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35 Duchesa 14 



10 Snow '6S 



17 CrabM 45 



6 Red Utter 12 



25 Hnas lOO 



5 Fall Oranga 12 



5 Wcif River, two of which are just beginning to bear ; i 



Seedlings 10 



3 Totof ski 2 



In the last mentioned tree there is no profit. In all I sold 

 not including what we used for cider, 355 bushels. I have 

 given up trying to raise winter apples except the Wolf 

 River. I raised apples the last year of the following va- 

 rieties: Talman Sweet, Bailey Sweet, Ben Davis, G. Russet, 

 P. Russet, Washington, Westfield and Seek-no-Further, but 

 the trees are nearly dead. The Haas and Duchess are the 

 trees for me." 



I do not know of an orchard in this district on higher 

 ground, or an orchard raising all these varieties. 



A. S. Bennett, of Royalton, reports having sold something 

 over 500 bushels of apples, about one-half of them seedlings. 

 He has the best or one of the best orchards in this county. 

 He has many nice seedlings. He has chestnut trees four- 

 teen inches in diameter. The trees appear healthy and bear 

 quite a quantity of nuts. His orchard is on high ground, 

 sloping to the southeast and quite stony. 



The once splendid orchard of Wm. Wilson, of Weyau- 

 wega, is nearly dead. He says there is nothing winter to 

 tie to but the Wolf River. 



On the same hill E. Wrightman has an orchard on the 

 south slope. He has thirty-five bearing seedlings, from 

 which he sold fifteen bushels. He has Duchess, Wealthy 

 and Wolf River in bearing and hardy. Mr. A. V. Balch, on 

 the same hill, northwest exposure, has 113 seedlings in bear- 

 ing, from which he gathered 180 bushels. He has 50 grafted 

 apple trees, just a few commencing to bear. He has about 

 ten varieties of grapes, yielding him 250 pounds of grapes. 



There are several more orchards on this hill, where varie- 

 ties are raised that are raised nowhere else in the county. 



In the town of Lind we find several orchards, mostly of 

 seedlings. H. Gibson and Mr. Hebblewhite have eaoh a 

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