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to US, the Woiiltliy, thai is goiiis? to bo a fine applo. We have some of 

 tlu'in, and like tluMii very iimch. They arc just coinniencing to bear the 

 tliird tiiiic, and thvy are a«'fry lino ai)i)lo. 



Mr. IIan,u:or. Fhtyd rouiity: I Iiavo watched this county for the hist 

 fifty years and probably h)ngor. About fifty years ago I was in the 

 nursery business to a small extent, and I still retain one of those old 

 varieties of ai>i)les that probably the younger nun know nothing about; 

 and in the U)cation I am in now I have made about as much as any- 

 thing out of that— that is the old Milan. It is very salable in the home 

 market. I have never shipped any — never had to ship them. I could 

 always get rid of all I liad hi're in New Albany. If they once bite into 

 them they do not want to go any fartlier for an apple. They are rather 

 small; a pretty good keeper and won't rot from a bruise. The only objec- 

 tion to them is they are small. The Ben Davis does well on my farm here. 

 I owned a farm in Harrison County once, a limestone soil, and they did 

 not do well there. I had neighbors that would get probably two barrels 

 of apples on tlieir trees Avhen there were none on mine, and I couldn't 

 account for it. The trees grew immenselj', but they did not fruit. As 

 for the Jonathan in my location, Avhile I admire the apple very much, 

 it is a very shy bearer. I have some twelve-year-old trees now that have 

 but very few apples on them. The old Genett and the old Milan, I have 

 both on mj' place, and I make more money out of them than from any 

 other. My Ben Davises are not old enough to do much yet. 



Mr. Scott, Clark Count}': I can only echo what has been said in 

 favor of the Ben Davis. Nine-tenths of the apples shipped from Borden 

 in the past two years have been tlie Ben Davis. 



Mr. Forsythe, Jackson County: At present the popular apple in 

 Jackson County is the Ben Davis. The question was asked why was 

 the apple crop at least a partial failure this year? I think for the past 

 two years the excessive rainfall that prevailed during the blooming sea- 

 son had much to do with it, but mainly the late frosts were the cause 

 of the failure. We did not have frost enough to kill the germ, but we 

 had frost enough to chill the germ, and from which they rarely, if ever, 

 recover. Let me make this remarlc: you are all more or less familiar 

 with spraying. Now let me say to you that fighting frost is just as 

 practical as fighting germs. And that is a problem for all of us to take 

 home and study and learn from, and bring the result of our efforts to 

 the next meeting. 



Mr. Simpson: I trust no one will get the impression that I am against 

 the Ben Davis. We raise it in Illinois. We have a commercial orchard 

 in southern Illinois, and three-fourths of our trees are the Ben Davis: 

 and I know there are more of the Ben Davis raised in this State than 



