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wide, while these strips were cut off one 
foot in length. With these 12x1$ Inch 
nieces of screen, and with line annealed 
wire tor fastener*! some lO.nuu trees ao- 
rurelv protected from the rabbits. 
Tlii- cost of wire screen was nearly 2 
cents per tree. 
The screen wire was never nunmed un- 
til its fastenings rusted loose several years 
arter. i.ut permitted in remain summer 
and winter. 
Prof. H ic. Van Deiunii recommends a 
tbtn sheet tif wood, something like veneer, 
such ns Is used in making quart berry 
boxes, or half bushel boskets This Is 
probably oil right. We Imre seen it used, 
but do not think it so good as the wire 
screen. 
For something cheap use the muslin 
strips, for something better and that needs 
to be done l>ut once, use tbe wire screen. 
But by all means protect the trees from 
tbe rabbits. 
ty is only skin deep.”— National Fruit 
Grower. 
Keep your Ben Davit until they are ripe 
nuil you will dud them alraut as good os 
your old Baldwins. Because the Beil Davis 
is so red nml Imjiutirul front -September to 
June, ninny try to cat them when green, 
hot them get fully ripe and they are excel- 
lent. 
Beu Davis mid Persimmons grow In the 
same latitude, mid each kind of fruit Is un- 
til fin- use when green, but when ripe will 
tempt tbe gods. 
Ben Davis Apple Tree. 
Planted as a two-year-old tree the spring 
of 1879. Grown from a piece root graft. 
It now measures thirty-eight feet to the 
extreme tips of tbe top limbs, while the 
and about the same size of the Bnwles Jn- 
nett, which apple It closely resembles in 
ninny of Its din niC tori Sties, yet Judge 
Womlaldc* considers It superior to the bit- 
ter. In some portions of the west, it Is said 
to have been Injured by the severe froze 
of rim winter nf 1890. It Is, therefore, 
most likely, much more tender than 
ItawleV Jnnett. 
Apples for New England. 
For the latitude or New Hampshire T. 
Grenier recommends the follow ing w inter 
apples Tor a market orchard: Hubbard 
stnn, Sutton and .McIntosh. Those, lie 
says, are preferable to Baldwin. In top- 
grafting old apple trees with varieties suit- 
able for family use, covering the entire ap- 
ple season, which Is about the entire year, 
Apples. 
The Ben Davis Apple and the Kieffer 
Pear. 
The Ben Davis apple, as grown in north- 
west Missouri, Is good In Us season. One 
reason why il is so often condemned la that 
il is put nn the market as early as October 
as an eating apple, when In fact It Is not 
usually fit to eat before tbe middle of Jan- 
uary. In looks gnud at any time, Is bought 
out of season, then condemned. I consid- 
er the Ben I in vis apple as a fairly good 
eating apple lu its season, that Is, from 
January 20 ami after, ami would consider 
that my winter supply of provisions was 
not complete if I did tint have a good lot 
or Ben Davis !u my cellar. After they gel 
good, I utiMrc that they are usually select- 
ed first when brought out with other ap- 
ples, both by my own family and by visit- 
ors. Try some northern Missouri Ben Jtn- 
vls next year, but do not expect them to be 
good until their time comes 
Ax to the Kieffer pear, m.v trees have 
been bearing for a number of years. When 
properly ripened after being left on the 
trees as long as is safe from frost, they get 
mellow to the core, are juicy and good, and 
while they are a little coarse, the flavor Is 
very line, hast year, 1 had a surplus for 
(he first time, and all were sold at the 
house at $2 per bushel, and many were 
called for after all were gone, so J con- 
clude that there are others who like tbetn. 
Fertmpx climatic conditions have some- 
thing to do with both or these fruits: but 
as grown here, both are good lu their sea- 
son, and both readily sell at the highest 
price, which goes to prove Hint many peo- 
ple like them.— JV. H. S., lu the Rural New 
Yorker. 
Ben Davis 21 Years Old. 
trunk one foot above tbe ground is forty- 
eight Inches In circumference, or over six- 
teen Inches in diameter. With the excep- 
tion of a few “off years" It has borne good 
crops since the seventh year from planting, 
and looks as If it was good for twenty or 
twenty-live years more. 
The tree Is located Id St. Clair count v. 
Illinois, and owned by Mr, L. F. I lintel- 
maun. 
Ben Davis and Baldwin. 
The State Pmnologtenl Society of Maine 
at Its coining session hat this question 
among others submitted for discussion: 
“Are Buldwlu and Ben Davis the roost 
profitable apples for general market pur- 
poses' If the verdict hinges on quality 
Ben Davis should speedily be kicked out of 
the house. If the flavor Is no better lu the 
western states, where n seem* to be pop- 
ular, i hail ill the sped nigh e wl* have tested 
bere in the east, It Should not be yoked 
with Hie Baldwin for a moment. It tins 
good looks to recommend p |,„( h m , very 
forcibly may be applied the adage. "Beuu 
The Ingram Apple. 
Commercial growers In the west are 
pea ranee very much like a Bartlett pear 
men* ure. quite handsomely colored, fi is 
a good keeper and Is tine sating Prof, 
Van Deinuii recomuiomlB Hi trial where 
Ben Davis and Wlncsiip are popular.— Gar- 
dening. 
We saw Mime fine Ingram apple trees in 
October, 1899, in Judge Woodsides 2fiO- 
acre orchard m ar Salem, Dent Coiiuty, Mo. 
J liese trees Wore well-formed, ami in :ip 
pea ra nee very much like a Hurtlell pear 
tree. The apples grew on •hurt spurn. 
eloHciy attached "i the center limbs, so n,ut 
Hie trees presented a lira nt If ul slgbl, wltli 
their long Slender limbs closely studded 
with tbe pink apples 
The fruit Is qulle Juicy, well flavored. 
"uly a tree or two of a kind should be de- 
voted to a single variety. This will give 
opportunity for a succession that will ripen 
ns desired. The following will prove a 
good list lor New tinglntid: Summer Rose 
ifllow Transparent, Fanny. Prlumte, Dow 
ell. J efforts, Chenango, Fall l’lnniu, Moth 
er. Crimea’ Hidden, S.illon, Uoxbury. Rux 
set, Tompkins’ King, Sturk. -Hx. 
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Red and Green Apples. 
I be American pcqflle seem to HU.- red 
il' H, red dresses, colored shirts, colored 
handkerchiefs' and fancy hose, and stock 
men, too. admire ihe red rattle, lu porno 
ioc .al innltcrs tiro craze likewise (alt 
I'll hold of the people. Red apples are re- 
garded ns superior to green or yellow 
oni M they sell better because buyers Ilk. 
hi tractive color nut uf lids color ernz. 
mu grown a dccreasEd demand for yellow 
'.ml green apples, and tills Is wli.V Hunts 
man.. Favorite, Rhode island Greening 
ole are not planted .xtcnMv.lv, though nl 
fruit growers well u, 10 w that these art 
