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same endures our climate sufficiently, and renders, when cut and 

 dried at the time of its bloom, a large quantity of superior fodder 

 for cattle. 



^ FEUIT AT SOUTHERN MINNESOTA FAIE. 



From Rochester Record and Union. 



The fruit show at the Southern Minnesota fair last week was 

 the finest ever seen in this city, and considering the quality has 

 never been approaohed in the State; and the man who twenty 

 years ago would have predicted such a show possible would have 

 been deemed demented. Two prominent features in this exhi- 

 bition were the absence of large collections, and the fact that 

 there was no fruit on the shelves for mere effect. With the ex- 

 ception of about a dozen plates, all were entered for competi- 

 tion, and with the exception of three professionals, all were the 

 exhibits of farmers, of just such fruit as they had plenty more 

 of at home. The specimens were in many instances so uniformly 

 fine that the committee found great difficulty in making awards, 

 especially the committee on plates, who consumed more than one 

 entire day in their labors, completing their duties to the entire 

 satisfaction, so far as we have been able to learn, of all the ex- 

 hibitors. There were brought out at this fair, for the first time, 

 a number of i^romising Minnesota seedlings, and the commis- 

 sioner to the New Orleans Exposition found among them, as 

 well as the older sorts, many things worthy of notice, and em- 

 powered Mr. A. W. Sias to make and forward a collection for 

 exhibition at that place, and also expressed a strong desire to 

 have a photograj^h of this exhibit forwarded with that collec- 

 tion, to show to the world what a single locality can do in the 

 way of supplying the people with such a desirable fruit as the 

 apple. The tempting display made by Pomona on this occasion 

 will long linger in the memory of those who were so fortunate as 

 to witness it, and will go far to dispel all doubts as to the future 

 of horticulture in Minnesota. 



