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Title: Eastern fruit
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Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Fruit-culture; Farm life; Country life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Eastrn Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Penn State University
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Surplus Stock of F'RUI'T TI^EiES This is all first-class stock of real Harrison The following interesting letter from Henry J. Luce, one of the own- ers of the Shady Hill Fruit Farms at South Newburg, Maine, reaches us bearing the date January 8, 1912: ^ Our farms are typical of New Eng- land, rocky and broken. We are en- gaged in mixed farming, but our lead- er is apples. We get our profit and enjoyment from raising apples. We have about forty acres of apple trees of different ages. We have one acre of Wolf River trees three years old that I would not sell for $'.00, be- cause I do not know where I could Following: is a list of surplus fruit trees, unsold on January 20th. place that amount of money where it Quality"âclean and healthy, with good roots. would be as safe and enhance in value \\ ^ ^ave first-class shipping facilities and can forward orders promptly. \\'e have a private siding running so fast. into our sheds on which we can load several cars at once. All roots are first carefully pulled." We pack in moss One of my neighbors sold ninety- ^^^ straw, burlapping evergreens: crating strawberry and other small plants, and bundling or boxing trees. Car- six barrels of Wolf River apples from ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^.^^^ ^^^^^ ^,^j ^^^ j^^^^.^ ^^^j^j twenty trees. Tlie product of one- third of an acre, which is at the rate of $500 an acre net. They sold for $2.50 (F. O. B. car), which is lower than they have sold for several years. Over one-half of our trees are Ben Davis: they are the best paying ap- ples we raise for tlie following rea- sons: They are an annual bearer, a good apple to keep in common stor- age, and stand up well to ship to Europe, where a large part of Maine's li^l!i^^^^-/ ;;;;;:)\\\\\\ goo fruit goes. CrawfonVs Lulu 500 Last year we sold two cars of Ben VcenHe;tan;evV"i:^ie>:: III Davis for four (4) dollars per barrel, t-iiairs (MioiL«i Three years ago we sold one car for Jlreve-.^KavoritV'..â â .â . "30 four (4) dollars per barrel. Four years sie;.heii'» it. u 230 , .0 rA 1 I Mamie Koss 700 ago for $3.50 per barrel. c.,,,, pje .,... We have an acre of Ben Davis nine years old I would not sell for $1,000. We raised on two acres of orchard (most of the trees over fif- teen years old) COO barrels In three voiu inu'<^iiai years. One year the crop netted us TnnlB^JlKient" 9 O-IC i,i *i in. ft-lG in. I'li.v .^^eedling uOO t'li-,'. nsbcu-o lOOU Hilyt-ii 000 Km ma Ml. Kosn 500 Garv'a Hold On 300 Hav iJyOO liell 500 «000 1200 1'600 160 :too 300 300 200 820 2700 100 4-5 It. 800 L'OOO 400 U'OO 1800 6000 2000 6000 10000 1750 100 30i> 300 200 350 2000 100 'ii In. 3-1 It. 100 2000 400 1500 1500 7000 1200 100 3S0 1000 lOU 2-5 ft. 700 lUOO 500 1000 1000 C500 1000 1400 100 800 700 100 1-2 ft. 1200 1000 500 1000 1000 6000 180 1800 400 370 800 000 % 9-1C % 1 in. ^ in. 9-16 hi. C-7 It. 5-6 ft. 4-6 ft. Uenton 300 lOnglo's Mammoth .... 300 Early Michigan 50 KthoTs Mam. (same as Capt. E<lf) 50 Eureka Foster Fitzgeralil Ford'B Latf tiolil Mine Harrison Cling 100 Kalamazoo Krummel's 200 McCallister Niagara New Piollfic 200 I'lcquet's l.atc- ITize Slappo.v » Elberia 10000 Sneed Waddcll 200 GOO L'OO â¢-â¢00 50 500 300 400 600 ::oo 500 100 200 1000 50000 100 600 300 300 60 60 200 600 200 100 50 500 300 400 600 200 600 â old 300 2000 76000 100 600 Va In. 3-4 ft. 2.3 ft. 1-2 ft. 200 800 60 200 300 60 60 100 300 100 100 60 100 300 400 300 200 600 100 200 2000 7600O lOU 600 100 200 100 100 60 100 100 SOO 200 200 600 100 200 600 60000 100 600 100 100 SOO 100 200 300 100 100 600 60000 400 f^vo-year 1 In .Myrhk Holie Lankford . Cooper's K. Chanango I.,lmber Twig . .. Kinnard's Choice ⢠'offelt Beauty Dominie Salome Pewaukee Carthouse $500. We bought a fruit farm this last season for $2,000 which has netted us $500, twenty-five per cent, on our in- vestment. I expect it to pay double the above amount as soon as we can prune, fertilize and cultivate the or- chards properly. ^^^â^. ,,.jâ^,^ In this section apple trees will be- Mann gin to produce fruit In six years. If ^'^^,^^. ^*;*"'^. one uses up-to-date methods of cul- Fannv ....'.".'. ture. A man can make more out of ^*a*bridge .'.â . irult growing now than he could in .springdau â the past. We have received a higher R's'""'-* average the last ten years than the rrevlous ten. But the man tliat would succeed at fruit growing must be .ilert, use Improved methods of cul- xranscendint ture, pack his fruit honestly and keep Hysiop Informed of the markets. Very truly yours, HENRY .) LL'CL:. Market. B-7 ft. 11-16 In. 4000 L-800 800 200 lOU 500 150 360 600 400 200 300 360 400 400 600 400 260 300 «00 300 600 60 5-6 ft. 4-5 ft. 3-4 ft. 2-Sft. % in. 10000 4000 20oi» 100 200 100 60 3UU 100 100 100 300 100 100 100 160 100 200 100 100 100 100 60 Mi In. 10000 1000 1 In 10000 I.onglield I.ate Kaspbeiry llawle's Janet l^arly Strawberry Smith's Older .Martha Senator I'ayne's I.,att' Keeper., â¢leffries Ingraifi Hysiop Sweet Bough Missouri Pippin Vellow BeMflower .... (2. It. .Tune Orimea Golden K W. Sweet Fourth O'-Iulv Early Har\est Ked Astrachan Ben Davla N. W. Greening Yellow Transpart lit . . 6-7 ft. 11-ie In. 300 300 300 100 3tf M* IM â¢M 600 200 100 BO 600 600 400 1000 1200 800 2000 700 &000 BOO aooo 6-6 ft. % in. 100 300 300 100 Iff M« IM 200 100 100 BO BOO 700 SOO 600 1100 200 BOO BOO lOOOO 4-6 ft. 3-4 ft. 2-3 ft. la. 300 100 APPLE, one-year 11-16 in. C-7 ft. KILLING INSECTS BY ITY. ELECTRIC- Golden Beauty Vellow Bellflower King Fameuse .lonalhan Winter Banana 700 Missouri I'ippin Kambo Mann C. R. .Tune A. O. Russelt (Jweot Bough .\rkansas Black Smith's Older 100 P. W. Sweet Fallawaier Field Estimate Qolden Sweet Northern Spy Talman'a Sweet Ben navls % in. D-C ft. 1000 500 lUOO JuO 1000 100 4000 3000 600 600 600 700 100 300 600 300 200 iii. 4-5 ft. 20UI) lOoO 1000 I'uO 600 100 6600 1000 1600 200 600 600 100 200 200 600 600 1000 3-4 ft. 1000 1000 500 2.10 500 100 6000 1000 600 200 200 100 200 200 100 400 1000 luO 200 1800 300 1000 200 1600 600 SOOO 100 600 400 800 11-16 % In. in. :-3 ft. 1-2 ft. 6-7 ft. 1000 600 Duchess 500 500 Rome Beauty .""ifio 6oO Early Harvest 2000 4000 :;ri<i 100 Williams* Early Red.... a&O L'oo Wealthy 100 100 N. W. Greening 2000 1000 Spitzenburg 1000 600 600 Baldwin BOOO 20000 Stark 2000 6000 Oano 380 ISOO Nero 2600 2B0O Gravnnsteln 1200 Hubbardston's 1400 R. I. Greening 2000 York Imperial 3000 Grimes Golden 6100 Yellow Transparent 13000 Red Astrarhan 2500 Stayman's Winesap .... 260 9000 Wolf Klver 1000 3000 Mcintosh Winesap Grimes Golden .. 200 Myrick 210 Early Melon 160 Townsend 200 Ingram ISO Pavnn's I-its K... liO 60 260 B'anny L,ate Raspberry. Senator 100 I^ngfteld 140 Benonl 78 Jeffries 100 Flora Belle 90 Martha 220 100 100 200 F'lEL^O ESTIMATES Coffelt Beauty ... 17B Pewaukec 200 Alden Red 240 Oarthouse 1*0 Virginia Beauty.. 75 Walbrldgc 290 Roman Stem .... 160 Cooper's .Market . . 30 QUINCE 4000 6000 1000 2000 2000 1000 1000 10000 800 800 600 1300 1400 600 20000 1100 2000 2000 9600 500 260 3000 600 400 1000 1000 600 600 6000 400 300 1000 IBO 10000 900 1600 1000 16000 200 700 1000 1000 BOOO 100 800 600 2000 100 BOO Cooper's Market.. 300 Chenango 200 Canada Red 100 Klnnard's Choice. Opalescent 2B0 Salome 100 Scott's Winter 100 Blsmarok BO Early Ripe Fourth O'July... . 360 Lankfojd 200 Dominie 400 Early Strawberry. 160 Lawver 660 1 In. Early Iti< hmoml Montmorency Black Tartarian 600 180 % m. 10000 1000 2000 coo 1000 200 300 8-4 1100 % In. 10000 4000 1000 100 1000 60 2-3 700 Champion CHERRY, t"wo-year. 2000 900 S-4 300 Electricity as an agency to destroy the codling moth is the latf'st innova- tion of modern apple-orcharding in the Spokane Valley, where W. M. Frost, Inventor of the device, and Y. I'. Lawrence, a practical grower of Spokane, made a demonstration on the evening of August 18, according to the "Electrical Review." The apparatus consists of a storage battery to operate Incandescent lamps of 6c. p. in globes, which are netted with fine steel wires. Attracted by the bright light In the tree, to which the globe is strung, the moth ^rans flies against the network, completes the electric circuit and is instantly killed, the body dropping into a re ceptacle beneath the globe. Mr. Frost thinks that one apparatus Baldwin . . .,1 , iu Gov. WooEA.R-8tandard 1 in. % In. H In. ....5000 30000 6000 1000 IBOO RI-UM 300 V- In. BOO 240 200 3-4 In. 2-3 In. BOO Knglish Mfirrello Louis rhllllps Napoleon Ostheim Wragg Yellow Spanish Rockport DWA.RF' PEAR Duchess 4-6 ft. S-4 ft 1 m. % fn. '. 60 700 100 100 100 600 % in. 70 60 100 80 40 20 100 2-t H In. S-4 In E» 930 900 Shropshire Concord 60000 Moore's Early. .. .20000 Niagara 6010 â¢4« U9 J. G. HARRISON & SONS, Berlin, Nd. DELAWARE AND SUBURBAN EDITION Eastern Fruit^ A Monthly Journal of Eastern Rural Life and the Development of Eastern Opportunities VOL. I. NO. 3. PHILADELPHIA, PA., MARCH 1,1912. FIVE CENTS EXHIBIT OF DELAWARE APPLES Good Publicity for Eastern Grown ApplesâScores ol Interested Visitors An exhibit of Delaware apples has heen held during the past month in Philadelphia that has attracted a great deal ,of attention and favorable com- ment. As noted in our February edi- tion there had been an exhibition at Pocomoke City that had surprised the growers themselves. There had not previously been a Delaware apple show of such extent, such variety, such size, color and quality of fruit. There was a general desire expressed that the display be shipped bodily for wider publicty. This took shape in an offer made to several of the exhibitors by Mr. Orlando Harrison, president of the York Imperial Orclmrd Company, to display the fruit in the Philadelphia G. Frank Gootee, of Clayton. There were also some fine Ben Davis and York Imperial apples that had grown in Delaware under a Harrison label, and during the last week Jonathan and Baldwin apples from Tonolway Orchard Co., Hancock, Md.; Squash apples from Hanson Bros. Elliott City, Md.; Grimes Golden and Stayman Winesap, from A. Darlington Strode, West Chester, Pa.; Blue Mountain fruit from S. N. Loose, Edgemont, Md., and the following specials from Mayer & Son, Lancaster County, Pa.; Porter, Tetopsky (Russian origin), Jeffries, Gavenstein and Hysiop Crab Apple. To show the interest taken we puh- Beadl\e^ Bridgeton, N. J.; Peter J. Delzert, grower of the Delzert Fancy , apple, Rosedale, N. J.; Fred. Bluni- nier. New Jersey fruit grower, Phila- delphia, and scores of others, besides inquirers, reporters, special friends and occupants of nearby ofiices. It is earnestly hoped that next year when the Peninsula Horticultural So- ciety meets at Dover, that the apple exhibition will not only include speci- mens from all up-to-date growers, but that the apples will be carefully re- packed and sent for exhibition at a large central ground floor location where hundreds can see the fruit In- stead of scores. FARMING'S DEBT TO SCIENCE. Professor Bristol, head of the De- pitrtment of Biology in New York Uni versity, said recently in an address: "In the plant world diligent students are laying bare the secrets of plant THE COMMUTER'S _HAPPY LOT Best Train Service in the World in and Out of Philadelphia. At the portals of a great modern city every afternoon the stream of humanity passing through the iron gates has a sameness that is prover- bial. It is no longer the motley crowd that nassed under the stone arched opening in the ancient wall and scat- tered the far corners of the then known world. It Is not the motley crowd representing all tribes and conditions returning from an annual visit to the great city. It is in short the city man himself going to visit
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office of that company. Unfortunately a number of the apples had already been sold, but enough were secured to make an exhibit in Philadelphia that has demonstrated to scores of people that Delaware can and does grow apples of the very finest quality, size, flavor and appearance. The apples were displayed on both sides of the company's office, 1404-5 Commonwealth Building, and included both boxes and plates as shown in the photograph by .Tennings, which we publish herewith. The colors ranged all the way from the light yel- low Belle Flower and Grimes Golden up through the varied shades of red and deep red Stayman Wineaaps, old- fashioned Winesaps and Nero's to the purple red of the beautiful Nlcajack. The largest single display was of boxed Stayman Winesaps from E. H. Bancroft & Son. of Wyoming. They were sixty-four to the bushel. The same grower furnished flne specimens of Rome Beauty and Nero, eighty- eight to the bushel. There were also flne large specimens of York Imperial on this side, and later on of Nicajacks from F. M. Soper ft Son, of Magnolia, and tasty Belle Flowers from the nur- series of J. G. Harrison ft Sons. On the plates were Staymans and Starks from Edward Taylor, near Dover: Paragon, Nero. Winesap, Stark and Stayman, from Soper's: very red Stayman's from R. M. Richardson and from R. C. Taylor; another shade from lisli the names of a few of the visitors: L. Ballinger, fruit grower, Moores- town. N. J.; John C. Maule. Bristol, Pa.: Chester Evans, fruit grower, Port Matilda, Pa.: Avery Bennett, fiuit grower. South Weymouth, Mass.: John Patterson, fruit buyer. Philadel- phia; Frank E. Eldridge, John Ken- nedy, Robert Seagreave, Salem, N J.: C. W. Finneniore, fruit canner, Maine; W. H. Corson, fruit grower, Plymouth Meeting, Pa.; Frank P. Wilson, fruit grower. New York; Lee J. Richardson, Maryland frnit grower. Philadelphia: Irwin P. Knipe. Norristown; Chas. H. ReckefuB, a student from Pennsyl- vania State College; Wilbur J. Braun, high school professor, Philadelphia: F. H. Love.1oy, Rosslyn, Pa.: A. G. Willseelng and Walter Ixing, editorial writers, Philadelphia; Col. Robert C. IJppincott, Union League. Philadel- phia: T. F. Woodslde. West Chester, Pa.: Dr. Thos. H. Streets. Mt. Airy. Pa.; E. D. Pittingill, apple grower in Maine, Philadelphia; A. H. Mrllvaln. apple grower In Virginia, Philadel- phia; Huron Orchard^ Company, Goderlch, Ontario; S. M. Bronn, fruit grower, Oermantown. Pa.: Fred. Meener, Delaware fruit grower. Phila- delphia; John C. Fisher. Br>-n Mawr. Pa.; Raymond H. Pitman. fruit PTower. Bucks County, Pa.; Walter Goodwin, fruit grower, Greenwich, N. J.: H. Wilson, fruit grower, near Norris- town. Philadelphia; Henry Wilmer. fruit buyer, Philadelphia; Rev. H. H. growth. Wheat breeding experiments in Sweden and other countries are giving us better wheat and more of It than we have ever had before. In Il- linois they have improved the yield and quality of corn beyond anything we have known." EASTERN NOTES. The New York State Agricultural Department is advertising 1,100 farms, comprising 148,190 acres, for sale or rent. During 1910 the State depart^ ment received inquiries for land from 1,400 persons and sold land to the value of $6,200,000 to nonresidents. Much of this will be used for up-to- date poultry culture. Philadelphia is congratulating her- self over the Increase in her imports during the past ten years as shown in figures published by the Denartment of Commerce and Labor on February 8th. The increase was from 49 to 81 million dollars and place Philadelphia now third In rank. Dr. Wiley suggests that every per- son should eat at least one apple a day. Some men spend nil of their time advertising fto themselves) their value. T^Ecussion Is the b«tt«r part of â¼alor. his family over night and enjoy what he can of the pure air and the broad- er view of nature and cfttimes to dream of staying there. In our poor view of opportunity, in our neglect of education along lines of original thinking and our general distrust of the soil as a basis of wealth, the country boy has ofttimes become the cUy man. Modem co-operation has been applied to the city Job and to city building, and there was no place for the young man anywhere but in the city. His love of country life may still be there, but he Is a city man and is fortunate to find under mod- em transportation facilities that he can be a city man and live in the country. If he has a farm he can And both profit and pleasure in the over- seeing of it. If he merelv has a lawn he can care for it. spend some of his mornings and evenings in working among its shrubs and garden patches, and others in the restful enjoyment of his pleasing labors. If he has boys there's hope and help nnd education along the line of scientific study of soils, special crops, market shortages, landscape gardening and aesthetic culture. The appropriate use of trees, shrubs, vines and herbarious plants in the adornment of suburban or country homes gives n charm and a beauty pleasing alike to owner and to those who pass by. Their gradu- ally changing aspect with the succes- sion of the seasons heightens their YOUIVQ'MAN, COME EASTl'^

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