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Mr. Williams: Well, we had about seventy-five per cent, of bloom. 



President Stevens: Did your trees have all the crop you thought 

 they ought to have to have perfectly fine fruit? 



Mr. Williams: Yes, sir. 



President Stevens: Then I should say that you had on6 hundred per 

 cent, of fruit, because you had a full crop, and if you had had more you 

 would have very likely thinned the fruit. So I should say that you had 

 one hundred per cent, of bloom, and one hundred per cent, of fruit. 



Mr. Williams: Yes, I think that is right. 



Mr. Thomas: I should like to emphasize the proposition in regard 

 to spraying for fungi. I have in mind an orchard one-half mile from 

 where I live. It was very full of blossoms, but this fall when it came 

 to gathering the fruit there were very few apples in the orchard except 

 the Ben Davis, and they were pretty badly scabbed from the fungi. I 

 have in mind a spring a few years ago when we had a bloom for a 

 bountiful crop of apples. When the apples began to form the leaves 

 dropped off, and at the last of June the leaves were nearly all off on 

 account of this fungi. As I have said, they were very full of bloom, but 

 the fruit dropped off. When the fungus got on the stem of an apple it 

 would drop off in three days. By September all of the leaves were off 

 the trees and I feel quite confident that it was on account of the work 

 of the fungi. 



Mr. Simpson: I would like to make a remark about the fungi. This 

 year 1 think there was a fair crop of apples in our orchard. Those that 

 were not sprayed when in bloom, just as the fungi was coming on, all 

 fell off. The apple would seem to be firmlj' set, too. I sent a number 

 of these apples to different places to find the reason why they should 

 fall, and it was reported that it was on account of the apple scab fungi. 

 In a case like this I think we would be justified in spraying when the 

 apples are in bloom. Sometimes when we spray when the trees are in 

 full bloom we get the best results. We are sometimes asked not to do 

 this on account of the other man's bees. 



President Stevens: I suppose we have given all the time we can to 

 the discussion of this topic. We have quite a lengthy program, as you 

 will see by glancing over it. There are some other matters that we 

 should take up here. I am now going to call for the reports from the 

 Horticultural Committee from the various districts. Is the report ready 

 from the First District? If this Is not present, is the report ready from 

 the Second District? From the Third District? 



