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driving through the country is that we find so many farmers who 

 liave not set out a berry patch to suppl)' fruit for the taljle. 

 If such men would only stop and think they would know that the 

 days of the tree humbugger is past in this state and that the raising 

 of many varieties of apples, plums, grapes, etc., is no longer an ex- 

 periment. All a man needs to do is to invest a small amount of 

 cash in a few of the trees, plants and vines which are recommended 

 by. this society, combine a little labor with a reasonable amount of 

 common sense, and he is just as sure of a crop of fruit as he is of a 

 crop of wheat or corn. There is nothing that will keep a family at 

 home better than to supply them with an abundance of delicious fruit 

 from' your own garden. It will do your heart good to see the little 

 children watch the apples on the trees day by day until they are al- 

 lowed t'o pick them. Then watch the little eyes sparkle with glee 

 and happiness ! Will you then say you are not compensated for the 

 expense and trouble you have had caring for those trees? 



I have been in my new home but five years. Then there was not 

 a shrub or tree on the land, now T have ten acres in fruit and 

 am planting more each year. About four hundred of these trees 

 bore their first crop this year, and I now seldom sit down to a meal 

 at home that our table is not supplied with fruit of some kind of our 

 own raising, from a dish of strawberry sauce to a Patten's Greening 

 apple, weighing nearly a pound, of which we had several bushels this 

 season. What I wish to impress on the mind of the average farmer 

 is to make your home surroundings better, plant more fruit, more 

 evergreens, more flowering shrubs, and you will have more happiness 

 and enjoy the fruits of your labors, and the world will be better be- 

 caused von lived in it. 



VICE-PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT, FOURTH 

 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. 



W. .T. TINGLEY, WITHROW. 



In making this report I was assisted by our secretary, 

 who mailed me twenty-five circulars, with the necessary 

 questions for a full report of the condition of fruits in general. 

 These reports were sent out Oct. ist to fruit growers as far as I 

 was acquainted, and where I did not know any fruit grower person- 

 ally I sent them to miembers of our society who resided in my 

 district. 



Question (i). What is the present condition of the following 

 frjits in your vicinity and the kind of crops borne this year, 1905 t 

 Each of the corespondents reports apple trees in fine condition. 



