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(•oiisidered unrivalletl as a liood apple. He .saw no reasou why an inferior 

 apple should be grown, when apples of good (luality could be raised. 



Mr. Clarke said he had seen Kawle's Jenette in hands two months later than 

 any other variety. 



Mr. Tuttle said he had not mentioned that, because he was interested in it, 

 but he considered it the best apple for all purposes grown. The Fewaukee 

 was also a good apple : that came in after the Fameuse. No one wanted 

 more than four or live varieties, iif they only followed each other properly. 

 He said that full half of his orchard had never been of any profit at all. He 

 believed that his orchard of Fameuse had averaged three barrels to the tree 

 for years, 150 barrels to the acre, and in ten years, at 10 cents per bushel, it 

 was better business than corn at 50 cents. Fruit was higher now^ than it 

 was ten years ago. He had then seen apples at $1.50 per barrel in Milwaukee 

 and Madison, and last year he sold some apples at $6 per barrel. 



Mr. Clark said that Mr. Tuttle had stood questioning very patiently. He 

 would ask how long an orchard needed cultivation. 



Mr. Tuttle, in reply, said it was needed all the time; that a tree all the time 

 needed new wood. The surface of the ground ought to be broken up, and 

 grass and weeds kept down. To check the growth of the tree and produce 

 fruit, he w^ould prune in June. It would then have time to heal before Fall, 

 and especially did it sometimes seem good in case of young orchards. He 

 would leave the cut for eight or ten days before covering it with a coat of 

 paint, w^hich left no difficulty afterwards. 



Mr. Harris wished to say something about propagating to the best advantage, 

 whether by budding, grafting, or any other way. He himself had an idea, 

 that for Minnesota, if they could get a stock of hardy trees, it could be ac- 

 complished by budding or grafting. He, was no professionial nurseryman, 

 but he wanted information. Nurserymen, elsewhere, took off their stocks 

 very often from the same soil, and whether the elements needful for the tree 

 were exhausted was a question. Perhaps it was so that manures did not 

 answer all purposes in replacing what w^as taken oft". He wished some of the 

 nurserymen present would contribute information on the subject. 



Judge Baker moved that Mr. Baxter ])e added to the committee on Legis- 

 lation, and Mr. Clark was nominated by Col. Stevens. 



The motion was carried. 



On motion the Society adjourned to 7 o'clock this evening. 



EVENING SESSION. 



The Society was called to order by the Chairman, Vice President Dart. 



Mr. Truman M. Smith was nominated and elected a member of the com- 

 mittee to learn the quantity of fruit raised and consumed in the State. 



Mr. Smith suggested that as many of the members of the Legislature were 

 present, the Society would doubtless be glad to hear from them. 



Mr. Ford hoped that they would indeed hear from such gentlemen present. 



