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222 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21. 



Tree Fruits— Market Varieties, 



Apples and Pears— C. M. Hobbs Bridgeport 



Stone Fruits— U. M. Stewart Madison 



Soil Fertilization— Prof . H. A. Huston Lafayette 



Spraying and Spraying Mixtures— S. H. Fulton Michigan 



The Apple and How to Grow It. 



Soil and Site— J. A. Burton Orleans 



Planning and Care of the Young Orchard— Will. Rittersliamp. ..Princeton 



Care of the Bearing Orchard— W. C. Reed Vincennes 



Pruning and Thinning— Prof. E. S. Goff Madison, Wis. 



MORNING SESSION. 



Tuesday, August 20, 9 A. M. 

 FRUIT POSSIBILITIES IN SOUTHERN INDIANA. 



BY GEORGE P. CAMPBELL, BLOOMINGTON. 



At the present it is very gloomy for the farmer, gardener and fruit 

 grower. No doubt there are many who feel like giving up in despair, but 

 we must not give up, but push ahead and try and find the means to over- 

 come at least some of the diflBculties that confront us. I can remember 

 when it was no trouble to grow all kinds of fruit with but very little 

 attention. Farmers would set the trees in the fence corner, and without 

 any cultivation or attention would in a very few years receive boimtiful 

 crops of fruit; and still all must acknowledge that fruit growing in 

 southern Indiana is in its infancy. We are just beginning to find out 

 that the soil in this section of the State is as well or better adapted to 

 fruit growing, especially the apple and pear, than any other State in the 

 Union. Our limestone clay soil puts more color and flavor in the fruit 

 than can be found anywhere else. Some years the climatic conditions are 

 such that we have failures in some kinds of fruits, but it is seldom that 

 we fail in all on that account. 



