STATE HOBTIOULTUEAL SOCIETY. 349 



We have about thirty seedlings from Peerless, many of which show 

 a good leaf, but they are only one year old; still it is possible that 

 some one of them may become prominent in sooie future report. We 

 have about forty good bearing trees of Tetofsky left, out of 150 grown 

 from root grafts, set in 1870 and 1872. The greatest loss among them 

 was in 1884. We have never lost any Duchess, and have seven trees 

 that have been growing in our orchard twent^^-one years. 



We have used evergreens freely for protection and windbreaks, 

 hundreds of which are more than thirty feet high. We strongly re- 

 commend the use of evergreens around every farm home. White 

 Spruce, White Pine, White and Red Cedar, and on moist or clay soil 

 the Balsam Fir. The Norway Spruce is not desirable in the windy 

 prairie portion of the State. The Scotch Pine is valuable both for 

 timber belts around fields and for fuel. We have learned that a drj'- 

 round stick of Scotch Pine eight inches in diameter will keep fire in a 

 heating stove longer than a stick of hard maple of the same size. That 

 is something worth knowing. 



EXPERIMENT STATION AT LITCHFIELD. 

 By G. W. Fuller, Superintendent. 



The Russian apple trees obtained from Prof. Budd in 1885 have all 

 failed. Of the trees obtained in 1886, the cherries and pears all died 

 or were killed to the snow line. A few varieties have done fairly 

 well, the Hibernal I think doing the best. 



The Red and Yellow willows and some of the poplars promise very 

 well. I cannot but doubt that we shall obtain from them some valu 

 able additions to our forest timber. 



REPORT ON FRUIT. 



Our crop of apples was very small, only a few Transcendents; and 

 these were mostly grown on a few orchards in the timber. The few 

 raspberry bushes we have bore exceedingly well, especially where the 

 canes were buried. Gooseberries and currants bore less than quarter 

 of a crop. The strawberry promised very finely in the early part of 

 the season, but the dry weather diminished the crop very much; still 

 our strawberry crop was the largest we ever had. 



