STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 153 



Question — Do yoii save the seed? 



Answer — Ko. Have no convenience of water for washing. 



J. M. Pearson — Is not the che.ap vinegar made by the crooked 

 distillers less hurtful than the cheap mineral acid vinegar? And 

 has not this pernicious acid vinegar hurt your cider vinegar business 

 more than the other kind? 



Answer — Yes; the great amount of this acid vinegar made, and 

 its cheapness, is driving cidfi- vinegar out of the market. 



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Hon. S, H. West — ^Cannot this Society take some action that 

 would help to drive out of tlic market these adulterated and poison- 

 ous articles of diet? I look upon this adulteration of food as a very 

 serious matter, and hope some measures will soon be taken by the 

 proper authorities to prevent it. 



G. W. Hilliard — There are hundreds of thousands of dollars 

 worth of fruit lost every year that would be manufactured into vine- 

 gar if the market was not flooded with these com])Ounds. 



Prof. Budd — We have been at work upon this question in Iowa 

 for several years, but found it an u})hill bu.siness. No other country 

 in the world permits such adulteration of food. It is a standing 

 saying in Europe that adultered articles that cannot find consumers 

 at home are sent to America. 



J. M. Pearson — Should hogs be alhnved to run in the orchard? 



S. (j. Minkler — There is no danger of hogs injuring a large 

 orchard. 



Mr. Robison — If the field is large enough, and the hogs small 

 enough, and few enough, pasturing with hogs may do no harm. 

 Trees are often injured by l)eing rul)l)ed by hogs. As insect destroy- 

 ers hogs have ])een over-rated, I think. They will not stay up at 

 night to catch insects. 



.1. M. Pearson — We have recommended that hogs ))e allowed to 

 run in the orchard. It does the hogs good, but does it injure the 

 trees? I think not. My plan has been to grow corn first, while the 

 trees are small, then clover, and then turn in the hogs — one or two 

 hogs to the acre. I do not put the ring in the nose, but say, root, 

 hog. And they have not hurt ray trees a particle. I think. Trees 

 shed the bark annually, and the rubbing does not seem to harm 



