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FRUITS IN OHIO. 



ing its properties, I will remark that any of 

 the packing houses in New-York will be 

 glad to dispose of it, at about twenty-five 

 cents per barrel, unless a demand may in- 

 duce them to raise the price. 



Salt is a wonderful food for plants, and 

 strange to me is it that none of the agricul- 

 tural clubs have called the attention cf far- 

 mers to the importance of its use. Another 

 time, I can give you my experience in its 

 application to meadows, etc. 



The advantages of the salt which hag 

 been previously used in packing meat, are, 

 I feel certain from my own experiments, 

 very considerable. As a fertilizer, the ani- 

 mal matter mixed with it being large, it is 

 greatly increased in value ; while being 

 considered a refuse article, it may usually 

 be obtained at such prices as render it one 

 of the cheapest manures. 



Wm. B. Oddie. 



Piermont, N- Y., Sept. 15. 



FRUITS IN OHIO. 



BY W. H. SCOTT, TOLEDO, OHIO. 



No part of the world would appear better 

 adapted to the growing of fruits than that 

 portion of the West, extending from lati- 

 tude thirty-five to latitude forty-one, having 

 for its eastern and western boundaries the 

 Alleghanies and the Mississippi river. We 

 would narrow down still more, by saying 

 that the tier of counties bordering on the 

 south shore of Lake Erie, are better suited 

 to the successful growing of the fruits of a 

 temperate climate than any portion of the 

 Mississippi or Lake valleys. The advan- 

 tage which northern Ohio has over other 

 portions of the country, is, that while the 

 soil is warm, rich, and easily cultivated, and 

 the climate suited to all the standard fruits, 

 the influence of frosts in destroying newly 

 formed fruit, is felt less injuriously so near 

 to this great body of water than any where 

 else, where the advantages of soil and mar- 

 ket are as good. Every portion of the 

 country may grow certain fruits successful- 

 ly ; but few portions are alike favorable for 

 all our standard fruits. The pear thrives 

 in the country around Boston. The peach 

 is largely and profitably cultivated in New- 

 Jersey and Delaware. But the peach does 

 not succeed weW around Boston, and the 



pear is not at home in Delaware. Taken 

 as a whole, Ohio presents more facilities for 

 fruit culture, we venture to say, than any 

 state in the Union. A large portion of our 

 fruits, in their native form, grow wild in the 

 greatest abundance and luxuriance, and 

 many of them, in their natural slate, as the 

 grape, strawberry and raspberry, are well 

 worthy of removal to the garden. 



Along the Ohio river, the grape is culti- 

 vated to perfection, and the peach, pear, 

 apple, plum, raspberry and strawberry, are 

 grown with ease ; still there is much less 

 certainty of their bearing regularly than on 

 the lake shore, as a glance at a statement 

 of the fruit seasons in the two portions of 

 the state would show. 



The southern exposures of the hills upon 

 the Ohio, cannot be excelled in natural 

 advantages for grape culture by any part of 

 the vine-growing portions of Europe. The 

 wine from some of the numerous vineyards 

 along the Ohio, may be placed in compari- 

 son with the best Rhenish, without dispa- 

 ragement. Protection in winter is not found 

 necessary for the best native wine-grapes 

 The strawberry is taken into the market ol 

 Cincinnati, in greater perfection and in lar 



