994 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
7. Do not scold the boys or girls who pick your fruit this month 
because they eata mellow apple occasionally. Remember two things: 
first, that this is the first fruit of the season and tastes awful good, 
and, second, that you were once a boy yourself and liked apples and 
even took some on the sly and hid them in the haymow until they 
were good. Better by far to find a boy with some apples in his 
pocket taking them to his mother, sister or best girl, than to see him 
with a vile cigarette in his mouth. Boys, think of this and govern 
yourselves accordingly. 
8. Do not idle your time away this month and then try to do your 
budding to improve your trees in November, because it can’t be 
done; but as soon asthe buds are matured enough to grow and you 
find the young limbs with sap moving freely, go right atit. If you 
cannot do it, get some of Prof. Goff’s students or some apple 
grower to show you how. Do this now for two reasons: first, be- 
cause you are six months ahead in the work of next spring’s graft- 
ing, and, second, if your bud fails to grow you can next spring 
graft the same limb. Don’t you see? Remember, one young tree 
well budded or grafted, is worth ten or twenty old ones, because a 
bud or graft in this climate will not do well on an old tree. 
9. This month is a gocd time to cut the suckers and sprouts from 
about the trees and gather the brush out of the orchard. Pull the 
yellow docks, thistles and burdock, and take the whole mess to some 
meadow you intend to plow, and there, without any regrets or com- 
punctions of conscience, burn it up, root and branch, and scatter 
the ashes to the fourwinds of heaven, or carry them to the straw- 
berry bed or put them around the tree that you expect to pick the 
apples from to beat your competitor at the fair, or put them around 
your Columbian or Loudon raspberries. 
i0. This is one of the very best months of the year to save 
one dollar of your apple or other money and send to me at Salem, 
Wis. It will make you a member of the Wisconsin State Horticul. 
tural Society, whose report will be sent you free as soon as pub- 
lished. It will also make you a subscriber for the year to the 
“Minnesota Horticulturist,” any number of which is worth a 
dollar to the horticulturist. This will keep you posted so youwill 
not be imposed on by every Tom, Dick or Harry who tries to sell 
you worthless stuff with high-sounding names. 
This is my first monthly bulletin, and should it be my last, try 
and remember something I have told you, especially the last, where 
I said save a dollar and join the Horticultural Society (if youare a 
Minnesotian join the Minnesota society, of course). Get the best 
thoughts from the best horticulturists, and it will make you a better 
father, husband, citizen and fruit grower. 
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