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Davis. They have not come into bearing as yet. We expect tliem to 

 bear considerable next season. Tlie cultivation of these trees was neg- 

 lected this year in order to force them into bearing. Perhaps this was 

 a bad move, and we should have grown them another year and had 

 them larger. You know we get so anxious along this line that we can 

 not wait. ' 



Mr. Zion: Why not adopt the method of spraying down there? Even 

 in the Experimental Orchard? 



Mr. Burton: We have no missionaries down there. 



Mr. Little: How do you manage to fertilize the Ben Davis with the 

 Jenett when they are so far different in time of blooming? 



Mr. Burton: By a little care you can find a blossom of one over- 

 lapping the blossom time of the other. In this case the pollen was saved 

 from the Ben Davis and kept in glass cans for a week. We had the pollen 

 stored away for a whole week before the Jenett came into bloom. Some 

 seasons they bloom so close together that there is no difficulty at all. 

 You can save the pollen. I kept some from a wild crab for nearly two 

 weeks. 



Mr. Ratliff : Wouldn't you think it would be better to graft some of 

 the tender varieties of apples on the crab stock, such as Yellow Trans- 

 parent and Grimes Golden, rather than on the Ben Davis stock? 



Mr. Burton: I do not think the wild crab is nearly as hardy as the 

 Ben Davis. I would rather have the Ben Davis. I think the other is 

 more subject to disease. 



Mr. Ratliff: I mean any of the crab apples. 



Mr. Burton: I do not think any of the crab apples will grow as fast 

 as the larger apples. The tree will not grow as fast. 



President Stevens: Does anyone else have a question? 



Mr. Little: I visited an orchard not long ago, in the northern part 

 of the State, and the owner told me that every tree in the orchard was 

 raised from Rambo seeds. I went over the orchard and evei"y single 

 tree in that orchard had a Rambo tendency, or favored in some way the 

 Rambo. Some of the best sweet apples I ever tasted were in that 

 orchard, and the tree was very large and resembled a Rambo. 



Walter Smith: May I ask in grafting Grimes Golden in the other 

 stock, is there any advantage in grafting on the body a distance from 

 the ground? 



