Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-09-05

with apple culture in Wisconsin. II
was compiled from information fur
/ nished by 172 apple growers residing
in diff ereut parts of the state, chiefly
| in Waupaca. Rock, " alworth, La
Fayette, Kewaunee, Door and Outa-
game counties.
From this bulletin it appears that
! the Oldenburg or Duchess variety
! leads in the number of bearing trees
in the orchards reported, about Is per
cent. of the whole number being of
This sort. Next comes the Wealthy,
which includes 10 per cent. of the
whole number, followed by the
Fameuse or Snow with Z per cent,
and the Longfleld and McMahan with
6 per cent. each Whitney No. 20
! constitutes > per cent. Of all, Haas
Or Fall Queen per cent, Talman's
, Sweet and Tetofsky per cent each
and Golden Russet, Northwestern
! Greening Walbridge and Wolf River
2 per cent. each. The remainder Of
the varieties reported is made up of
some 200 sorts, including very many
Of the old names familiar In the
orchards of New York and New Eng
land. This long list of varieties forms
an instructive object lesson of the
| tragic history of apple culture in Wis
consin. The pioneers, with pardonable
| ignorance of the severe climatic con-
ditions, planted freely of the varieties
they had learned to love in the milder
climate Of the east, but these first
orchards have been swept away with
the exception of here and there tree
or group of trees that CHANGED to be
| planted in a sheltered location.
In ability to endure cold, the follow
ing varieties are rated in the order
named: Oldenburg, Tetofsky, Talman's
Sweet Haas, Fameuse, McMahan
Golden Russell, Red Astrachan
Wealthy, Pewaukee and Alexander
! The Northwestern Greening and Long
field. of which comparatively few
trees are as yet bearing, also promise
well in this respect. In productive
ness, the OldeIburgh, Longheld,
Wealthy, Fameuse, Haas, Yellow
Transparent, Tetofsky, Wolf River
and McMahan are rated in the order
named The Oldenburgh Fameuse,
Wealthy, Haas and McMahan were re-
ported as among the more salable va
rietieS The Fameuse appears most
subject to apple scab with Walbridge
second and Talman's Sweet third. Al
exander was reported most subject to
blight followed by Wealthy second,
Talman's Sweet third and Yellow
| Transparent fourth Tie Fameuse is
! regarded as most liable To sun scald,
followed by Walbridge, Wealthy, Ben
Davis and Talman's Sweet.
Ehe majority Of the more successful
Wisconsin orchards are planted on
clay loan with a clay subsoil overly
! ing limestone rock Most of them are
| located above adjacent land and the
I greater number slope to the north or
east
The great majority Of those that
have practiseG spraying apple trees re
1 port beneficial results. 4 few Of the
| correspondents use some protection for
| the trunks OF their apple trees, mainly
lath screens woven together with wire.
! The correspondents are about equally
! divided between keeping the soil of
/ the orchard constantly cultivated and
seeding it down to grass after the
/ trees are of bearing age. The major
4 ity favor planting apple trees not less
! than thirty feet apart each way II
would appear that Wisconsin orchard
lists are nearly unanimous in prefer
4 ring homegrown trees TO those pro-
I duced east or south,
/ One hundred and two of the IT, cor
respondents sell more or less apples
and of these the greater part find
market without shipping. Fhe north
ern and northwestern markets are pre-
ferred by the great majority of
shippers 1t appears that good winter
apples bring on the average not less
than one dollar per bushel and that
the culture of crabs Is profitable in
some parts Of Wisconsin, notably
Waupaca county.
Among the varieties recommended
by the correspondents for planting in
Wisconsin, the Oldenburgh, Wealthy,
Haas. Fameqse Northwestern Green
ing, Wolf RIVER, Talman's Sweet and
Hibernal are suggested by many cor
respondents in about the order named.
In some parts of the state other va
rieties are given pre- erence. Thus in
la Fayette and Green counties Fa-
meuse Is placed first. 0ldenburgh see-
ond, Pewaukee third followed by Ro-
man stem, Saint Lawrence, Wealthy
Willow Twig Haas and Longield; in
Richland and Sank counties McMahan
Is placed second and Newell fourth
while in La Crosse county Ayista IS
given the fourth place.
The testimonies indicate that Wis
conSln orchards yield at least a fair
crop Of apples not less than eight sea-
sons out of ten. aud about four seasons
atlf of ten they WELD a full croD. Ii