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with wood ashes, is a ^ood fertilizer, so also is bone meal. Stable 

 manure should be used sparingly, if at all, as it contains a considerable 

 amount of nitrogen, and will cause a rank growth of wood which, as I 

 have before intimated, is not desirable. If the tree persists in making 

 a strong growth, the top should be shortened in quite close during the 

 winter. The ground about quince trees should not be allowed to be- 

 come hard and dry nor soddy, but should be kept in a loose, friable 

 condition by clean, thorough cultivation. 



The round-headed borer, so well known to the apple orchard, is 

 also an enemy of the quince. The codlin moth also attacks the quince 

 the same as the apple. Both these insects are now quite successfully 

 overcome by the live fruit-grower. There is one disease of the quince,, 

 however, that is not so easily overcome. I refer to fire blight. This 

 disease also attacks the pear and the apple, and there is no remedy 

 except to cut away and burn the blighted part. 



In conclusion, I would say, let us plant the quince — not for market, 

 but for the use of our families. The fact is, no farmer who owns his 

 home is doing his whole duty to his family unless he plants not only a 

 few trees of the quince, but also every variety of fruit that can be 

 grown with a fair degree of success ; and in the planting and caring 

 for these and partaking of their fruits we shall find happiness and 

 health, and shall have the satisfaction of knowing that the world ha& 

 been made better by our having lived in it. 



G. P. Turner, Meadville, Mo. 



QUESTION BOX. 



Question. Does it pay to evaporate apples, and is it best to bleach 

 them ? 



Answers : 



Mr. Durand — That was my question, and I put it in for informa- 

 tion. I would like to hear from somebody else. 



Mr. Gano— So far as I can see, they do not want bleached fruit ; 

 no one likes it. They prefer sun-dried fruit. If it were not bleached 

 the people would eat more of it. If we want to do anything in that 

 line it should be with the understanding that we all do without bleach. 

 I think it will pay. We sell twice as much at better prices. 



Mr. Durand— What did you get for your fruit this year, or have 

 you sold? 



Answer — I have four car-loads. I have an offer of 5 1-4 net at 

 home, and I take it that I make about J cent per pound profit. So, I 



