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Professor Fulton: Prof. E. H. Powell, of Plymouth, has done some 

 experimenting along this line, using a number of varieties of stallis, and 

 his experience has been that it has not made a great deal of difference. 

 I don't know, however, that it has been thoroughly tested and demon- 

 strated; I thinli that it has not. 



Mr. Swaim: The Professor states that the fungi does not winter on 

 the tree, but winters on the fallen leaves on the ground beneath the trees. 

 That being the case, would it not be effectual to use the spraying solution 

 of copper and sulphur in the fall and winter upon the ground underneath 

 the trees? 



Professor Fulton: It might do some good, but the fact that the foliage 

 blows about so in the fall winds, and often falls in fence corners and- 

 out-of-the-way places, the disease that should continue to live upon it 

 that would be blowing around, would, I think, offset any good that may 

 have been done in that way, and I think it would be much better to wait 

 until just before blossoming time and then spray. 



Mr. Kingsbury: I would suggest that to do that successfully one 

 would have to hire a small boy to turn the leaves over for him, that they 

 might be sprayed on both sides. I desire to ask one question. As 1 was 

 coming down this morning on the train, there sat opposite me a gentleman 

 connected with the Atkins Saw Mill Works, of our city, and in a con- 

 versation with him he made a statement that surprised me very much, 

 in regard to the apple orchards in Michigan. He said that they had an 

 agent employed at their factory to gather up apple trees and stumps 

 wherever they could find them, and that recently he had brought down 

 several carloads from Michigan. I said, "Are they old, dead trees? He 

 said, "No;" that they had been cut down, and the hard parts separated 

 fi'om the balance. I said, "You will destroy the apple orchards of Michi- 

 gan," and he said, "The farmers over there have got an idea that they 

 can make more money out of peach gi-owing than they can out of apple 

 growing, and they are destroying the apple orchards in many places, 

 entirely." I want to know if this is correct— that the peach is a more 

 profitable fruit than the apple. Are not they very wrong in the thought 

 that the fruit growers in Michigan are making less money on apples than 

 on peaches because apples sell for two prices? I think it is just a notion, 

 and that they will make a mistake, because peaches are so very plentiful 

 they are hardly worth shipping at times. Is that the general impression 

 that peaches are more profitable than apples in Michigan? 



Professor Fulton: I am not prepared to say that it is so. I am not 

 informed as to this matter of digging out trees. I have not seen that 

 being done in the section from which I have come, and I have not heard 

 of it before. I think the reason apples have not been profitable to some 

 is that the orchards have not been given good care. Where the orchards 



