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compete with it. It is an excellent apple, as long as it is to be had. 

 We use that exclusively in our family. It is a beautiful apple and 

 a good bearer; why not cultivate them? As a winter apple, any one 

 who wants to plant an apple, plants the Stamen Wine Sap. There is 

 nothing to equal them to-day. The Stamen Wine Sap originated 

 with Dr. Stamen, of Leavenworth, Kansas. It is a strong, vigorous 

 grower, and under favorable circumstances, an annual bearer. It 

 is an apple which will average larger than the Baldwin, a beautiful 

 red apple — it is red, covered in places with a darker species of red; 

 the whole apple is red, and in quality, I do not know it to be excelled 

 by any. We know that all our markets at the present time, with the 

 exception of Boston, want a red apple. 



Now, while we are about it, in regard to the Baldwin, I understand 

 they can raise the Baldwin and the Greening and the Northern Spy, 

 just the same as grown in New York State, but that is in the lower 

 end of the state and it becomes a fall apple. We have got to get 

 apples that are winter apples, that is our only resource. We must 

 plant winter apples that originate in latitude 38 and 9, below 40, and 

 then we have got a true winter apple. By getting these varieties that 

 originate in Northwestern Arkansas, we can get apples that we can 

 keep in any ordinary cave or cellar, that we can hold right on until 

 quite late in the spring, and those are the apples that in the lower 

 end of the State we have to use. 



MR. HERR: I would like to ask Dr. Funk if we must not take into 

 consideration apples of different varieties in different parts of the 

 State. I want to say that there is a very great difference in different 

 kinds of apples grown in different parts of the State. There are 

 peculiarities of soil and climate that effect the quality so that it will 

 often vary within less than a mile. I think we ought to take into 

 consideration the apples that prove to us the most profitable in the 

 particular localities where they are grown. 



There being no further discussion, the Chairman put the question 

 on Mr. Herr's motion, to bring apples and vegetables for Inspection 

 at all the meetings of the State Board of Agriculture, and the motion 

 was agreed to. 



MR. HERR: I move that the Chairman of this meeting appoint 

 a committee of inspection of these apples, to be composed of experi- 

 ienced horticulturists and apple growers to name the varieties of 

 apples that are brought here to be named and to report on the ex- 

 hibition of fruit and vegetables. 



The motion having been duly seconded, and the question put, it 

 was agreed to. 



There being no further business, the Board adjourned. 



N. B. CRITCHFIELD, 



Secretary. 

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