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the State of ]^Iissoiiri I have yet to learn of any loss of peach trees from 

 this disease. 



The very best that any nursery ^can do under the pnesent circum- 

 stance is to grade out and burn such trees as may be found showing the 

 appearance of knots or galls. 



The statement that some nurseries have this disease in their estab- 

 lishments and that buyers should avoid purchasing their trees from 

 establishments so infested, is somewhat misleading, to say the least. 



R. J. BAGBY. 



DISTRIBUTION OF FRUIT. 

 (By G. V. Fowler.) 



]\fr. Fowler. — I have not prepared a paper, as I was not sure I 

 would come, but Monday evening I set down a few of the remarks that 

 I might make, and further, after talking wnth Brother Evans, this morn- 

 ing between five and six, while the rest of you w^ere sleeping, I got an 

 inspiration to say a word or two. 



Distribution of Apples. — In years like this year I find that you don't 

 need any instructions in regard to distributing your apples. The buyers 

 come after them, and they are ready to take them off of your hands, but 

 they say it is wise in time of peace to prepare for war. So there are 

 some things in connection with the dispensing of fruit, when it is cheap, 

 it is well to consider now. And what some of my friends are doing is 

 culling them on the trees. ^Ir. Goodman and Mr. Robnet and some others 

 commenced in June to cull on the trees to get rid of the poor ones, and 

 this has a double advantage in producing better fruit and in helping the 

 trees to stand the drouth. This helps the quality and so forth. 



We have all heard the adage "that well bought is half sold." Now, 

 well grown is more than half sold, when applied to apples. So, when 

 }-ou spray well and till the ground well and you get a good crop of fruit 

 you don't have to hunt a buyer, but the man comes and buys them ; there 

 is nothing to do except the work you have done in producing the crop. 

 A friend of mine in New York, notwithstanding his crop was very light, 

 sold his crop for ten thousand dollars, and the fifth crop he has raised. 

 You can't get him out of the habit of spraying. He is called a crank 

 on that subject by hundreds of people. Ninety-five per cent, of his apples 

 those five years have been good fruit. Some of his neighbors that have 

 not sprayed have grown good apples during that time, but he has grown 

 them everv vear. 



