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sending of the fruit to the seaboard, and therefore nothing came of it. 

 But it would be well for such growers as may have choice fruit for sale 

 next fall, to put themselves in communication with Mr. Sogaard, who is 

 now again at Kansas City instead of at Copenhagen, where he was 

 when the letter was written. It was as follows: 



Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 21, 1894. 

 His Excellency the State Governor, Lansing, Mich. : 



Dear Sir — There has for the past few years been an increasing impor- 

 tation to the Baltic countries of canned and evaporated American fruit, 

 mostly from California. This year there will also be large importations 

 of green apples. I have been prompted to call your attention to this 

 matter, because the articles referred to could undoubtedly reach these 

 countries at considerably less cost from the eastern states; and, inasmuch 

 as your state it an exporter, I trust your Excellency will be sufficiently 

 interested to make the fruit exporters of Michigan acquainted with this 

 probable opportunity of getting a new market, which can be reached about 

 as cheaply as can the trans-Mississippi states, where their surplus is now 

 consumed. 



Copenhagen has two direct steamship lines to New York (Funch, Edge 

 & Co. are the New York freight agents of the "Thingvalla" line), and has 

 weekly connection with Baltimore (Patterson, Ramsey & Co.) via Liver- 

 pool and Hull. 



^ I have, during the past three years, done something to effect more direct 

 trade relations between the United States and the Baltic countries, which 

 are more or less tributary, commercially, to Copenhagen. I am here at 

 present to advance the work referred to, and shall be willing to place any 

 fruit exporter in your state in communication with some responsible Copen- 

 hagen firm, who, through their agents at the smaller ports, can reach the 

 entire Baltic market. And here let me say that Copenhagen has dis- 

 tributing coast steamers to nearly thirty ports in Sweden, Norway, Finland, 

 and the Russian and German provinces on the Baltic coast. 



Michigan fruit exporters can write me care of the Department of 

 Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen, Denmark, or, as the season is already late, 

 they might, to save time and correspondence, send small samples at once 

 and quote prices of goods delivered on board the steamer. 



The Balwin apple is known by all fruit importers here. American 

 green apples have in former years come to this market throrgh Hamburg 

 agents, but there is no need of those middlemen. T. Sogaard, 



Danish Vice Consul at Kansas City, Copenhagen. 



APPLES FOR NEWAYGO COUNTY. 



The secretary read the following letter from Mr. Geo. A. Day of 



Newaygo: 



Newaygo, December 19, 1894. 



Dear Sir — I am going to set ten acres to apples next spring. What 

 variety would you recommend? What do you think of the Shackleford, 

 Arkansas Beauty, Jonathan, Akin, Babbitt? My soil is gravelly with clay 

 subsoil. Geo. A. Day. 



