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I have been assured that fresh picked apples barreled with 

 sweet cider would hold their flavor perfectly for months. Having 

 never tried it I can only say that my opinion is that the flavor of 

 apples so kept would be that of cider, hard or soft, sweet or sour. 

 If the cider was boiled two-thirds down I think the result would 

 be more satisfactory. If by any or all the modes I have named 

 for utilizing our home-grown apples, we may save the surplus of 

 our annual crop for its best uses, we will be the gainers by tens of 

 thousands of dollars now paid for imported fruit. 



KEEPING FEUIT. 

 By Chas. Hersingek, Baraboo. 



This subject has been assigned me for a paper on this occasion. 

 It is a little out of the line of the subjects to which I have 

 usually directed my attention, as all my previous efforts have 

 been to show, or try to show, that fruit can be raised in Wiscon- 

 sin. But here I am, like the preacher who kept preaching to the 

 same congregation, "repent and be converted," till one day one of 

 his devoted hearers stepped up to him, and, tapping him on the 

 shoulder, said, "Parson, what makes you keep preaching 'repent 

 and be converted ' all the time? Why not preach on some other 

 subject?" "Oh," said the parson, "if you will just repent and 

 get converted, then I will show you how to grow in grace." 

 Now, as the growing of fruit has been a success in so far that 

 some, if not all of us, have some fruit to take care of, it is but 

 natural that we turn our attention to the best method of keeping 

 it till we have a market for our surplus stock. In taking up this 

 subject I am aware that the ground has been well trodden, and 

 older heads than mine have let their light shine upon it, until it 

 seems almost useless for me to attempt to add anything to what 

 has already been said on the subject ; but as it is the fashion to 

 obey the orders of our superiors, I, too, must obey. But here let 

 me say in starting out that I will simply give my experience from 

 a practical standpoint, and let others treat of the theoretical part. 



In order to keep apples, there are some things that it will not do 

 to forget, and therefore I shall be compelled to go back to the 



