New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-05
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERs' CLUE

reclaimed from utter uSecSsneSs ana OBSTRUCTION arc
decidedly the best part of my farm
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERS CLUB.
Session of March IN. c. Ely. Chairman. John
w. Chambers. Secretary.
BIC BoNED FARM HoRsEs.-E. W Shipper, Mead
VILE Pa. gives strong testimony showing the adj
vantages from the Percheron stations of France and
the Clydcsdale cart horses of England lie thinks
Miss Morgans strong preference for the English cart
horse somewhat misplaced, and speaks of the power
of pair he has from France. One of them weighs
1850 lbs. and the other ,400lbs. In October walked
them over billy clay road IA miles including two
stOppages for water in three hours and twenty-five
minutes. drawing wagon weighing 900 Tbs. with
two moving machines OF il weighing 1900 lbs. Upon
another occasion. with the same load walked them
over billy road ten and half miles IN two hours
thirty minutes. Iii the same month haued WIN
them, on wagon weighing 15OO lbs, twenty-five
loads sandstone, measuring 7S' cubic feet estimated
at ljG lbs per cubic foot making four loads per daY
8 distance of three miles, "a miles per day making
average Of $3.50 lbs stone per load or $50 lbs.
moved three miles in one day. On the 2ist OF Janu-
ary hauled one load wet ashes C,5t3 IDS, wagon
1900 lbs total SG3 lbs, distance of three miles,
part of the way beng up hull OF eleven IeeI ascent
in the hundred common load is 500 feet OF green
white oak lumber direct from the saw, ana have
inst been filling INV ice-h0use, drawing 81 cubic feet
ice Der load. The lverv-stabe keepers of Meadyllle
have refused to sell manure AZ 81 per load while
with any common team. We have no paved OF
macadamized roads in this section of the country
they being all clay dirt roads. III the CydeSdale
horse is as snowy and good drauaht horse the
French hope you will use your influence III having
some of them imported, or any class which Will inn
prove our present degenerate race OF farm and
EvAPoRATEp FRUITs.-Mr. Charles Alden of -
Park place showed specimens of fruit prepared by
new process that rapidly eNpels the Juice without
causing any chemical change, and leaving every
property of value, so that when the fruit vegeta
BILE again absorbs the amount OF moisture removed
it wall have all the original taste and flavor. The
machine Is capable of eyaporatng the water from
four bushels of tomatoes any other fruit hour
600 bushels per week. employing twenty-five hands,
mostly girls 10 prepare the fruit pass if through the
machine, pack and label 1t for market This process
is so rapid-S per cent water evaporated from four
bushels every hOuT-that no chemical change
take place, all the saccharine matter in the fruit
being retained in its natural state No chance for
dust flies bees, any other insect to interfere with
it, and is perfectly clean as all the work is done by
machinery. This is believed TO be the first attempt
10 preserve tomatoes by evaporating the water from
them, any other way except by canning Its we'll
known that most fruits contain some 10 per cent
water but the tomato contains about Is quarts water
in every bushel. This machine is intended to evapO-
rate and carry off nearly 5000 quarts water from
tomatoes every twentyfouT hours, leaving the tOi-
toes in fine condition for pressing and packing, with
all the saccharine matter uDdlsturbed feeling rs soft
as preserved fig. which it very much resembles.
and will in that condition keep for long time. re-
tanning all tbeI natural favor, color and taste and
when SO soaked in cold water and cooked are equal
to fresh tomatoes and much less acd tan te canned
tomatoes and of much finer tiayor ana 1lce rom the
poisonous effects Of the TIM and can he sold lor one
half the price There - one fruit more extensive
ly used in this country than the tomato, ana WIN
This new invention thousands OF acres Oh lad VIII
he brought into rcquistlOn to supply the demand.
which will be largely increased, rs the cost OF
transportation when eyaporated VIII be very SinaIi
compared 10 the canned tomatoes as II taxes tity-
three cans TO hold one bushe OF tomatoes weighing,
when packed for transportation. nearly 100 POUNDS
against four pounds the wegk OF one bllshel eNap-
Grated tomatoes. The peaches preserved ~ eNilva-
ton are as fragrant fresh basket OF la peaches;
and when cooked VIII have the same rich taste anu
aroma. The evapOrated apple looks as white and
clean as fresh cut apple, and when cooked I'll have
All fbe taste and favor OF the natural 1ruit quite
different article from the dried apple III every lr5pect
EvapOIatcd potato onions, cabbage, pdlshcp' ah,i
turnIpS when cooked precisely like the fresh arm
Gle. Sweet corn. green peas ana al othe NeSeip's
obtain the same result by passing through the eFap-
Grating process, as also the stlaWDerrN raspoeIF,
and all other small fruit No trut need now DE IOSt
even in the rcmOtcst parts OF our country Ior want
OF o market to dispose OF IT AZ falr price AAhe"lhg
that il would require large amount OF money 10
erect these machines i'll different parts OF the country
| have, continued the speale associated win my
self several gentlemen fruit gIo"eiS ana raplal'is
nnder fine name OF the Alden Fruit Preserving
Company" with capital stock Of SHb,tUO. Inc dc
sign of the company ~ 10 locate these machines IN
large fruit growing districts remote from nidrNet
where the fruit Will he treated and prepared urdcf
the supervisOn of an agent OF the company, whose
business it will be purchase the trut see That IL Is
properly eyapoated, packed ana forwarded Wesky
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branches wner6 81 Will be examined and labeled
ready for sale every package bearing the trade marx
of the company Each agent VIII be a siocSAoller
consequently interested in the success Of t,a COM
many and every large ruitGrowing district can nave
one trustee. The business OF the company VIII be
done exclusively on The cash principle, as 10 pur-
chaSes and labor A house with ten of these drying
machines costs about $1,000. Parties wishing to Sc
cure n regular market Tor berries peaches tomato
and apples, and able to supply such mousse WIN an
abundance can correspond with this COMPANY stating
the prices at which these fruits can be bOu9ht III
their neighborhood. Houses will he put up thus
Spring at Newburgh and MQdena. y. l. ana AZ sew
cIal points in MarN land and Delaware
EARLY MOHAWK.-A statement taken from ne MN
utes of the Monmouth County Agricultural society
wasread by Mr. Lyman, showing that the prHeol foo
offered by John COuOyer for the best acre 0 potatoes
was given to field planted with the Early MohaWh'
The same paper also showed the superiority Gl Nj.
Richard A. Leonard Of that county III general farm
lug. and especially III raising potatoes, asparagus
grapes, watermeOns and onions. The yleld OF pold-
toes was l21 barrels per acre.
DR.. Hexamer-The yield Is certainly extraordinary
We can get as large crops from the later varieties not
fit for table use bur Ol the early, these hgreS are
unprecedented. Early ripening sorts Go not rs a
rule keep well. The Mohawk IS potato OF slell
value aud improves rs Winter approaches. An
other advantage in growing this sort is. nat YOU
GU Dig in time 10 eet the ground ready loi ran
wanting My Early Roses rot badly. ,
A. = Iuller-My Early Roses keep remarkably
we'll none better which may be owing 10 difference
Prank Cnrtis-Iast season planted Mohawk and
Rose with my own hands on my farm III Saratoga
County and when dug the former were iound to he
twice as large the latter, and OF better gally.
/ would caution those who have heavy cod, cl;S
soil to select some other SOFT III preference to The
Early Rose.
john CIsIle-Iu my experience Mohawk does hol
compare at al with R0se, nor even with GoodtlIh
bur is about eGu.l 10 Harrison, which though yield
lug largely. has not been found good for eaIing.
William WilamS--l have grown the lose from
thc first on heavy clay soil at my place in MOncair
and have rot found the decay which Mr.. Curtis
sUcaks of: on the contrary the keeping quaiiiy Is
excellent and the table quality hrSt-clasS. . ~,
'TuE BEsT TECCK GROWER II JERSEY.-FTOm The
SANE puer an account was read Of the sales OF