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Does the fruit crop pay belter than cuty 

 other crop we can raise ? 



Mr. Moociy, of Lockport, said, " J 

 tliink the fruit crop is far the most 

 protitahli! of any crop we cmii raise. I 

 know an orcliard of plums and pears 

 of eight acres, twenty-tiiree years plant- 

 ed, which has produced over S40,000. 

 The Kietter is a profitable pear ; we 

 top-grafted a couple of rows, aljout 200 

 trees, in our orchard, and last year, tlie 

 fourth, we sold tiie fruit .it about $1"J 

 per barrel. 



^Ir. J. S. Woodward. -There is no 

 depth to which a mans depravity wont 

 lead him. Any man whose taste leads 

 him to value a pear which the mice 

 wont eat. I don't know what to think 

 of him 



Mr. Hooker, of Rochester. — I think 

 there are othei- crops which can be 

 raised to greater piofit than the fruit 

 crop : for instance, the growing of 

 nursery stock and vegetable gardening. 



Mr. Crane, of Lockport. — I have re- 

 ceived more money from an acre of 

 grapes than any one can show from an 

 acit' of apples. 



Mr. Watson, North Chautau(|ua. — 

 This year we shipjied about ."iOO car- 

 loads of grapes. We think they pay 

 from 8150 to $300 per acre on an 

 average. 



One gentleman said, I can vouch for 

 the fact that ten acres of onions yielded 

 me about 81,-iOO in one year I 



Ml-. Uice said that in one yeai- \w. 

 had received $1,900 for the produce of 

 nineteen acres of orchard. 



Mr. Willard. — This has been an off 

 year witii apples, yet they have sold for 

 more money tlian any other one crop per 

 acre. Not twenty tive per cent, of grow- 

 ers will cull and pack their apples satis- 

 factorily. A thorough reform in this 

 respect is needed. 



Mr. Pearson .said, that Seneca Co. 

 had received SI 60,000 for its fruit crop 

 the past season. 



MlM'l) M.WLUK. 



Does it pay to use it for fniil tn-en ? 



Mr. Dunning, of Auljurn. — I have 

 liad very gratifying success. I tried it 

 on the Foster Peach and succeeded in 

 getting six bushels of peaches from one 

 good sized tree by its use. Many of 

 tiie peaches would measure nine inches 

 in circumference. 



The manure is taken from a tank 

 kept near the cow stable. The tank is 

 on wheels and can be drawn about to 

 the orchard and vineyard. It consi.sts 

 largely of urine, and water from cow 

 manure. 



A gentleman from Michigan had 

 grown Fo.ster peaches eleven inches in 

 circumfeience by the use of ashes and 

 bone dust. 



IJAIiy MANURE. 



What is the best mode oftreatim/ it after 



it leaves the stables ? 



Mr. Woodward. — No man can afford 

 to draw rain water. All manure 

 should be kept undea* cover, or else 

 drawn out directly to the field as fast 

 as it is made. No man can compost 

 manure so that there will not be a con- 

 stant loss of manure every day he leaves 

 it in a pile. I make some 1,S00 loads of 

 manure each year and always draw 

 it out as fast as made and spread it 

 over the ground at once. 



If not j)repared to use the manure 

 at once, I keep it covered until wanted, 

 or I compost it in broad flat piles, and 

 cover it vvitli absorbents, such as road 

 dust, muck, straw, leaves, etc. 



Our orchards do not get manure 

 enougli, so this ([uestion is a very im- 

 portant one to the fruit grower. 



What proyress are ve imtkiny in pear 



culture ? 



Mr. Hooker said that the Saundeis 

 remedy liad proved very succesvsful in 

 checking the pear blight. The formula 

 was : — one peck of lime, ten pounds of 



