436 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



" Therefore, if you ever find that your barrel of Baldwins is frozen, heat 

 it gently. If the apples are thoroughly frozen the barrel will not be full by 

 nearly a peck, so much has the fruit contracted with the frost. It would be 

 impossible., now, to move the barrel without ruining every apple in it. So r 

 if it stands where it will not be subjected to sudden warmth, and thus 

 thawed out rapidly, let it stand. Cover the apples up so they will be kept 

 dark. Then go away and let them alone until spring comes and draws the 

 frost out of everything. Then uncover your apples. It may startle you', 

 but you will find the barrel full to the head with the plump fellows that 

 were rolled into your house in the fall, and which were a sorry-looking lot 

 of wrinkled, shrunken-up fruit the last time you saw them. 



" If they were assorted apples when packed you need not pick them over, 

 for they will be just as sound and hard as they were in Xovember. By the 

 middle of May or first of June they will be in the fragrant, mellow condition 

 that they would have been in five months before if the frost hadn't stepped 

 in and held it back, I've had apples frozen and thawed out three times in. 

 one winter, owing to sudden changes in the weather, but they were all right 

 when the final drawing of the frost took place. A barrel of apples might be 

 kept frozen a thousand years, I believe, and the fruit would be just as sound 

 and fine-flavored when thawed out and ripened as it was the day it was 

 packed." 



Keeping Apples or Brax. — John Gardner tells the Connecticut Farmer 

 of his success in keeping apples in bran : 



There were ten barrels of the fruit carefully packed, and in packing them 

 I first placed a layer of bran in the barrels and then placed in a layer of 

 apples with the stems upwards, being careful that there were no bruised ones 

 used. Then followed another layer of bran, and then more apples, alter- 

 nating until the barrels were filled. They were allowed to stand on the floor 

 in the barn on my farm, and, when the extreme cold weather set in, I placed 

 loose hay over them to a depth of three feet, I am now using the ninth 

 barrel, and have not as yet found a single apple that has commenced to decay 

 in the least, and the apples have retained their freshness and flavor, looking 

 as though they were just plucked from the tree. 



Apples for Milch Cows. — Mr. C. P. Hazen. of Vermont, is convinced 

 that apples for cows are worth more than the cider-mill price of ten cents 

 a bushel, and he "can see no difference " between the effects of sweet and 

 sour varieties. He distributes a load from the hind end of a wagon, sweep- 

 ing them out with a stiff broom, while the horses walk through the pasture ; 

 this is better than feeding in heaps, as the fruit keeps cleaner, and there is 

 less danger of hooking among the herd. He adds, to the X. E. Homestead, 

 that the animals ••'eat all they can stuff, and after that only in moderate 

 quantities. Last fall I did this, and the result was that my wife would 

 exclaim at milking time, ' "What a beautiful mess of milk you have to- 

 night.'" 



From the statistics given by a writer in the Live Stock Journal we get 

 down to bottom facts on this question of feeding apples to milch cows. He 

 says : 



