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Prof. Troop: Generally speaking, I would say from three to six and 

 eight years, or along about that. I have seen them when they have been 

 planted from three to four years that you could push them over easily. 



Pres. Stevens: M;iy I ask you if in your examinations of nursery 

 stock you have ever found root rot in tlie nursery stock? 



Prof. Troop: No, sir, I liave never found it in a nursery. 



Mr. Davis: I should like to know if Grimes' Golden is more suscepti- 

 ble of root rot than any otlier variety? 



Prof. Troop: I have been told by several that that is the case. 



Mr. Davis: It is worse in our State. 



Mr. Ratliff: It seems to me that we have selected the wrong site for 

 our orchard. It seems to me that the interests of the State should be to 

 select some place in which root rot was not so bad. Most varieties will 

 grow as well in the central part of the State as they will in any other 

 place in the State. I am like some of the fellows were when we were 

 discussing where to place this orchard. It seems to me that it would be 

 more convenient to the majority if it were in the middle of the State 

 somewhere, and woidd be to the best interest of the horticulturists. I 

 would be in^favor of changing the location of this orchard even now, and 

 go on experimenting in new varieites, and the different qualities of 

 different varieties, seedlings as well as standard varieties. I tliink in the 

 present location we will be always handicapped. We should not lose 

 years of valuable time in the propagation of certain fruits and apples. 



Prof. Troop: When a physician experiments on typhoid fever he 

 usually goes where there is fever. For this reason I think we have the 

 right spot in the center of the root rot. There is where we want it in 

 order to experiment along these lines. We have things all right there to 

 experiment with and the kind of soil needed. The conditions are very 

 favorable for experimenting. It would be very much better if Ave could 

 have two or three more of the same kinds of orchards in different parts 

 of the State, but we haven't means for that. 



Mr. Ratliff: It is all well enough to experiment, l)ut we have experi- 

 mental orchards for the purpose of determining different varieties of 

 groups of fruit in general. 



A Member: In speaking of llie different varieties of root rot. 1 think 

 that the Grimes' Golden is the worst apple in our State for root rot. I 

 have tried them four times, I mean four different times, and three or 

 four years is the longest that I can get Grimes' Golden to live. By this 

 time I could pusii th<' trcf ov<"i'. I mean at the end of this time. I have 



