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rule today and as we get old eat apples, and even if we are getting 

 old eat apples anyway. 



Mr. O. F. Brand : I would like to say a word about eating ap- 

 ples. I believe in eating a great many apples, and 1 also believe 

 in eating the best of apples. I not only believe in eating them 

 raw, but in eating them cooked, and in this connection a ques- 

 tion of health comes up in cooking apples. We do not want very 

 sour apples, for it is a fact that the more sugar you combine with 

 acid the more dangerous it becomes, and the less sugar you put 

 in the healthier it is. The danger is not appreciated at once in 

 eating this acid fruit combined with saccharin. It comes to us 

 gradually, and we are overtaken with the trouble before we are 

 aware of the cause. You can eat too much fruit or too much apple 

 sauce if sour apples are made sweet with sugar. I should try to 

 retain those varieties that do not require so much sugar. 



MY EXPERIENCE IN STRAWBERRY GROWING. 



JACOB SCHWAB, ANOKA. 



In the first part of June, 1899, I broke up a piece of land near 

 tny meadow composed of black sandy loam on top, with sand 

 mixed with clay as sub-soil. Here was raised a fine crop of tur- 

 nips. In 1900, a good crop of potatoes was raised on it, in 1901 

 excellent corn. In 1902 barnyard manure vvas plowed in on it, and 

 it was planted to cabbage, which was as good a crop as could 

 l3e wished for, the heads weighing from fifteen to thirty pounds. 

 In the late fall it was plowed and on the ist of May, 1903, planted 

 to.' strawberries. Those were cultivated, and no weeds allowed 

 to grow, also late runners cut ofY, and all blossoms removed dur- 

 ing the season. They made a fine appearance. About the middle of 

 December, 1903, they were covered about one foot deep with 

 straw. Soon after this straw was put on, a heavy snow storm 

 came, accompanied by a very strong wind. This made a solid 

 mass of ice and snow that remained on until in April. 



To the north and adjoining the strawberries was a lot of big 

 corn in the shock. This was drifted full of snow from two to 

 three feet deep and remained until in April, when it thawed out 

 and made the soil very wet. After the snow and ice was all 

 thawed out I took most of the straw away, leaving it from one to 

 two inches deep on the plants. Nine-tenths of them looked as 

 if they were dead. Some of them recovered, and we had a few 

 splendid berries. 



Celery and Onions may be grown together. The onions will be out oi 

 Ihe way before it is necessary to ridge up the Celery. The Yellow Danvers or 

 Red VVeathersfield will be ripe about the middle of August, after which the 

 •celery can occupy the land alone. 



