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made with a German fanner by the name of August Speckman for 

 the amount of $80. 



The second deal was made to an American farmer by the name of 

 Fred Kromlet, six miles away from the first. The contract was 

 made about the same and for the same amount. The two contracts 

 took well among the farmers, and many were anxious to get an 

 order for such fine trees. 



After all this they commenced canvassing. They sold to a num- 

 ber of farmers in this vicinity from $10 to $20 each. 



Something should or luust be done to keep out Southern fruit 

 trees, as it is nothing but a steal from Minnesota. 



Martin Penning. 



Sleepy Eye, Minn. 



I see by reading report of last month on page 87, that I picked 

 over sixteen bushels of apples from one tree of Anisim. This is in- 

 correct. I picked over eleven bushels from one tree that was not 

 over six inches through at the ground. I should like to have this 

 corrected, as eleven bushels is a pretty good gulp and sixteen would 

 never go down. 



I would like to know how you tighten your trellis wire. Prof. 

 Green in his book said to bore a hole in one end post and pass the 

 wire through, bvit don't tell how to inake it tight. (Will some one 

 answer this? Sec'y.) 



I would advise the orcherdest to be careful and cut off all the 

 water suckers from the bodies and large limbs of their apple trees. 

 I have had many trees injured by not tending to this. The blight 

 generally strikes these soft sprouts the first thing and works down 

 onto the body of the tree and makes a bad place on the tree, and if 

 the tree is small will sometimes work all round it and kill it. 



Sidney Corp. 



Hammond, Minn., March 6, 1896. 



I send you a satuple of the Okabena, grown on sandy land, picked 

 in Sept,, and put in a poor kind of a cold storage, where the temper- 

 ature was uneven and moist froin brine. In the middle of Dec. 

 they were taken out and put in a cellar, where the window was kept 

 open, exposing them to the air, which shriveled the skin soiue. 



Of the fifteen or twenty kinds treated in this way, including the 

 Wealthy, Hibernal, Anisim, and other Russians, the Okabena kept 

 best of all and is the only one on hand now. I send you this, in 

 part, as a lesson in keeping apples, as I think it is important to 

 learn how it is best done. 



In conclusion, I think that a cool, dry cellar is the best place to 

 put apples on the start, if those conditions could be obtained. 



Any light that you can give on this important subject will be 

 thankfully received. J. M. Underwood. 



Lake City, Minn., March 11, 1896. 



The specimens referred to were somewhat shriveled and discol- 

 ored, but still in a fair state of preservation. It would be of value to 

 know the experience of others in keeping apples or other fruit. How 

 have jrou succeeded? Sec'y. 



