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thank you very much for the trouble you gave yourself by coming and me }t 
us and I was also glad to meet you too. 
About the State Farm I had never been there before and was very gia. 
to go, the smallest pigs were as small as I ever saw, and the cows were all 
very nice. The stuffed animals were also pretty and we were told that Mr. 
Shaw’s son stuffed many of them. The Green-house was just fine why we 
saw scme Lig cucumbers on the vines and all kinds of foliage plants ard 
many other kinds that I cannot mention. 
When we wert through the building where they make butter the man 
explained us how cream separated from ihe milk and there was some kind 
of a wheel that went around one thousand times a minute. 
Well I will close by telling you that I enjoyed every minute of that 
afternoon especially Mr. Shaw’s lecture. 
Yours truly, 
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. i wish that these excursions could become a regular part of the nature- 
study in our public schools. 
We of the Improvement League are most grateful to Professor Shaw for 
coming to our assistance, to the street car company for making it possible 
for the children to accept his invitation, and to the State Agricultural 
Cellege for allowing so many city children the benefit of the trip through 
the college buildings, grounds and stables. We are sure that it will be more 
than repaid in the gratitude and interest of these children and of the 
knowledge of this new influence that has been thus brought into their lives. 
And I hope, and I ask you to hope with me, that it is the beginning of a 
movement that will place Minnesota in the list of states that. are helping 
their teachers to get out of nature-study in the public schools the best 
possible results, each according to its needs. 
THE MILWAUKEE APPLE. 
A. J. PHILIPS, WEST SALEM, WIS. 
In your last issue [April] Mr. Clarence Wedge asks for some informa- 
tion about the Milwaukee apple. I understood years ago when ,the origina- 
tor, Mr. George Jeffrey, of Milwaukee, showed the fruit at the state fair and 
at our February meeting, that it was a seedling of the Duchess and seemed 
to be quite a good winter apple, but as it originated in the favored region 
along the lake shore—where tender varieties stand—it was not disseminated 
much. But about five years ago when visiting the extensive orchard of the 
late S. I. Freeborn, in Richland county, Wis., I found a beautiful tree well 
loaded with fine apples, late in the fall, and as it was in the Russian orchard 
I at once called it a winter Russian. I saved some of the apples to show at 
our winter meeting in hopes some of our Russian men could name it, but 
when I took them to the meeting I found it to all appearances the same ap- 
ple that Henry Tarrant, of Janesville, was showing as the Milwaukee. I at 
once, being attracted by appearance of the fruit and the tree, bought some 
trees and secured scions, which I top-worked. All are growing finely. I top- 
worked more this year, also some last season, and as there are some fruit 
buds on the grafted trees I hope to see some fruit this season and will be 
able to report more of its behavior later on. Geo. Jeffrey. 2530 Lisbon av- 
enue, Milwaukee, can give its origin and early history. There is one tree 
of it in the trial orchard at Wausau, which is growing very thriftily. 
