Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1907 — Farm and Garden [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Farm and Garden

SHIPPING PEACHES. The Six Basket Carrier le Used For High Grade FruitPeaches were formerly shipped In what waa generally known as the Delaware basket. Now the best peaches go to market In the six basket carriers. This Is a neat slat carrier somewhat like a berry crate containing six veneer baskets, holding about a half peck each. This package carries the tenderest peaches to market in good condition,

and as they look well on arrival they usually sell for the top price. This package is to be recommended for shipping all first class fruit. It is too expensive a package to be used for any but the first grade of fruit. Probably no better fruit package for fine fruit has ever been introduced than the six basket carrier. It can be used for plums or grapes or any high class fruit and always carries It in good condition and shows it off to best advantage in market. The sorting table here pictured is of great assistance in packing peaches. It is separated into shallow compartments that will hold about two bushels of fruit. The side at which the packer stands has a narrow shelf on which the veneer trays are placed while being filled. In the bottom of each compartment Is a canvas— l, 2, 3— which is tacked to the upper edge opposite the sorter. This keeps the fruit from bruising and facilitates the worker’s movements in drawing the fruit toward the trays. In the veneer trays or has-

kets each fruit is fitted into place. Unless the grade Is extra large it bolds two layers. The table, as will be seen, is constructed in sections which alternate so that fruit may be dumped on the table from either side and the trays carried off handily when filled. The second cut shows a handy picking basket for peaches. As will be seen It is made from an ordinary Delaware basket The strap goes over the shoulder of the picker and leaves both hands free for gathering the fruit When filled the basket is easily dumped by unhooking the snap.—Maryland Experiment Station. Kansas Grain Crops. If most of those who are supposedly well informed as to Kansas grain crops and their relative importance were asked to name the four they suppose most largely grown, the chances are that wheat would be put first, corn second, oats third and rye fourth. This order would no doubt be generally accepted without question, but the fact Is barley has superseded rye In the quartet, and of course corn should head the list, as it Is the most valuable product of Kansas soil. Kansans, however, are prone to give wheat the greatest prominence, because Kansas Is the leading wheat growing state In the world. As to the competition for fourth place, the statistics are Interesting as given in the latest report of the state board of agriculture.—Kansas Farmer. Bugar Beat Industry. The benefits from growing sugar beets do not stop with the crops. They are felt in stock production as well. No farmer can begin to appreciate until he has experience the value of molasses and sugar beet pulp—byproducts of the sugar factory—as a food for stock. Of these every sugar factory Is turning out at least half the original weight of the beets. Pnlp is immediately available for the farmer’s use. It Is easily stored and kept. As a rule, it is considerably cheaper than any other feed he can buy or produce. Usually this pulp can be purchased at the factor tor 35 cents to $1 per ton. Such low prices must necessarily continue for some time.—C. F. Saylor.

The Standard Forage Crop. Alfalfa is the standard forage crop of the Great Basin area, as It is of the entire western United States. Among the people of Utah it Is known universally as tucero, the name nnder which It was first brought Into the eastern states and which Is derived from the common European name for the plant This name was probably carried westward to Utah by the early pioneers, who never accepted the California name alfalfa, which has been derived through the Spanish from an Arabic word signifying “the best fodder.”—Carl S. Schofield. Poaches In tho Corn Bolt. You can grow peaches anywhere In the com belt not every year, but one in about 5,000, remarks a writer In lowa Homestead. In the southern portion the chances are better than this, but not so sure as corn.

SORTIKG TABLE FOR PACKING PEACHES.

HANDY PICKING BASKET.