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Bume if they can have that which is good in quality. If it is 

 poor they will not use it and we lose our labor. 



Mr. Kellogg thought that President Smith was below the mark 

 in regard to the apples raised in Wisconsin twenty-five years 

 ago. To his own knowledge there were trees in llock, Walworth, 

 Racine and Kenosha counties that twenty-five years ago bore 

 over thirty bushels of apples to the tree. The first tree he 

 planted in Wisconsin was set in 1S33, in what is now Kenosha 

 county. The facts given in regard to the advancement made in 

 horticulture for the last twenty-five years were all true, and might 

 be given in still brighter colors. It is astonishing to see what 

 an amount of fruit is consumed during the season. He doubted 

 whether a thousand bushels of strawberries would supply the 

 demand in Janesville in a season, and other cities would doubt- 

 less use a proportionate amount. In Milwaukee there is always 

 a ready market for anything in the shape of fruit. They will 

 eat anything that is colored, whether grapes, strawberries or 

 lard. They have wonderfully poor tastes and a good appetite. 



Mr. John S. Dore said he would like to ask President Smith 

 why it was that where the pine was cleared off and wild berries 

 sprung up, the red raspberry came first, then the black cap, and 

 lastly the blackberry. He understood him to state this as the 

 order in which they came. In his observation in the northern 

 part of the state, in Clark county, the three varieties all sprung 

 up very soon after the pines were cut off, and continued to grow 

 until the forest fires run through and destroyed them, when they 

 would soon spring up again. lie had never noticed this order or 

 change, though it might exist, for new tracts were continually 

 being cleared, and it might have escaped his observation. 



President Smith replied that he could not and did not attempt 

 to account for it, and thought it might not be true in all parts of 

 the country; in the part of the state that had come under his ob- 

 servation, the red raspberry comes in two or three years after the 

 heavy timber is cut off; these continue to flourish from three to 

 five years, and are then succeeded by the black cap, which last 

 four or five years, when the blackberry comes in and usually re* 

 main until the land is broken up. lie thought that where care- 



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