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of experience in orcharding, now we will ask a man to say a few words 

 who is jnst start inji', Mr. T'ickford. 



Mr. IMckford : I <lo not like to s])eak abont my exjterience becanse 

 it is a rather sad alfair. AVe didn't have any api)]es. The aphis has 

 been very destrnctive in our section of the conntry and one farmer 

 especially that I know was a heavy loser from the green aphis. T 

 have heard that the. green ajdiis was not particnlarly destrnctive, bnt 

 it was not until 1 had been in the northern part of the State that T 

 fonnd that this aj)his was causing more tronble than any other. So 

 I saw the necessity of fighting it with Black-leaf-Forty. One orchard 

 on a bad sic^e hill had no spraying and the apples were an absolute 

 failure while the rest of tlie orchard tliat was sjn'ayed had a]»j»les of 

 No. 1 quality. It is a matter of expense mostly. If you want to go 

 to the exi^ense and troulde the aphis can be controlled all right. Kight 

 here I want to make a criticism of some of our nursery-men. They 

 have allowed trees to be sent out from their nurseries with the woolly 

 aphis. I didn't feel so bad about it being sent to us because we had 

 it there already but if it had been a new community where it Avas 

 unknown it would be a l»ad thing. T Avill not mention any names but 

 some of our nursery-men are doing this thing. 



Chainnan : Vre have had this down in our country recently but we 

 never had it before. We will now hear from Mr. Farrand. 



Mr. Farrand: We all have had a lot of experience this year and 

 for the most part it is much the same. For the last two hours com- 

 ing up here on the train we talked over our different experiences. One 

 man asked me what was the cheapest price at which I sold peaches. T 

 told him that we had some co-operative sales that didn't net us very 

 much. In one case the peach groAvers sent out seventeen dollars' worth 

 of wires to commission men in one day and without results. Then 

 they spent ten dollars for wires and got an offer for a car and I was 

 asked if I AA'ould put in a hundred and fifty bushels. After Avaiting 

 a considevable time on the first car, we received a check for fifty dol- 

 lars and on the second car they sent back and wanted me to send them 

 fifteen dollars to help pay the freight. AYhen it came to late apples 

 our experience Avas different — very much better. But one thing I have 

 learned is that it is not ahvays a saf e .i)roposition to have all your fruit 

 in one basket. Better to have it in several different things. Some 

 crops do not make a cent, especially has this be.en the case with the 

 peach crop this year. One man that T asked a short time ago how 

 he came out said that he thought he came out a little ahead if he 

 didn't figure too many items of the cost of production. Bartlett pears 

 made good money this year. Late apples made good money and cherries 

 did Avell — in fact berries of all kinds, and the fruit groAver who had a 

 variety of fruit has nothing to complain of as to the result, but if 

 they had but one kind and that kind a failure then they would be up 

 against it for sure. It would not have been safe this year to have 

 your basket filled with BaldAvin ap])les only, for they were not a suc- 

 cess. We Avant a variety of stuff'. In this Avay we can keep our help 

 longer through the season and be sure, pretty sure, of a good profit 

 at the end of the season. Another experience — a young man came to 



