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flowers, and otlier attractions wliicli make the homes of many Genesee 

 farmers places of contentment, happiness, rest, and peace. 



S. r. White of Mt. Morfis was invited to report for Livingston county. 

 He stated that he was not in a position to report for the whole county, but 

 would say something of his own place : 



I have 140 acres planted to peaches, and have made the business a grand success. 

 The credit for this is not due wholly to my own knowledge of the business, for when I took 

 hold of it 1 was perfectly ignorant of it. The first year 1 planted 700 peach trees and 

 the spring following had only one tree alive. My neighbors twitted me considerably on 

 the fact, and frequently during the winter asked nie how my peach orchard was. I kept 

 still, however, and the next spring had 3,000 trees on the ground. Those trees are now 

 eight years old, and they have borne three full crops during the last three years. 



W. C. Barry— Pardon me, Mr. White, but what varieties have been most successful 

 with you? 



Mr. White — We have too many varieties. If I planted another orchard I would plant 

 only six or eight varieties, and have them come so as to supply the demand and orders 

 continuously during the season. My orders ran as high as 1,500 baskets per day the 

 past season. I have gathered as many as 2,258 half-bushel baskets in a day, forty to 

 sixty hands being required to do the work. It is a business I have never regretted 

 entermg, and I would recommend it to any one, but not to be entered into in a way 

 that many undertake any branch of business. It needs constant care and watchfulness, 

 not only in planting the trees, but in caring for and feeding them after they are planted. 



W. C. Barry — What seven varieties would you recommend? 



Mr. White — I would recommend the Waterloo, Alexander, and Early Rivers; then the 

 Foster and Early Crawford; followed by Oldmixon and Late Crawford. I would not 

 plant any late varieties in our climate. 



W. C. Barry — Where was your market for your fruit? 



Mr. White — At my own door. To be more explicit, northern Pennsylvania, western 

 New York, and Canada. 



In reply to the question of his location, Mr. White said his land was up from the flat 

 land, above the low table land. 



I have peach yellows in my orchard. My first experience was when the orchard was 

 four years old. I found a Crawford tree with preiiiature fruit on it, and heavily loaded. 

 I knew nothing of yellows at that time, but have since learned what it is. I destroyed 

 that tree at once, and have since picked from around where that tree formerly stood, 

 three crops and perfectly sound. I cut down twenty or twenty-live trees last year. It 

 does not seem to stay in any one locality, but in diflferent places. I never undertake to 

 remove a tree, after cutting it down, while the leaves are on it, but let it lie till the next 

 spring. This permits the leaves to fall into the brush, and I think the germs of the 

 disease are killed during the winter. 



Mr. Wheelock — My friend, Mr. White, has some very tine land. I have raised peaches 

 for over forty years, and have had, on an average, a good crop every alternate year. 

 There has been considerable yellows around me, but I had it only oiace, about seven or 

 eight years ago. The spot where it appeared was the poorest part of the orchard. Two 

 or three trees died one year, and live the next; but I pulled them up at once. 



Prof. Cook was introduced to the convention and invited to speak, but 

 declined as he had already agreed to deliver an address tomorrow. 



Prof. Bailey M-as introduced to the convention and, after referring to his 

 position at Cornell University, said: 



It has become my pleasure to cast my lot with you, and the reason I came to this 

 gathering is that I inay get acquainted with you. I wish to meet all the fruitgrowers 

 of the state, that I may get all the help I can: and I want them to be interested in the 

 work we are encouragrng. We have an experiment station at Cornell, and I want your 

 sympathy and aid, it being my hope that we shall be able to do something for you in a 

 practicafway. I want to leam about the best lo(.'alities for certain specialties, and to 

 know the men or obtain the facilities which will enable me to obtain this information. 



Mr. Wells, in his report from Onondaga county, said that a grefit improvt-- 

 ment was noticeable in the surroundings of the homes in both villages and 

 towns; fences had been removed antl lawns were well kept. 



Mr. C. A. Green asked about the shipment of apples into foreign market.s, 



