Connecticut western news., 1920-10-21
Western New York Apple Produetio,

Western New York Apple Production
 The western New York fruit belt is the oldest commercial apple-grow- ing district in the United States. Few other regions in America have had the benefit of the experience of for mer generations in the production of apples. Thus, there are men who have orchards 80 to 50 years of age, as we'll as those who have recently planted young orchards.
 In this region the apple orchard is only part of the farm business, other fruits and such crops as beans, I potatoes, and hay being extensively grown. Department Bulletin 851 treats of the relation the orchard bears to these other enterprises, of the orchard practices followed by the more successful growers, the effect of these practices on yields, the returns derived from different systems of orchard management, and the cost of maintaining orchards under each system.
 Corn is never stationary quality. It either improves or retrogrades, says a United States Department of Agriculture specialist. There is no more excuse for farmers raising scrub corn than scrub cattle.
 In eradicating the cocklebur, re- member that it carries a double barreled gun. Every burr carries two Seeds, only one of which sprouts the first year. Even when the product of that seed has been killed the other will be in shape to make trouble the next season. The United States De- partment of Agriculture has a cir cular on the cocklebur-how to get rid of it.
 When the forest lookout on Tah- quitz Peak, in the San Jacintq dis trict, California, was incapacftated ths fall Mrs. Reindorp, wife of the district ranger, donned khaki, loaded blankets and grub on a horse, and took over his duties, holding the lookout post for more than a week. This is one of the incidents reported to the United States Department of Agriculture through the Forest Ser vice. i.t,a ...s. .'
 Tests made by the United States Department of Agriculture with 130 lots of Australian wheats recently introduced into this country have brought out three varieties adapted for growing on the Pacific coast, where they have produced larger ] yields than some of the native com mercial varisties. They are known as Federation, Hard Federation, and White Federation. The Australian varieties in general are susceptible to most cereal diseases, but many of these are not destructive in the Pacific coast region. Silage Provides Cheapest
 8ucculent Feed for Stock
 Silage is the best and cheapest form in which to store succulent feed, say specialists of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture. Many forage crops can be made into silage, but com, where it can be grown successfully, makes the best silage.
 [ Good silage depends upon cutting the crop at the right stage, fine cut ting, even distribution, thorough packing, and plenty of moisture in the cut material When rightly put up and carefully fed, there should be little if any loss through spelling.
 Silage is we'll suited for feeding to all live stock. Dairy COWS need 1t perhaps more than other classes of animals, because the succulence it supplies is very necessary for large milk production. It is a cheap and economical feed for beef cattle, from breeding COW to fattening steer Sheep like it, and it is we'll suited to their needs. Even horses and mules may be fed limited quantities of good silage with good results.
 From 1000 to 2,000 tons of to- mato seeds go to waste each year in the big pulping plants east of the Mississippi River. Investigations by the United States Department of Agriculture indicate that they can be proftably recovered and convert ed into an edible oil and a press cake or meal for stock feed, with a gross return of more than $85,000 and a net of about $35,00O. Plants would operate two months a year on tomato seeds and might be used for grape and pumpkin seeds in addition, reducing the overhead.