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hung on the trees, and the blight stopped, and had himself" stoppecK 

 it on a Flemish Beauty pear tree by cutting off the blighted lim}> 

 and binding upon the wound a cloth saturated with kerosene, 



C. L. Smith had known of similar results with the kerosene 

 remedy. 



The remainder of the morning session was occupied by the read- 

 of the following communications. 



DOES IT PAY A FARMER TO FOOL WITH APPLE 

 TREES IN MINNESOTA. 



The above question was asked me, to which I emphatically ans- 

 wered, no; yet I think that with due care and intelligence a farmer 

 can make it both pleasant and profitable to raise apples in Minne- 

 sota. My opinion is based on my own experience, a part of which 

 I will here give. 



I have in my orchard a plat of land containing twenty-seven 

 square rods on which stand twenty-seven apple trees. Some of 

 them bore the first time this year, and some of them from over- 

 bearing last season had but few scattering apples on them, yet after 

 supplying the wants of two families on the farm, I gathered and 

 sold one hundred and nine and three-quarter bushels of apples, 

 which, after paying freight, commission, etc., brought me $10J:.86 

 this being about six hundred dollars per acre for the use of the 

 land, and one hundred times as much as my grain land netted. I 

 shipped my crab-apples to St. Paul in sugar barrels, and received 

 $4.09 net for them per barrel. 



SIDNEY CORP, 

 Hammond, Wabasha County, Minn, 



A NEW AND VALUABLE GRAPE. 



RosEMOUNT, MiNN",, Dec. 14, 1883. 



Mr. Oliver Gibbs, Jr. 



Dear Sir : A Wild Grape has recently come under my obser- 

 vation which is surely worthy of your notice and general cultiva- 

 tion. It is in the door-yard of Mr. D. F. Akin, near Farmington, 

 Minnesota. 



