370 MINNESOTA STATE HOETICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



I have found the above named varieties after several years ex- 

 perience to be profitable. Have tried other varieties with more or 

 less success. 



Yes, the jack rabbit can be combated. I have not been bother- 

 ed with him for several years. One way is to place a half bushel of 

 oats in a heap near an outbuilding to feed the rabbits on. Then 

 wait about a month and on a nice clear evening with bright moon- 

 shine hide in the outbuilding with a good shotgun and lots of shells. 

 Do not leave the building to pick up the rabbits until through 

 shooting. One evening I killed ten. I have also buried steel traps 

 in the oats or on the outside of the oats, fastened to a chunk of 

 wood. 



Several of my apple trees have just commenced to bear. I ex- 

 pect a fair crop of apples this year. My trees look very healthy, 

 and the whole orchard is in a nice condition. 



IN MEMORIAM, DR. T. H. HOSKINS, NEWPORT, VT. 



Died June 26, 1902, aged 74 years. 



Dr. Thomas Henry Hoskins of this town, who died recently, 

 was well known in former years as a horticultural and agricultural 

 writer of repute. He had been practically dead to the present world 

 for over three years by reason of the failure of his once brilliant 

 mind. 



Born in Gardiner, Me., on the 14th of May, 1828, he was seven- 

 ty-four years of age some weeks previous to his death. He leaves 

 a widow and one child, wife of Rev. J. B. Spiers, pastor of the New 

 Jerusalem church in Contoocook, N. H. His father, Henry Box 

 Hoskins, a paper manufacturer, was one of Gardiner's most highly 

 respected citizens, repeatedly serving his city as treasurer, mayor 

 and member of the legislature. Coming from a stock of sterling 

 integrity and great mental ability on his father's side (his great- 

 grandfather was William Henry Hoskins, a merchant of Boston, 

 and acting commissiary in the Revolutionary war, whose remains 

 now rest in the vaults of the historic Old South Church of that city), 

 his antecedents on his mother's side were no less worthy. 



It was on his grandfather's farm that Dr. Hoskins imbibed the 

 love for the soil which he always retained. He early showed a fond- 

 ness for newspaper work, owning, editing, and printing a paper of 



