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eties of f pples, also fine pears, grapes, and a large show of 

 vegetabi :9. 



The di cussion on the value of ashes as a fertilizer was 

 very conflicting. Mr. Holmes applies one and one-half 

 bushels of unleached ashes per rod, with good results, while 

 Mr. Wiere used ashes very liberally and found no benefit 

 whate^ er. 



Mr. Gray recommends keeping strawberries forever on the 

 same ground. 



By plowing under alternate strips after the second year, 

 always plowing the furrows the same way, he reported hard 

 wood ashes as no benefit. 



In the yield of Bubach No. 5, it was reported that a boy 

 picked seventy-two quarts in two hours before breakfast. 

 This variety was reported a failure in southern Illinois. 



Mr. Webster reported eighty bushels per acre good returns 

 for southern Illinois strawberry plantations, that it cost 

 $1.35 per case of twenty-four quarts of Wilson, and $1.26 

 per case of twenty-four quarts of Crescent, to deliver in 

 Chicago, pay commission and cost of raising on an average 

 for a term of years. They must get all their profit above 

 those figures. The Garfield berry is thought to be a won- 

 derful berry for raising south for shipping; not yet offered. 

 Great difficulty is experienced in southern Illinois to get 

 pickers at two cents per quart. 



Several papers and much discussion relating to the causes 

 of death of orchards, principally tender kinds, poor sites, 

 poor treatment, insect depredation, over bearing, lack of 

 manure, lime and ashes about bearing trees, and they then 

 fall an easy prey to hard winters, which have caused as 

 great desolation in the north half of Illinois as in Wiscon- 

 sin. Mr. Rockwell reported one- half the orchards in Han- 

 cock county on the wood piles. Some orchards on high dry 

 grounds were reported as bearing one hundred barrels per 

 acre. Their first premium apple for^ market in all sections 

 was Ben Davis. 



Grape growers recommend no summer pruning to escape 

 the rot. The English sparrow seemed to have no friends 

 among grain or fruit growers. The Jewell took first prize 



