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as for corn. The orchard no longer is the child of neglect, abuse and hard 

 usage. The time to cultivate is also set forth. The manner of picking and 

 packing and storing seems well agreed upon. 



SOME or THE RESPONSES. 



Berrien County. — Tiie peach is the most profitable fruit for this locality; 

 because you can get the most money for the least labor. The Greening, Eox- 

 bury Itusset, King of Tompkins County, Baldwin, Wagener, and Northern Spy, 

 are the six best apples, and the most profitable at present is the Baldwin, which 

 succeeds well ; the Greening splendidly, the Northern !Spy well, except it does 

 not bear very young. I store apples for winter in a fruit house, it being a 

 cellar under a carriage house, situated on a hill side, so that the entrance to 

 the fruit house is on a level with the outside. It is lined inside four inches 

 from the wall and packed with sawdust, also filled in between the joists overhead ; 

 the temperature is easily kept at very near freezing point by means of ventila- 

 tors ; the ajiples are placed in barrels and keep almost perfectly; the last 

 shipment was made this season July 8, and sold at $3.25 per bushel. My 

 orchards are cultivated, having no other crop except fruit the third year; 

 fome hoed crop usually bears np to the third year. 



Fruit culture is decidedly on the gain in this section both in quantity and 

 quality, l^o improvements put npon the land add so much to value of farm 

 property for selling purposes as well cultivated orchards. 



The most profitable varieties of peach have been Early and Late Crawford, 

 Smock, Stump the World, Old Mixon and Hale's Early. Grapes, Concord 

 and Delaware. The cultivation of the peach and grape have been very profit- 

 able with me, the peach netting one season, above all expenses of picking and 

 shipping, a little over 8400 per acre for a whole orchard of 16 acres. Grapes 

 have done nearly as well. I have only a small vineyard and it lias received the 

 best of attention. 



In regard to price obtained for my apples sold July 8th, tliey being Koxbury 

 Iiussets and Greenings, I write it plain and then italicise, the huslieJs, so that 

 there should be no mistake. I put them up in baskets and covered the same 

 as we ship peaclies, but the fruit was very fine. I have a few Eussets now, 

 they are as perfect as when put in the cellar a year ago. 



H. C. SiiEinvooD. 



Kalamazoo County. — In reply to your inquiries relative to fruit-growing in 

 this locality I answer briefly: Strawberry culture has increased somewhat 

 and is considered ratlier profitable; home market principally. Several new 

 varieties are being tried witli varying success. I think it best to continue to 

 cultivate the Wilson to some extent, but think for a part of the crop several 

 of the newer sorts should find a place, especially for use at the home table. 



I regard the apple as the most profitable fruit grown in Michigan? Why? 

 Because more people nse and buy it, and it has a wider market than all other 

 fruits grown in Michigan. 



The best six winter apples arc : Eed Canada, Baldwin, Jonathan, Golden 

 Piusset, Wagener and Talman Sweet. Ilegard lied Canada as the most profit- 

 able winter apple. The Baldwin succeeds well on liigh ground, with good air 

 drainage; Rhode Island Greening does not bear well; Xorthern Spy is a long 

 time coming into bearing, and then too much imperfect fruit, lied Canada 

 succeeds well; tree hardy, good grower, good bearer of superior fruit; a good 

 handler and keeper, and brings more money in market than any other apple. 



