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varieties through the season are, refuge from rot or other disaster which 

 may fall upon some one variety; you can keep your name in the market 

 through the season — unless you ship by number so that no one will know 

 who sent the fruit; and you can keep men, who must be employed by the 

 season, constantly employed. The list I have given will ripen from the 

 20th or 25th of July till the 10th of October, in western Allegan near the 

 lake shore, but a little earlier inland. The Stevens Rareripe was bought 

 by a neighbor who calls it one of the best. It bore the second year, 

 ripening at the close of the Chili season, and is a large white peach of the 

 type of Stump. 



POSITION OF ORCHARD AS TO FENCE OR WIND BREAK. 



2. In setting a peach orchard on the southeast corner of my farm, near 

 woods, how close to the line fence should I set the first trees ? 



Messrs. Taylor, Pearsall, and others said, ten to twelve feet; same 

 distance as in other places for turning; eighteen to twenty feet. 



3. On the north, south, and east sides of the square ten acres I intend 

 to set to peach and plum trees, is a hedge row of young maples, six to 

 twelve feet high. Shall I leave them to grow, or clear them out? 



J. F. Taylor : Set the fruit trees twenty feet from the maples and let 

 the latter stay to protect the fruit trees from wind. 



President Lyon: If it is in an exposed location, leave it; but if better 

 circulation of air is needed, thin it out. 



Mr. Hamilton thought the hedge would injure the fruit trees by taking 

 sustenance from them, and jjrotection from the lake is not needed. 



trapping moths, curl leaf, careless handling. 



4. Would it be of any use during the season the codlin moths are laying 

 their eggs in the apple, to keep lanterns setting in pans of water and 

 burning all night in different parts of the orchard, especially on warm 

 nights ? 



A member: No, not by any means; you can't fool them that way; but 

 plenty of our friends are caught by that method. 



5. At a certain stage of growth of the peach leaf, when it is young and 

 tender, if there comes a frost, does that cause it to make a heavy, morbid 

 growth, and consequently curl up and finally drop? 



President Lyon: Leaf curl is not the result of frost, but of cold, damp 

 weather, which promotes growth of the disease. 



Prof. Taft : Leaf curl is caused by the same fungus that produces plum 

 pockets, and probably could be destroyed by the means described for cure 

 of that disease. 



6. Should we have a law that, when an expressman takes the liberty to 

 throw a basket of fruit over ten feet, the owner of the fruit shall have the 

 liberty to hit him with a club? 



Several voices : Yes ! 



K. A. Burnett of Chicago: I would rather have the fruitgrower do it 

 than that anyone else should try. 



