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A Mkmi'.er: Is there any ])etter treatment, tliat ^-jvcs 

 better results, than the pasturing with cows? 



Mr. Jarx'is: Tillag-e is far l)etter. 



A Mkmuf.r: Talce it in the case n\ tillage and where 

 would the profits he? 



Mk. |.\u\is: 'riiat has been fii^'ured out and it is shown 

 conclusixeh' that the extra inc(_)nie would more than pa\' for 

 the cost of tillage, more than twice pay for the cost of tillage: 

 that is one of the most conclusi\e tilings in our (U-chard surx'ey 

 work. 



Prksidkxt ]*J)I)\': 1 take great ])leasure in introducing 

 the next speaker, who has come to us from a distant state and 

 wlio is well known as a very successful grower of fancy apples 

 and wlio has been given the title of the "Rome Beauty man.'' 

 1 am sure we shall all profit by Mr. Cox's address: 



How I Grow Fancy Apples for JMarket. 



By U. d\ Cox. Rockwood, Ohio, President of the Ohio State 

 Horticultural Society. 



Mr. President and Fellow Fruit Growers of Connecticut 

 and Ladies and (ientlemen: — 



I am glad to be with \-ou. W hen the Secretary asked me 

 to come and talk to you I didn't know any better than to accept 

 and I am here, but a little the worse for the trip and the 

 weather. I feel an interest in Connecticut, as ni}^ grandmother 

 was born here in Hartford in 1799, and her family and some 

 other relatives migrated to New York soon afterward and then 

 later went across to Marietta, Ohio, and in the fall of 1816 

 they moved farther d(n\n the Ohio River to Lawrence County, 

 O.. near Proctorville and not far from Huntington, W. Va. 

 Little did \'our Secretary dream that my success could be at- 

 tributed to these same ])ioneers who went out from Cc^nnecticut, 

 but such is the case. That famous Rome Beauty apple that I 

 am accused of growing so many of, had its origin through the 

 work of these same people and that of another New- England 

 pioneer in the person of Gen. Rufus Putnam. He settled at 



