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My. Jones. — I can answer IMr. Augnstine from fifteen years of 

 experience; that is not very long in an apple, but it is a little experi- 

 ence. I have planted down in Butler county possibly two or three 

 hundred Missouri Pippins, and in the orchard that I now own of my 

 own, I have possibly 700 Missouri Pippins. I have also probably 1,500 

 or more of Ben Davis, some six or eight hundred Wine Saps, possibly 

 two or three hundred of the Romanite. If I was going to plant that 

 orchard over today and for 365 days in a year, and for ten years to 

 come I would plant it just of two varieties, I would plant Wine Sap 

 and Romanite, and Romanite and Wine Sap. The Missouri Pippin 

 on the old trees are just like Ben Davis frequently get in some parts of 

 Illmois and some parts of Missouri^they will run small. Now Mr. 

 Augustine as a nurseryman spoke of top working the trees. I would 

 like to know how high in the top he must get. I have not yet seen 

 a Missouri Pippin grow high enough but what the top stems were 

 poor wood ; from the ground to as high as they grow in the air they 

 are poor wood. I can show him an orchard of six thousand trees out 

 near Salina in Saline county, Kansas, the furtherest west I have seen 

 any large orchard in the State of Kansas, of Missouri Pippin trees 

 that in one crop they broke off on the top limbs, and the wind came 

 along and broke them off to the root. 



President Murray. — Mr. Jones, as I understand Mr. Augustine, 

 that is the very reason why he would recommend tJie top grafting 

 of the Missouri Pippin, is to get them out of better stock. 



Mr. Jones. — But the stock itself is rotten. I say that it is poor 

 wood, and I have not seen them grafted high enough but what the 

 wood was poor. As I said awhile ago the fruit will run small. But 

 when you can raise an excellent Ben Davis, or an excellent Gano on 

 your Missouri soil, what better thing do you want? Or an excellent 

 Nixonite, an excellent Wine Sap, or an excellent Romanite, two apples 

 that will lead in price and keeping qualities, and why do you wish 

 to take up something that is poor, when you can get something good? 

 I have no use for the Missouri Pippin. 



President Murray. — I would like to hear from all our neighbors 

 as to how they are getting along. 



Professor Emerson of the University of Nebraska. — I haven't any- 

 thing particular to say, only to say I am glad to be here, and hope to 

 see some of you at the Nebraska meeting, which will occur about the 

 middle of January. I was down to your meeting a few years ago, and 

 would have been back every year, but I could not get here. I enjoy 

 these things very much. Last night we heard from one of the mem- 



