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demand less rates of freight, as the returns cost more 

 than to haul the fruit to market, as you have, doubtless, 

 seen at New Castle yard in fruit season, when James 

 Wise and his gang were assorting fruit packages. 



ANSWERS RECEIVED FROM GROWER, NO. 5. 



Question l. Alexander, Early Rivers, Mountain 

 Rose, Crawford's Early, Reeves' Favorite, Old Mixon, 

 Stump the World, Crawford's Late, Steven's Late Rare- 

 Ripe, and Smock Free. 



Question 2. Light, sandy soil with clay sub-soil, 

 without protection from hill or valley. 



Question 3. Twenty-five years. 



Question 4. From Massey's X Roads in Kent, Co., 

 Md., to Crisfield, Md. 



Question 5. In my judgment in the spring. 



Question 6. Five degrees below zero. 



Question 7. In the month of May, about the time 

 the bud opens, if a heavy frost should come. 



Question 8. I plough in the month of March, as 

 soon as the frost will permit. Let the orchard remain 

 until the grass begins to grow, then harrow the ground 

 with a spike-harrow. Plough not more than three inches 

 deep. 



Question 9. We use Kainit in the month of March, 



