The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-01-07
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daction-d Interest," to Farmers
The 23rd ANNUAL meeting Of the New
Jersey State Horticultural Society was
held in the State House, Trenton, begin
ming on Wednesday. Three sessions were
held and number of interesting and IN
structive papers were read by well
known fruit groves. Secretary Budd
called attention to the recent ravages Of
the San Jose scale, for which no adequate
remedy has yet been found excepting
kerosene oil which would kill the scale
at any time of the year whenever it
touches them.
On the subject of sugar beets, Secre-
tary Budd says that experiments in New
York State show a high per cent of sugar
from beets grown in the Genesee Valley.
The result of growing small patches
there last year, and of analyzing the beet
has been to locate two factories, which
are to cost respectively $500, 900 and ST.
100000. If New Jersey farmers could
be induced to enter into the cultivation.
of sugar beets, there is no doubt IL at ii
State would be as profitable field
the prosecution of this new industr1
could be found in the United
Capital stands ready to erect expensive
factories whenever it develops that the
sugar contents of the beet will be suf-
ficient, and wherever the requisite num-
ber of acres can be obtained to keep the
factory going through the season.
David Baird of Manalapan read
paper on Thinning of Peaches He
believed in thinning. Last year there
was such a crop which, while large, was
of no profit TO the grower, and the trees
themselves had been broken by the
weight of the crop where the trees had
not been thinned. The ripened fruit was
small. Thousands of baskets went to
market and did not pay expenses. ut is
my judgement, he said. that had three
fourths of the crop been taken from the
trees at the proper time, the balance re-
naming would have produced as many
baskets and sold for remunerative price,
I think that the proper distance ia siS6
inches apart. | admit that it takes
courage to stand by and see it done. If
you cannot bring yourself to this point,
advise you to put the work in charge of
a competent and disinterested person and
then stay away until the work is done.
If you remain you will surely tell your
workmen MOTTO take off so many. What
have said about peaches applies with
equal force TO apples, pears and plums.
Professor Byron D. Halstead, State
Botanist, read paper on Forcing and
and PrematuriDg Of Peaches" He read
reports from various counties on this
subject. He thought that the vel
lows caused prematuriDg. He knew of
no remedy but the destruction of the
trees.
Ralph Eye Of HopeweIl said that in
his experience as peach grower he be-
lieved the disease of yellows was consti-
tutional and hereditary. There was no
way of getting rid of the disease but by
getting healthy seedlings and to begin
entirely new. As long as you keep bud
ding from trees diseased, so long will
there be the yellows. It will take q
number of years yet before peaches free
from disease can be grown.
Charles Black of Hightstown said he
did not think yellows was always consti-
tutional, as he had seen trees from the
north sent to Georgia and grown there
without an evidence of yellows. Mr..
Black said that the northern growers
should get their pits from some of the
southern States, where the yellows is
unknown. He believed that climate
had something to do with the disease,
but that premature fruit was not always
due to yellows. Some trees which last
year had premature fruit, he was salts
fed, would be all right next year.