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great bearing qualities are the main requisites. For early 

 feeding, probably the High-top, or Summer Sweet of the 

 West, may prove one of the best. There are several au- 

 tumn sorts at least worthy of trial, among which are the 

 following : the Coolies' Sweet is a fine grower, and a very 

 productive New Jersey variety ; the Jersey Sweet is also 

 very productive, but the tree is less vigorous ; the Munson 

 Sweeting and Haskell Sweet are both productive, and of 

 excellent quality, but not yet much tried west of New 

 York. The Pumpkin Sweet may prove a good autumn 

 sort for this purpose. The Sweet Pearmain is said to suc- 

 ceed well at the West, and may be valuable for late fall 

 and winter feeding. The same remark will apply to the 

 Sweet Romanite, a Western variety. The Wing Sweeting, 

 although not large, is very productive at the East, and 

 keeps well if as much so at the West, it would be valua- 

 ble. The Green Sweet is hardy and productive, and keeps 

 into spring. The most profitable sweet apple that we have 

 ever met with both for market, for feeding stock, and for 

 culinary purposes is the Talman's Sweeting. (See Illus- 

 tration, p. 282.) From a long experience in feeding sweet 

 apples to milch-cows, horses, sheep, swine, and other stock, 

 I know it will pay to cultivate the Talman's Sweeting to 

 feed stock during the foddering season. If apples are fed 

 in connection with meal, and only once per day, a bushel of 

 apples will be of as much value as a bushel of oats. Yet 

 apples can not be relied on as the proper feed for giving 

 teams strength. When teams are standing idle for several 

 days in succession, sweet apples, fed in connection with 

 meal or grain, will keep animals in a better condition than 

 nothing but grain and hay at every feeding. Most farmers 

 have heretofore made an egregious mistake in judgment 

 touching the value of sweet apples for feeding sheep during 

 the foddering season, and for feeding store swine. A sue- 



