APPLES AND OTHER FRUIT IN NORTHERN LATITUDES. 
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One feature of the exhibition was peculiarly 
striking. On receiving the awards of the view¬ 
ing committees, and the distribution of the prize 
flags, the several prize animals, consisting of 
30 yoke of oxen, the bulls, cows, fat cattle, 
steers, heifers, and calves, were ranged in pro¬ 
cession, accompanied and led by their owners. 
To these were added the prize horses; and in 
the rear, were brought up the mules, jackasses, 
and jennies, in most solemn and vociferous 
array. The first was imposing and grand, and 
were viewed in silent admiration, while the last 
produced, in their quaint and grotesque profile, 
a universal burst of merriment and waggery 
from the thousands of bystanders and specta¬ 
tors—a mixed display of admiration, fun, and 
drollery, that nothing but a procession of beau¬ 
tiful domestic stock, closed up by an array of 
jackasses, would produce. This procession 
moved around the entire grounds in the chief 
avenue, and in effect, was certainly an improve¬ 
ment on anything we had yet witnessed at a 
cattle show. 
The display in the machines, manufactures, 
and the miscellaneous halls, was quite respec¬ 
table, and in many things, much taste and in¬ 
genuity were exhibited. Numerous articles of 
farm machinery were from our own state. 
Some beautiful fabrications of household skill, 
from Kentucky, as well as Ohio, all of them 
creditable to the industry of the fair hands who 
made them. The show of grains was good. 
The fruits were chiefly from the lake region, 
and our own state, the first crop of interior Ohio 
having been cut off by a killing frost soon after 
it had set. A choice display of wine from Cin¬ 
cinnati, was exhibited, the counterpart of that 
we had at Rochester. No doubt the hills of 
Ohio are destined to furnish immense quanti¬ 
ties of wine for future American consumption. 
The refreshment hall, a most important de¬ 
partment in the recollection of hungiy officers, 
guests, and viewing committees, was filled with 
Ohio’s best cheer, all abundant and welcome, 
a capital feature in an affair of this sort. The 
usual attendance of great, as well as little men, 
were there, and served to swell the mass and 
give variety to the occasion. The general good 
order and sobriety usual at all our shows was 
observed, no instance of a breach of either 
being witnessed. The amount of money re¬ 
ceived by the society was large—about $8,000. 
The price of single tickets was 25 cents, just 
double the price of our own society; the Buck¬ 
eyes apparently grudging their quarters for 
such an object, as little as a less sum. Ohio is 
on the high road of improvement—a great, pa¬ 
triotic, rich state, with agricultural resources 
almost boundless ; and with proper attention on 
the part of her people, destined to become one 
of the wealthiest, most happy, and prosperous 
in the Union. A Visitor. 
APPLES AND OTHER FRUIT IN NORTHERN LAT¬ 
ITUDES. 
We noticed, when passing through Bethlehem, 
N. H., an elevated cone of land between the 
Franconia and White Mountains, in the early 
part of September last, that severe frosts had 
arrested the further growth of the apples. Nu¬ 
merous trees were covered with them, which 
had not then attained more than half their 
growth, and were consequently worthless. This 
waste of natural and artificial effort to produce 
fruit, might have been saved by the exercise of 
only just sense enough to have selected early 
maturing varieties. 
It is not the latitude, simply, that determines 
the character of the seasons. Elevation equally 
affects the temperature. Valleys occupying a 
high northern latitude, if composed of a light, 
dry, kindly soil, and surrounded by hills that 
concentrate the sun’s rays like a series of focal 
mirrors, and protect them from the cold blasts, 
may often mature fruits, grain, and other crops 
from the accumulated heat, when more elevated 
regions, though adjoining, are incapable of 
bringing similar products within weeks of ma¬ 
turity. These are considerations that reflecting 
men will heed—but the thoughtless, never. 
The consequence justly resulting, will be gain 
to the considerate, and loss to the inconsiderate 
farmer. 
ROOT PRUNING-. 
The following notice of the practical method 
and effects of root pruning was forwarded to us 
by our agent, Mr. Sherman, some time since, 
but has been crowded out by other, though per¬ 
haps not more important matter. We shall be 
much obliged to Mr. Williamson, if he will give 
us the result of further experiments in this line, 
or any other of fruit culture:— 
In March last, I learned from Mr. T. H. Wil¬ 
liamson, of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, that he 
had made some successful experiments in root 
pruning, which, if made public, I think may be 
the means of improving the conditions of orch¬ 
ards, particularly those that are old and de¬ 
clining. 
Dig a trench some five or six feet from the 
body, sufficiently deep to expose to view the 
main roots, and then cut them off smoothly. 
