No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 465 



gTowiug to the good old Slate of Peunsyh aula and the other fellow. 



Up in my home, good old Franklin eonnty, I believe that we are 

 able to grow as good, if not the best fruit in Pennsylvania. I feel 

 like making that broader. I believe we are able to grow the best 

 apples and peaches in the United States; indeed broader still, there 

 is no location with which I am familiar iliai can surpass our natural 

 conditions, and if this meeting would not accuse me for boasting, 

 I should not hesitate to say, that we are able to grow the best 

 apples in the world. AVe are unquestionably growing the best 

 Crawford, Smock, Champion, Geary's Hold On and Bileyeus peach, 

 and the best York Imperial, Grimes' Golden and Maiden's Blush 

 apples, and Kieffer and Lawrence pear to-day that reach our eastern 

 market. 



If the farmer of to-day will carry out the suggestions which I 

 have given, namely: Select a good piece of ground, plow, harrow 

 and cultivate it thoroughly and completely, select good trees of the 

 proper varieties, which are suited to his locality, prune them and 

 plant them carefully, then again prune them and cultivate them 

 carefully, look after the insect pests, and treat the trees before 

 the pests have injured them, and success, I am sure, awaits him. 

 And with such men as the peerless Martin as Chief Director, and 

 such a tireless and persistent worker as Prof. Surface right amongst 

 us, whose advice at all times is as free as water, dear old Pennsyl- 

 vania will soon be the leading fruit growing state in the United 

 States. 



A Member: How about that formula for rose bushes? 



MR. LEDY: I am not familiar witli the rose bush question, 

 but do know that epsom salts will kill the green louse on the apple 

 tree. 



A Member: Is it the same louse? 



MR. LEDY: I think not. 



A Member: Professor Heiges gave us that receipt a number of 

 years ago. 



MR. LEDY: This will do it. It costs from^a cent to a cent and a 

 half wholesale. It is the cheapest and simplest, and won't hurt 

 anything. 



MR. JAEKEL: I am sorry that I have to differ in some respects 

 with the gentleman. This paper might leave perhaps a wrong im- 

 pression on the minds of some of our farmers. I agree with the 

 gentleman that the orchard on the average farm is just in about the 

 same condition as the chicken-yard; that the orchards are not 

 looked upon as a productive element in farming. 



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