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to get them to commence to thin it for some time to come. I would 

 uot advise anyoue to plant four or five hundred or a thousand Wolf 

 River trees; thirty or forty trees will be enough. The apples brought 

 me $1.00 a bushel. It is a question with me as to whether or not 

 these apples can be kept in cold storage. I lind that most people are 

 Ignorant on this subject, but 1 learned something last year that makes 

 me value my orchard two or three times what I valued it last year. 

 When getting my apples ready for the State Fair I just put them in 

 cold storage and found that they kept all right. There was a little 

 Snow apple that you have to gather inside of three days after it is 

 ripe or it will rot, and that little apple came out in excellent condition, 

 and with the Snow apple came my Wolf River apple, but there was • 

 some loss on the Wolf River, but I thought that was because it was 

 not gathered at exactly the right time. I think if it was gathered 

 at the right time it will keep up until Christmas in" a splendid condition. 

 We began selling the Wolf River in July last year. We kept thinning 

 the apples off of the trees until the last of the season, when we put 

 them in cold storage. I had about ten or fifteen barrels of these, and 

 tue last four barrels of them I sold at ?7.00 per barrel, the highest 

 price received for apples at that season of the year. This is certainly 

 a favorite apple in our part of the country. This year I have very few 

 Wolf River apples. The trees could not live to bear every year lilce 

 they bore last year. These trees require moisture. You will suffer 

 from rot on the Wolf River apple if there is a dry season, but last 

 year was a perfect season and they showed what they could do. • 



I think the Gideon apple is one of the finest that grows today. 

 It is a beautiful apple, and grows on a beautiful tree, has lovely foliage 

 with a large leaf, and they boar always, it seems. You will find this 

 one of the finest looking apples that grows. People that want to can 

 apples should raise the Gideon. When ripe there is a beautiful blush 

 on the sunny side of it. This is an apple that I would advise all to try. 



Mr. Little: I would like to ask you what is the character of your 

 soil, Mr. Zion? 



Mr. Zion: We have black soil merging to clay subsoil. I would 

 prefer good corn ground for Ben Davis apples, but black ground for 

 Wolf River apples. 



Mr. Little: I have five Wolf River apples in my orchard, and the 

 trees wont hold on till ripo. I have been able to win five prizes with Wolf 

 River apples; but they will fall off. 



Mr. Zion: I overlooked one point. You can hardly separate it from 

 the tree without breaking a iiinb off. This apple will not drop until 

 ripe. 



