436 liOAKD OF AGRICULTUKE. 



Yellow Transparent. In the trees of this variety I could only find one 

 small twig on one tree that was affected. 



As 1 said before, this orchard has been for about nine years in clover. 

 The clover is cut twice each summer and left on the ground as a mulch. 

 Whenever patches of clover fail from any cause these spots are stirred 

 with a harrow in the spring and reseeded, so as to keep up a good 

 growth. The clover crop is thought to benefit the trees, as well as keep 

 up the fertility of the soil. 



The estimated yield of this orchard at the time of my visit was 1,200 

 to 1,500 bushels of apples. The actual crop gathered was about 2,000 

 bushels of select fruit and 500 bushels of culls and windfalls, whieji were 

 made into cider. The sales have amounted to a little more than $1,400. 



York Imperials from this orchard, shown at the St. Louis World's 

 Fair, were finer specimens of this variety than those from any other 

 State in the Union. There are thousands of acres of land in this part 

 of Indiana as well adapted to apple growing as is the Williams farm. 



To Mr. Williams also belongs the credit of rescuing from oblivion the 

 Taylor's Prolific blackberry, the same having originated in his father's 

 garden, and Sam, when a boy, saved the little seedling, thinking it was 

 a peach tree. 



President Stevens: Has anyone a question or a thought to add to the 

 subject? 



Sylvester Johnson: I have no questions to ask, but I should like to 

 say a few words in regard to the bright boy that has just read the paper. 

 He will make a horticulturist some of these days. I must say that the 

 paper was well read, and I am sure that this boy takes an interest in hor- 

 ticulture, and I wish we had more boys and more young men in our 

 country like him. We should make an effort to get more into our So- 

 ciety. I think that the paper which this young man read, and also the 

 one which Mr. Teas read were very practical and interesting, and I am 

 sure when they are printed and read by others it will be of benefit to the 

 people. I am a firm believer in sprajing. As I have said a great many 

 times in St. Louis when people have asked, "Where and how were these 

 apples grown?" I replied "In Indiana by spraying thoroughly." We cer- 

 tainly did have a fine display of apples there, and most all had been 

 sprayed. We did this by spraying. I am a firm believer in it. and have been 

 for years. I think it is absolutely necessary. It took a long while to get 

 people to believe that there was anything in it. They thought it was 

 simply a fad, of which we have so many, but there are now very few 

 fruit-gi'owers but what believe in spraying. I believe in it firmly. 



Mr. Lafuse: I would like for this young ninn to tell me what kind of 

 poison he used in hii«; spr.nyiTitr materisl. 



