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to think of my own State senator, of whom I am veiy fond. 

 I said, I will send him a barrel of Sutton Beauty apples, for 

 I think I know his weak point, and I can tickle that stomach 

 of his as quickly in that way as in any way I know of. 

 We accidentally met on the cars a few days ago, and in 

 the course of the conversation, which I afterward repeated 

 to Professor Jordan, he said, "I want to know just exactly 

 the name of that barrel of apples you sent me." I said, 

 " Why, what was the matter with them?" He said, "I have 

 eaten them nearly all up. I have never put into my mouth at 

 this season of the year an apple that suited me so thoroughly 

 as this one. It is sufficiently acid to be just exactly the most 

 desirable apple I have ever eaten at this season of the year." 

 I told him I was very glad of it. 



In that apple we have something more than simply a 

 good-looking apple and a good-eating apple. While we 

 are making every effort possible in the lines of economy, 

 we find continually that there are expenses being involved 

 in the production of everything. In order to be successful 

 in apple growing, we have got to spray. We have to spray 

 almost everything. From my own experience — I do not 

 know how it will be elsewhere — I find that the Sutton 

 1 Beauty requires no spraying to guard against fungus. I get 

 a good crop every year without any Bordeaux. It has a 

 foliage that is almost perfect, and that is the beginning, the 

 foundation of the whole thing, — if you haven't a perfect 

 foliage, you had better hand it over to your wife's relatives. 

 I did not get up to talk apples. That will come later, per- 

 haps. What I want to get at is that there is an apple that 

 has a foliage that is so perfect as to avoid the necessity of 

 spraying the trees with Bordeaux. If we can get into these 

 things and find out about them as can be done at the col- 

 lege, and ascertain what such varieties as need no spraying 

 or very little are, and then get Hale to tell the people 

 throughout the country what they are, we will get them. 



In the month of September last, at our State fair, on a 

 little branch of apples suspended in our horticultural de- 

 partment (Professor Fernald will smell the thing out now) 

 was a branch or two branches of apples, one bearing about 

 twelve apples to the foot, and the other, if I recollect right, 



