FRUIT REPORTS. 
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man Winesap, Nonpareil, Honey Sweet, Gem Sweet, Fallawater, Wliitney, 
Shackleford, Oldenburg, Rome Beauty, Baldwin. Alexander, Summer Pear- 
main, Stark, Winter Rambo, Early Harvest, Twenty Ounce, Jefferis, York 
Imperial. 
Hardy Pears— Bartlett, Clapp Favorite, Elizabeth, Idaho, Bessemianka, 
Anjou, Buffum. 
Of plums, Lombard is as hardy as any. All of the Japan sorts were killed 
except Red June and Willard, and trees of the latter variety were so badly 
injured that the fruit dropped after the bloom fell. Red June being the only 
one that bore fruit. This is the only Japan plum I would recommend for 
this section. I have faithfully tried Burbank and Abundance, but they will 
not do here. 
Peaches were all killed. Fay is the only currant that is not hardy here. 
It blooms so early that it is often killed; fruit fine; North Star, fruit too small, 
also quite acid; Victoria grand and in every way one of the best. 
The following varieties of apples should be top-worked a good distance 
above the ground: Tompkins King, Stump, Whinnery, Wealthy, Winter 
Rambo, Jacobs Sweet and Hubbardston Nonesuch. 
Mulching is just as good as cultivation and in some cases better, if faith- 
fully and rightly done. I have tried it for a number of years and just as 
fine fruit can be raised as in any other way. 
Statistics— Plums and damsons bring the growers twenty to twenty-five 
cents per gallon net delivered at the railway station. Apples sell at from a 
dollar and twenty cents to a dollar and a half per barrel. Grower picks 
apples and hauls to depot and the buyer furnishes barrels and packs the 
fruit. Early apples bring more in the local markets. Peaches sell at one 
dollar net; pears at a dollar and a half to two dollars per' bushel. Evaporated 
apples sell at from ten to twelve cents per pound; cherries and raspberries 
vary at from fifteen to twenty-five cents per pound. 
Good fruit land can be had for $25.00 per acre and rough mountain land 
much cheaper. 
I have tested about seveniy-five of the best known and most popular apples 
.grown in all sections of the country. I find the following seven the most 
profitable per tree in a money point of view: Jefferis, Yellow Transparent, 
Wealthy, Ben Davis, York Imperial, Oldenburg and Wolf River. The follow- 
ing seven have been the least profitable in the order named: Alexander, Mon- 
mouth Pippin, Mann, Bietigheimer, Primate, Gravenstein and Lawver. 
WISCONSIN. 
BY PROF. E. S. GOFF. MADISON. CHAIRMAN. 
1. Eastern and southern Wisconsin are fairly well adapted to the culture 
of apples, plums and cherries, also portions of Waupaca and Richland coun- 
ties. In these sections the business is most extensively carried on at present. 
Northeastern Wisconsin, especially the peninsula between Green Bay and 
Lake Michigan, is regarded by many as being especially adapted to the tree 
fruits. Nearly all of the State is adapted to small fruit culture. The plants 
of the raspberry and blackberry admit of easy winter protection and the 
currant and gooseberry are hardy without protection. 
2. Clay soils are best adapted to apples; lighter soils suit the stone fruits 
and possibly the small fruits better. Apples and the stone fruits thrive best 
