ver sold apples at all
until this year to Minneapolis markets. I can sell all the apples I can
grow myself without any trouble if I have the proper men to pick them
and pack them at home. I had a son that was doing that until a few years
ago, and he followed my instructions and would place nothing but first
class stuff in the barrels and would sell my samples without any trouble
and get the top market price. I run across down in my cellar some of
last year's crop of Northwest Greenings, just two of them left, one of
them partially decayed. Something I never had known to happen before.
They lay in the cellar just wrapped up.

Mr. Ludlow: It wasn't embalmed?

Mr. Richardson: No, sir. Gentlemen, you need not be afraid of growing
fruit in Minnesota.

Mr. Ludlow: What peculiar method have you for keeping those apples?

Mr. Richardson: Just wrapped in paper only.

The President: What temperature do you keep in your cellar?

Mr. Richardson: 40 degrees about this time.

The President: You have a heater in your cellar?

Mr. Richardson: Yes, sir, but this is shut off from that, though the
pipes run through.

A Member: Are your trees still as far apart as they were at first?

Mr. Richardson: No, sir. I neglected to say that I sent East and got
some roots, and I was advised to set them out between. I have part of my
orchard set 15x16, but that is too close together.

A Member: If you were going to do it again would you put them 30x30?

Mr. Richardson: 20x20, that is, Wealthys, particularly. Of course, for
the Hibernals, you got to put them farther apart.

A Member: You mentioned the Delicious. What is your opinion of the
Delicious?

Mr. Richardson: My experience has been so little with them. I have about
150 Jonathan trees coming on that will be all right.

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MARBLE PILLAR TO FAMOUS MCINTOSH TREE.--Perhaps one of the most
curious monuments in existence has recently been built in Ontario by
Canadians. The farmers have just erected a marble pillar to mark the
site on which grew a famous apple tree.

More than a century ago a settler in Canada named McIntosh, when
clearing a space in which to make a home in the wilderness, discovered
among a number of wild apple trees one which bore fruit so well that he
cultivated it and named it McIntosh Red.

The apple became famous, and seeds and cuttings were distributed to all
parts of Canada, so that now the McIntosh Red flourishes w