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the orchard at night, when the snow was off the ground ; 

 when snow is on the ground the sheep will bite the trees. 

 Sheep manure Pear trees better than any other way I 

 ever saw them manured. Whether the sheep kept off 

 the slug, or not, I can't say, but my trees have never 

 been troubled with slug, and my neighbors' have. When 

 I first sent pears to market they wanted them ripe ;^now 

 the dealers want to ripen them themselves. If they are 

 all ripe they have to use them at once. If they are not 

 ripe they can hasten them or keep them back. There is 

 no pear equal to the Bartlett for canning or drying. I 

 believe there will be a great demand for evaporated 

 Bartletts. I find the northern pears are sent to market 

 in kegs ; they bring more than ours, but they are said to 

 be finer and smoother than ours. I replanted the dead 



trees I got from with Bartletts, and I did right. 



They have borne well, and have been fine, and paid well 

 until this year. They did not pay at all this year, 

 because they were not as good as usual, and the season 

 was so late. 



This letter sounds so true to nature, to those who have 

 suffered, and is the same old story as told over an over 

 again, by the good people of the Peninsula. Could they 

 have had proper guides in fruit culture, such cases never 

 could have occurred, and a knowledge of this fact has 

 greatly stimulated me in preparing this book. 



