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ADULTERATION OF EXTRACTED HONEY. 195 
I hope you will unite your efforts with ours, and aid in the passage of 
the above named measure, and then take an active interest in urging and as- 
sisting your dairy and food commissioner to enforce the law. 
We are surely behind many countries in this matter of inspecting and 
regulating food products. There is such a thing as abusing liberty. I hope 
the time may soon come when equal rights shall be so sacred that no one 
shall dare to deceive his neighbor. 
THE MILWAUKEE APPLE. 
J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 
Replying to the query of Clarence Wedge, in April “Minnesota Horti- 
culturist,” will say that I do not think that it has been fruited in this state. 
Nursery trees that were two years old in the nursery came through the 
winter of ’98 and ’99 without injury or more discoloration than the Duchess 
of Oldenburg. 
The variety had its origin from seed of the Duchess of Oldenburg, 
planted by George Jeffry, at Milwaukee, Wis. He writes that the tree is 
MILWAUKEE APPLE. 
very hardy and productive, and that the fruit keeps well until after mid-win- 
ter. It was propagated at Nursery, IIl., by the late John V. Cotta, and I 
think that he rated it about with the Patten’s Greening for hardiness. 
The following is a description of a specimen from the original tree, made 
Oct. 11, 1898: Size 8; weight 9% oz.; form, round oblate, slightly angular; 
color, greenish yellow and brownish red striped; stalk, short and rather 
stout, set in a broad, deep, funnel shaped cavity, russeted at the bottom; 
calyx open, in a deep, abrupt, nearly smooth basin, The flesh is about half 
fine, tender and juicy; flavor, a pleasant acid; use, cooking; core, small and 
closed; season, early winter; tree, fairly vigorous grower. 
