousness is usually sure of his income. The Peninsula farmer i^ in the best position to supply these markets with the most delicate and ^ jjerlshable products, for. In point of | transportation, the extreme lower; end of Delaware is nearer to New York City tan half of the State of New York. "The Delaware-Maryland - Virginia Peninsula reaches out between Del- aware Bay anJT the Atlantic Ocean on the east and Chesapeake Bay on the west. It comprises practically all of Delaware, nine of the most pro- ductive counties In Maryland, and the I southern end Is tipped by two coun- j ties of Virginia. * "This situation between two large in 'hippin(ott's .Magazine' for Janu- ary, 1908, says: 'It Is a garden and an orchard. Nature seemed unkln"zens rides in an automobile Boda lake out on this desert, only to level as a lawn More than a year Some men who wouldn't knowingly Yet there is no riddle about It. Four find a biting fiuld that lathered In has now elapsed and the land of the take so much as a collar button from words explain her prominence: "Back their mouths. And often the ox teams ^ity farmer Is still cleared, though a another will plan almost every sort to the farm" Is the slogan she Is cr>'- of the plodding Immigrant train, ^ood part of It is now diffused over °^ after-dark 'ntrigue to grab water 'ng dally through 10.000 women teach- would become thirst-maddened and several near-by sections of country, that doesn't belong to them. ers in more than seven thousand ru- wholly uncontrollable. much to the worry of the booster who "This tendency to over-irrigate sug- | ral schools. "There Is reason for the popularity fiisllkes to have visitors look In the J^ests another big problem Is practi- ! Out of five hundred high schools, of the much-used phrase 'the miracle direction of the almost constant dust- f^ally every Irrigated district- that of four hundred are teaching agriculture of Irrigation.* The believers are apt cloud. drainage. It seems strange to talk ^ and two hundred domestic science were waiting on the tracks at Ra- vena for pressing, and one company Is running night and day. Before the presses are through about 350 car- loads will have been used. The coop- erage concerns have not been able to meet the demands made upon them. One shop has put out 4ii ono barrels. Prices have been from 42 to 48 cents a barrel. — Country Gentle- "BACK TO THE FARM" THE SE- CRET OF KANSAS RICHES. Of all the States that figure in the news Kansas easily takes the lead. Now she Is recorded as the richest State per capita in the Union; now she is teaching her sisters how to in five of her to be a bit too orthodox, however. In their worship of water— especially If "The get-ricb-qulck ambitions on ir- ahout the necessity for draining in a For five years this lesson of the rtgated lands seem usually to center \^°^ ^^"^y district that would lapse farm has been drilled Into the minds they tend to gospelize the tinted boos- about frnit growing, with the hardy ^^^^ to desert if the ditches were de- of Kansas boys and girls. Instead of ter booklets. The results of Irrigation winter apple a strong favoHte. Sure- ,^troyed. But In nearly every compact wrestling with the rudiments of al- are more a miracle of work than a 'iv everv community should be ambi- section that has been Irrigated for as gebra and the tenses of dead lan- mlracle of water. The first Irrigator ttous. and all consistent efforts should ™"c^ ^^ ^^® ^^ ten years, one will guages, half a million students have In the West was the beaver: and the be made to put the land to Its high- 1^®® occasional pools or lakes of black been steeped In the beauty, the dlg- ambltlous youth Is told that he must est use and to gradually raise the 1^®*®*"' ^"^ ^™^" ®'* '*^^^ tracts of nity and the rewards of Intensive ag- •work like a beaver.' There Is a deiep- valuation to $1,000 or $5 000 an acre ; '^'*®'^°**®^ waste land. Also, in the riculture. er law and reason than the word —if |t reallv Is $1,000 and $5.000-an. |evenlng. waves of moisture will seem as It is now In the Sunflower State •miracle' could suggest In the fact acre land: and there Is such land In !*^ ^'«® from the ground and one can j,^ ,t ^,„ ^^ elsewhere as soon as that 'the cradle of civilization has the Irrigated West. But unfortunate ^l^ost Imagine himself at the edge tbe farmers realize that they have In always been rocked In the desert' and fs the communltv that Is deliberately °' * ^^^^^ swamp. ^^^j^. ^^^^^ ^^^ means to Insure the that the earliest greatest philosophers and systematlcaliy touted, almost be- "This condition merely means that 1 luxuries of life with tbe freedom the of the world were the product of arid- fore the main Irrigation ditches are the surplus water, distributed over j onen air and the health that are too *ty. completed, as n land that will be one the land and escaped from the Irriga- j often barred to the worker in the "The man on the Irrigated ranch vast orchard. Such a community may ,tlon ditches, has been carried by the city .—New York American # I % EASTERN FRUIT MARKETING THE APPLES Some of the Pitfalls of the Begin- ner and the Aim of the "Suc- cessful." ruined without spraying. You must 1 bearing capacity of a tree is reduced learn how to apply arsenites and Bor- one-half or more. October and November are pre-em- inently orchard months. All through the Northern States apple picking runs down to the hard freezing days that begin early In November. The ground is still covered with cider apples, and there are tens of thou- sands of piles of choice fruit In the orchards. A student of domestic econ- omy or any other observing man, will wonder at the waste that goes on even in the better orchards. As you travel westward through the great apple belt, and note the barrels and the piles and the trees that are not yet half picked, you wonder what can possibly be done with such a crop. I will tell you privately that there is not enough, not if you should double it, and then double it again, to go around among the boys and girls of America. We are natur- ally apple eaters, and then we like to export our pet crops into foreign countries — partly for the money and partly to "astonish the natives." Each tree at eight years of age should yield ten dollars worth of iruit annually, only remember that we shall not have over half our trees bearing each year. Well grown, well tended, well fed, well drained, the orchard should be yielding at twelve years twenty-five bushels to a tree, or eight barrels, annually. Eight barrels well graded and marketed should bring forty dollars Now our problem is to secure this model orchard. Looking all the time for first-class leturns, we have to be cautious from the start. If you send an order for trees to a nurseryman, you cannot always be sure that they are fit to plant. The statT of the tree aud the limbs may be all right, al- though they are very likely to be deaux, and to do It with timely accu- racy. It must be thorough work, but woe unto you if you do not use your brains. A damp year requires a larg- er percentage of lime, or your spray will do more harm than all the foes combined. I remember well the first year that I blistered my apple fo- liage and burned the apples, so that the whole crop was a loss. The truth is that we are always a little afraid that spraying will do more mischief tnan good. It is not desirable that uian shall conquer without study as well as industry. You can make climate largely, as you can make soil. It depends upon uelts of forest; rather close planting of trees, surrounded by protective nedges; and upon cover crops and mulching. It will help still farther to have all weak wood kept out of your trees. You must use your wits, so to trim your trees as not to check growth before nature checks it, and so not start a lot of feeble wood to ue frozen. A well ripened lot of wood will stand ten degrees of cold more than that which has been enfeebled oy late growing. All summer long I am taking notes in my orchard, to see where a few scions will make the crop more val- uable. So it comes about, every spring, that we gather from the ablest students of horticulture little sticks, which we call scions, and insert them in good live wood. It will take about three years to transform the top of an old pippin Into a King David or Black Ben. This must be done with study and good judgment or you will be moving backward instead of for- ward. The art of fine fruit growing wheth- er apples or plums or oranges, always includes thinning. This la tbe one prime essential to insure a crop worth the picking, and yet It is al- most never practiced. The farmer is busy with his haying and his harvest- ing just when this Important work should be done. The result is that the trees are left to carry three or four times the amount of stock they can complete. You will make money I do not like a crowd in an orchard. As far as possible I go with one crew of pickers. These are compelled to WHEN TO SET TOP GRAFTS. In top-working an apple tree of good size it is well to make baste slowly. Two or three years will lift the apples gently from the stem [ accomplish the purpose much better and place as gently in a basket. These baskets are emptied mostly carefully into bins or temporary bar- rels. A few days later they are sort- ed and transferred to barrels lor mar- ket and to bins lor storage, while the third grade is ready for the cider than one. It is desirable to give the balance between root aud leaf a cer- tain shock, but the shock must be moderate. After the preliminary re- moval of the useless biancbes a third or a half of the limbs to be grafted may be set with scions the first sea- press. These pickers are responsible j son, leaving the rest to grow. Then the next year set another third or half. On rather small trees all may be set in two years; on larger ones it is better to extend the process over ior the whole affair and are held strictly to account. I would not have a sack or bag for apple picking, not if it bore its pat- ent from the Department of Agricul- ture. Apples roll about in these bags ! three. In this way the new grafts and are inevitably rubbed more or less. This bruises a few ceils and in- itiates slow decay. Use stout, old- .ashioned baskets. Lay every apple or pear into them as you would an will be able to make a healthful growth and not be pushed ahead too fast. The crops of suckers to be re- moved will also be smaller. I have seen many pitiful failures In top- egg. No pouring at any period of the ' working old trees by men who evi- rtork, but haudliug only.— Ijixtracts ' dently thought they were following irom article in Outing for December, oy E. P. FoweU. GET A GOOD SPRAYER OUTFIT. % directions. Large trees were pruned to mere stumps, and scions were set in branches three or four inches in diameter. Such treatment can result only in disaster.— C. M. Weed. After the leaves have fallen and before severe freezing weather la the time to cut scions for grafting. MARMALADE. A recent bulletin issued by the Maine department of agriculture, on iUbect pests and diseases of the ap- ple, very aptly suggests that is is just as essential for a man to have a good spraying outfit as it is to have good spray material, if a poor pump [ Plum trees at ten years should pro- 18 used it is harder labor lor the man duce one bushel on the handle, the pressure is not of Cherry trees at eight years should buflicient height to break up the spray produce one bushel, into the mist that is necessary to ; ♦ ^ „* ♦„,^i, „ „^„™ ok«»m obtain good results. The pressure P^*'' ^ff « ^^ ^^«/^^ ^^"^ •^°"*'» should be at least 125 pounds in order P'-oduce three bushels. to produce a spray that will coat the Apple trees at fifteen years should leaves without dripping. In general, produce twenty bushels. the higher the pressure the better the Ringing or girding the vine may results, and the faster the work can gonjetimes be used to advanUge. be done. | ^ ,. Where the orchards comprise two j Promptly gather up and bum all to three thousand trees and are so | located that a power outfit can be drawn it would probably give better into winter quarters filled with weeds satisfaction and would do better work, or grass. brush and rubbish in the orchard. Don't permit the strawberries to go That, however, is a question that | ^^ orchard will live longer, bear as well as get satisfactory- fruit by '""'' ^^ ^^""'^^^ ^^ individual circum- ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ profitable by be- as well as 8^^ /at^^^^^^^^^^ mg well cultivated and enriched. co^ePed with San Jose scale or some ^^^""^ ""^ ^^ ^t ^^^'^^^'^^J °' J' m general there are some points I * , ^ ^ k. , . co%ered ^\th Ban Jose scale or s^me jcommon crop; then a couple of weeks ^u"j,^„re essential to a eood outfit- ^^^"^ ^* recommended by almoit every farm publication as a winter Have a brass lined pump and lessen covering for strawberry plants. other pest. You have also to examine ! ,^^^j. ^^^^ ^^ another quarter. The the roots. In order to be sure that iQ^g^i^^jj ^^^^ j^ i^f^ ^m ^^ larger they are not Infested with root gall. ^^^ j^^^jg^ colored, and also richer in This evil is almost as cosmopolitan as man himself. the amount of corroding and rusting. Have a good agitator so as to have \ It is said that cherries cannot be IJ' ^„ i , iu„ K..«..« the material uniform as it leaves the grown profitable at any great dU- The difference in quality between | , mnce from large bodies of water, overcrowded Northern Spys and those i *'•**"'• , ,. . . * i„„ »„„^ „.._.. it into the soli It Is going to stay p^operiy thinned and well fed by the "*^® nozzles that do not clog read- , The city dealer profits by the laxi- there and is going to multiply just g^^ ^^^j ^ains is the difference be- ' "y- ^^^^ ^° °°^ ^^^^^ *° ^^^ foliage ness of the grower, by grading and like any other plant, only it will grow ^ween sawdust and sugar The Mas- 1*"^ ^"^ deliver a fine spray for some .replacing his badly sorted fruit. It is a fungoid plant, and If you get distance. Have an air chamber of good size so as to allow good even pressure. Use a strainer and have a good one. Have a good hose, long enough to on the roots of valuable plants. When gachusetts Horticultural Society re- 1 ROW cow peas in Infected soil they ported the result of thinning one tree will grow about six Inches high and ^.^^h of Gravensteln and Tetofsky. then give it up. If I plant raspberry ,^1^^ ^.^g^j^ ^^^ ^^^ doubling of the bushes In infected soils galls will .^j^j ^^^j ^^j^^ ^^ ^^^^ Gravensteln, , . . ^ ^ ^ swell out on the roots and eat the^jjjj^ ^^^^ ^j ^j^^ Tetofskys was in- | ^ork comfortably, with good bands life of the plant. It is a terrible prob- creased elevenfold. I use a ten-foot to hold It In the couplings. lem. If m Florida I want to plant a j^ ^^^ ^ ^j^e hook screwed into Bamboo extension rods are lighter peach orchard, and can get clean ^^^^ ^^^ p^^ ^jjjg ^jook about a poor | ^"d easier to manipulate; the rod In- trees. I must also get clean soli— ^^pj^^ ^^ ^j^h a slight twist and ; s'^e Is preferably of aluminum or that Is. go out into the pine woods for my pull, it is quickly removed. The handling of trees of all sorts, but especially apple trees, by the or- and clear a new opening orchard. It Is a grand provision of nature,! , .. . . „,^„, k-«*»i . . . ,. • « 1 ij iJ dlnary hired man. Is simply brutal. that she gives us live fungicides. In ';"""•' '.^, ,„. f^ '»,„ ii.„k- : ut ». V V « I Ladders are smashed Into the limbs the orange groves, which have been '^'"""y, , " ^ . , ♦..i.„«,.w,„ rr-i™ . ; J 1 1 * . i»v *v .^ki*. for picking, or for trimming. Trim- Infested almost to ruin with the white . ^ *' ... „.»„i„ «..«. "' \ , 'ming means cutting a certain num- fly, two or three different fkingi """» *u^ o growths have stepped in to destroy the fiy and restore health to the orch- . .^ , ^. . „^„ „„ ,„„. „„ ,. .._ J T « -I *i,^ #.. .- «,«,-« ^tt^^t-^Mx fruit from the trees as fast as it can ards. I find the fungus more effective .*" . , .._,_ ^ brass. Don't buy an outfit that has been kicked around an agent's yard for a season. AMEN, ber of hours, to be paid for by the ' The Mount Holly, N. J., "Mirror" hour, and picking means Jerking the has this to say for country life: If the country boy enjoys one privl- ^han Ihe" Hm7 and" Bulph^ur mlilure J ^e ^o'^^' ^^ ^^''/^ P°««^^'«, f° your i^ge over the lad In town that both »:i\ Joo «.,!. fl«t Hiornv^rv fn th« P^cklug, as Well as your trimming, he and his parents should be pro- "^ r oi h! ooHiin mnfh ^Tnnr Rnnle ;with stepladders. Extension ladders of , foundly thankful for it is that he is 2ro7preUrcomp\Tel^n^ \^^^ -ri will go about trees that are ,ulte largely removed from the tem^ trol. until our scientists taught us to twenty years old. tatlon to form the cigarette habit appeal to the mineral worid. When longer ladders are needed, through not coming In contact with Now we assume that the young see to It that they are not smashed the detestable sharks who seek to In- trees have burst out with their first into a tree, crushing at every turn an crease their Income by sell ng stlnk- bloom. What a glorious sight It is. ! armful of bearing twigs. An orchard ers" to small boys In vlo atlon of law. Nature has done nothing finer In all at the close of picking, according to'If there Is any proposition on the her struggling for beauty. You would the common method. Is carpeted with I face of the earth that is hopeless t surely think that she would not al- Httle branches, every one of them is a half baked kid who acquires this low anything to meddle with her carrying the fruit buds for the next habit. He might about as well be croD-maklng year. In this way two years' crop6 knocked on the head and buried at However. ■ three-quarters of this are pulled off as one. That Is not the once, for he'll soon become dead to fruit, if not the whole of it, wiU b« worst of It, for within t«n years the j everything that, worth while. When spraying do not work with bare hands, hey'll be sore If you do. Put on a pair of rubber gloves. Very few pears are at their best if allowed to ripen on the tree. A good rule is tc pick when the seeds have turned brown. A covey of quail in the orchard will prove a good friend to the grower, oe- cause they eat a tremendous number of insects. An orchard soil rich in organic mat- ter is the kind of soil we want; hence grow a clover crop this fall and plow under next spring. The apple thrives well on a great variety of soils, varying from sandy loam to heavy soils, provided it is well drained and otherwise well cared for. It will pay the strawberry grower to go to large expense to get some covering for his strawberry plants which does not contain seeds of weeds or grass. Mr. Leigh Mitchell Hodges, the optomlst of the Philadelphia 'T^orth American." will address the meeting, of the Peninsula Horticultural Socle« ty. which will be held at Pocomoke City, Maryland, on January 9, 1912. The society Is fortunate In having cured him. t 4 T i ■^- EASTERN FRUIT Eastern fruit start at the beginning. They had to master ali the details, and solve all the problems and go it alone while A MODEL ORCHARD. OVERPRODUCTION NOT FEARED. The Delaware Apple Company, Of late years the expansion of ap- Cause of Home Production for Home Markets. "Young Man Come East." A .Monthly .Journal Devoted to the "fighbors laughed at "the man with which is officered and managed by pie orchards has been phenomenal. • the apple trees." As in all other lines some of the leading business men of To such an extent is this true that oL business the men who use their Delaware, has planned an orchard a many have feared lest the thing may good brains and have the grit and the short distance above Seaford, which be overdone. But of this overproduc- industry to complete what they un- gives promise of being a credit to tion of apples, horticultural authori- dertake win: success, and in this case that State. The company, which is ties seem to think there is littlo It has proved no ordinary success, being managed by Governor Penne- danger From ridicule and doubt on the part well. Senator Dupont, Professor Mc- Commercial statistics of reliabilitv ot neighbors it has turned to wonder Cue, H. Ridgley Harrington and oth- show that the annual production of and then to acclaim. In many sec- ers. has made preparations for plant- ^s delicious and most hvgienic- of tions the men who gather to talk ing their orchard the present season, f,,,;^^ j^, apparently, becoming less in ^Z\Z\?:T' ^ ""^ ° '^^°»^^,Mr. Harrington. State Librarian, who ..^oportion to consumption each year. o„ .n Liinl v""^^^ "^^ '^ business I has worked so hard to put this en- ,„,, ^as actually been less in the ag- K n. - rtTnL ^' '" 'Y^ '"'•P"^^ °'^ ''' ^''"' '^ ^"^'^'^^ '° ^••^^M^t- the las few years than for- king. The county papers give him g,eat credit. A recent letter issued ^,^1. ^he fieures since 189^ are as that title. To read the agricultural to the public regarding their orchard, , ^;;ows journals is to learn that there are and fruit growing in Delaware, says: j Yp„_ ' Rorr^u quite a number of "apple kings." and "This farm is nearer to New York Loj; RaH^n^a to go to the root of the matter he is city than one-half of New York State. ' s^;! flQA7nnn a king for he is in authority. He gets ,'t i^ within 500 miles of a5.000,0()0 i g^J by.070,00U Published l)y The Eastern I»u!>li8hing Company. 1201 (Chestnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. S. M. Paschal!, Editor and Advertis- ing Manager. Subscription price to any a'ldress, TiO cents per year in advance. •Advertising rales furnished upon re- pu «»nno hi« fmif «-h/i...Q ^ni. own prices, ships his fiuit where people, with a freight rate I he pleases, sells or refuses to sell to (•(.iiii)any. of 10 536.000 189S 28.570.000 Mj- p.^aat.^. ^iis ur leiuses to sea lo cents a bushel against the West 50 I ^qq rc I^a aaa those who bid for his goods, lives as p^nfa 58.46-6.000 JANUARY, 1912. he chooses; has made a success that is conspicuous. Let those who would cents. "We have no irrigation, no rocks, no stones, no hills and our fruit has A NEW PAPER NEEDED. Every good (ause deserves a write- up at least once a month. In this era of travel and haste the well adver- tised regions draw the crowds and the dollars, and the i)laces that are out of print are too frequently out of mind. The agriculture of the West is famous the world over large- follow do so with equal intelligence the finest flavor, l>est quality, good U-nd success. Long live the Apple color, biggest yield and highest I K in (yc2 ' I I prices. "Our best grade of boxed fruit sells Kings! BILL HANLEY'S FACE. on the farm at from $2.00 to |2.50 The New York "American" tells I per box, while the same grade of every ^"'- '^hile the West has a ripening journals of national scope, but the tianninesK . . „ i o . , , 1 , I I t; Happiness. season of about five weeks. Delaware hnancial advantages of Eastern soil, ^^i a piece of ground of your onVu jg the earliest place in the United Eastern facilities an' ^o"«^ ^^ ^^t the good apples ^,^«°!! "^ f°"'' t*»"^« ^^e length of the the enemies of apple culture in- out of the box that cold storage has ^^ est to us than to read of the oft creased, and a hard fight must be made to save the trees and fruit from ^ . .. UM. I preserved for the spring time fruit STAY IN THE EAST "vouNr mam "^aae to save the tree times delusive "green hills far away." | dish. There is a strong effort among YOUNG MAN. ^ insects and disease, these farmers This. then, is the purpose of "East- apple growers to have the law amend- '" "" address summing up the ten j have had leas and less fruit to sell em Fruit." Born of a desire to tell *^** ^^u can have apples the year ^^""^ °^ increase in fruitfulness and | year after year. When an effort is the world aliout the fair fields and ""^""^ '* ^^^ ^"""'^ *^ properly picked, '"^''^>' °^ eastern-grown fruit, Lem- required to grow apples they cease to ,, *h » 1- u A 'packed and stored, and the more en- "^' Black, of Hightstown, one of the , grow them, and their orchards have valleys tnat lie at the doors of the ieouragement and competition given "«"Ple kings' of the State, according become unproductive." Eastern hom« s and Eastern markets, (he storage proposition the cheaper ^° * dispatch published in the Phila- we find our journalistic modesty ''i** fruit will be after Christmas. delphia "North American," told yOung taxed with an undertaking In which we solicit the help of every reader in making ehective the new slogan of a new journal, "Young Man, Come East." 'APPLE KINGS.' men attending the thirty-seventh an- nual session of the New .Jersey State foliowine- Horticultural Society, which held a THE UNITIZING DEED The recent method of handliuc ""•""""^"•"' """^"^'■'' """^" laiiTp lanH nr«i^rfc ..Kj u ' . ^ I two-day sesslou at Freehold laige land projects, which are being sold to izing Deed and satisfactory In every particular A FORTUNE IN APPLES. The Delaware "Republican" has the A $20,000 fortune from a fruit har u?-. /_ ^^^f '8 ^^^ story now going the the puwlc •,h;„;;rhVunt "r'„T.;^:,'er' ??• T\ '"'^ S? roun^; »; Ke„rc„,,;y co„c;r„,„. E ;ee., ,s one or ..at econorn, .X^TJ^J" ;::\\ir:s\!;i:T.: "»"" ?«"" ': f'""'"'- '""•".'"" larnr-trkrv tn <>.r- ..wo Kii iiviTvi. any, anA nmnrickt nfa r\r *Ua Vi-ao. A warranty deed to the property in v^• according to Mr. Black, and many :"7'ri r , Propeny m ^.j^e fruitmen are flocking back east. nnVJr Here and there in different parts Huestion is given, running to some! where their orchards are near the Zf the conntrv m*>n who havo tnmoH i^ust company in pernetuitv. The o^-^»» ♦„ ^, *__j- __j „.u-_- _ .. ' "^ son. and proprietors of the Ever- green farms between Camden and The report comes from reliable fruit agents that the Bancrofts will realize $20,000 from a remarkable yield of apples, peaches and pears. The rise of the fruitmen of the en- J^^ Bancrofts' apple orchards, tlll- tire East to meet the competition of ^''.^^f.^r ...""^P''""^^' ^^"? 't?'"".': ly visited by experts from the North of the country men who have turned \"'«t company in perpetuity. The great marts of trade and where sci- their attention to apples have won "^«" provides that no incumbrance entific cultivation will given even success. They were perhaps men who 'an be placed against the property, greater results than in the western would win success at any business. ^^^ question of stock control never irrigated lands. They began by sizing up the situa- arises and the voting of large salaries tion— and the apples. They realized '" officers is out of the question. nre Kasi to meet the compel. that noi)ody cared very much about 't has been recently introduced in the Western fruit growers was the such apples as some folks raised. ^ "JTm Arpo ^^ » ""^^^^^ "»*«" of New Jersey. t* Tn'L„.„ *>, * *u ,. tound apples were in constant de- "■ ®- LIPPINCOTT, MANAGER. ^^^ ^^^^ Pennsylvania and New V^ ^"°''" ^^^^ **"'* ^^eBBTB. Ban- mand. They knew that things on the Mr. H. S. Lippincott. managef of [England fruit growers to drive the . ^ Kreat prices for their early n.rm do not amount to much unless the Pennsylvania Railroad Demon- fine-looking, but flat-tasted dry West- f^P'^f and had many of them, and they are given real up-to-date care- stration Farm, at Bacon. Delaware, is ern fruit from Eastern markets by } ^ i? ^? ^^^ raised, harvested same as in other lines of business— doing more to direct the attention of educating the public to the superior *" u ,^[ . ^ ^^^^ °' '*"^^ and they turned their attention to the public to the wonderful agricultu- qualitv of Eastern aPDles .peaches. The yield of pears has only ... • i'v ■ begun and the railroad shipments thus far indicate a great pear year in Delaware. the old orchard and to the wa.vs of lal and horticultural possibilities of Even the great land shows held in the men whose apples were already* the Delaware-Maryland Peninsula interest of Western promoters, said on the city fruit stands. In short, they than any other agency that company this speaker, are losing their influ- began to think of apple growing and employs. He is a tireless worker, ex- ence upon the young blood among ~~~ apple marketing as business opportu- perienced in every particular and uni- Eastern farmers. He urged every WANTED' nities and to apply business meth- formly courteous to the great num- young horticulturist to study well the ; Z ~" ods. That was several years ago with ber of people with whom he comes situation before shouting "westward from t'ho^*''""ho^*' ^^"' ^^^^^ articles Authoritative Items of in- terest to eastern fruit and gome of these pioneers. They had to in contacL ho!' 1 oul3 help the cause for which Eastern Fruit stands. • # # % EASTERN FRUIT NEW JERSEY ORCHARD NEWS A NEW JERSEY APPLE SHOW. WE OFFER At the apple show recently held in the court house at Freehold. New Jersey, there were 400 exhibits of ap- ples grown in that State, and experts ■ who have traveled the country over „ ._ rr. T<.. declare the West never produced as borne Important Tree Discus- fine fruit as was here shown from The Unsold Portion OF sions in "The Golden State." SALEM COUNTY APPLES. Eastern orchards. Some specimens weighed as much as two pounds, but the up-to-date growers said they were striving more to increase the natural richness of flavor and fragrance for 298 ORCHARD BONDS When some men now in the prime which they are already noted than to of life were boys Salem county, New /Attain the great size. An interesting Jersey, was a banner county for ap- feature of the show was an exhibit pies. Almost every farm had its or- under direction of the State Experi- chard, and the varieties raised were mental Station, in which there was more than the varieties of soil. Be- "°t only a display of fruit, but of the sides this the fruit was of such fine ^^^^ methods of packing apples for flavor that the above men still think ^^^ benefit of visiting orchardists. A of it with boyish appetite, and they ^'8 exhibit of orchard machinery say it must have paid in those days, formed an interesting annex to the for every family whether on the farm apple display. Few years ago there or in the town had apples in the fall \ ^^""^ ^^"*^ ^^® plates of apples at the to last all winter. As to varieties, annual meeting of the Horticultural there were half a dozen that it was Society, according to Albert T. Repp, supposed could not be grown so good °^ Glassboro. president of the society, anywhere else on earth. There was ^°^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^®^ ^as held there the pretty little Redstreak. the dull ^^®''® ^^^ present who would have be- mottled juicy Roman Stem and the ."^^^^ ^^^^ ^"'"^^ ^^^^^ ^®"**^ ^'*' '"a'^ed spicy tasted Turnalane, or Turn-the- ^^ ^^® State, lane, that grew in the bend of the ■ ISSUED BY THE Charles D. Barton, of Burlington county. N. J., has developed intensive n.ethods by which he claims to have DELAWARE APPLE ORCHARDS. lane to the old Pettitt homestead and furnished cuttings that were planted all over the county, besides other good well-known varieties. Variety • . ,. was considered more desirable than '^"^'^ a thousand watermelons to the carload lots, but those were the old v '^ and equally satisfactory addi- days. now gone by. The young trees j '^'^"^ '° ^'^ ^""^P °^ cantaloupes. were carefully planted. Older ones ' did not know any more how they came to l)e what they were than did Topsy. Still Salem county was a i „ , „ . great apple county. Then came the , ^^''^'^^ ^'^" '^"^^'^ ^"'^^"^ "^ ^^■ San Jose scale and the potato bug '*'"' '^''""^^ '^'^ ^^^"^ ^^"^ ^" ^^^'^■ They had no connection, but the scale T^"^ *°'' ^^ P"'-P««e of studying the was not considered fatal and the po- ^"«'"^«« ^^ growing and marketing tato bug was. Nobody knew what to , ^'^^ .f^"^^ ^^P^**- ^^"^ ^^^>' «*^ '^ do at first for ihe scale but Paris ^^^^'^^ed as the scientific and con- green reached Salem county promptlv ^^"""^ cultivation of lands tilled and and modern methods for potato cu'l- P'"""^'' ^""^ sprayed until the yield ture came soon afterwards Next '^'''"^'* '"°''® dollars per acre year came the news that the five- and ten- *"^'' ^^^"^ ^^^^ ^^"'^^ ^''^"^ ^ ^o^^" cent apples on the city fruit stands '^^T ^^ "^"^">' cropped. The neigh —bigger apples than Salem county had raised — came mostly from the wonder lands of far away Spokane, and Salem county got more interested in potatoes and has chopped down and sold the trunks of some of her borhood of Dover has a number of these orchards that even now with the trees stripped of foliage and fruit are interesting to students of horti- culture. The party was especially interested immense apple trees for the manu- '" ^^^ orchards of Mr. Frank M. So facture of axe handles At the gro- P^*"' "^^'' Magnolia, and that of Mr. Or eery stores they still sell a few home '^"**° Harrison, near Seaford. The grown apples, such as they are. and they still talk up the once-famous turn-the-lane — prophetic name. The writer sampled a fine York state greening grown in Monument town- ship On a tree planted by Robert Sea party visited the fine young orchard of .Mr. Harrison near Seaford known as the York Imperial orchard. There was not time to visit the Harrison nurseries nor the other commercial orchards of this largest grower ol greave in 185.3 or 1867. He planted \PP'^« '" <^^ country. It is claimed some trees both vears and a few still ^^^^ up-to-date scientific apple grow- live of both plantings. Another deli- '"^ '^>' ^^""^^ ^^^^ l^""^^' '» »)ringing cious sample supposed to be an Albe- '" "^^""^ "^^ P'"*'"^ P^*" '**^''*' ^han any marie pippin was grown by J. Albert 2*.^!'^ 1^***^^'..?!°!'.^/..'^'?'^*^ ^^^I ^""^^ Fogg below Salem, and Clark Pettitt. who is a tree specialist, says there NEW JERSEY FARM LANDS. heard the authenticated record. Dr. Ellen B. Smith and Robert T. are some pretty nice home orchards Seagraves, of Salem, and J. Hart'ey up round Woodstown but a well-in- ^'■°*" *"^ -^ Keasbey Smith, of Han- formed local newspaper man says ^°<=^'« ^•"^^K*'' ^^''^ «"™o"R ^hose who there is not in the fine old countv of ""'^'^^^ ^^^ orchards.-Salem Sun- Salem one up-to-date commercial or- ''^*"'- ^^^^^"'^^^^ «■ l^^l- chard. ! This story of Salem county apples is representative. What is true of this locality is true of others. Across the ^he Salem "Sunl)eam" hits the nail river in Delaware soil and climate ^^ ^^^ ^ead when it comments as are ideal for certain varieties of ap fellows on some recent statistics: pies, and growers who have made j^ ^(^^O the average value of a a business of apples are making a farm in New .Jersey was |r>.470; in great success. A number of Salem 1910 it was $7,610. The land rose In county people have already crossed value from $32.68 per acre In 1900 to over and have been surprised to see 148.23 In 1910. The farmers of New and to learn of the perfection of Del- jersey have been very prosperous in aware fruit and the money it brings the last decade and the IndlcaMons per acre, and before many months go are that they will continue to be by there will be others. The story is prosperous, for the population of of interest and significance in many near-at-hand cities has increased enor- a county of our Eastern country. mously. making good markets for our S. M. P. farm crops, while the improvement in shipping facilities has opened up many distant markets for the prod- The Repp orchards at Glassboro ucts of our State hitherto closed be- are referred to ns a forest of fruit cause of the perishable nature of the trees. stuff. ( 1 York Imperial Orchard Co. An Investment for Conservative People The Orchard is Already Planted and Bondholders Will Receive All the Net Returns^ Less 15% for Management. We are offering you an opportunity to become inter- ested with us in the very profitab'e business of growing apples, commercially, in Delaware. The business is not new. Some of our near by neigh- bors are making large profits from it annually. Our orchard will do the same. Properly grown and packed fruit, from Delaware, brings the highest prices and the expenses of producing and marketing same are the cheapest in the world. Mr. Orlando Harrison, President of our company, and Mr. G. A. Harrison, its Vice President, own and operate Harrison's Nurseries, at Berlin, Maryland, which each year grows and sells over ten million young trees. They own, wholly or in part, over 200,000 bearing fruit trees, in Delaware and near-by States. Become associated with these experienced, successful fruit growers in growing apples at the doors of the great Eastern markets— we save that jerky 3,000 mile haul from the Northwest, with its attendant heavy freight and refrigeration charges. Write for information and booklet "Saving 3.000 Miles." York Imperial Orchard Company 1404-5 COMMONWEALTH TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PENNA. IZEEP Borers, Mice, Rabbits and -"■^ the like at a safe distance, and give your Apple Trees a chance to show their capacity. You will be surprised to learn how easily this can be done by the use of LEWIS PURE WHITE LEAD & UNSEED OIL An interesting booklet "Saving Fruit Trees" mailed on request. JOHN T. LEWIS & BROS. CO. PHILADILPHIA EASTERN FRUIT EASTERN FRUIT f It APPLES FOR WINTER NEEDS Many Ways to Use the King of Fruits and a Great Awakening Commercially. Ill a st^uHOn of aDundance many people place little value upon ap- pleK. They regard as hardly wortu while the extra care and effort neces- sary to preserve the fruit for a long time. Consequently, apples often be- come relatively scarce and high- priced in the spring, whereas tliey were cheap and common in fall and early winter. In the Mississippi Val ley this is especially true this year, because of the comparatively large number of fall varieties and the no- ticeable tendency toward early ripen- ing. Thousands of bushels have rotted on the ground, even the win- ter apples have not hung on the trees well. Early in the season there were very few worms, for they had nothing to feed upon last year; but the abundance of apples and the lax- ity in spraying and other methods of control have permitted the worms of the second brood to become very nu- merous and destructive. All of these , factors will contribute toward scarcity | next spring and will make it profit able to store carefully the best fruii , An apple that is to be kept for a long time must be in a hard, firm condition when placed in storage; must be free from worm injuries; must not be marred by scab or other defects that may break the skin and permit the spores of pink rot or other decays to enter, and must be fre<^ from bruises or other mechanical in- juries due to rough handling. Whep men learn to handle apples as care- fully as they do eggs they will fiiu more profit in them. ^ An apple is a living, breathing or- 1 ganism, and it is well to know what takes place within its attractive skin as the fruit ripens, mellows and be comes mealy or decays. A green ap- ple is composed chiefly of starch and acid. As It nears the ripening stage the starch is gradually changed to surose or cane sugar. By the time the fruit is fully ripe and mellow nearly all of the starch has disap- peared and the acid content is consid erably decreased, while the amount of sugar is at the maximum. Tiiis cane-sugar soon begins to change in- to invert sugar or dextrose, and the acid rapidly vanishes. By the time the apple Is mealy the sugar is all in the form of dextrose and levulse. which in turn are rapidly bein^r? broken up into carbon dioxld and other simple compounds. The acic' content is now very low and the fruit has lost its rich, spicy flavor. In thl way apples deteriorate in quality un- til they are insipid and the flesh is dry and mealy. Decay or physical breakdown speedily follows. These changes are accomplished through a process of breathing. The carbon dioxld, which is given off just as In the animal body, is composed of the sugars and acids that give the fruit its quality. Therefore in the case of the apple the process of breathing is destructive. The practical application of this knowledge becomes possible when we learn that this process of respiration Is hastened or retarded according to the amount of heat to which the fruit Is subjected. Extensive experi- ments, conducted by the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States De- partment of Agriculture and by the chemical section of the New Hamp shire Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion, prove conclusively that the ra- pidity of respiration Is increased about two-foW witli •very rli« of Un I degrees in temperature. At summer I temperature apples will respire from four to six times as rapidly as in cold storage. This explains why they deteriorate so rapidly in a warm room. These facts make it impera- tive that as soon as it is gathered the fruit be placed in a cold room or cellar. They also emphasize the necessity of gathering the apples be- lore they are ripe, while they are still tiiin and not too highly colored, .Many varieties when picked before they have taken on the maximum amount of color will develop color and flavor in storage. There is some danger, however, of gathering a lew kinds too soon and consequently hav- ing fruit of poor color and low qual- ity. The old method of piling fruit on the ground to color and soften be lore storing is founded upon erron- eous ideas. Apples to be pressed into cider should be handled in this way ' in order to secure quickly the largest amount of. sugar, but under no cir- cumstances should apples for storage be so treated. This practice necessi- tates extra handling and causes bruis- ing as well as the hastening of tlie ripening process. It is impossible to emphasize too strongly the need o! careful handling. When apples are to be kept either I in the cellar or in the cold storage I warehouse the ripening processes must be delayed as much as possible by early gathering and by the ab- I sence of heat. All varieties should be left on the trees until they have attained full size and though still ' hard, are reasonably well colored. They should then be placed immedi ately In storage and kept under a uniform temperature all winter. Un- less there Is every indication of a scarcity the following spring, only first-grade specimens should be stored— By G. R. Bliss in Country Gentleman. tions to which a grower may belong. The packing is not done by the grow- er as a rule. This results in a high- grade product because there is not the temperation to work in the under- grade fruit, as is frequently the case with the man who owns the fruit. In packing in boxes the apples are all carefully placed by hand. Before packing, the individual apples are fre- quently wrapped in paper. The box must be packed full so the appfes cauuot have room to rub. There are .some thirty to forty commercial sizes of apples, as sorted in the northwest. The expert will pack a box with the ai-ples at the middle a little larger, so that the sides of the box will have a swell toward the middle. This gives I the package an attractive bulge, and 'holds the apples firmer.— Ohio Farms. 'with cocoanut and stick apples full I of blanched almonds, basting with I syrup made of sugar, water and lem- lon juice. Finish cooking in hot oven, 'basting often and serve with garni- ture of jelly.— Philadelphia Press. OVERPRODUCTION? NOT YET! SOME GOOD APPLE RECIPES. ; Wonderous and Varied are the Ways I of Preparing This Wholesome Fruit. APPLES AS MEDICINE. This Delicious Fruit is Simply Inval uable to Humanity. l-Tconomically the apple is composed of fibre, albumen, sugar, gum, malic acid, gallic acid, lime and much wa- ter. Furthermore, the German analysis says that the apple contains a larger l^ercentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable, says a physi- cian. The phosphorus is admirably adapted for renewing the essential nervous matter, lecithin of the brain and spinal cord. For people of sedentary habits, whose livers are sluggish In action, the acids of the apple serve to elimi- nate from the body noxious matters which. If retained, would make the brain heavy and dull, or bring about jaundice or skin eruptions and other allied troubles. Some such an expe- rience must have led to our custom of taking apple sauce with roast pork, rich goose and like dishes. The malic add of ripe apples, eith- er raw or cooked, will neutralize any excess of chalky matter engendered by eating too much meat. It is also a fact that such fresh fruits as the ap- ple, the pear and the plum, when taken ripe and without sugar, dimin- ish acidity In the stomach rather than provoke It. Their vegetable salts and juices are converted Into alkaline carbonates, which tend to counteract acidity.— Philadelphia Record. APPLES TN BOXES. The barrel Is still the standard package for apples in the East, but in some places In the East, as in the northwest, the box package Is rapidly supplanting It. The box pack Is neater and more attractive, but to make a good job It requires a degree of skill that is attained only through long practice. In the northwest the packing Is done almost entirely by experts, who are hired by the fruit associa- The very mention of apples brings fair visions of the trees in the orch- ard bending low with their mellow burdens and with the vision one can almost detect the delicious spicy fra- grance which is wafted through the fields. Hunger and thirst quicken at the thought of the good old-fashioned pies, dumplings and flummeries pre- pared with this appetizing fruit. Apple Fritters. Pare, core, and cut two medium- sized sour apples in eighths, cutting eighths into slices and stir Into bat- ter made of one and one-third cup of flour, two teaspoons of baking powder, one-quarter teaspoon of salt, two-thirds of cup of milk and one i egg. Drop by spoonful and fry In deep fat. The fritters should be drain- ed on brown paper and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Serve hot on folded napkins. Danish Apple Cake. Work together one cupful of flour, I one-third of a cup of butter, one-half ' cup of brown sugar, one egg and , pinch of salt. When these are well 1 blended mold on a board, cut In three parts and brown. Prepare a few ap- ples as for apple sauce, cooking very tender with a little sugar. When cold, add a little cinnamon and spread be- tween the layers of cake. Cover top of cake with the following cream, let- ting it run over the sides of cake un- til completely covered. Boil one and a half cups of milk, to which add one tablespoon of cornstarch mixed in a little cold milk with one beaten egg, one-half cup of sugar and lemon ex- tract to taste. This should be stirred into the boiling milk until smooth and poured over the cake while w^arm. Make twenty-four hours before serving, as it must stand In a cool place that long. Apple Meringue. Apples should be baked In the usual way for this recipe, piled with meringue made of whites of two eggs, two tablespoons of powdered sugar and one-half tablespoon of lemon juice, or vanilla If preferred, placing In the oven until meringue is delic- ious brown and served with soft cus- tard. Apples and Rice. Six sour apples are used for this recipe, one cup of cold boiled rice, one pint of milk, one cup of sugar, the jtilce and rind of one lemon, and yolks of four eggs. The apples are cored and chopped, rice and milk add- ed and lumps beaten out, then stir In the other Ingredients and bake. Beat the whites of four eggs with a little sugar, spread on top and brown. Apple Scallop. Pare and slice thin a dozen apples. Put Into a buttered baking dish a lay- er of apples, then one of sugar, cinna- mon, butter and flour, then another layer of apples and so on until the dish Is filled. Bake slowly for one hour. I A Cuban Dish. I Pare and core sound, tart apples. Steam until almost tender: remove to a buttered pan; fill the cavities An apple statistician has figured it all out. This year's apple crop will total somewhere near 30,000,000 bar- rels—count them, gentlemen! There are approximately that same number of apple eaters in the country — don't bother to count them; the statisti- cian assures us that his figures are correct. The "apple-eating season" is of approximately five months* dura- tion. This means that each one of us apple-eaters must make away with an average of something over three apples a day — which the statistician says is an impossibility. The gentleman seems to assume that apples must be eaten raw or not at all. Has he never heard of apple butter which keeps Its sweetness for many more than five months? Or ap- ple pickles— that delectable, spicy gift of the gods of the orchard? Or of apple jelly? Or even of apple pre- serve? Give us the right form and variety of apple and we will guaran- tee to do away with considerably more than our allotted barrel of 1911 apples before the 1912 crop is on the market. And just a word to the apple-grow- ers: don't be dismayed by this talk of overproduction of apples. There ain't no such animal. — Outing. LETTERS RECEIVED. Hancock's Bridge, N. J., December 4, 1911. York Imperial Orchard Co., 1404-1405 Commonwealth Trust BuHdlng, Philadelphia, Pa. Gentlemen: I have just returned from a trip through Delaware, inspecting the ap- ple orchards of that State, in com- pany with a friend of mine. We vis- ited the home of Mr. Francis M. Sop- er, the Apple King of Delaware, and were surprised to see the large orch- ards with everything in first-class ^bape. The trees looked as if they had been recently washed and trim- med up and the grass and rubbish jwas removed from the neighborhood of each. j We also visited your orchard, one mile south of Seaford, and were 'pleased to find the same in flrst- ' class condition Mr. Lacey L. Hard- esty, the general manager, very kind- ly showed us around. The trees were strong and sturdy stock. Mr. Hard- jesty told us it was their intention to I make this orchard one of the fijiest 'producing commercial orchards in the country: and it looked as though they would do so. Every tree has been well manured, and the cow peas be- tween the rows had a luxuriant growth, which will provide abundant humus for the soil. I was glad to note that everything was kept up In first-class shape. The transportation facilities, both by rail and water, were near at hand; in fact, the Pennsylvania Railroad runs along your orchard for half a mile. I shall expect to increase my hold- ings in your company after the first of the year. Very truly yours, 1 J. HARTLEY BROWN. Masonville, N. J., Nov. 25, 1911. I York Imperial Orchard Company, 1404 Commonwealth Trust Build- ing, Philadelphia, Pa. Gentlemen: "Five years ago this spring I set out a block of Stayman Wlnesap ap- ple trees. Some of these trees this fall yielded me seven five-eighths bushel baskets of fine large apples per tree; quite a number of them yielded over five baskets and they average two and one-half baskets per tree. "ALBERT HAINES." # BACK TO THE STONY FARM Even Maine and Old New Eng- land as an Apple Country. ^ ff> "Tell us this. What use to boom New England as a great apple couu- .try when the wild deer are protect- ed?" Such is the query appearing in an agricultural paper published in one of the great apple growing Middle States, a State having no occasion to be jealous of efforts to stimulate hor- j ticulture as well as agriculture in a j country whose coast is famed for its rock-bound character, and whose soil in many localities Is worked wltl^ j difficulty because of the abundance of boulders — a country troubled by | the gipsy and browntall moths and i other pests, and by destructive" ani- mals Including the wild deer, not tc mention the so-called Inhospitable climate, with frosts sometimes every month in the year. And yet, despite every handicap, including the wild deer, New England is making a mark In agricultural specialties which some of the mor*^ favored States of greater area might be proud to equal. Reference ha^' been made in past articles to the re- markable yield of com In sundry New England localities, while the autumn exhibitions of fruits throughout the section bear witness to the success of endeavors to produce fine apples and other fruit. Wild deer do a cer- tain amount of harm in some lora'' ties, especially to young trees. B\it It Is only a few trees that are dam- aged at all; and, if need be, damage to the few could be avoided. Mo? or all of the New England States have an open season when deer may be killed, and himtsmen are not lack Ing who count It sport to decimate the numbers of the deer running wild Moreover, In some States deer found doing harm may be dispatched at any time under prescribed regula tions, and actual loss is made good by the States. No doubt the open season will b< extended, If necessary, to prevent any serious increase in the number of these animals. Maine probably has more deer than any other New Eng- land State; yet there has lately come to notice the success of an effort to restore a run-down orchard In that State. I-ate In 1909 a farm was pur- chased by the State for an agricultu- ral experiment station. Orcharding was among the enterprises to be pur- sued. The farm had nearly 3200 liv- ing apple trees. This Is not a large number — or would not be outside the cramped area of New England. The condition of the trees was described as exceedingly bad. They were re- ferred to as twenty-eight years old. though In size resembling trees abou* half that age. They were In tough sod abounding in witch grass, and Are had been throttgh the orchard several times. Care was first ex- pended in the spring of 1910. There was pruning, some cultivation, some spraying. The harvest was speedy, though not remarkable. In 1909, be- fore anything was done to the or- chard, the yield was 90 barrels of marketable fnilt. The 1910 yield was 27.^ barrels, while that for 1911 was 2450. of which 2006 contained no apples measuring less than 2*4 Inches In diameter. It Is calculated that much of the orchard has not reached development of more than a third of its bearing capacity. Interesting ex- periments were mad© In cultivation and in pasturing parts of the orchard with sheep, also with hogs, with the result that cultivation and Hme-suV pbnr spraving proved superior to al' other treatment. There has really been a great awakening in agricultural and horti- cultural lines in New England, and the wild deer are not so troublesome as to deter any courageous man from Investing in farms for orcharding or the growing of any of the crops which are suited to the soil. And these crops include pretty much ev- erything that can be grown in the temperate zones. State experiment stations and chambers of commerce are doing much to encourage farm- ing In its varied forms in the New England States, and the reward Is al ready considerable. — Country Gentle man. A GOOD YEAR FOR APPLES. It has been a good year for Penn- sylvania apples. The cold weather of spring following some hot days and : the protracted drought of .Tune and .Tuly and part of August, which were disastrous to many other fruits and hurtful to many crops, did not dis- turb the apples. The trees had had a rest. Most of them had their para- sites killed by judicious spraying and they were ready to produce apples, and they did so freely. The Pennsyl- vania farmers whose apple orchards have escaped destruction from San Jose scale have as a rule an abundant supply of good apples this year to rejoice the home and supply the home market. There Is no need, therefore, of send- 1 Ing to Oregon and Washington for I apples, though no doubt some of them I will come to tempt Pennsylvania buy- ers by their fine color and good an- pearance. After Journeying across the continent the Pacific Coast apples have not the flavor of the home crown article, but their fine anpear ance after having made the jotirney Is a lesson to producers and dealers in Pennsylvania apples. There are no bruises, however slight, no entering wedge for incipient decay on a Pa- cific Coast apple. They are picked from the tree by hand and handled at every stage afterward with as much care as eggs. They are never "dumped" nor Is any one allowed to test their deeree of softness by p pressure of the thumb. The Pacific Coast apples sent East are all of fln*» ouallty. nicked with care, without snot or blemish when thev start anf' thev are sent on their jonrnev s" nacVed as to preserve them from anv nopclMlitv of receiving bruisos or in lurv en rotite. Nearlv every Northern State c^^t of the Missouri reports a fine annle crop. The question Is to market thp»" at a profit. The Paciflc Coast peonle hnve shown them how to do It. Keen all the bruised, spotted, wormv and defective anplea at home Therp '» no place for them ^ven In the mid- dle of the barrel- Shin onlv the >>'»*'♦ and shin them so that thev of>n not be bruised on their fravels. Thic Is n pr*»at countrv for anples and ther" 's monev In them I' bmJns ar<» "«*»d to pdvant'»t'e In their culture a"d bar. ve«t1nc- and the best modf^rn mptbo-i'^ nr^nnted In eettlnc them to market — Philadelphia Press. (A Concentrated Solution of Lime and Sulphur) ''Equal to the Best, and Better than the Rest" SCALIME has been on the market for several year.s, and has given per- fect satisfaction wherever used. It is made of the best material, by skilled workmen, and is always uniform. PROF. JOHN P. STEWART, who Is the author of Pennsylvania State f'oUege Bull^etln No. 92, on concentrated Linio-Sulphur, .says: "A concen- tratei Ume-Sulphur should be a clear solution, of known definite strength, i and contain nothing but Lime, Sulphur and Water." I If the liquid is not clear it may have been doctored to Increase the i density. If the strength or den.'^ity is not known it will l»o impossible to i lilute it properly to obtain sprays of different densities, and if it contaln.s anything except I.ime, Sulphur and Water, the added substances are of no jidvanlage aul may be a detritnent. I*?" ' "^ fl '^ SCALIME We guar;iiit*M- that SCAT.IMK contains nothing but Lime Sulphur and Water, and tliat the strength or density la 1.30 s. g. (33 degrees Baume"* and if diluted in the proportion of 1 gallon SCAI.IIVIE to 3 erallons wator will kill all the SAN JOSIO SCALE with which it com.s in lontact. Horticultural Chemical Company 662 Bullitt Building, Piiiladelphia, Pa. PENINSULA HORTICULTURISTS TO MEET. The coming annual meeting; of the Peninsula Horticultural Society to be held at Tocomokc City, Md., on Jan- 1 uary 0th, 10th and 11th, promises to be of unusual and widespread Inter- est. Among the features scheduled are the following papers and ad- dresses: "The Peach," George A. Hill, Bridgeville, Del.: "Apple Culture on the Peninsula," Walter R. Harris. Worton. Md.: "More Publicity for the Eastern Apple." Leigh Mitchell Hedges, of the Philadelphia Nor+h American; "Orchard Products of the Peninsula," Orlando Harrison. Berlin. Md.; "Recent Work to Secure Per- fect Orchard Fruit," Prof. W. M. Scott, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture; 1 "Eastern Horticulture," Prof. R. T- W^atts, State College, Pa.: "The Work of the Pennsylvania Railroad Demonstration Farm," H. S. Llppln- cott. Bacon. Del., and many other live topics by competent speakers. FRESH PICKED FRUIT NOTES. FOREIGN CAPITAL FOR DELA- WARE. Mr. L. (t. Walter, who is associated with his father, Mr. Notary Walter, and his brother, Mr. H. Th. T. Wal- ter, in large business enterprises in the Netherlands, is now visiting In Philadelphia. He is Interested In the growing of apples in Delaware, along I with Mr. Orlando Harrison and oth- [ers, and is preparing to interest some i friends with him in the matter. Yellow Transparent is among the first of all apples to ripen. It Is of medium size, pale yellowish white, very tender in flesh and of sharp sn- iper acid flavor. It Is a better cooking I than eating apple. The tree is an ! early and a heavy bearer. Mr. F. M. Soper, the Apple King 1 of Delaware, has sold all his boxed Stayman Winesaps. and averaged about $3 per box for same. Some of them run sixty and less to the box. I New Jersey Agricultural College oprncd with fifty more students than last year, thirteen being women, two of whom take the course In fruit growing and market gardening. Many practicing physicians are tak- ing keen Interest In apple orchards managed by trained hortlculturallsts as offering attractive Investment for their surplus funds. America's "Apple Queen" was re- cently crowned at Denver. Colorado. Delaware Grangers have been lin- ing up for better roads between th« farms and the market towns. We are advised that R. L Richard- son, of Delaware, is selling his Stay- man Winesaps for |8 per barrel. Mr Ri(hardson has the reputation of growing some of the very finest ap- ples on the Delaware Peninsula. I The demand of the world for the 'winter apple has grown faster than 'the supply, and bids fair to continue to grow. Every nation In the world wants the winter apple. — Philadelphia Record. Farmers who would be successful apple-growers must learn what a good marketable apple la. and then grow It.— Rural Life. BE OF GOOD CHEER. Happiness counts. Cultivate a cheerful mind. Sing, laugh and seek the sun. And cut out grumbling altogether. Right all the wrong things possible. If unrightable, ignore them when you can. Look for beauty and yo»i will find it always. Happiness Is in work as often as it Is In pleasure. Do you feel blue? How many would change places with you? It Is petty vexations that kill us and not the great sorrows. "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine," said Solomon. "A man." wrote Dr. Johnson, "should spend part of his time with the laugh- i er?." I "Next to virtue." declared Agnes Strickland, "the fun in this world Is what we can least spare." Apples packed In boxes with lids ipartly loosened or ventilated nnd 'partly buried near the surrace of the ground and covered with a few inches of earth will keep almost as well dur- ing the winter months as in the most approved modern storage house. Half the failures to make fruit- growing profitable come from care- less and improper picking, grading, packing and selling. Winter pruning of fruit trees results In more wood and more growth. Sum- mer pruning In more fruit buds. Prtuie the young trees now. If you have apple culls the pork dealers will pay more for them than the grocer. Apples and pumpkins have been getting high praises at farmers' meeting as ideal foods for porkers. I Harrison Bros.' Nurseries, at Ber- ilin. Md., are said to be the largest in the world. Visit them this winter. Subscribe to "Eastern Fruit." Fifty cents for a year. Mr. F. C. Bancroft, the successful fruit grower of Wyoming. Delaware, was a visitor In Philadelphia recent- ly. Sussex (fjunty. Delaware, claims the production of the largest strawberry shipments of any county in the world. Bridgeville has the record of '42!i refrigerator and 75 ventilated c.'irs the past season. A recent speaker at a farmers* meeting advocated early peas foUow- ied by a late crop of tomatoes. ' Many Eastern strawberry growers are devising methods to Irrigate, re- cent experiments having demonstrat- ed the entire feasibility of increasing the yield 100 per cent, by the use of artificial watering In dry seasons. •^ ■ 8 EASTERN FRUIT Harrison's Nurseries THAT APPLE BARREL. And Why it Ought to be Better Filled Than it Is. It is good news for tlie Amerii-an people says "The Independent," v\!ien we can chronicle at the begin- I'ing of the harvest that the apple (Top is pretty good. That is probably the best that can be said of it, for uhile bigger than that of 1910, it is I'y no means a universal success. Some ot the apple States, like Maine, !>0 per cent., and California, 80 per cent., of a full crop; but the best from .'\rkansas is 24 per cent.; "!lli8- souri, 30 per cent.; Massachusetts, 37 p«'r cent.; Michigan, 38 per cent.; Ohio, 4fi per cent.; while West Vir- ginia gets up to 50 per cent.; Iowa, GO per cent.; Idaho, fi2 per cent.: Colorado, 07 per cent.; but Indiana drops down to 15 per cent., and Ore- gon reports 41 per cent. The outlook is for a crop large enough to give the boys and girls of the United States a fairly good supply. The pint now is not to let the spec- ulators deceive the farmers, buy up the stock and put it away in cold storage till next spring. The price for the farmer in the orchard ought to b< a good one, when the fruit is well selected. It happens, however, that not one single crop generally grown iu our country is so meanly cultivat- ed, so ignorantly handled, and so de- ceitfully sorted as the apple. It is nearly impossible, in open market to find l)arrels that have not been laid at the head and stuffed in the mid- dle. If there is one place where we reed to have a new social piety touch it is the apple barrel. Give us the best apples, thoroughly sorted and carefully handled, so that they will keep all winter, and it will add 20 per cent, to the health of the young folk, and the old folk as well. Cheap oranges are w*>ll enough, if they are ripe when picked; but there is not a fruit that lan rejisonal)ly displace the a#ple for its delicious eating quali- ties and its effect on digestion. One year ago thousands of barrels of ap- ples were bought all through the apple belt for $1.50 a barrel and im- mediately sold at $6.00. The farmer should be more wideawake on the market question. Our Agricultural Department should give out the exact facts as to the crop ahead by the middle of August, and the growers should put themselves in connection with the Ilefjartment, and so save tlemselvrs from fraudulent state- ments. Talking about apples, which is a spicy topic at this time of the year, one of the best authorities on the subject tells us that there- are not apples grown even In bumper years, to meet the Increased export demand and then go around among tlie boys and girls of the United States. Every country home-owner should plant this fall at least ten appU- trees, and then he should consider them as special pets, taking care of the trees on sci- entific principles: that is. he should feed them well, trim them well, spray them thoroughly, thin his fruit wise- ly, pick it carefully and barrel it hon- estly. Living In the apple belt of the States our population must be fifty- five millions, for this belt reaches all the way from Canada down into the Gulf States. We should like to see an enthusiasm awakened that would plant an apple tree for every unit of these millions. Nothing will i)ay I>etter or pay faster, if the orchard or even the single tree is dealt fairly by. Each tree at eight years should yielfl $10.00 worth of fruit annually. At twelve years of age the same tree, If not smashed by ladders, or allowed to run to suckers, will bring the family dou- ble that amount of fruit. Orchards are plentiful which yield eight bar- rels of well-graded fruit to the tree, worth between $30.00 and $40.00 in any good market. Here is the easiest, the noblest and the most wholesome Of all crops, a specially Yankee fruit. J. G. MARi^lSOINI & SONS, Proprietors BERLIN, MARYLAND FRUITS AND ORNAMENTALS '\\c lia\c firsl-class shipping facilities and can forward orders promptly. We have a private siding running into onr sheds on which \vc can load several cars at once. All roots arc hist carefully "pulled." We pack in moss and straw, hurlapping evergreens, crating strawberries and other small plants, and bundling or boxing trees. Car load orders are heavily ]>ackcd and the doors sealed. \\ c have some surplus trees, plants and shrubs— all fir.st-class stock of real "Harrison Ouality" — clean and healthy, with good roots. The surplus list contains many varieties of apples, peaches, pears and cherry trees. Also California Privet, Evergreens, strawberry plants and an extensive assortment of trees and shrubs. Submit to us your want list. i'o insure the best of the stock oiYcrcd, we recommeiMl placing orders early. ADDRESS, cl. G. Harrison St Sons BERLIN, Md. or nowhere else in the world does the apple thrive as it does in Amer- .ca. Let ue have an apple craze. BANKING TREES AGAINST MICE. OUR GREAT SUBSCRIPTION OFFER! EASTERN FRUIT 1 Year, Regular Price 50 Ccato and FARM JOURNAL 2 Years. Special Price. 35 Cents Total . . 85 Cents SOXems f^M^^s'"- •k'cMi.'S^ ^r~~: F About this time of the year people jsually begin to inquire about some sure method of preventing mice from vorking round young peach trees. From several years' experience we have found what we believe to be a at her sure method of warding off this evil. About the latter part of Oc- tober or the beginning of >3"ovemt)er We take all the trash and weeds from round the trees we are protecting and throw six or seven shovelfuls of dirt— that is, real dirt, no grass in it — round the bottom of each tree. This earth must be tramped well and shotild form a mound five or six 'nches high right against the trunk. Unless the ground is in a very weedy '. ""ondition the whole operation does not take over two minutes. At this rate an orchard of several acres can be cared for in a few hours' spare time. Some four years ago we had be- tween three and four acres of peach [trees that were two and three years ; old. Some of the trees had been bo badly girdled that they died and many of the others were stunted so that it took them a whole year to make up the lost growth. We plowed a furrow about a foot away from the base of the tree on each side of It. taking care not to go close enough ' or deep enough to injure the roots "' ' seriously. The work was done with a -^ one-horse plow such as is used for imade their way, and this is especially If has been found by careful ob- <-lose working in the orchard. By 'true of a young tree. servers that many varieties of fruit doing it this way much time Is saved | There is no need of taking down «ire sterile to their own pollen; that ARM JOURNAL is a iijrtfonal agricultural and home magazine, published monthly in Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. In circu- lation and influence it is unquestionably \\\e foiemost farm paper in the ivorld. It goes each month into six hundred thousand homes in the United States. Canada, Mexico, and foreign countries, and is regularly read by three million people. FARM JOURNAL was first issued by WiU mer Atkinson, in March, 1877, and has been published continuously by him to the present time.lt consists of from 24 to 60 pages, accord- ing to themonth.lt is printed on good white paper in large clear type, and is fully illustrated. The high quality and practicality of the FARM JOURNAL, together with the very low price of subscription, make it the most remarkable value among American periodicals. EASTERN FRUIT begins with this i»sur. It is also a monthly journal and its mission is l« tell the truth and the whole truth ahout fruit in the East— the home of "Fruit with a flavor." Its aim will be to be practical, to publish both the how and the result, and to make those compari- sons that heretoiore it has not been the special work of any journal to make. It stands for the 'ogic of raising food supplies at the doors of the Eastern market, and it will show why "The Young Man Should Stay East." Published by EASTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY. Not Incorporated, |201 CHESTNUT ST.. Piiila. EASTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1201 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Pa. Gentlemen ; Enclosed find 50 cents, for which please send "Eastern Fruit" for one year with \he "Farm Journal. ' for two years as a premium. Very truly. wind itself is not a very important factor in carrying it from one tree to another, and that the bee is, the oiily reliable agent in doing this work. as less handwork is necessary. How- ^he bank in the spring, for it can do ever, in many instances this plan jno harm and will naturally be work- nannot be followed, because the heads ed down by the summer rains.— of the trees are too low to allow a Country Gentlemen, horse to pass under them. Another advantage derived from this method of banking dirt round a A load of apples containing 200 tree is that such a bank tends to bushel baskets of William's variety. \ The barrel is a good apple package, hold the tree solidly in place in the and which brought $300 for the load, providing it is rightly packed— the winter and spring, when the winds Iwas delivered at Wyoming station hy same variety, size, and quality of are doing their best to loosen and up- Francis M. Soper. proprietor of the |fr"it all the way through— and hon- iset every tree that is out In the open. Red Apple Farm. It was the largest .estly labeled. The box will never ' Np tree Is going to do so well If the load ever driven to a station in Del- |crowd out the well-packed barrel in little feeder roots are worked loose aware and it brought the most o"r Eastern appie districts.- Rural from the soil Into which they have j money.— Delaware Republican. Life. J i^ Eastern VOL.1. NO. 2. PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY 1, 1912. FIVE CENTS FROM MAINE TO NORTH CAROLINA Briel Notes From the "Fourteen Eastern States, That Grow the Best Fruits in the World, and OHer the Greatest Opportunities lor Young Men "Eastern Fruit" is the most out- spoken, persistent and Insistent advo- cate of home production for home markets. It stands for the logic of the short haul, and the cultivation of the old home farm by modern methods. It does not believe in Eastern boys going West to learn progressive meth- ods, nor in our giving to the West the native born energy and enthusi- asm of our best young men, when that same energy could be utilized to the mutual advantage of young and old right here. Thousands have gone, who to-day wish themselves back, and inquiries are coming daily lor more information about opportunities to grow food supplies at the doors of the Eastern markets. This journal is to- day almost the only mouthpiece In the United States whose exclusive mission it Is to exploit THE EAST. Our motto Is "Young man come East." The tide has already turned. "Students and hard headed business ! men have seen the pot oi gold at the { foot of the rainbow, in the meadow | of the old home farm." The few Hues I we print in starting this department j from each one of the fourteen East- ern States that comprise our terri- tory while all too short, owing to lack of space, tell Indeed a wonderful j story, a greater story of opportunity, I we believe, than anywhere else on i earth: MAINE. (PopuUtlon 742,371.) | I^ud area 29,895 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile, 24.8. Receives about 115.000,000 a year from recrea- < tion seekers and sportsmen. The I State grows annually 975,000 barrels of apples. Aroostook county alone ships upwards of 15,000,000 bushels of potatoes. t Liberal appropriations are annual- ly made to encourage agriculture, maintain fairs and exterminate In> I sect pests, the laws In regard to which as published in a copy received from the Commissioner of Agricul- j ture, are up-to-date and drastic. and fourth in the total value of man- utactured products, lias cheap lands, rich in mineral plant food, and an enormous State demand for first-class food products. CONNECTICUT. (Population 1,114,750.) Population per square mile 231.3. lias. Invested in agriculture, an esti- mated capital of $115,000,000 though the land area is only 5,004 square miles. The Connecticut tobacco crop in 1909 brought the growers |3,000,- 000. Total agricultural products amount to about $30,000,000 a year. Kememl)er that these figures are from a "manufacturing" State. years ago with an old gray horse and half an acre of strawberries, the Har- risons, consisting of father and sev- eral children, have Increased then- nursery business until it occupies al- most 3,000 acres, and grows young trees by the tens of millions. There is not a community in the whole east- ern United States where Harrison trees are not growing in orchards of customers. But very early the policy of plant- ing out orchards of their own was be- gun by these Berlin nurserymen. From time to time, by themselves or in association with others, they plant- ed orchards In West Virginia, Mary- land, Delaware and other States. Now , 250,000 trees bear fruit to swell Har- rison bank accounts, and fruit men : recognize their orchards as among the largest in the world. These orchards are not utilized for profit alone. Everything they teach in regard to fruit growing is given freely to any- one who asks, and they furnish the sent to school, homes improved or bought, all because the man at Ber- lin realized that planting trees and giving them proper care bFings pros- perity for those who do it or help do it. All over the fruit growing world, the tests and trials made in Harrison orchards are making results more certain, lessening work, and increas- ing profits. Varieties are tried out, their requirements learned and their adaptabilities proven. Every kind must prove that It is commercially valuable before any of the trees are permitted to reach planters in general. Likewise orcharding methods are test- ed, experiences recorded, and the benefit of the experience freely given to frtiit growers everywhere. Doing such a work as he does, we wonder if Mr. Harrison does not of- ten reflect — as he hears that some one of his customers has improved his house, or bought an automobile, or sent his boy to college— how much RHODE ISLAND. (Population 542,ffl.) Laud area 1,0G8 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile 508.5 (high- est). miles. 191.2. never NEW YORK. (Population 9,113,614.) Land area 47,620 square Population per square mile Greater Inducements were made by New York State than are made under present conditions. The report of the Commissioner of Agri- culture, who desires to assist "East- ern Fruit" in every way possible, will appear in this department next month much condensed. (Continued On Second Page-) ORLANDO HARRISON NURSERYMAN An Untiring and Successful Business Man and Commer- cial Fruit Grower. NEW HAMPSHIRE. (Population 430,572.) Land area 9,006 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile 47.7. Attracts Tlwre are a few really big men In this country whose Interests are weighty enough to affect large sec- tions and the fortunes of great num- bers o£ people, and whose sympathies are so strongly allied with some wor- thy Industry that they continually OBLANDO IIAKRISOM almost as many summer visitors as I '*"*^ '^^^^^ influence to its country- Maine. Receives Cor manufactured ! wide development, even at great ex- goods $48,377,000 and for paper pulp and lumber $21,414,000. VERMONT. (Population 355,956.) I^nd area 9,135 square miles. Pop- ulation per square mile 39. Has (in Rutland) the largest marble centre in the world, with an invested capi- tal of $6,000,000. pense to themselves. No other Indus try has more possibilities of benefit ; for people In general than fruit grow- 1 Ing, and no big man has done more I for any line oi work cnan Orlando Harrison has done for this. Primarily, his business always has been the growing of young fruit trees, but he has looked beneath the surface of his work and has seen the hopes and plans and motives that are brought MASSACHUSETTS. (Population 3,366,416.) Land area 8,040 square miles. Pop- 1 *n^o P^^y when men plant trees, ulatlon per square mile 418.8 (2d), j Though a comparatively young man, Owns half the fishing vessels of the i the things Mr. Harrison has accom- United States, and does the world's ' pllshed amount to more than the biggest business in fresh and preserv- ! whole lifework of ninety-nine men i ed flsh; •tandi seventh in population | cue of a hundred. Starting thirty i best examples of what fruit growing iu the East really is. in building up such an enormous fruit business, nu- merous farms became the property of the Harrisons. These have been im- proved, many are planted to orchards, and nearly all are sold in the course of a few months or years, to those who want homes. Growing and selling trees, planting orchards, or making good homes out of run-down farms, has romantic and human sides of more importance than the financial or material considera- tions involved. When a man comes to Mr. Harrison for trees, either by letter or in person, some of his hopes and plans are explained; and when the trees go to him, they are accompa- nied by much valuable suggestion and disinterested help. The man's for- tune usually Is Influenced by what he gets beside his trees. Many a family's financial succesf It due to the ideas they get erom Harrlsont. Children are they were helped In accomplishing this result by the trees and sugges- tions he gave them, probably years before. It may be a farmer who comes for trees, and explains about the slim pile of money that must be made to cover the expense o£ his orchard. It doesn't take much imagination to see him. five or six years later, in th« first flush of his success and well on the road to independence. TRUER VALUE NEARER HOME. Foreign fields are always fairer Distance lends enchantment there; It is always over yonder We find bliss beyond compare. If we viewed with keener vision We would less incline to roam. We would place a truer value On the blessings nearer home. JOSEPH H. PASCHALL. Chester Helghti. Pa. ■<^ EASTERN FRUIT PITFALLS FOR THE BIGINNER A Full and Complete Article on the Subject. (Writt»'H especially for Eastern Fruit by J. R. Mattern.) VVliaL attracts auyoue to orchard- ing, and especially the beginner, is the high rate of return on the amount of money invested and the amount of labor expended. The average person entirely falls to grasp the real extent of the profits of orcharding, from a plain statement, and it Is necessary to compare this wiiii other busi- nesses, trades and professions to fully comprehend what the returns amount to. The modern orchardist puts a hun- dred trees on an acre and each one of these trees bears a bushel of fruit when It Is five years old. That Is 500 bushels an acre. When the trees are ten years old they will bear from five to ten bushels each on the average, making the acre yield from 500 to 1,000 bushels. After that yields in- crease steadily. But think of what 1,000 bushels of apples are worth. In the fall of 1911 they would have sold for $1,000 without any special effort by the grower. The cost of growing them would be no more than $300, so that $700 of the $1,000 is profit. One properly equipped man can care for at least ten such acres himself, with help for a few days at picking time. This has not been overdrawn, at all, though it sounds very large In- deed. There are plenty of Instances where such orchards are to be seen by anyone who takes the trouble to visit them. If the visit comes in har- vest time the apples themselves can be seen, and those who still are doubtful should get in touch with some of the markets, and learn that from $3 to $4 a barrel for good ap- ples is as little as ever needs to be expected, while the price will run much higher than that a good many seasons. LASt tall a professor of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station was visiting the orchard of Mr. A. L. Blaisdell, at Winterport, Me. In a con- versation the professor said that a valuation of $500 an acre should be about the right thing for Mr. Blais- dell's orchard, and the remark this brought from the owner rather startled him. "$500 an acre?" said Mr. Blaisdell. "Why, that orchard is netting me a lot more than $500 an acre every year." Any equipment that nets $500 a year should l»e valued at many times that amount. We could Instance dozens of orch- ards scattered over the East, but it may be that our readers will be more familiar with the orchards of Mood River, Ore., .Medford, Ore., Wenatcbe, Wash., Grand Valley, Col., or Bitter Root Valley, Mont. Here the net yields run as high as $1,500 an acre per year. The average is around $800. In those highly developed fruit sections marketing Is a science. They get every cent of value out of their fruit, even though they labor under a great handicap because of the long 3,000 miles between their orchards and the consumer markets. In less highly developed fruit sec- tions, where marketing methods are cruder, some modern orchards will average no more than $250 an acre net each year over a period of fifteen or twenty years from the start. It de- pends greatly on Ihe man who is run- ning the orchard, how he cultivates and feeds it, how he prunes and sprays the trees, and how he markets the fruit. But if any kind of a passa- ble attempt to do the right thing is made, the returns cannot help but be more than $250 an acre. Now, 1 am taking it for granted that no one doubts that orcharding is a highly profitable business when rightly conducted. It must be admit- ted freely that there are great oppor- tunities for making fortunes in grow- ing apples. But the man who is not familiar with every phase of the bus- iness should be careful in starting or his fruit growing connection will lose him money faster than a fake gold mine, and will afford him a lot of extra disappointment. There are three separate and distinct pitfalls for the beginner In orcharding. Every one who contemplates associating himself with a fruit growing enterprise In any way must know of these and avoid tliom, at whatever cost. If he Is fn succeed. The first pitfall the average man strikes Is to try to ))uild an orchard himself without snfl^icient experience and enough capital. The second pit- lall is to try to create or run an orchard in the wrong place, and the third pitfall is to join in an attempt to srow fruit with either those who are not qualified, or with those who are dishonest or Incompetent. Taking up the first danger in detail, we will consider the effort of the in- suflicieut capital. A tree Is a great deal like a calf or a pig in its physi- cal needs. It must be fed and cared for properly or It will become stunted and then it will never realize Its max- imum possibilities. The man who lacks capital usually satisfies himself with second rate land because it can be bougiit cheaply. He will prepare it hastily, and try to save money, with the Intention of giving better care later on. He will look at the price when it comes to buying the trees, will put the trees into the ground with a great deal too little care, or rather too 111 tie skill— Ije- cause skill and care come high. After the trees are planted they will be neglected. For instance, they may he left without mulch or with- out moisture-conserving cultivation, resulting in losing a great part of the season's growth. Rabbits and mice girdle the trees, killing each one from which the bark is gnawed com- pletely around. The pruning and spraying will be neglected, and when it comes to harvesting apples the haste and cheapness necessary makes proper grading, storing and packing Impossible. High prices absolutely depend on these things, and big prof- its depenr llave Them F.%RM No. 1 -1*1'6 apres on th*> w.Ttcr. Kiuui soil lor corn, wlieat. iiotafiKP, trucks anair. FARM No. 2— fi5 nrrcs at railroad station. .15 rlnarcd. to In wood* r:ond hijfli land for trucks, straw- berries, corn, potatoes, tomatoes, fruits. f>tr Can be divided In 1*" i\rn> lots If desired. 1 set of bui' i- Inga FARM No. •— 800 acres heaNy c]ay land. 200 acres clear. fiOn acres In tdno and oak timber, a barcain .T *et» of bulldlnfrs, 1 new house and barn. Timber irrowinv fast. Will divldo r,n acres or more to a nonae .ind ImlldinKa. If desired. FAR.M No. 4—10 acres at pdire of cornoraie Ilmlta Berlin; excpllent fm- corn. h.Tv. tomatoes, potatoes, and slrnwborries. New 7-room house, new barns and outbulldlnRs. Can ndd 3« many acres aa wanted no to 60 acres. FARM No. 5 — 160 acrea red clav enndy loam, excellent soli, will grow nny crop. Near railroad atatlon. school and fliurclie<«, a hnricaln: one 8< t of bnlldlnKs. FARM No. K — BO acres; new hous^. 7 rooms. n»>ar depot, tomato can- nery, Rood for Krowlntr potatoes, com, wheat and stock. Can add mo ao^,^s timbered land to this property If desired. and It number of nthei*a Ttial Estate Department HARRISON'S NURSERIES J. O. HanisoB A S»a», Prep*. BERLIN, UAXnJkXB "•V" " .■fc-.'*!^' ^^ EASTERN FRUIT EASTERN FRUIT Eastern Fruit Home Markets. "Young Man Come East." ITIUJSHKI) By THE EASTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY it. If he wants to put money In fruit 1201 Chestnut su Pbiiadelpkia. Pa. or rural business enterprises let him its demonstration farm. That's what rule had been applied to them the ed somewhat, and market men have the State Board of Agriculture can Arst year they were in business. had their own problems to enablp ,, , , , ...... .K Agriculture can ^^^^^. ^j^^^ ^jj ^^ j^ose connected them to compete with some of the aus^'e of Home iJoducUun for '^''"' ^^'^' '^^^^'^ ^^^ ^ ** ' ^^^h your publication are directly in- „ew conditions. The consumer of por- tion all the Eastern States as well terested in developing the business teriiouse steaks, fresh chickens, "fruit as the United States government is from which this company derives ben- ^.j^j^ ^ flavor," etc., also has his prob- spending money to disseminate. Let eflt. the attitude of this concern is „^s in these days of high cost of liv- the city man who has a job stay in asto""<*>»e- (.„^RLES WATSON *"^' ^""^ ^^® ^^^'"^'' *""* ^^°^^'' ^^^"^ ______1_ has his desires, and is to be reckoned -, ,, ^ »T i^o.. with. After all, there is no place to Whenever Mr. George H. McKay, ' o„f{o#««*«.,« „ ^ ^ ,1 rr. buy fresh supplies so satisfactory do as his city training teaches him, superintendent of the Reading Termi- - .... ao as nis ciiy iraum g t . y ^ ^ . ^^^ j^ Delaware on hs a good market where consumer go ir with a man who has proven his "ai Market, goes aown m ijeiawaie ou . ^ ^jj ^^^ ... his rounds among the tnnt men, the ana gro\\€r can meei aim wuere me ability by making a success of His ^,^^.^^^^^^ .^^^ ^^^^ ^^t y^^i, ^e has de- buyer can select from many stalls. To business. If two btishels of food (at parted. It seems that Mr. McKay is help in the restoration of the ancient present prices) can be raised where the cause of all the fruit growers of popularity of the old market, the fcn^erly but one was produced every- that State having large and sundry managers of the Reading Terminal body w'lnts to know it— most espe- hank accounts. It used to be that the arc planning to make some very im- ,; ' . ,,^ ,^„ XV- .-rm aPP'6 growers were easy prey for port ant changes. A high official of dally the boys who left the rarrn^ ^^^ commission men. and many sold ^y,^ company (who, by the way, be- "Eastern Fruit" should be encouraged ^^^j^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ jg.OO per barrel; ,^^,.^3 j^ publicity for the grower as to preach it from the housetops of while to-day they store their own represened by this paper), informed every big city. apples and hold them for the top ..Eastern Fruit" that about the first P^*<^«- The wives of the fruit growers ^^ ^^^^^.^^ ^^^ Terminal Company .MT vA/pcT nowadays are as careful in the selec- establish an Automobile Basket WHY HE WENT WEST. tion of their pullets for McKay's re- ! pasts as though he were a Methodist °* »very. One day during the robust weather preacher, but it is rumored that one This service will deliver market was produced his neighbors need to : ^f ^^lo past month, when the aver- day when he came unexpectedly he baskets to the residences within a know it. Still more do they need to age salesman stays inside and makes was invited *» ^hoot a fowj for his specified radius every two hours. If the service meets with the favor ex- S. M I'ASCHAIJ.. Kditor mid Ailverlisiiin M^r. I.ONTRIBUTING EDITORS: DR. II. A. SURFACE, Harrisburu. IM I,. <;. WALTER • • The Netherlaii FEBRUARY. 1912. IT NEEDS TO BE TOLD. When a man makes two blades of grass grow where formerly only one „n routes the door of the editor's own dinner, and that he found they can "pJ°" - ^^^ harder to judge age on the farm than ^^^ additional motor wagons will -" '•^^-'•d to Z^^"' Tw T from New V^rk citv '" ^^^ ^^^^"^^^ warehouse. Another ^^ ^„ ^^^ ^^^ ^^,,„^ ^,,^„^^^ raising more fruit or better fruit. ^^^^ ^^at day from New York c ty ^^^^^^ .^ ^^^^ ^,^ ,^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ making more money from farming, but who was a true type of out ^^y^ ^^^ j^^y of the house is to select ^.^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ attractive. It is know how he did It, and how they can "P do it. The same is true in securing more comfort by the same expenditure of energy or of any other Improvement of progress in the world. It is the business of the public press to tell of such progress, such suc- cess Among the items of daily news West"— a live wire in fact recently pullets next time from Seattle. He was Charles Wat- . son, or usuany just •■Watson," '''^ ^ J-^"",^;;^;-^^- -/^;^^^«-r ^^J .rand central, we.. ..ghted pavH.on planned to tear out several stalls and rebuild in marbles and metal a country boys who left the farm and furnished the brains to run the cities, kind of a man who just does things ---——^ "nice tVey look, but where ice cream, flowers, etc., may be and that's all, and he has done things, ,^^^^ ^^^^j^ jj^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ dispensed and with its tiled floors, pretty big things, mostly in the West, ^j^^ show; going to a restaurant they etc., become the real centre of Inter- He is nevertheless an Eastern boy. ask for the Eastern strawberries for est in the market. The push carts are for years have been the stories of the ^^^ j^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ looking forward their delicate flavor. And so it is to be given new quarters, and Twelfth to Eastern enterprises though we with the apple. Have you ever heard street, between Filbert and Arch, is .^. , , , . „, „„^ «, hja ♦oil, nnH °^ ^hc Applc of Sodom. or Dead Sea to be made attractive with show win- to conduct the great business enter- !^'"^. ° m .h, ,^ nf 1 man ^^P'^' ^'^^ ^ ^"^"''^"^ '^^"' ^"^ '^' ^ows behind the plate glass of which to connuct tne great ousiness enrer ^^^ ^,jg^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^hink of a man j^j,,^^ f„„ ^j allies? Not so bad with prises, to become judges, editors, doc- who once drank and then reformed ^^^ apple from the West, but through to"«<. millionaires. Newspapers, teach- coming to visit his o'd cronies. If irrigation the meat is loose and flossy ers and other agencies are also busy ^^ g^^s many more such shocks as ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ,g ^^^ compared with he rereived at the office of Eastern ^Y^^ ^pp^^ ,„ ^y^^ ^j^p^ givmg the youth of our land direc- pr„if he will, without a doubt, re- tions how they can win In the game lapse and go back to his beloved — — . of city life. Few .nnd small, however West. Here is what happened: We a prominput physirian of Wilming »». u^^e. ♦*,,♦ ♦«ii f^^ ♦*,« r^^T^^^x' had solicited an advertising contract ton. Del . in 1 are the Item? that ten or tne ninety . „„„»„ _,,» ' , from a conf^ern whose interests we garding apple and nine that fail, of the lives of espouse in a genera! way in almost expressed himself quite forcibly that drudgery, of the cheap jobs for sons every column. The answer of the con- there was more money, more health of good farmers, who need their up- cern was a polite refusal in writing and more happiness to the Delaware to-date boys at home to make an up- to <1« business with a paper that was apple grower than to the Delaware . , . less than a year old, and as we ex- professional man. to-date success. The same brains and ^^^^ ^^ ..^^^^ ,„ ^^e East." and stay the same amount of get ready will fit jn the game and fight, our answer to may be seen Eastern fruits. Eastern vegetables and Eastern growers. The cold storage department of this market is one of the finest and best in the city, and has long contributed towards the making of this the lead- recent conversation re- "iK and most popular place for grow erp to keep their f nienf to the buyer. culture in Delaware, erp to keep their fruitP. etc.. conve BOUQUETS FOR THE EDITOR. During the month a very large num- - . v,„ «„«„^«. „«„ fho rofnani u-HH readv when our vis- Subscribe to "Eastern Friiit." Two n voung man for big success any- tne rerusai was reaoy wiien »'ui vm ^.^^ ♦».:„ u- i. j *i. . itor called. He was allowed to read years for one dollar now. Price to be ^^"^ °^ "'^** ♦*>'"K^ ^^'^ reached the ' *^' them, and it seemed as though he increased later. ^^^^^ where "Eastern Fruit" copy Is Now when n public Journal like ^.pre a boy again with the Western prepared. Some of the messages were •Tastern Fruit" tells of the successes fever burning as of yore. He began to vv^ ^ave That End in Sight. accompanied with little checks that scmo fruit growers are making in the talk and he ended in a '"^^f' 7"'th the ^ received a copv of your paper and Indicate a real healthv appetite for T..a.are. Mariana. V,r.,„,a Pen.n- l^^V^V^VZ' ^Z ZTZ : rfSJ/J,' Vr§r 'rwoa,.",!;. '^rl "— -" " ' sula and elsewhere: giving figures on him and still makes. Here Is what before you. and I will be pleased to ret apple profits per acre that are he dictated: If it is true, how are we , do everything T can to aid you in the admitted to be substantially correct, goin,^' to make Eastern interests see 1 promotion of ''Eastern Fruit." T wish Very Good. I have received Volume 1, No. 1. some of our good friends say don't. their mistake keep their energetic it were possible for you to start n of "Eastern Fruit." This Is very good boys home and induce live-wire young : PaP^'-sonie^^^^^ indeed, and I congratulate vou upon When Eastern fruit growers read that to come back here and show us i ^,^^;;-;,;^:U>- pTbrat^'n^^f^tr; the enterprise. I wish to offer my'co- their neighbor's apples sell for higher the up-to-date farm and business meth- character than with one that you have oporation in such a way as may be prices In Philadelphia than the far- "^^ that are there put in practice p„t out. T believe that Eastern people possible. There is a great awakening m M M A. t M ^wr A. a tA. whilo thc East considers. are now being slowly educated up to „i^„„ *v « » ■l. ai h f *».i famed, far-traveled Western fruit. ^^ ^,^^ p^,^^^ ^, ^^^^^^^^ p^^j^. ^^e point of boosting their own pro- ^'"^"^ *^^ ""^ «^ horticulture in this they fear some city man "who has j have seen the correspondence be- ! ducts and are willing to pay a good State and I am gratified to see the beer whistled in and whistled out of tween and yourself and have subscription price for a paper that flevelopment of each additional factor a city factory dally for the best years also read your article in January is- ;;^;;*^^;T;"i,^;;/'^^-P^^;jcuUural' '"'""^ '" '^*' ^""""^ ^'"""^ '""" '*"' ^*'"' . ^ ,.. ,„ , _ , . sue entitled "Stay In the East. Young 1 jnons. Maryland state Horticultural of his life will come to Delaware and ^^^., ^^^ ^^^,^„^^ ^^ ^^^^ advertiser Hepartment. make a failure of apple growing." Oh. ^j^^ others in the East Is what drove broad acres, and free* sunshine? me, and many other young men, to ^ PROGRESSIVE MARKET. Would that be worse than for the the West, to which latter section i ' ^ ^, ^ "" ; . « « , , ... ,„ am now devoted. The climate In the The Reading Terminal To Be Reator- man from the country to end his life ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ,^ ^^^ ^.^^,^ ^^ ^^ ,^^ ^^^,^^^ Prestige. with his little family, In the squallor 3^,^ ^he soil averages up fairly well. of a city tenement? Docs our good hut when you look for co-operation. Jn the old days when all Philadel eral cause. — Dr. H. A. Surface, Penna. Department of Agriculture. People Always Listen When He Talks. I gave a cotiple of talks at Pittsburg on "Bringing Up Old Farms" and on "Berries." Neither talk was written friend know that there are to-day assistance and suppori from the peo- phja's first families lived within a few °"^ ^.'^'^ neither was ^worth writing scores of the sons of Delaware run- P^^ you would naturally expect it hlocks of "The Farmers' Market," "" nlnltrollev cars In the cItv of Phlla- '°"'' ^"^ ^^\^'^ '^'"''^'"'^ ♦ ^u." ^^^'^ «^^"P'«1 the site of the Read- ning trolley cars m tne city or t-niia f^Qj„ yo,,^ ^ork. you are met with a , „ rp^r^i„„i „» fr«,«i#*i, »« , %» %. a delphia? Sons who should have been flood of can'ts to every request or '"^ Terminal at Twelfth and Market .^...^_.. shown how to make $2,000 per year suggestion you make. Your young and ,"''^^„^^' " ^h! i?n, 11 ♦« J? w town. N. .T. V tA . >.««« -«^ - .rnn^ llvlne new publication will undoubtedly have ^^^ ^^^y of the house to go to market besides a home and a good living ^ experience as the young on Saturday morning, and sometimes out. "Eastern Fruit" has a pleasant sound: It suggests quality and flavor. Sorry I have nothing to offer for printing. — Horace Roberts, Moores- from ten acres of their father's old farm. That'a what the Pennsylvania man in the East. • • • So does not advertise in a newspaper twice a week. But as the city spread out and many of these old families We Know How. I hope you will succeed with your paper. — Franklin Dye, Secretary New ♦^ 9 0J d A FEW OPINIONS OF DELAWARE APPLES bushels from 500 one year old Yellow Transparents in 1911." I''. C. Bancroft, fruit grower, Wyom- ing, Delaware: "A commercial orch- ard under the management of a suc- cessful orchardist like Orlando Harri- son should be a success." W. N. Jennings, photographer, Phll- What People Say Who Come adelphia: "I have photographed many Face to Face With the Fruit and the Grower. lA!igh Mitchell Hodges, uplimist of the Philadelphia "North American": "I have paid 15 cents for northwest apples at Hallowell's, but, frankly, they do not compare with the Stay- man Winesap grown in Delaware." Frank Eldridge, Salem, New Jer- sey: "I always told you the East rais- ed better apples than the West." John H. Reardon, conveyancer, Cro» zier Building, Philadelphia: "I never tasted an apple equal to the Delaware Stayman Winesap." R. C. Doebler, cigars, 5517 Chester avenue, afer eating a Delaware Para- gon: "I didn't think you could grow such a fine apple here in tlie East." C. J. (Jack) London, mine owner, Colombia, South America: "The Dela- ware Stayman Winesap is the best apple I ever ate." of the apple orchards of Delaware and never before realized the tremendous importance of the apple industry of tliat wonderful State." Dr. Ellen B. Smith, Salem, N. J.: "The Stayman Winesaps are very fine." PITFALLS FOR THE BEGINNERS (•'oil tinned from Second Pago) Even utter liaving a well adapted orrhard situation, the proi)lem is not yd solved, lor varieties must be clioKon which succeed there. When it is n'ni«Mnbered that with the ex<-ep tiou of half a doz^n out of the luin- drod.s of kinds of apples, and lliese not generally recognized as standard kinds, any one particular variety is limited to about two degrees of lati- tude north and south or even a few George H. McKay, superinendent hundred feet of elevation, its field of Reading Terminal Market: "We have Eastern apples that have been in storage two years and they are fresh and in perfect condition." Allan Darlington, farmer, Thornton, Pa.: "Our forefathers never raised such fruit as the apples coming from Delaware; it shows what modern methods will do." H. S. Lippincott, manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad Demonstration Farm, Bacon, Delaware: "I have thor- oughly looked up the standing of the York Imperial Orchard Company and find it to be safe in every way: with a very high class of business men at the head of it." H. A. Surface, economic zoologist. Department of Agriculture. Pennsyl- vania, writing to the York Imperial Orchard Company: "I commend your enterprise, which shows that the East is at last commencing to awaken to its own possibilities." A. H. Dennis, with Gafchel & Man- ning, illustrators and engravers, Phil- adelphia: "The Delaware apple is ahead of anything I ever saw from the Northwest." Nellie Rea, United States Forestry Department. Washington. D. C: "I never liked apples till I tasted the Delaware Stayman Winesap. It is a new kind of fruit. The flavor is cer- tainly exquisite." Rev. Alfred Smith, fruit grower, at Wyoming. Del.: "A neighbor harvest- ed 80 bushels of 'Nero's' from 200 trees, six years old." T>r. Paul Smith, physician, Wilming- ton, Del.: "I have seen many wagon loads of apples sell for $100 cash at Wyoming. Del., station, and think of these apple growers marketing ten to twelve thousand dollars In early ap- ples." .fudge E. R. Cochran. Wilmington, Delaware: "As Delaware has been the greatest peach growing State, why should not the same Influences make if equally great In growing apples?" C. M. Hammond, fruit grower. Mil- ford. Delaware: "I got about four RafTroad Cotnpany can show hlni at less than one year old; suppose this became suburbanites fasbtons cbang- .Tersey State Board of Agrictilture, -THE- COMMUTERS* EDITION L»w»er»«. Bankers, City BiiHlness >Ien of aU kind* who Ure In (he «iilMirl»H nnd love (he tree* and the pnre nir nhonld necore March nnmber of EAST. BBfr FRUIT (one dollar for (wo j-ear«). It will contain plantlnir dirertlonn. and ttetiOled dlrectlonn from ezperta 4»f c«n*cial OM la rabnrlMin work; aUo naif for commercial orehardlat*. successful commercial rnlture, it will be seen readily that mistakes are very easy to make. In this way the kinds tliat sliouid l)e planted in any particular orchard usually are limited to a list of no . more than half a dozen. A further lim- itation exists in the purposes for wliich fruit is wanted. It mtist ripen at the proper season, must be of the right size and color and texture for vonr markets. If your orchard loca- tion is close to one of the large cities it is a great help, but the average beginner falls Into the common error of locating his orchard too far from the markets because the l)est fruit land iisnally is found further away. rii«' tliinl pittall is association wirh fltoso who are incompetent or arc d. Properly grown and i>ackee made in frtiit growing. .V yomig man might go to the country and in floundering through the preliminary years, acquire sufficient knowledge of fruit growing to conduct an orchard himself, but It would seem that if he would associate himself with those who know fruit growing, be would save much disappointment and time, and would get more profits. Fruit growing is the thing. There is noth- ing like It. But It mu«t be conducted propertly to be a financial auccest. W. N. JENNINGS 1305 Arch Street, Phila. Orcnard Cirkut Panoramas AND SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FOR CATALOG WORK ^ STRAWBERRIES.. I'lantu l>y lh« clozni ov In- llir nilllU'n _M \f 12(1 n>-rri< plmilcl ill 1»:". »m i"iirr. AI llie Ktmiiliii 'ii. mid th* ninvi iironiiiiiii;: "i th^ li«*w oiir^. lAigtFi RmUPi li. Ainril'D. Kvpry pLiiii irii'- in ii«iii'' AiKo Kni-iibrr? »iiriili\ I'rlTPt mill olhtT Sliiiil>l.fi • CiilliirM dirwtloiip wi(b r»cli iililp nieiit. B«»ulifulC»Uloxiif FKH.. >rtii| • p'xtnl l(uliy. My |i«r,oo*l 2uartiit)'p| l«rk of every Mle. W. F. ALLF.N IN Market Street. SalUbury. Mil. "" • ' " ■ » " ■ — " .■ Ixo Kucpbi^rr^ ,Blrtri.t.rrry,tJLtM>ppl«^i t \ y ml Ciiriiiiit riantHjOiiipe \lhr«.r«ii- V Do not allow gtock to mn In the orchard during the winter montha. •^ftifc ':zj^X' EASTERN FRUIT EASTERN FRUIT I THE "FARMER'S SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE. DISTINGUISHED VISITORS TO DEL- AWARE. )) Famous Pennsylvania Train That Has Started Things and The success of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's educational train has been marked. In conjunction with the- State Boards of Agriculture, county boards, granges and success- ful growers this college on wheels has been doing a great work. It ap pears to have attracted more atten- tion aiid to have started more in- quiries and set more people to think- ing this winter than ever before. In fact the inquiries and the proposals and plans for the next step are over whelming. Farmers and growers are eager to learn how they can increase their yield per acre with prices ae they are. The railroad people are at eager to denxonstrate the fertility o lands along their line, and plans lo get good farmers on all the unusert or half used Eastern farms consume the time of high railroad officials by day and cause them w dream of lonp freight trains by night. "We started this thing in a small way several In Oswego county, New York, three years ago, a run-down farm was of fered for sale at seven dollars per acre. An adjoining farm was on the market, the price asked per acre be- ing seventeen dollars. A doctor pur- chased both farms and began the work of improving them. On each I'arm was a neglected orchard, badly infested with insect and fungous pests. The new owner thoroughly pruned, sprayed and cultivated these orchards. This year he has gathered from them ten thousand I)ushels of apples. A Michigan man moved to South Carolina thirteen years ago and bought a tract of poor, worn-out land for $;j.r»0 an acre. By raising stock and growing legumes he has improved the condition of the soil until the 'arm would sell readily at $100 per acre. There are hundreds of such oppor- tunities in our Eastern states for the intelligent, progressive, industrious man to make big returns on his in- vestment in low-prioed lands. Every neglected orchard contains a mine of wealth for the man who un- derstands modern methody of orchard mp:o.rmi i t.- Rural Life. In company with Mr. Leigh Mitch- ell Hodges, optimist, of Philadelphia North American, and Mr. Harry Dar- lington, of the York Imperial Orchard Company, I had the pleasure of visit- ing some of the principal apple or- chards of Delaware. We found the soil and climate peculiarly suited to easy planting, rapid growing and early fruiting of strong, healthy trees. We Jound hundreds of acres in full bear- ing of the finest flavored apples known, and the wise owners rapidly becoming wealthy. The general pub- ic is not aware of the wonderful pos- sibilities of Delaware apple culture, but a few years Avill show a marked advance along that line. From my per- sonal investigation and careful weigh- ing of figures and facts, I am con- vinced that an investment in Dela- 1 ware apple orchards, under expert j management, will pay from 2B per . cent., the fourth year of planting, to j 100 per cejit., the seventh year. WM. J. noRsrcH. Ithan, Del. Co.. Pa It isn't feasible to indefinitely inter- crop your fruit trees. ^ ^-f.S AN-5 LONG LIFE. The apple may have been the cause of ail our troubles, but if the lovers i FREE BENEFITS FOR THE FARM. ER. There is one feature of the modern, progressive business house which every farmer and gardener can turn to his immense advantage, and that Is the large sums of money that are spent each year by the best and most energetic concerns on the item of their annual commercial catologues. No better example of the value of such a free commercial catalogue could be had than that issued by S. L. Allen & Co., in Philadelphia, mak- ers of the famous Planet Junior farm and garden tools. No matter whether you are an orch* ardist or a market gardener or a cot- ton grower, or a beet grower or a farm- er raising a great diversity of crops, you will find in this 64-page illustrat- ed handbook a perfect mine of useful information on how to make your work and your <-rops count most and your earnings motmt highest. A postal from you will bring in the return mail the Planet, .Jr., Handbook for 1912. Address S. L. Allen & Co., Box 1201Y, Philadelphia. 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Take Your Home Paper and EASTERN FRUIT Exhibit of VeKolabliMi and Kn*<.linr for Orio Year. OfK NOVFX CUB PLAN WITH VOIR LOCAl, HOME NKWSPAPER 1 Copyrighted 1912 by Stephen M. Paschall. In almost every ntighborhood there Is nfiw-.T.-dav>« n good, useful local news- paper It publishes home news that up-io- glad to accept NEW SreSCRIBEKS from us as agents at 2a i-enls lemi fur the year than their regular subseription prleo If yiu do not ahcadv fake the home paper Include It In your order for EAHTERN FRlTT, and remit THEIR 8rH8('RIPT10N PRICE (less 25 cents) WITH THE DOLLAR you send us to-day for two years of our paper. We present you with our ageney comnilsniou im a PREMIUM snd welcome you as a new subscriber to both papers. EXAMPI-K (showing what you save by subscribing NOW). If the Subscription Price of your Home Paper is one dollar per year. remit || .76 EASTERN FRUIT, si>eeial Two-year price i.oo Amount saved on Home Paoer 85 Probable amount saved on I^ARTERN FRUIT for 191.1 60 Total value 98.50 In the discussion as to the age of apple orchards our friend .Tohn Red- strake, of Salem, gives out informa- tion In regard to age of an orchard In Lower Penn's Neck township that mus our dates back some years. He says his Uncle .lames bought the farm about 1840, and about the sec- ond summer planted the orchard, and It has been there ever since, this year bearing perhaps more apples than before — and good apples, mostly winesaps. His uncle always said in bis latter years. "I set those trees with my own hands." Seventy years for an orchard, with the majority of tb« trees stltl standing. Is a pretty food r«cord. Can anyone beat It? HORTICULTURAL NOTES. If your home paper Is a one cent Dally we can generally start a New Subscriber on four months in advance at 2B cents less and you remit 11.76, same as above. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK leaves are fine for lining the stor- age pits. THE EASTERN PUBLKHiNG COMPANY Prepare land for a small fruit plan- tation this spring. 1201 Chestnut Street, rblladelpbin. Pa. fJentlemen — Please send EASTERN FRflT for Two Tears to the following address, for which find enclosed ONE DOLLAR. Do not neglect to provide ample ventilation for the cellar. Also send piibllshod Apples keep best In a cold cellar; just above freezing point. Trees injured by freezing very of- ten need to be severely cut back. at ' A neach tree will itand a heavier ^headmg back than an apple tree. county of stjito for the term of months, for which And cnclusea $.. Total Remittance I Name ...» i Addrera (> e> FRUIT NOTES. PUBLIC REVENUE FROM ROAD- SIDE FRUIT TREES. The Ideal soil for pear trees is rath er heavy clay loam. The American Consul in Germany, Every family should have a quince ^^- Robert J. Thompson, Includes the following Interesting Item in his daily report: "The sales of native fruit grown 9f tree or two. Begin earlier on cherry tree culti vation than for other fruit trees. Plum trees do well almost any where. They do best in rather mois. °^ ^^^ ^^^^ bordering the country soils. Remember that your ochard, esp* cially the young trees, need good cul tivation. Walnut trees- thrive under almos; any condition and do well In man} States. roads In the township of Linden, near Hanover, yielded this autumn $4,906. Along certain stretches of these roads the yield has amounted to |595 a mile. The Province of Hanover has some 7,000 miles of country highways, ,, ,, , , . . , ^ , bordered with fruit trees, the profit Keep all rubbish from about your , u-t.- ■ ^ ^ ^ Txi. - ,^ , ^ ..... """"•• '""' of which 18 appropriated toward the fruit plants so that mice cannot har ..„i,„„„ «p *u^ „^„^„ bor there. i "P"^®P *^f <^"6 roads. Move all of the trash standing In w^d^'sL^fl. """^ ^"'" '^ ^"^ "^^"''"^ ■ York Imperial Orchard Company, According to a Western journal, a ^^^^'^ Commonwealth Trust Build- machine for wiping apples has been Ing, Philadelphia, Pa. Installed In the Hood River Valley. \ Gentlemen: If you like cherries plant a mul- Enclised* please find check for eigh- (A Concentrated Solution of Lime and Sulphur) *«Equal to the Best, and Better Ttian ttie Rest SCAL.IME has been on the market for several years, and has filvcn perfect satlsfac- tlon wherever used. It is made of the best material, by skilled workmen, and is always uniform. ' PROF. JOHN P. STEWART, who Is the author of Pennsylvania State College, Bui. letin No. 9'2, on concentrated Lime-Sulphur, says: "A concentrated Lime-Sulphur should be a clear solution, of known definite strength, and contain nothing but Lime, Sulphur and Water." ^ If the liquid is not clear it may have lieen doctored to Increnso the density. If the Btrongth or density is not known It will be impos.sible to dilute it properly to obtain sprays of different densities, and 1' It contains anything execpt Lime. SulphiTr and Water, the added substances are of no advantan'' and may be a detriment. GUARANTEE We guarantee that SCALIME contains nothing but Lime Sul- nhur and Water, and that the strength or density Is 1.30 s. ff. <3.^ deRreos Baume) and if diluted In the proportion of 1 gallon SCALIME to 9 Kulions water will kill all the SAN JOSE SC.X^LE with which It comes in contact. Address Dept. B. Horticultural Chemical Company 662 Bullitt ^'uilding, Philadelphia, Pa. teen hundred dollars ($1,800) cash payment for ten (10) units in the Vork Imperial Orchard Company of Seaford, Delaware. This Investment Is made after a personal visit to the orchard at Seaford, and after consid- ering the matter in all Its phases. berry tree or two nearby for the birds. No man who lives In the country should overlook the list of surplub fruit tree stock of the great Harrisoi Nurseries as it appears on our lasi page. Conditions fouud on the average farm are most favorable for egg pro- Thereputation of the gentlemen who duction. and the cost per dozen has will operate this company was a large been found to be approximately eight ■ factor in my decision In making this I purchase, and to Invest my money One of the most Important prob without any return for several years, r«n 'nht«r? ,T^^ H^^^^ ^.^\l^^ ^^.^' ' ^8 I belleve the prospect fer a most can obtain a lalr share ot the prict .,, . ^ K x, i, .. **. the consumer pays for produce, is tha. gratifying return to be excellent, oth- of wide distribution. Organization is ; erwise I would not have bought the the salvation. j Interest that the above sum repre- Apple tree pruning should be fln- sents. ished t)y this time, but see to it yet that all broken limbs are removed. Shorten In all the rest. Three-fourths of the fruit thinning can be done by pruning. . Did you make any money out ol your crop this year? Now is the timf to make a record of the good sugges- tions gained from your own work and Very truly yours, JAMES E. HOLME. THE RIGHT WAY, Men are prone to procrastinate in the doiutf of the right thing, and after a while their thoushts become diverted into other that Of others, so' that you will not ^>^a"n'>«. and they cease to think of doing forget them by next harvest time. The usual distance between apple trees In the East Is 35 to 40 feet, and in the West 25 feet. Peaches are set from 16 to 20 feet apart. The dis- tances are based on the size of ma- ture trees In each locality. The sw^eet cherry as a crop is a very heavy producer, and Its proflts in the State of Washington are cans ing many growers there to use smudges and orchard heaters. In the East there are many localities where no killing spring frosts will be found. The largest grower of strawberry plants In America sent his advertise- ment to "Eastern Fruit" as soon as he read the first copy. Perhaps that's the reason he is the largest. He knows a good thing the minute he sees It — and he does things. In preparing land for a new orchard take time to plow it all very deeply before a tree Is set, and If there Is a hard "plow sole," or a tight sub-soil, loosen It up with dynamite. Before the trees are set Is the last chance to fork under the trees. In the South, and where the winter climate Is mild trees planted In the fall have a better chance to become your best thereto draw therefrom all you established In the soil, ready for the want, llow? By science and expert skill spring growth. In windy or cold places spring planting is best, al- though a dry summer is fatal to many young trees. WHITEFORD & SONS. Messrs. W. Scott Whiteford & Sons, of Whiteford, Maryland, which Is 7 miles west of the Susquehanna river j and near the Pennsylvania line, had a good average crop In their orchards i last fall. They got six bushels per > tree from six-year-old Staymans: from flve-year-old Staymans they averaged ; three bushels per tree per acre. These enterprising growers took first prize for best Stayman wlnesap apples at the Maryland State horti- cultural meeting held In Baltimore ir December. Iflll. FARMS HOUGIIT, SOLD AND KX- chaiijied. No matter wber« located Write CHAS. A. niU,PIUS J88 Pleasant Ave , New Vork. SCALIME that, which would bring them what they most desire — Ease and Comfort. The op- portunity Is passed Idly by. it needs but the willing to do; to begin, to atari. It is not so hard to keep right along afterward. It Is as easy to travel the right road an It is to continue on the wrong one: though lots of folks don't think so. Suppose mistakes have been niadi«, what of it? Forget it. Start afresh. Charles Reade wrote: 'It is Never Too Late to Mend," and he wrote the truth. It is never too late, and one is never too old. STRIKE OUT. What do you want? Fortune? It is yours for the asking. Only get in the right (current and It is done. Nature i