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business will be dead. I note that apples from old trees are the 

 worst. Tbe Stone, a late blossoming variety, was the most perfect." 



"What about spraying? Will it actually save the apple, or is it 

 a fake?" 



"The great increase of insect enemies of fruit, fruit trees, small 

 fruits and shrubs, and the great need of a thorough extermination 

 all along the whole line." 



"Will have to spray fruit trees if we want the whole fruit, for 

 the birds don't seem to get up early enough around here to catch 

 the worms that make the hole in the apple." 



"Sooner or later we have got to spray to get clean fruit, and 

 the railroads ought to give us better accommodations in handling 

 our fruit." 



"Cut worms may be successfully controlled by the liberal use of 

 bran moistened and sweetened and poisoned with Paris green, and 

 persistently scattered over the ground infested." 



Question 9. What are the indications of a crop for the coming 

 season ? 



"Good, good, good, plenty of moisture, abundance of fruit buds, 

 prospect of an abundant crop next year," expressed by a great ma- 

 jority. 



"Fair growth of wood and well ripened," by several. 



"Strawberries and raspberries are much reduced in vitality and 

 not promising," by a few. 



"Plums moderate; gooseberries and currants are likely to do 

 about as usual," mentioned. 



From the best information gleaned from the district it appears 

 that all fruits in every section, with few exceptions, have yielded 

 from nothing to fifty per cent of an average crop, and that the sales 

 have commanded from good to high prices. 



REMARKS. 



"Twenty years ago planted hundreds of trees ; all killed. Young 

 men are continuing to plant." 



"Many orchards have been set in the past few years, but are not 

 fruiting as yet sufficiently to form an opinion. They are generally 

 well cared for and are looking well. In a few years we will be able 

 to make an intelligent selection." 



"My experience is, that to have apples every year the trees must 

 be fed. Mine are manured every year, and I have a fair crop very 

 year. The Wealthy is the apple for the northwest, large, good color, 

 and, if picked with care as soon as it begins to color, will keep as 

 well as most winter fruit in ordinary farmers' cellars." 



"Have one hundred new varieties of apples in cellar." 



"Old orchardists more interested because thev realize an in- 

 crease of money value. Cherries, a dead letter. Grapes, nit." 



"Have just returned from a trip tbrough four townships in my v 

 own county ; were raising some fruit in one township, a very little 

 in another, but I did not see an orchard in the other two." 



"I think the Peerless a much more hardy tree than tbe Wealthy 

 and better fruit." 



