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vived, over $400 worth of apples sold, and the same ground produced all 

 this time a heavy crop of Black Cap raspberries, so that practically the 

 cost of the apples was limited to the expense of planting the trees and 

 gathering the fruit. Planters about Minnetonka of late years have neg- 

 lected the apple tree, by which they are the losers. No one can afford to 

 farm land situated so as to afford a reasonable show of success of growing 

 apples. Compare $40 or $50 per bushel average receipts for a term of years 

 with the profits of corn or wheat growing. The chances are certainly greatly 

 in favor of success in the direction of apple culture under right conditions; 

 and the prophesy in regard to apple growing at Lake Minnetonka is that 

 those who set about it intelligently and persistently will in due season 

 reap a suitable reward. 



DISCUSSION. 



Pres. Elliott: I wish to ask Mr. Somerville in regard to 

 seeding down; I see Mr. Latham recommends continuous 

 cultivation. 



Wm. Somerville: Seeding down with me has been a success, 

 but understand me right, before it is seeded down there is little 

 grass that grows there. 



Pres. Elliot: Before he seeds it down he uses the hog culti- 

 vator. 



Dr. Prisselle: I think the point Mr. Latham brought out 

 of raising more than one crop on the soil the same season 

 ought to be spoken of. I do not think two crops can be grown 

 successfully at the same time. If an apple tree is to be grown 

 I think better grow that and not try to crop it with corn or 

 potatoes at the same time. There is a principle in philosophy 

 that ground cannot be occupied with two things at the same 

 time. 



R. P. Lupton: I think I understood Mr. Somerville to say 

 that he advised planting small fruits the first two or three 

 years . 



Wm. Somerville : When I set out my trees I cultivate them 

 three years. In those three years they are under cultivation 

 any kind of small fruit may be raised among them, but when 

 the trees get large enough to bear I think it is inadvisable to 

 raise anything among them. 



A. W. Latham: I want to say in defense of my position that 

 the theory of cultivating only one crop on a piece of ground at 

 the same time is a correct theory, but practice sometimes does 

 not support theory. It is also the correct theory to seed down 

 an orchard as Mr. Somerville has just said, but if you have an 

 orchard of trees growing in a country where they do not long 



