Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-06

APPLES PROMISE FAIR YIELD
currants, Popular for JelIies, Will Only
Be About One Third of Usual Crop
Gooseberries Strawberries Will Be
Quite Pentifu-Early Potatoes Will
Soon Be in Manufacturer Crops.

The good matron who annually fills
the household larder with the luclous
products of home orchards and vine
yards will have problem to solve dur
ing the coming canning season. The
fruit prospects in this immediate vicin-
ity are not encouraging, and while some
of the horticultural patriarchs of the
county said the frosts and freezes of A
few weeks ago had done no harm, they
now acknowledge they erred for once.
The late storms have also aided in the
destruction Of small fruit.
Every housewife who in summer pre-
pares for the delectation of family and
friends at the winter festal board puts
by cherries, when she can get them.
This will be one of the seasons when
many will go without this staple fruit.
The freeze did not kill the bloom, but
1t killed much of the fruit in the bios
SONS. The winds have almost finished
the work of destruction.
Currents, popular and universally
ONE third of the usual crop. and will
therefore be scarce Gooseberries,
which make a sauce much relished be-
cause of it's tartness and acidity, are
also short crop. altho the demand for
them is not SO great as for other
| fruits.
| While this is The off year" for APP
pies, there promises to be fair crop
of the popular Duchess, our earliest
variety and much sought for Jelis"
sauce andtgeneral canning purposes. or
Wealthies, another of our best Iowa
apples, there will be fair yield, I'M
| less the orchards are swept by winds
during June and July. OF other and
| less known varieties there will be
| shortage and other states will have to
| be looked to for fall and winter APP
| pies The prospects are good for fair
yield of Whitney and other crabs, in-
less they fall prey to insects, which
would not be an unusual occurrence.
Different varieties of berries will be
abundant, including strawberries, rasp-
| berries both black and red. and black
berries These fruits must be handled
by a culinary artist to be al all palat-
able after canning. Unless the weather
continues unreasonable for several
weeks TO come the yield at home ought
to bring the prices of berries out of
the luxury column. The homegrown
fruit is always preferable to that
shipped in the latter being harvested
when unripe, thus losing much of its
flavor.
Other Crop Prospects.
Generally speaking the agricultural
conditions in Marshall and adjacent
counties areimproved over those of June
last year, except on the bottom lands.
A very few fields of corn remain to be
planted while much of the corn is up
and some ready for the cultivator This
oats fields are making all the progress
desired.
The farmers have been compelled to
lead strenuous lives, however, to ac
complish all this. and blowing and
planting in the rain has not been an
unusual sight during the past four
weeks.
Home grown potatoes of the early
varieties will be in the market within
a few weeks, and unless the cold and
wet weather continues there will be
a big yield of this chief article of the
Use to be abundant.
Owing to the scarcity of sweet corn
seed reduced acreage has been plant
ed, and the crop Of roasting ears" will
not be so plentiful as usual. Some of
the canneries paid as high as $40 per
bushel for seed to supply those who
grow the raw material for their annual
output and 20 cents per quart was the
prevailing price for seed in small
quantities.
Those who predicted bumper crop
of spring chickens and the cutting in
two of the high prices of the past year
will be compelled to revise their pre-
dictions. The incubator does not as yet,
in rural communities, compete with the
good old hen, and the hen has had
elemental conditions to combat similar
to those of last year. Spring chick
ems therefore will not be drug on the
market. and the high price of the past
year will not be lowered more than a
cent or two per pound for live fowls
Turkeys will continue to be scarce and
to bring fancy prices.