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ciimstances where an orchard is doing very well as far as bearing is 

 concerned I prefer the spring pruning. Summer pruning will tend to 

 check growth to some extent. You will generally find the fruit buds 

 on the short growths, and where there are many long growths or an 

 unusual number of short, stubb}^ growths we would have better bearing 

 by summer pruning. 



Q. Can we afford to support the plan of the Apple Shippers' Asso- 

 ciation for advertising the apple, by using their stamps on packages? 



Mr. Bassett: The purjiose of this Association is trying to advertise 

 the apple. They feel that it is necessary to advertise the use of the 

 apple. For instance, they put out cook books of 157 varieties of recipes 

 — no 197, I guess I got mixed with Heinz pickles, they also intend to 

 use this money to advertise the use of the apple — the fact that apples 

 are healthful, that they can be used in many ways and in every way 

 IK)Ssible encourage the use of them. Now the President has explained 

 just exactly the plan. The producer of the apple should purchase from 

 this Trust Company in r.altimore stamps to be applied to the barrels 

 and boxes as packed. It is not intended or expected that the stamp 

 upon the package is going to be any guarantee — it is simply going to 

 mean a revenue just like internal revenue stamps. The question is, 



can we afford to support that plan. We expected to have (■ — ) 



to discuss this with us this meeting, but he could not be here. The hope 

 is, to raise money to advertise the use of the apple. We are all anxious 

 to have our goods sell, and there has been a tendency in the past to keep 

 out the apple supply by using such fruits as grape fruit and oranges, 

 etc., and to get back on a good foundation we have not only got to 

 pack and grow a good apple, but we must educate the people to buy 

 these apples. Personally, I feel that it is a good move, and if this money 

 is well expended that is received for the sale of these stamps, we will 

 all get a benefit from the increased demand for these goods. Now this 

 plan is not new — this idea of advertising the apple. The rice groAvers 

 of Louisiana and Texas have conducted rice parlors and rice restaurants 

 with the idea of teaching people how to use rice, its edible qualities, etc. 

 The orange growers of America have done a certain amount of good 

 in increasing the sale of their oranges by advertising them, and the 

 same with other fruits. Now it is hard to say how this is going to be 

 done. You might buy stamps and put them on your boxes and barrels 

 and support this movement, and your neighbor would not have anything 

 to do with it, and he would get just as much out of this as you. They 

 are asking us to support it, and I see no reason why w^e should not. 



Mr. Munson : I understand the advertisement will go into every house 

 in the country and get people to thinking about apples. 



Q. My neighbor sprays his orchard in a careless way, but the scale 

 from his orchard spots up my fruit. What remedy have I? 



Mr. Geo. Friday: I think the neighbor will kill himself off in a short 

 time, and it doesn't make any difference to me whether he sprays or not. 



Mr. Wilken : We have the state law that will take care of that. It is 

 one of the things that is very hard to follow. The law requires that a 

 man has to take care of his trees or they will be destroyed, but if the 

 proper authority in the township starts anything like that in one place 

 he will have to start it in the whole township, and is liable to create 

 enmity. It is a law that is very hard to carry out, but we have the law. 



A Member: If an orchard was infested in the neighborhood with 



