12G STATE HOKTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



A. S. Partridge: Very few people know that there is by act of the Legis- 

 lature of 1881, a bounty of two cents per pound on pure sucrose sugar 

 produced in the State between the years 18S"-2 and 188?, witli tlic proviso that a 

 full account of the processes of manufacture shall be furnished the Board of 

 Agriculture for publication, by any one securing the bounty. Wherever corn 

 will grow, sugar-cane will grow and mature; even in poorer soil tlian corn 

 needs to develop a good crop, from IGO to ;200 gallons of good syrup may be 

 produced from a single acre; and from a good syrup produced from Amber 

 cane, five to six pounds of sugar may be made per gallon. The cane is good 

 cattle food. We want a pure sweet, and I believe in our county and State this 

 branch of industry will rapidly grow in favor. 



II. W. Davis, Lapeer: I believe Mr. Aldrich's statistics are all right, but 

 think that there is danger in estimating the value of a full crop by tfte net 

 income of only a partial crop. My experience in buying fruit for drying this 

 season is that iu many instances the orchards not as mucii money with a light 

 crop as they did last year with a heavy crop. 



0. T. Kosenkrans: I have had a considerable experience in growing and 

 marketing apples from a farm, and am fearless in advising, from my experi- 

 ence, to plant; more largely to orcharding. A man with forty acres should, 

 within a reasonable distance from market, have one-fourth of it in orchards. 

 I handled forty cars of apples at St. Paul two years ago,and found the markets 

 very high, but freights were correspondingly high when sliipments were made 

 west of St. Paul. But tlie moment we put enough fruit in the way of going 

 over those roads, we shall get better rates, and find a market with good mar- 

 gins for every apple we can grow. 



Following this discussion Mr. C. T. Roscnkrans read the following essay 

 upon 



FIVE BEST VARIETIES OF MARKET APPLES FOR EAST MICHIGAN: 



In accepting your invitation it is with a conviction of my inability to do this 

 subject, assigned to me, justice, but being a membar of this society, I will 

 throw in my mite with the rest. I shall not spend any time suggesting any 

 early varieties for market. We have the Tart Bough, the Red Astrachan, and 

 Fameuse (or Snow), and many other varieties that I might mention, but the 

 Southern States can raise early apples and put them on the market so much 

 earlier than we can that we fail in competing with them. I would not advise 

 setting any more early fruit than enough for home consumption. 



My first clioicc of winter fruit is Canada Red, which, 1 think, is the old 

 Nonesuch, of Massachusetts, or Steel's Red Winter. Its size is medium; 

 color, red, and it is crisp, sub-acid, tender, and when fully tnatured, delicious. 

 The best orchard I ever saw of this variety was owned by Mr. \V. Tallt, of 

 Wayne county, near Plymouth. He set out the natural fruit, and viUcn they 

 had been set out two years, he cut them off just below the top and grafted 

 them. When I was there the grafts had been set eight years, and had made a 

 very fine growth of wood and hung very full of nice fruit. 1 noticed tliat one 

 side of the top had more fruit on than the other, and I called Mr. Tafft's 

 attention to this. He said that was a trait of tiie tree, and that the next year 

 the side that had the smallest amount on would bear full. I have a small 

 orchard of this variety of 1120 trees that were root grafted ; they were very 

 small, poor trees, when I set th.em, but they have made a very good growth. 

 They have been set ten years, and a great many of them will measure five or 



