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on elevated locations where air and soil drainage are best. Good orchard 
land can be purchased all the way from $10.00 to $75.00 per acre, the former 
figure of course applying only to' wild land. v Good bearing orchards are 
worth $50.00 to $100.00 per acre. 
3. Apples— Oldenburg** (Duchess), Wealthy**, McMahon** (for S. W. part of 
State), Tolman Sweet**, Longfield*, Wolf River*, Tetofski*, Haas*, Northwest- 
ern Greening*, Pewaukee (in east)*, Yellow Transparent**, Willow Twig**, 
Hibernal*, Flushing S gihenhurg * , Newell*, Malinda*, Minkler (for southern 
Wis.)*, Ratsburgf, Berlin!, Hoadleyf, Windsor Chief t- 
Cherries — Early Richmond**, Kentish**, English Morello**, Late Morellot, 
Large Morellot, Shadow Amarellef King Amarellet. 
Plums— Wyant**, Ocheeda**, Forest Garden**, Rolling-stone**, Mankato**, 
De Soto**, Quaker*, Wolf*, Pottawattamie*, Lombard*, Rockford*, Weaver*, 
Robinson*, Pipersf, Aitkinf, Frotheringham \, Le Due*!, Surprise!, Springer! , 
Orleans!, Aubert!, Smith Red !. 
Grapes — Worden**, Delaware**, Moore Early**, Brighton*, Niagara*, Con- 
cord*, Wilder*, Winchell, Ebony!, Bentzellat, Brilliant!, Fro mania!. 
Currants— Holland**, Victoria**, White Grape**, Red Dutch*, Fay*, 
Cherry*, Raby Castle!, President Wilder!, Red Cross!, London Market!. 
Gooseberry — Downing**, Champion*, Red Jacket*. 
Raspberry — Loudon**, Marlboro**, Nemaha**, Souhegan**, Cuthbert**, 
Gregg**, Older**, Palmer*, Shaffer*, Kansas!, Harris!, Columbian!, Con- 
rath!. 
Blackberries— Ancient Briton**, Stone*, Snyder*, El Dorado!, Bangor!. 
Strawberries— Warfield**, Bederwood**, Haverland*, Lovett*, Gandy*, 
Dayton*, Eureka*, Enhance*, Greenville*, Dew!, Marshall!, Epping!, Glen 
Mary!, Belt!, Clyde!. 
4 and 5. Young orchards are commonly, though not always, cultivated with 
corn and potatoes. Sometimes they are sown with small grain. The most 
progressive fruit growers are adopting the plan of cultivating orchards dur- 
ing the first half of the summer without planting a crop, and during the latter 
part of the season either grass is allowed to grow on the land or else some 
cover crop is sown. Very few as yet are practicing this method. Summer 
grass and barnyard grass grow very luxuriantly in some parts of our State 
during the latter part of the summer, and these make the cheapest cover crop 
that can be grown. While this may suggest shiftlessness, it cannot be 
denied that some of our most successful orchards are managed in this 
manner. 
6. Very few practice any system of fertilizing orchards. Barnyard 
manure with an occasional dressing of wood ashes togother with growing 
clover or peas, are the only fertilizing methods in use. 
7. The following new varieties of apples have been favorably spoken of 
by Mr. A. J. Philips, Secretary of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, 
and by Mr. A. D. Barnes of Waupaca county; Windorf, said to be excellent in 
quality and to keep until April; Granite Sweet, a winter apple, and Lindfield, 
an autumn apple, also an unnamed seedling from Monroe county. While 
these are all promising, time will be needed to determine their real value. 
8. The codling moth, leaf-roller, bark lice, and the apple curculio are 
most troublesome in apple orchards. The apple scab and apple blight are the 
most destructive diseases.- Spraying with Bordeaux mixture and Paris green 
is the remedy, most used against apple scab, codling moth and leaf-roller; but 
this is not always successful. In plums, the curculio is most troublesome. 
