We lost some trees on their own stems, the win- 

 ter before last^ others came through all right, except 

 a little defect in their trunks; bore a good crop 

 last year, are bearing a very heavy one this. Tho 

 Red Astrachan, which has been rather a spare 

 bearer, is bearing very full this year. — E. R. Heisz, 

 in Iowa Homestead. 



Strawberries atVineland, New Jersey. — 

 The WeeMy estimates the population of Vineland, 

 as 10.000. The Strawberries consumed by them 

 at 40,000 quarts, and the quantity sent to Phila- 

 delphia, New York and Boston markets at 400,000 

 quarts. The prices paid to the producer by the 

 commission agent ranged from 8 to 27 cents per 

 quart, and the average price for the whole season 

 was 13 cents per quart. 



Fruit Culture about Norfolk, Va. — The 

 Norfolk Journal^ speaking of the profits realized 

 from fruits in that section, sa3^s : 



Mrs. Ware has realized from thirty acres ten thou- 

 sand dollars on pears. Wm. J. Wright, of Nor- 

 folk county, has realized three thousand dollars 

 from eighteen acres of apples. Mr. Robinson has 

 received a net profit of eleven hundred and seventy- 

 six dollars on strawberries, from two acres and a 

 quarter. Mr. Joseph Hall, of Princess Anne, has 

 sold four hundred and four dollars worth of apples, 

 from forty acres of young trees, which have been 

 set only three years. A great number of similar 

 examples might be cited, if pains were taken to 

 obtain them from first sources. They prove that 

 the fruit business of the country around Norfolk is 

 fast coming to the aid of the vegetable trade, to 

 swell the profits of our truck farming. 



Best Market Fruits for Missouri. — ^The 

 Rural World recommends : The best red rasp- 

 berry no\v in cultivation, for either family use or 

 market culture, is the Philadelphia. The best 

 black raspberry is the Doolittle. The best variety 

 of the strawberry for market culture is Wilson's 

 Albany. The New Rochelle (Lawton) Blackberry, 

 so far as our experience extends, stands at the head 

 of the list, for market culture. The old Red Dutch 

 Currant is hardier, stronger and more productive 

 and profitable than any of its later rivals. The 

 same n.ay be said of the Houghton Seedling Goose- 

 berry. 



Agricultural Capacity of the South. — The 

 Hon. John Robertson, has prepared a Report on 

 Agricultural, Mineral and Manufacturing resources 

 of the State of Louisiana, which has been published, 



and is attracting much attention from those who 

 have the industrial prosperity of the south at heart. 

 We have not had the privilege of reailing the whole, 

 but several column-; are given in the Iron Age, of 

 New York, in its issue of August 29th. 



A Vaiuable Milk Farm.— Mr. Ross Winans, 

 of Baltimore, now seventy years of age, purchased, 

 in 1861, a flirm of about seven hundred acres, along 

 the bank-^ of thePatapsco river, and about six miles 

 from Baltimore. His land cost him $50,000; he 

 added buildings at a cost of $20 000 ; his fence cost 

 him $3000, and he iranured it at an outlay ot 

 $67,000, making the total cost of the estate $140 000. 

 During the year ending on the first of May last, his 

 sales of milk amounted to $37 630 71 ; of cows and 

 calves, in the same period, he sold $11 986 worth, 

 and had some fifteen or twenty more animals on 

 hand than at the commencement of the year. He, 

 however, purchased $9 098 worth of cows aad 

 heifers during the j^ear. At the close of the year 

 he had on hand iwo hundred and twenty tons of hay, 

 and his total product of hay for the year was esti- 

 mated at eighteen hundred tons — a great average 

 per acre. His system of manuring tends to build 

 up and nourish his land, and not to impoverish it. 



Apples FOR Ohio.— Mr. C. Springer, of Musk- 

 ingum County, has recently written a paper on this 

 subject for the Zanesville Times, on the best va- 

 rieties of apples for Ohio, he says: 



As to the fruit proper for cultivation, that de- 

 pends upon the soil and climate. Mr. Downing, on 

 the Husdon, N. Y., formerly a great fruit amateur, 

 was written to by a gentleman of Illniois, inquiring 

 about the merit of fruits. He replied that he con- 

 sidered the Rhode Island Grreening the best apple for 

 cultivation, of bis acquaintance. Plowever this fruit 

 may have prospered on the Hudson it does little good 

 here, on any soil. The Never Fail, or Rawles' 

 Janet, is considered the apple of Kentucky. Here, 

 and further north, when the trees get age they are 

 worthless. Supposing it might do better further 

 south, I sent some of this variety, with an assort- 

 ment, many years ago, to accomodate a friend, to 

 the neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama I 

 learn it does little good there. 



Not only climate but soils affect the welfare of 

 fruits. The Newtown Pippin, for instance, does 

 little good on sandy or alluvial soil, but does best on 

 clay. On the contrary, the Putnam, or Roxbury 

 Russet, is comparatively worthless on clay, but does 

 well in sandy or alluvial. But we cannot do more 

 than call attention to the subject and must leave it 



