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Dr. Humphrey — T think it is the experience of all intelligent fruit 

 growers that trees not more than three years old make the best growth 

 in the orchard. I believe that two years old trees are the very best size 

 and age for setting, and I believe that in seven or eight years they will 

 be from one-half to two-thirds larger than trees that were four or five 

 years old when set. 



Mr. Daggv — I have noticed that this recommending young trees 

 is generally regarded as a kind of trick of the nurseryman to get off 

 his stock, (I don't know but it is a trick,) and the idea of going upon the 

 prairies and planting little switches seems to many preposterous. But 

 we have tried it. and can testify that it can be done successfully. 



Mr. Vickrov, orchardist and gardener for the vState Industrial Uni- 

 versity, presented the following statements of experiments at that Insti- 

 tution. 



REPORT OF EXPERIMENTAL GRAFTS FOR i87i-'72. 



