LECTURES AND ESSAYS. 455 



day of 29|| barrels. The same gentleman picked in one-half day twenty 

 barrels of Canada Reds. 



PACKING. 



We use a table 28 inches high, 3| feet wide, as long as you like, forming 

 a box on the top 10 inches in hight. Into this empty a few barrels of apples 

 and make your assortments. We make No. 1 and No. 2; the remainder goes 

 to the swine. 



Use baskets that can be turned in the barrel, always keeping one or more 

 for facers. By this method sorters stand in an upright position, and rarely 

 ever tire of their work. All are under cover, where the work is made 

 pleasant, and the storms and cold do not interfere. 



DOES THE ORCHARD PAY ? 



Will now give you the income of my orchard, of less than twenty acres, 

 for the last six years, including packing and other expenses, and let you 

 be the judge: 



Received for 1883 ._.!! 11,082 50 



" " 1884 35145 



" 1885. 979 85 



" 1886 547 00 



" 1887 1,438 81 



" 1888 J 1,286 83 



Estimated income from swine, credited to orchard, six years 600 00 



Total $6,286 44 



Not a penny's credit is given in this account for all the other crops that 

 have been grown in the orchard for that length of time. 



The great Northwest will never raise her own fruit. 



Peter Gideon, of Excelsior, Minnesota, has spent nearly a lifetime in 

 propagating different varieties of apples from the seeds of the cherry crab, 

 procured from the State of Maine, hoping to find something that would 

 stand that vigorous climate. Peter Gideon is the man that represented the 

 State of Minnesota, at the American Pomological Society, held at Grand 

 Rapids, the fall of 1886, and there exhibited the results of his experience; 

 the products of the crab family, the work of a lifetime. He told me at this 

 meeting that the winter of 1885-86 froze his Wealthy and his Iron-clads to 

 death in the nursery. 



President T. T. Lyon of the Horticultural Society, of Michigan, has given 

 some very valuable information touching this point in the Horticultural 

 report of 1887, page 513, substantiating the same results. 



The horticulturist of Michigan, then, has one very important thing in 

 his favor. He will ever have his share of the great fruit market of that 

 country to supply with fruit. Her population is rapidly increasing; the 

 country is developing and the wants of the people are multiplying. 



