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We very much need a long-keeping winter apple with all the (qualities of the 

 Wealthy. Who shall furnish this apple? 



Mr. Gould asked Mr. Jordau liow niauy apples he had shipped. He 

 answered about four hundred bushels. He had seven hundred bushels 

 altogether. 



For every hundred trees planted he would plant ten Tetofsky, 

 thought they would become profitable as they got older. 



Mr. Jordan was anxious to ventilate the subject of blight. He be- 

 lieved it an animalcule growth, and that a remedy was found in 

 sulphur. He gave the following, Avhicli he said, saved his trees. One 

 part sulphur and four parts unslacked lime. He prepared, by slacking 

 the lime, and when at its greatest heat, in slacking, he adds the 

 sulphur. With this, he whitewashes his trees thoroughly. If the 

 blight gets started before this application, he uses air-slacked lime and 

 sulphur, dusting the trees with it. He believes that if you cannot pre- 

 vent blight from appearing, that he can kill it, when once there. 



Mr. Fuller had used the same preparation sufficiently to destroy cur- 

 rant worm, and to prevent blight. 



Mr. Sias stated, that from personal knowledge, Mr. Jordan's orchard 

 was nearly free from blight, and thought his method a success. 



Mr. Jordan stated, that he thought timber protection, that kept out 

 a free circulation of air, contributed to blight and mildew. 



Mr. Bunnell said, that in his travels, orchards that were most shel- 

 tered showed the most blight. 



Mr. Jordan said, there are varieties of apples that never blight un- 

 less planted near blighting trees. He said he could grow Wealthy or 

 Transcendent without blight. The secret is to keep back all sap- 

 sprouts on wood of the Transcendent, not allow a particle to grow. He 

 now has no blight in his orchard, but agrees with Mr. Pearce, that it is 

 epidemic, and that he may get it yet. 



The subject of the Russian mulberry was brought up, but no one 

 seemed to possess much information regarding it. Col. Stevens and 

 Mr. Gould each had fifty, and would report at next meeting. 



DISCUSSION OF QUESTION. 



What tree or trees would you plant in the Red River Valley, fift}' 

 miles northwest of Fargo, soil from two to four feet deep, black, with 

 little or no sand, the country flat, also what apple trees would you 

 recommend ? 



Mr. Emery would plant white willow, birch and poplar. Thinks the 



