488 BOARD OF AOIJICULTURE. 



iiU'Ml Wiiu'sap f^fouiul I lliiuU as yood as you can yet. Very lioavy clay 

 soil, liijrli and roiliui,'. I of Ion notice the rouj^her the oharaotor of the 

 groiuid, the better qnalitj and son^itiines the better all round it is for the 

 apple. 



Mr. Ilobbs: Do you think you have the ideal conditions for the Wine- 

 saps near \'incc>nnes. or in yonr loe;ililyV 



Mr. Simpson: I thinlv so. We have not the commercial orchards that 

 there are in some other counties, but in tlie i»ast year there have been 

 orchards that pi-oduced over two hundred dollars from cue acic. 



Mr. Ilobbs: This last summer I Avas on Mr. Simpson's place, and lliey 

 pointed out to me trees aliout the .home grounds and place tiiat they told 

 ma had lionie live ^(kmI, successive crops of Winesaps. I thought that a 

 remarkable record. I think the soil conditions must be favorable, and the 

 trees give every evidence of the l)est kind of treatment— all the ma- 

 terial they Avanted to make a tree and an apple of, and they have been 

 abundantly protected by careful and thorough spraying. It was a very 

 fine illustration of the possibilities of fruit growing in southerji Indiana, 

 when all the conditions are properly met, as they should be. 



Mr. Simpson: I should like to say one thing in regard to the orchard 

 Mr. Hobbs speaks of. There are thirty Winesaps in one block— fifty 

 usually make an acre; but there were thirty in this block, which re- 

 ceived the best of i.-are that we knew how to give them, and from them 

 we sold $20() worth of fruit, and the man to whom we sold them picked 

 and packed them and paid us $200 for that jiart of the orchard. 



Question: What Avas the age of ihe trees? 



Mr. Simpson: Fifteen years. There was one of those trees I noticed 

 in particular that bore tAventy-eight bushels of AA^ell-graded fruit. When 

 we first took hold of this orchard it had the apple scab very badly, and 

 never produced anything until Ave commenced caring for it as Ave did. 



Chairman Latta: Have you Winesaps this yezir? 



Mr. Simpsoii: Yes; I Avould say about one-eighth of a ci'op. This is an 

 off-year for the Winesap. 



Mr. Thomas, of Harrison County: I don't Icnow Avbetlier j'oii liave it 

 in the neighborhood of Yincennes, luit we have all along these rough hills 

 a great deal of broAvn land— nigger bend, we call it— a graA'el or nigger- 

 head subsoil. There is a great deal of that in Harrison Countj'— about a 

 fourth of the county. Would you recomnieud that for apples? 



Mr. Simpson: The best Avay to treat these things is by observation, 

 and my observation has been that Harrison is a good county for apples. 



