The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-11-16


as the Albemarle pippin. This apple
was originally grown on the old Pei
ham farm on the Hudson river, and
has since become famous as an export
apple. Being so firm, it endures trans
portation and handling much better
than any fruit of its kind.
1.-The Division of Pomology, of the
Department. of Agriculture has in
preparation a revised catalogue of the
American Pathological Society, which
will be published as bulletin OF the
Department of Agriculture This bulle-
tin will contain map showing the
different fruit districts of the United
States and Canada.
1.-The Department having adopted
this catalogue, or revised lists of fruits
as authority in the proper nomencIa
ture, it is desirable that this system
should be thoroughly used throughout
the country in order to avoid the Con-
fusion arising from one fruit having
several peculiar names in different Sec
tions of the country. 1t is hoped that
the nursery men will observe the rules
of nomenclature in publishing their
catalogues which will assist very much
IN harmonizipg the names of fruits
''The proof sheets have been rece.Y3d
of an agricultural paper read by DR.. l.
0. Howard, the Eotomologist of the
Department of Agriculture, before the
Association of American Economic En-
tomologists, entitled Temperature ex
periments as affecting received ideas
on the Information of injurious insects
''It is a we'll known fact among egri
culturists and horticuIturists that WIN
ter weather of a set degree of severity,
is more favorable to plant growth, than
an open winter with freezes and thaWs.
farmers and others whether q winter
The question now comes to us all from
which has been unusually severe will
not have resulted in the destruction of
insects to such an extent as to promise
comparative immunity, the coming
season. We have been obliged, or at
least have been obliged to answer
such questions theoretically. There
have been, so far as we are aware no
experiments along this line. there
fore give the result of recent expert
ments by DR.. Albert M. Read, the
Washington manager of the cold stor-
age department of the American Secur-
iGy and Trust Company; the same gen
! Tieman who directed the experiments
on the effect of cold storage upon house
hold insects.
'Dr Read has found, in the course
of his experiments which have now ex
tended over two years, that a system
attic temperature in the neighborhood
OF 18 degrees r. will not destroy the
faAFR Of -tiReoig bisgflieIIa Carpet
moUh) or the attagenus piceus (black
carpet beetle) but, an alienation of
the low temperature with a compare
lively high one, invariably, results in
the death of the larv ae Of these two in
sects. For example, the larvae, which
has been kept at a temperature of 1S
degrees were removed to a temperature
of from 40 to 30 degrees. They became
slightly active and when returned to
the lower temperature and kept there
for a little time did not revive upon
| their restoration to a warm tempera
ture."
The Department Of Agriculture is
very much interested at the present
time, in the introduction of American
| S1& ho bot - Dit
ain, with view to competing with the
French and Danish for the British Gus
tom.
To further this project the depart
ment has shipped eight 1000 pound
lots, at intervals of two weeks, during
the past summer. The butter that has
thus far been sent, was made in cream
cries in Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Wis
consin, Oaio, South Dakota, Connecti-
cut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
Vermont and New York.
The results thus far asCertained seem
to show that the Western shippers are
to get the most Of the benefit from the
export trade because they do not have
a very satisfactory home market, and
consequently the Western butter max
ers will ship the bulk of their product
to England.
The department has made one trial
of fresh or unsalted butter, but it was
not very satisfactory, and the expert
ment may be repeated in the near
future. The department buys the but
ter from the creameries which have
been highly recommended and which