Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1904 — A Plum That Will Keep. [ARTICLE]

A Plum That Will Keep.

The Thanksgiving prune, introduced by Green of New Yot'K, Will keep for weeks after picking, like an apple. Professor L. 11. Bailey of Cornell university considers it of the Damson family, but the Damsons are all small, while this is of a good, large size. He says it has distinct merits and is certainly the longest keeper which he has ever seen. The weak point with some varieties of plums is that they will not keep, but decay quickly. Marketmen are discouraged in handling plums that rot quickly; hence the great advantage of Thanksgiving prunes, which will keep for weeks In baskets, as they are usually shipped and marketed. Mr. Green has eaten these prunes in Jam uary. The quality is superior to most varieties, being sweet and rich. It is the large amount sugar that preserves it so long. It ripens about the first week in October In Monroe county, N. Y.—American Agriculturist.

Land For Sew Orchards. We have been consulted repeatedly about the preparation of land for new orchards. We have been forced to tell these friends that the right preparation for one class of soils is wrong for some others. There is no good done in subsoiling a piece of deep sandy land on which we expeet to plant trees of any kind. Ipstead we prefer to' haul clay to such a tract, ti e know that it pays to properly subsoil stiff lands Intended for orchards. We have tested this.—Farm and Ranch.

Coat of Soior Plots in*, Recent English experiments with & motor plow show quite rnpkt Wotil. One of these machines bioWed somewhat over six acres id d day of about nine hours at a cp?t of $1.25 per acre. The ordinary Ally's work with a pair of horsed and single furrow plow averages in the same land one acre at a cost of $2 to $2.50. Thus the motor plow makes a saving of about one-half in cost. To Retard Burly l»U». An effective way to retard early swelling of fruit buds wbleh are thus liable to get nipped a late-spring frost la to spray with whitewash. White surfaces, H Is well known, will not readily absorb the sun’s rays, and experiments have shown that treatment of tliis Sort on peach trees has delayed blossoming nearly a week.— , tidy B. MfScheirs Washington Letter.