you? As before remarked, you have not 

 purposely wrought such destructive work; 

 it is a deplorable oversight. But nature 

 is meeting out a just retribution. She 

 is sending you to market with the 

 " specked," wormy and half rotten fruit, 

 which is everywhere offered for sale. 



This last season I have kept close 

 watch of the Cleveland markets. At 

 Chandler & Rudd's, O'Brien's and other 

 places, where they pay the highest prices 

 for the best of everything, I have not 

 found one sound bushel of apples. In- 

 deed, it is a rare thing to find one sound 

 apple in a whole bushel. This dire calam- 

 ity is to be traced largely to the wounded 

 trees. Such "blood poisoning," if you 

 will allow the expression, affects the fruit 

 directly. Also the wounds and decayed 

 wood become the lurking place for count- 

 less billions of insects. 



This whole matter should be taken 



hold of with vigor, not only by the pomological, horticultural and agricultural societies, 



but by the masses in general. 



