SOCIETY OF XORTHERN IT.T.INOIS. 24o 



tnmors who will have nothinuj elsf for canning'. Our most succoss- 

 t'lil Wisconsin throwers raise mostly \\ ilson. 



There is little danger of over-feeding the raspberry plantation 

 on any soil, but l)laekberries must not be overfed. 



We are apt to starve our currants and over-feed our grapes. The 

 location of the vineyard should be on the best orchard sites, l)ut en- 

 tirely free from shade. No varieties will succeed with us in jjoor 

 locations except the Toncord tyj)e. Best of these is Worden: npxt 

 Moore's Early and ( Joncord. On clay limestone soils some of the hy- 

 brids succeed: on light soils all are lailures. 



AVe should classify varieties for certains soils, and so plainly 

 describe those soils that a wayfaring man need not err therein. 



\N isconsin has tois of f/i ok. sand a of acres of her best adapted 

 fruit lands yet covered by her native forests. The past season has 

 generally been a failure f(n- apples, but we had five hundred to six 

 hundred plates of as fine fruit at the December meeting at Green 

 Bay this winter as is often shown at winter exhiljitions. 



Thousands of acres of choice pear sites, just like the mie des- 

 cribed in your last report on page 257, on our lake shore, as far north 

 as Green Bay. remain just as the woodman stri])])od them of their 

 timber, aiul thousands of ft)olish men like myself have thought we 

 could grow all kinds of fruit where we had a mind to. and have tried 

 it for thirty years and failed. Mr. President, we ought all this time 

 t(j have been raising strawberries. Irish lemons. ;ind wdiite beans. 



Insert />.sY.s.— Allow me to call attention to the most alarming 

 of these — the apple gouger — worse than all others combined, the 

 season in which he does his work, extending from bloom till July, 

 makes it almost impossilde to poison him. If any of your number 

 have been successful, either by poison or stock feeding, let us hear 

 from them. We meet for mutual benefit, this is our mutual foe, 

 from east to west, from north to south. 



Thankful for the kind consideration and generous hospitality 

 your Society has ever shown the members of our Wisconsin State 

 Society, and ho])ing that we may ever work together in our no])le 

 calling, combating the ills of the ]tresent. correcting the errors of 

 the past, and winning laurels of jierfection in the future, is the wish 

 of your delegate. 



THE (JRAPE. 



BY T). ({. PIPEK. FORRESTON, ILL. 



It has l)een a (|uestion about the cultivation of the grape for 

 ages ])ast. and there seems to i>e a mystery in the minds of the many 

 its to the simplest mode of its cultivation at this enlightened day and 

 age. Simi)licity is the rule. First i)repare your soil in the best possible 

 manner, as though you was going to plant corn on it. then put stakes 

 at each end of the rows that you wish to set the vines in; take a 



