Report From Sixth District. 2C0 



Methods of Culture, etc. 



Under this heading, to do justice to the subject, would re- 

 quire a full piper and more time than your correspondent 

 can now spare. 



SIXTH DISTRICT — A. D. BARNES, FOND DU LAC. 



Counties. — Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, 

 Marquette. 



Conditions of Temperature. , 



First — From very high to very low. 

 Second — No bad storms. 



Varie t ies Fr uited. 



Of the variety of apples most successfully fruited, Duch- 

 ■ess. Wealthy, Haas, Walbridge, Snow and Talman Sweets. 

 There are not many N. W. Greenings nor Wolf Run trees 

 in bearing size in this district, but what are doing well. 



Of the crabs, Whitneys, Orion, Transcendant, Hyslop, 

 Hewitt, Winter and Gen. Grant. 



Cherries — Early and Late Richmond. 



Very few plums fruited here, in fact none worthy of 

 mention. 



All early variety of grapes did fairly well. 



But few currants were fruited owing to the ravages of the 

 worm, but those using salt brine have had fair crops of Red 

 Cherry, Dutch, Red Dutch and Long Bunched Holland. 



Blackberries — Ancient Briton and Stone's Hardy; mostb' 

 Ancient Briton. 



Raspberries — Turner, Antwerp, Cuthbert, Gouhegan and 

 Greggs. 



Strawberries — AVilsons, Crescent, Sharpless, Manchester, 

 Capt. Jack, James Vick, etc. 



Pears — None. 



Soils, Sites and Resources. 



We have all kinds of soils, from red clay to clear sand, in- 

 cluding chalklet clay loam and dark sandy loam. 



