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Master Williams: We used Bordeaux mixture with Paris green. We 

 used four ounces of Paris green to fifty gallons of water. 



Prof. Troop: One thing that struck me in the paper of the young man, 

 and it explains to me why he has an interest in fruit-growing, is this: 

 Did you notice that he spoke of the orchard as "my orchard?" -This is 

 why he has an interest in gi-owing apples. 



Mr. Wheeler: I came in here on purpose to find out if I could not 

 learn a great many things in regard to horticulture. I have found this 

 out, that if we want to raise nice apples we must spray our trees. I was 

 like some of my friends. I had been raising little, scrawny, knotty, worm- 

 eaten apples. I bought a hand spray pump and tried that and met with 

 very poor success with it, but I had a friend that had a big pump that 

 was put on a wagon and he had been meeting with success. I likewise 

 went and bought one of that kind. We have sprayed for five years, and 

 in that five years we have always had apples. Our neighbors have not 

 been spraying and the result is they have not had apples except of the 

 kind I spoke of raising before I got my sprayer. Last year two of my 

 neighbors, wlio live very close to me, asked to use my spray pump and I 

 told them they might. When 1 would get through spraying they would 

 come and get my pump and wagon and spray theirs, and the result was 

 that ea^h one of them raised good apples. If all the people in the neigh- 

 borhood would spray I think we could exterminate these little pests a 

 great deal bttter than one spraying by himself. 



Mr. E. Y. Teas: I can say that when I visited Mr. Williams' orchard 

 he had one hundred bushels of apples picked, and he did not have half a 

 bushel of inferior ones. T never saw such a large per cent, of fine apples 

 in my life as he raised. 



Secretary Flick: Mr. Chairman, I had the pleasure of visiting this 

 orchard. I think it was in October. I heard from intercourse with other 

 horticulturists that this was a fine orchard. I was hunting fruit to ex- 

 hibit at the World's Fair, and I visited the orchard, and I must say that 

 I have scarcely ever seen as large percentage of marketable fruit in any 

 orchard I have visited for years. I have seen more fruit on the trees, but 

 I have not seen as great a proportion of marketable fruit. Xinety-five per 

 cent, were of fine color, smooth and large. I have had some talk with 

 Mr. Williams with regard to his orchard, and I find that his s-ixteen-acre 

 orchard is on a ridge, which slopes in all directions, north, south, east and 

 west, and that the trees were planted in about the usual way, but the 

 trees were gotten from one of the best nurseries in the State, and of 

 course they all proved true to name. This orchard received clean culti- 

 vation until the bearing age and then it was sowed down to clover, and 

 it is still in clover. He keeps it in clover. Some of you may wonder how 



