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in one single year. It is self-evident that the pioneer apple-growers 

 in the past made it pay financially. 



There were, as time moved onward, several new and valuable 

 varieties introduced, such as Red Astrachan, Duchess of Oldenburg, 

 Fameuse, Wealthy, Ben Davis, Willow Twig, Grimes' Golden, 

 Salome, Stark, and others, generally a great improvement on the 

 original, or first named varieties. In the way of new varieties there 

 seems to be a new era dawning for the future, or coming apple grow- 

 ers of Marshall county and the great Northwest: among which we 

 will name four of the most prominent new seedlings. For summer 

 and fall, Coffman's Favorite; for early winter, Victor; for long keep- 

 ers, BuUman's Strawberry and the Hennepin. The above named 

 four new varieties are all natives of Marshall and Putnam Counties, 

 with a constitution — or hardy enough — to withstand the rigors of 

 this climate. The size, style and quality of each of these new sorts, 

 is sufficient to bring the highest market prices. 



There are thousands of acres of what are known as bluff, or brush 

 land, in Marshall county, and millions of acres throughout the great 

 Northwest, which are among the best apple growing lands of our 

 country, that can be purchased at reasonable rates, and ought to be 

 purchased and planted by lively, enterprising apple growers, to the 

 best of our late approved varieties, and plant the ground to the latest 

 improved kinds of strawberries, so as to get immediate returns before 

 the young orchards come into bearing. We are safe in making the 

 following calculations on an orchard of one hundred trees, set on 

 two acres: In ten years from planting, one hundred bushels at 50 

 cents per bushel, S^50 00; in twenty years, 1,000, at the same price, 

 §500; in forty years, at twenty bushels, 2,000 bushels, worth 81,000. 

 One thousand trees, set on twenty acres, at the same ratio will show 

 the following fabulous results: In ten years from planting, $500; 

 in twenty years, $10,000; in forty years, 820,000, making the land 

 worth from 8500 to 81,000 per acre. The above figures look fabu- 

 lous, however, "figures won't lie." We had better all go into apple 

 apple growing. "There is millions in it." The balance of trade has 

 been against us for a few years past as a nation. We had better 

 grow Hennepin and Bullman Strawberry apple by the millions of 

 bushels, and ship to foreign countries, and turn the balance of trade 

 in our favor, or our great nation may yet become insolvent. 



STRA^yBERRIE8.' 



BY C. S. ROWLEY, LACON. 



As I write, my attention is attracted to a picture lying on the 

 table, of Warfield No. 2. This reminds me that if all is true which 

 is claimed for this variety — and I have no doubt it is — then here 

 at last Illinois has found a bonanza, and so have I, for the Warfield 



