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and the public had been duped so many times in new varieties, it didn't 

 lake very well and we didn't push it. Only a few orchards were planted 

 outside of the one planted by jNIr. Payne himself. He planted 240 acres. 

 Several small orchards were planted in 1892-3, and along there and 

 last season was the first year those young orchards bore a full crop, 

 when it begun to attract the attention of the public. 



Now% to give you an idea of how unfavorably it was received, Mr. 

 Scholton, one of our best apple growers, planted 700 trees and he was 

 so discouraged with the way it looked and it being a new apple, that 

 he told me four years ago that he believed he would pull them up and 

 I pursuaded him not to. Last year they bore and when I went to get 

 :some scions to get grafts off of his trees he would not let me have one. 

 He wanted to make every one himself and did. The 240 acres were 

 packed last year b}^ a Chicago dealer who bought the apples. There 

 were four firms bid on this crop of apples and they sold under sealed 

 bid for two dollars a barrel on the trees. 



President Murray. — We want to hear from Colonel Evans. 



Col. Evans. — I would give a list just as Judge Woodside has given 

 it in that paper. 



Mr. Tippin. — I might say in justice to this apple that the two 

 years we have hadj:he bitter rot, last year and this, that it has not been 

 attacked with the bitter rot. No.w this apple may not do any good in 

 North Missouri. I am speaking of South Alissouri, and please don't 

 ■get it into your heads because it does well down there it w'ill do well 

 Tjp here. 



Secretary Goodman. — I agree with Judge Woodside. I put Gano 

 ahead of Ben Davis on results of this past year. I put Ben Davis sec- 

 ond ; the next would be the York Imperial, the next Ingram, the next 

 the Jonathan and Grimes Golden. 



Mr. Nelson. — In Southwest Missouri we plant trees to make money. 

 We are planting two Ganos to every Ben Davis, Grimes Golden and 

 Jonathan. 



The President. — We have had South Alissouri. We want a list 

 for North Missouri. Some of you growers for North Missouri please 

 •give us your list. 



Mr. Gano,. — My list of five varieties for North Missouri would 

 •certainly compare very favorably with Judge Woodside's. While I have 

 given a list to the experimental station at Mountain Grove, I had a 

 delicacy in recommending the Gano, thinking that somebody would 

 think I had an ax to grind, and I left it out. I just said Ben Davis ; 

 but I certainly would not leave.it out if I came to plant an orchard 

 either in South or North Missouri. I should plant Ben Davis, York 



