SiiJiniicr Meeting. 101 



Late fall plowing has a tendency to increase the water supply for 

 another year. Rolling, after seeding, while increasing the percentage 

 of germination of the seed, also increases the loss of water by evapora- 

 tion. Soon after every rainfall, the soil mulch should be restored by 

 cultivation. A cover crop during a dry season may steal water needed 

 for the fruit crop. Prof. Beach, in reply to a query, states that experi- 

 ments have shown a check to growth, whether direct by lack of water 

 in early fall, or indirectly by the presence of a cover crop, to favor the 

 development of fruit buds. — Report of West N.Y. Hort. Society — Rural 

 New Yorker. 



EAT AN APPLE. 



(Written for Green's Fruit Grower by Oliver Rice.) 



Are you feeling sort of blue, 

 Don't know hardly what to do? 

 Everything gone all awry, 

 Or, at least, so to your eye? 

 Eat an apple. 



Are vou feeling kinder sick. 

 Like a rag the chickens pick? 

 Are you feeling cross and worried? 

 Wish, almost, you're dead and buried? 

 Eat an apple. 



If you are a minister, 

 And your sermon seem§. a blur ; 

 And your prayers but little better- 

 Think not Satan is the matter. 

 Eat an apple. 



Apples, apples are the charm. 

 That can keep the world from harm ; 

 Call back faith though far receued, 

 Give an uplift when most needed— 

 Eat an apple. 



THE BIG RED APPLE OF THE OZARRS. 



Reasons why attempts to run it down should not be encouraged — Hand- 

 some Fruit keeps well — A great favorite among Orchardists of Mis- 

 souri and the Southwest — Comes in mighty handy at 



Midwinter, 



In some of the Horticultural journals have appeared recently 

 articles decrying the Ben Davis apple, so long a popular favorite and the 

 principal stock in trade of the Western nurseryman and commercial 

 orchardist. In the markets, too, the prices paid the present year have 

 been less, proportionally, than for other varieties. 



