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A. J. PHILIPS, SECY., WISCONSIN STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
As practiced by himself. 
This is condensed, andifany one cancullout anything that they can 
apply to their particular case, location or surroundings, do so. If 
not, write and tell me why. 
1. Stop cultivating among your grafts, young trees, vines, bushes, 
etc., so as to give them the best possible chance to ripen their wood 
for the coming hard (or mild) winter, and,if they persist in growing 
too late, pinch off the tips of the leaders. 
2. Get old hay, straw or listen to your wife and cut the weeds 
around the house and fences and put all that around the bearing 
trees and some manure with it when the June or other grass is tak- 
ing possession and try and have the soil aroundall trees so that the 
rains can nourish the roots instead of running somewhere else. 
3. Begin picking the apples from the heaviest loaded trees as soon 
as they will do to cook and take them to market, for there is many a 
good housewife who will be too glad to get them to make a pie to 
please her husband, who knows that you cannot raise applesin Wis- 
consin or Minnesota. This will keep the trees from breaking down 
and make the man better natured, and those left will grow larger, 
and, though it is more work, you will get more money from the crop. 
4. Do not believe allthat a man says when he tells you to pinch off 
half the apples and throw them away and expect the balance 
when ripe to weigh as much as the whole would have done in case 
none were picked and expect the work of the tree in ripening the 
fruit and perfecting the remaining seeds to be only half as much— 
this can’t be done in my orchard, only partially. 
5. In picking your apples to ship or sell at home, sort them care- 
fully—better give the poor ones to some family where the children 
have no apples than to send them with the good ones. Placea layer 
of average apples, stem end down, in the end of barrel that is to be 
opened, and see to it and learn your boys or hired help to be careful 
that the apples run alike through the barrel. You need not wast ink, 
paper and time to write this to the commission man or other cus- 
tomers; they will find it out quick enough. 
6. Do not make a fool of yourself and kick the tree peddler off from 
your premises, who callson you this month. It will discourage him 
and do you no good. Invite him into the house and ask him whose 
trees he is selling, and, if you find they are to come from the south 
or east, tell him in a kind, fatherly way that Wisconsin and Minne- 
sota can grow all the good apple trees they need, and that home 
grown trees for several reasons are better for the Northwest, espec- 
ially if they have been grown on clay or limestone land, and quietly 
tell him when it comes to the new improved varieties that the two 
states I have mentioned are right up to the front. 
