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Davis that 1 tlo for the Wiiiosaps. Last year I supjjose I had twoiity- 

 eifiht Imshels to the tree, aiul they were as fine as could be, and the 

 soil was about the same kind of soil. Probably in some soils the lien 

 Davis niii^lit iiave lirouirlit more, but I find this heavy red elay soil 

 is the best for the Winosap. Of course, this year we haven't the Wine- 

 sap, but their .bloomin;^ is late, and the frost this year that came just 

 al)out the last of April or the first of May killed them. They jiencrally 

 bloom about the first of May. but as the season was open and warm, 

 they bloomed this year about the last of April, and then we had a freeze 

 which destroyed them. 



Mr. Simpson: Do you spray them? 



Mr. Arnold: No, sir. 



Mr. Foley, of Harrison County: I wish to say in defense of Harrison 

 County, that the brandy made with our apples is sent across the river 

 to raise Kentuckians on. You can not raise a Kentuckian without some- 

 thing strong, any more than you can raise a nigger boy without corn 

 bread. I also want to say that the Ben Davis brought more dollars to 

 me than all the other fruits and peaches I haAC raised in the last ten or 

 fifteen years. There is one trouble about Harrison County fruit raising, 

 and that is Ihe lack of transportation facilities. If you raise these fine 

 varieties they easily decay, and "a slight bruise will hurt them and they 

 rot. Now I just shake down the Ben Davis ofT of the tree and shovel 

 them in a wagon and sell them for a doller and a quarter a barrel. I 

 send them to Kentucky and the people in Louisville do not know what -a 

 fine apple is. I am for the Ben Davis, it is the most easily raised, Mith 

 the least trovdjle, and it Itrings the dollars every time; and we have to 

 watch the almighty dollar to keep the sheriff from the door. The Wine- 

 sap is a very shy bearer in my locality. 



Dr. AVolfe: The Winesap has defects. It is an apple that does not 

 stand very well; does not keep well. But the Ben Davis is not adapted 

 to all localities. I have had large experience in Harrison County, where 

 these testimonials come from, and I found the Ben Davis in Harrison 

 Coimty is better than that groAvn in tliis county. At Our locality in Har- 

 rison County they grow the Ben Davis to perfection, and on some of 

 thos«^ ?and ridges they grow a Ben Davis better to eat when it gets 

 ripe than a Winesap. It doesn't get ripe as early as the Winesap or 

 the Rome Beauty, but the Ben Davis is a long keeper, and the possibili- 

 ties of making money in southern Indiana is lai'gely wound up in the 

 growing of the Ben Davis. Wherever there is a sandstone ridge, 'it 

 grows large and fine, and it is a well tasted apple, too— much better than 

 none. We do not have to grow for the fine fruits, the Beu Davis Is good 

 enough for us. 



