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regard and tu which he is a frequent and welcome visitor. The " Manitoba 

 fever" struck him soon after, but the climate was hardly congenial to his favorite 

 pursuits. In 1884 he took charge of "The Ranch," growing fruits and vegetables 

 for market, but making a specialty of apples and pears. As an adjunct to his 

 orchard he has a large milk dairy and a herd of well-bred hogs. 



As a prize-taker in fruit Mr. Clinton is uniformly successful. In 1890, in 

 competition with the best fruit of Michigan at the Detroit Exposition, he 

 succeeded in carrying off three of the five first prizes and two of the second 

 prizes for pears. 



His papers on fruit growing, notably those read before the Ontario Fruit 

 Growers' Association, The Dominion Fruit Growers' Convention, Ottawa, and 

 the Ontario Experimental Union, are well-known. Mr. Clinton is a most suc- 

 cessful organizer. Largely through him the North Essex Farmers' Institute 

 was established in 1889 ; and to him, also, is due, largely the credit of the 

 splendid success of the local management of the 1889 meeting of the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Association, of which he is a director. In 1889 he was elected 

 to represent the fifth ward in the Town Council of Windsor, and as chairman 

 of the Market Committee he has succeeded in making the market accommoda- 

 tions among the best in Western Ontario. 



Oiled Calico in Place of Glass. — Many use calico both oiled and 

 unoiled in place of glass. Anyone can easily prepare a calico sash as four 

 strips of board nailed together with a cross piece as a brace, answers very well 

 for the frame-work to which the cloth is tacked. For very early work this will 

 not answer, but for later plants, after danger of severe frosts is past or in the 

 south where there is but little winter, it answers every purpose. There are 

 several market gardeners north of Chicago who make extensive use of oiled 

 calico for growing vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower and salads, using it in 

 preference to glass during April, May and June, also to cover up cucumbers, 

 tomatoes, egg plants, etc., which grow and crop within these same frames. The 

 idea is that without glass as the sun gets power and yet is not warm enough for 

 the plants to be without some protection, the calico covering answers the 

 purpose very well. The important question with market gardeners now is how 

 to grow vegetables cheap enough to compete with those from the south, and very 

 extensive grounds can be completely covered with calico with comparatively 

 little expense. 



Beech Timber is especially adapted for subaqueous structures, or for 

 positions in which it is not exposed to the action of the atmosphere. As fuel, 

 the beech is very valuable, and is surpassed in heat-giving qualities only by the 

 hornbeam and maple. The charcoal of the beech is highly esteemed on account 

 of the equable heat which it emits. The bark is useful to tanners, and from the 

 ashes of the wood excellent potash is obtained. 



