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cular, and in order to insure success it is necessary that attention be paid 

 to every detail. Armour's Tree Fertilizer has "been sent to some two 

 hundred persons, and the benefit of this fertilizer will not all show this 

 year, so we want to consider the care for next year also. Use for the 

 berries of all kinds about 4 to 6 lbs. per square rod ; currants, goose- 

 berries and grapes from ^ pound to ^ pound per plant; for apple, 

 pear, peach, cherry and plum use: 1^2 pounds per tree 4 to 6 years old; 

 3 pounds per tree 6 to 10 years old; 4 pounds per tree 10 to 12 years 

 old; 6 pounds per tree 12 to 16 years old. 



Good care and attenticii is needed as well. Spraying to keep the 

 fruit free from' insects and fungus diseases will demand your best effort 

 also. Fertilizing, cultivation, spraying, is the rule of three for the pro- 

 duction of good fruits. 



COUNTY SOCIETIES. 



The re-organizing of our county societies where they are sleeping, 

 and the organizing of others where there have never been any, is such 

 an important matter that I want to strongly urge you to take this step. 

 You are stronger, your community is better represented, your county is 

 a power, if you have an organization. Just as one hundred are stronger 

 together than each are separate, so will your county get its best results 

 if there is unity of effort and zeal and work. 



If only twelve persons can be found who will unite, then form a 

 society. Your county will reap its reward and you the glory much more 

 easily than if each works alone. 



If you have not a county organization, then have a local order which 

 will pull together for its own community. We want to assure all and 

 every one that they will get recognition for whatever they may do, 

 however little or much, and it will be our aim to keep a record of all 

 who have a part with us in this grand display. If no organization can 

 be had, then do not wait, but each individually do what he can himself, 

 and due credit will be given. 



NEW FRUITS. 



New fruits of all kinds will be one of the features of our display, 

 both in glass jars, putting them up this summer, and showing them next 

 year in their fresh state. Anything new or worthy should be sent to 

 us so as to have some of the crops of 1903 as well as that of 1904. A 

 history of the origin of the fruit, and how long it has been in bearing, its 

 hardiness, productiveness, and any other facts in regard to its value, 

 should be submitted when the fruit is sent. 



