474 BOAED OF AGEICULTURE. 



Mr. Zion: I prefer taking the apples from the baskets and putting 

 them into barrels. I can do this pretty fast; I can sort twenty-five barrels 

 of apples in three or four hours mj'self. AVhen three or four men are 

 Working it is pretty quick work. 



Mr. Simpson: Do they all sort from baskets? 



Mr. Zion: Yes, sir. 



A Woman: Do you sort them when you gather them? 



Mr. Zion: No, we take them to the packing house. 



A Woman: AVhat do you do with the refuse apples? 



Mr. Zion: We make cider out of them. We do not have very many 

 of them for cider. I do not have a cider press on my farm, for if I did 

 I fear 1 would become a cider maker instead of an apple grower and I 

 do not want to do that. The best way is to cultivate your trees, and 

 spray them, and see that the rotten, wormy apples are taken out from 

 under the trees and get fancy fruit. I am a firm believer in the fact 

 that if you leave them under the trees they will injure the other apples. 



: Do you use a commercial fertilizer around the trees? 



Mr. Zion: No, sir. 



Mr. : I would like to know how the Wolf River does in 



Central Indiana? 



Mr. Zion: I live in Tippecanoe County, forty-eight miles northwest of 

 Indianapolis. I have been told by a man tnat has been all over the United 

 States that he has never seen Wolf River apples that were as highly 

 colored as mine are. I do not know what particular quality there is in 

 my soil that causes this. It was remarked to me often at the World's 

 Fair that mine were more highly colored than they could get them in their 

 part of the country. 



: How would they do here at Indianapolis? 



Mr. Zion: Indeed, I could not say for sure, but I think assuredly 

 well. 



: What is the character of your ground? 



^Ir. Zion: It is good corn ground. It is an alluvial bed with a black 

 subsoil. 



: Black soil on top with a clay subsoil? 



Mr. Zion: Yes, sir. 



