2LG MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



conclusions where the tests have been made 300 miles apart in very 

 different soils. Cultivate so as to have the trees make a good, but not 

 an over-rank growth. 



Mr. Gilbert — The LeConte with me has made seven and one-half 

 feet growth this year, but the pear is said to be a failure. 



A. Ambrose — Between high cultivation and none at all, some trees 

 in the garden and some on the lawn : those on the lawn have made no 

 crop ; those in the garden a good one. Kieffer bears a good crop with 

 me. 



J. G. Kinder — If our virgin soil will make trees grow till of bear- 

 ing age, good sense should teach us that then we should keep up the 

 fertility of the soil. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



HOME-MADE FRUIT EVAPORATOR. 



S. A. LATIMER, LONG LANE. 



Following is a simple, cheap and successful plan for building a 

 fruit evaporator, upon which there is no patent: 



Construct a frame- work of scantlings, the edges of which should 

 be dressed so that all the scantlings will be exactly the same width. 

 Cut them four feet long and fasten together with strips of plank three 

 inches wide and of sufficient length to place them exactly three feet 

 and one-fourth of an inch apart. These strips should be fastened to 

 the side of the scantlings near their ends. Make seven of such frames 

 and place them two feet apart, and fasten together by nailing on the 

 ends of the scantlings strips of plank for plates and sills, as wide as 

 the scantlings and twelve feet two inches in length. Side up with 

 weather-boarding, or what is much better, flooring, shiplap or boxing, 

 which should be placed on perpendicularly. At each end there should 

 be a door. The roof should be made in the ordinary way, except a 

 vent at the top two inches wide the entire length of the evaporator. 

 A trough-like covering should be made for this opening and placed 

 one inch above the roof. Strips of moulding to support the trays 

 should be tacked to the inner edge of the studding. These strips 



