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something wrong with our chickens, one has died and the others 

 look bad ; I wish you would go out and look at them." He said, 

 "I don't know anything about chickens." Just then Mrs. Brown, 

 a neighbor, came over, and ■ she said, "Your chickens look pretty 

 bad, what do you feed them?" "Feed them?" said the professor's 

 wife, "we don't feed them anything, we thought the old hen would 

 give milk enough to feed the chickens!" (Laughter and applause.) 



NOTES ON WAUSAU 'WISJ EXPERIMENT ORCHARD. 



GEO. J. KELLOGG, LAKE MILLS, WIS. 



Location three and one half miles northwest of Wausau, Mara- 

 thon Co., Wis., in township 29, being 174 miles north of Illinois. 



Soil, clay loam, with broken flint rock. 



Subsoil, clay and disintegrated rock, good under drainage. 



Surface gently rolling, so water will not stand, except one sag. 



Planted mostly in 1896. 



Well cultivated and winter cover crop. 



1904, three times sprayed and no scab. 



1905 " " " so wet, scab plentiful. 



Trees protected by veneers and some injured by the protection. 



The Northwest Greening and Wealthy were not bearing well 

 this past season, seem to be suffering from leaf blight, scab and, as 

 some call it, a canker in the crotches. I think it is |ack of pruning 

 from the time of planting. 



It will pay orchardists of ^Minnesota to visit this orchard of ten 

 acres in the growing season, and take notes. Our secretary has 

 promised to have a record there for the inspection of visitors. 



There have been planted eighty-one varieties of apples, of which 

 the following list was most profitable the past season (there was 

 about 500 bushels of fruit) : 



Duchess, Hibernal. Hamilton, Iowa Beautv, Longfield, ]\Ic]Ma- 

 hon, Murray, Ivlilwaukee, Okabena, Patten's Greening, Randall (7-8 

 of Goff), Sweet Russet crab, Tet'ofsky, Thompson's 24 and 46 of 

 Jewell Nursey Co., Wolf River and Whitney No. 20. 



Of the following varieties we have growing ten or more trees of 

 a kind: 13 Avista, 47 Duchess, 22 Dominfon W., 38 Hibernal, 37 

 Longfield, 34 Malinda, 64 Mc^Iahon, 81 N. W. Greening, 31 

 Newell, 23 Okabena, 22 Peerless, 28 Patten's Greening, 17 Repka 

 Malenka, 13 Tetofsky, 13 Utters, 105 Wealthy and 28 Wolf River. 



The following kinds are more vigorous, healthy and produc- 

 tive grafted on Virginia crab stock: Dominion W'., Eureka, Ham- 

 ilton, Longfield. ^Nlalinda, Alc^^Iahon, Newell, N. W. Greening, Oka- 

 bena, Patten's Greening, Peerless, Tetofsky, Utters, Wealthy, Wolf 

 River, Windorf and \\'hitney No. 20. 



Plums: Seventeen varieties. The best in 1905 were Cheney, 

 Stoddard, Wyant. Mankato. De Soto and Aitkin. 



Cherries bearing: 25 Early Richmond. 20 Late Richmond, 18 

 Montgomery, i Vladimir. 



