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County generally. There are no deep ravines and no streams of 

 water, but it is high tableland. I think all of those sections 

 bordering on deep valleys, or on bodies of water, that are not 

 very much elevated, are favorable localities, and that varieties 

 produced in those localities ought to be thoroughly tested as to 

 hardiness before they are to be recommended to those people who 

 live out on the high lands, to plant generally. I don't know but 

 it is a ''fraud" for this society to say to people living in my lo- 

 cality that they can raise all these varieties that you raise, and 

 find them profitable in my locality. I think some of our people 

 so regard it and look at it about in that light. They think if 

 you don't know that such varieties as you recommend won't grow, 

 that you ought to know, for you are supposed to know every- 

 thing in regard to fruit. You ought to be well informed, and 

 ought not to send out any unreliable varieties. One man said to 

 me that he believed that the introduction of the Wealthy was a 

 damage to Minnesota. I don't believe that; I think it is a grand 

 good thing. But don't try to fool us into the belief that it will 

 grow everywhere, for it won't. 



President Smith. We have only about half an hour more this 

 morning. We have a delegate here from Wisconsin who is to 

 make a report on Russian apples and we shall be pleased to hear 

 from him. I will therefore call on Mr. A. G. Tuttle, of Baraboo, 

 for a report on Russian apples. 



RUSSIAI^ APPLES. 



Mr, Tuttle. Mr. President, I am able to make only a partial 

 report on Russian apples, although I have been at work and in- 

 vestigating the subject for some fifteen years past. We have 

 some Russian varieties that we think are all right. I exhibited 

 at our State fair this last fall sixty varieties of Russian apples 

 and we made a very good show so far as that is concerned; many 

 of them were very large and showy apples. I have the Longfield 

 and I have been of the opinion that the fruits brought from that 

 portion of Russia, off northeast of Moscow, would be perfectly 

 adapted to the prairie regions of the Northwest; and from my 

 experience with these fruits I have not yet lost faith that that 

 will be the case. 



I have not seen anything, among over a hundred varieties 

 that I have in orchard, — I have not seen anything so far as the 

 wintering is concerned, that is hardier than the Wealthy, so far 

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