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Mr. Lord: What some said in relation to the rapid growth 

 was just the reason I was so disappointed. They made such an 

 excellent growth I thought they would be extra fine. I am still 

 in the dark. Oakland county, Michigan, has been settled since 

 1835, an d they are shipping thousands of barrels of rutabagas 

 down the Ohio river. I would call that old land that they are 

 raised on. I might, perhaps, explain that they have the best suc- 

 cess in growing their rutabagas after clover. 



Mr. Yahnke : The best turnips I ever saw growing were 

 transplanted just like late cabbage. I have seen turnips grow as 

 large as a half bushel measure. I have seen from ten to twenty 

 acres raised in that way. They were planted mostly on old mead- 

 ows, and they were the biggest crop of rutabagas I ever saw 

 growing. They grew very fast, too. The seed was sown early 

 and then thev were transplanted; they were treated just like cab- 

 bage. 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wis.): I want to say a word in behalf of 

 Brother Elliot — I like him pretty well, anyway. We, in Wiscon- 

 sin, think there is no place in the world that will grow as good a 

 crop of turnips as a new piece of land, but the trouble with Lord's 

 land was it was too rich. An old raspberry bed is entirely too rich. 



TRANSPLANTING THE APPLE IN THE NORTHWEST. 



A. W. LATHAM, SEC'Y. 



In preparing a paper of the above title the writer found it ex- 

 pedient to supplement his knowledge of the subject, which was 

 somewhat limited, by that of a number of others of much broader 

 experience. A list of eleven questions was sent to seventeen of the 

 most experienced orchardists in the northwest, and a compilation 

 of the replies of sixteen of them was made for use in the paper re- 

 ferred. The seventeenth set of replies had not been received at 

 the time the compilation was made, though it is included in the lists 

 as published below. The practical value of these replies reaches, 

 however, much beyond the scope of that paper, and it impresses itself 

 upon the writer as an obligation in the position he occupies to the 

 society that they should be given in full for the use of its members. 

 They have accordingly been rearranged by grouping together the 

 various replies to each question, each reply being indicated by a letter 

 of the alphabet, instead of giving the name of the person making it. 

 For instance, all the replies preceded by the letter "a" are by the 

 same person, etc. The list of those who kindly furnished these an- 

 swers is in the hands of the secretary, but for various reasons it is 

 thought best not to attach them to this article — firstly, because they 

 were not asked for for publication. Following these lists is an ex- 



