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white walnuts ; they are not real hardy, hut have fruited many years. 

 I have one bitternut tree — we used to call it pig hickory east — I set 

 out in an early day. and it is strong and healthy. I think it would 

 do to mix in for windbreak. 



Within this windbreak I set an orchard of over 300 apple trees. 

 I presume I set near a thousand in all. As they died out I filled 

 in and kept it full, until about fifteen years ago I began to neglect 

 my orchard and went south for my health. 



I noticed in the discussions last winter there was an apparent 

 disposition with some to reject everything that had not done well 

 with them. My brother Levi's farm joins me on the west, and 

 brother Ditus' is one mile west and one-half mile south. I would 

 like to show you the difference in the three orchards. My orchard has 

 a gentle incline both south and north ; Levi's is level ; Ditus' slopes 

 to the south. The same variety of apple trees does not do as well 

 with me as with either of my brothers. For example : I have tried 

 to grow the Orange crab, but they all die before or soon after fruit- 

 ing. Ditus has had them in abundance for the last fifteen or twenty 

 years. Levi's do better than mine. With some other varieties it 

 is the same ; they have stayed and done reasonably well with Ditus, 

 and have been dead and gone for many years from my orchard. My 

 ooil is blue clay for forty feet before reaching sand or sand rock, 

 Levi's is clay of different depths, with sand veins or more or less 

 sand drainage ; Ditus' is deeper soil with more or less sand veins, 

 etc., etc. 



FRUIT AT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 



JAS. MCMILLAN, SUPT. 



I was in charge of the fruit exhibit of Minnesota at the Pan- 

 American. I want to say to you that Minnesota was "in it" in more 

 ways than one. It was in it in butter and in fruit. We took the 

 majority of medals. When we consider that Minnesota was known 

 but little in the east as a fruit-growing state, and when we con- 

 sider on the other hand that Minnesota put up the best fruit exhibit 

 at the Pan-American, which statement is justified by the gold medal 

 we received, the people in the east think more of Minnesota than 

 they did some time ago. Our fruit exhibit was a revelation to them, 

 and I want to say this, that I could have taken orders for two hun- 

 dred and fifty carloads of Wealthy apples. That may seem a strong 

 statement, but I was not in the commission business, neither did 

 I think I could procure that number of carloads, yet I think it was 

 safe to say I could have taken orders for two hundred and fifty 

 carloads. The Minnesota fruit was a surprise to all. The Wealthy 



