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house where he was packing apples for Wisconsin and the far- 

 ther the help dropped or threw the apples into the barrels the 

 better packer he was considered and as the hot weather has 

 ripened all fruit up very rapidly, one can imagine what some 

 Wisconsin man will say when he buys fancy No. i W^estern 

 New York apples. 



I wish to invite you all to our New York State Fruit Growers' 

 meeting at Medina the first week in January and to the Western 

 New York Horticultural meeting the 3rd week in January at 

 Rochester. 



DiSCUSSlON. 



Question. I want to ask Mr. Allis where he bought his trees.. 



]\Ir. Allis. Until last year I bought all my trees in New 

 York state. Last fall I was down on the eastern shore of the 

 Maryland peninsula and visited a nursery from which the 

 year previous had been shipped twenty car-loads of trees to a 

 firm in Rochester, N. Y., that were sold at Rochester as Roches- 

 ter grown trees. So I thought I would buy eastern shore Mary- 

 land trees and get them direct. That is where I got this orchard. 



Question. Did that scale come from the nursery? 



Mr. Allis. I never had any on the farm before. 



Question. Are there any nurseries in Maryland free from 

 scale? 



Mr. Allis. I think there are. The reason I don't buy of the 

 New York firm is that they don't have what I want. The 

 inspector tells me that there has never been any scale in 

 the nursery from which I have formerly purchased, in 

 Batavia, N. Y. 



Question. Wliat variety are you going to set? 



]\Ir. Allis. I think I will set some kind and graft it to Kings. 

 The King apple is a very good selling apple, and in fifteen years 

 from now there will be scarcely a King tree left, and I think by 

 that time these trees will pay a good price. Kings on their own 

 stock are apt to die. 



Question. Why wouldn't you keep sheep in your new 

 orchard ? I would like to have you tell your experience with 

 sheep. 



Mr. Allis. When I first began to work on these orchards I 

 had a lot of sheep — I had as high some years as 700 sheep, and 



