ton.

The following select list of fruits was recommended for the district, or
Southern grand division of the State:

Apples--Summer--Red Astrachan, Keswick Codlin, Benoni, Saps of
Wine, and Maiden's Blush.

Fall--It was unanimously agreed that fall apples were not
profitable for market purposes.

Winter--Ben Davis, Rome Beauty, Jonathan, Wine-Sap, Winter May,
Gilpin, and Janet.

Apples for family use--Summer--Early Harvest, Red Astrachan,
Carolina Red June, Benoni, Maiden's Blush, Bailey Sweet and
Fameuse.

Fall--Fall Wine, Rambo, Grimes' Golden, Yellow Belleflower.

Winter--Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Winesap, Ben Davis, Janet, Gilpin,
Moore's Sweet, Sweet Vandevere.

Peaches for Market--Bartlett, Howell, and Duchess.

Pears for Family Use--Bartlett, Seckel, Howell, White Doyenne,
D'Anjou, and Sheldon.

Peaches--For Family Use and Market--Alexander, Mountain Rose, L. E.
York, Oldmixon Free, Crawford's Late Stump, Picquet's Late, Smock,
Salway, and Heath Cling.

Grapes--Home Use and Market--Worden or Concord, Cynthiana or
Norton's Va., Mo. Reisling, Noah, Ives.

Strawberries--Home and Market--Capt. Jack, Downing, and Wilson.

Raspberries--Black Caps--Doolittle and Gregg.

Reds--Cuthbert, Brandywine, and Turner for home use only.

Notes on Current Topics.

FARM ECONOMY.

Now, if one wants to ascertain how many agricultural implements are used
by the farmers of the West, let him take a trip across the country for a
day or two, and he will see reapers and mowers, and hay rakes and
cultivators, and plows and seeders, standing in the fields and meadows,
at the end of the rows where they had last been used. A stranger might
think that this is not the place for them at this particular time of
year. But in this he shows his ignorance of Western farm economy--for it
is the very place for them; the identical locality where a great many of
our farmers choose to keep their costly implements. Besides--don't you
see, our farmers believe in fostering the manufactures of our country;
and this place of caring for their tools after using them adds 15 or 20
per cent to the business of the manufacturers.

ABOUT THE BORER.

I referred to the fact that I had lately been cutting away, digging up,
and making stove-wood of a number of dead and decaying apple trees. Some
of them had been dead and dying