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Mr. King was also a lover of the dear little birds ; but he would 

 prefer them dead and manufactured into food ; they not only destroyed all 

 his small fruit, but his apples and peaches. 



Mr. Chapman would protect the birds, and encourage them by 

 building nests for them. 



Mr. Rice had learned that the apple-tree borer was a regular bore, 

 especially when he got to boring good trees. He had suffered consider- 

 able damage from borers, but had found that soft soap and sulphur, 

 applied to the trunks of the trees, proved a preventive. 



Mr. Baldwin exhibited three varieties of apples — Royal Red, 

 Jersey Sweet, and a seedling; also a sweet apple, originated by J. B. 

 Ketter, of this county, which, when compared with the two former 

 varieties, was pronounced superior to either. The fruit is of medium size, 

 color bright green, keeps until March. The tree is hardy, a good grower, 

 bears good annual crops, and by the Society was considered a desirable 

 addition to the list of sweet winter apples. 



There are in this county a great many seedling fruits worthy of a 

 more extended cultivation, yet they are unknown, except in the neigh- 

 borhood where they originated. The reason to be given for this is that 

 there were a great many farmers who settled in the county forty or fifty 

 years ago, at a time when grafted fruits were comparatively unknown, 

 who planted orchards of seedlings, and many of them have been growing 

 seedlings ever since. They found the fruit good enough for their use, 

 and occasionally succeeded in producing a variety superior to many of 

 the leading ones of to-day. Of late years our local nursery-men have 

 been grafting from the best of them, and sending the trees out under 

 local names. In time, good reports will be heard from them, and they 

 will be more thoroughly disseminated. This is not only true of apples, 

 but peaches, grapes and small fruits of different kinds. 



At the July meeting an exhibition of small fruits and vegetables 

 attracted quite a number of people, and all were pleased with the collec- 

 tion of each. 



Mr. Frank Doam exhibited one of the largest cauliflowers ever 

 seen in this market. It was the Half Early Paris variety, grown from 

 seed sown March first, in hot-bed; plants set first week in April; land 

 thoroughly prepared, with table-spoonful of bone-dust in each hill. The 

 after cultivation was thorough, with occasional dustings of bone-dust laid 

 in around the plants. Upon offering it for sale at the close of the meet- 

 ing, and receiving a bid of five cents each, he declared that his ideas of 



