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What I am going to say is based on forty some years' continued 

 experiments, with the exception only of during '63 to '65. I have 

 made all kinds of experiments and the results are shown there in 

 Blair county. I do not advocate for any farmer to have a mixed 

 orchard. It is injurious to the orchard and it is so to the tree. You 

 cannot profitably raise apples and plums together, nor can you raise 

 a few plum trees by themselves. I have at different parts in this 

 State seen German Prunes growing which will not bear at all. 

 You must have a number of different plum trees together or else 

 they don't fertilize. I would not advocate or would not say under 

 any circumstances you should have a mixture in the orchard. I 

 have had orchards with apples and peaches and they did not do well. 

 I have had orchards with dwarfed pears and apples and they did not 

 do well. I have had apples and peaches and pears alone and they 

 did well. This was my experience. Two didn't do well on all 

 different kinds of ground. We are trying now different experi- 

 ments on the mountains, and I have planted all kinds of trees. 

 There are two experimental orchards on the farm of seventy-two 

 acres, with two different kinds of pears and 42 kinds of plums, and 

 I can only say that about five different kinds of pears are good and 

 about four different kinds of plums are good. The balance are not 

 worth anything. 



ME. LEDY: If the gentleman who just left the floor will come 

 to Franklin county I will convince him, if he can be convinced, 

 that it is possible to grow plums and apples and peaches and apples 

 in the same orchard, and do it to perfection. We have done away 

 with the kind of plums that don't bear and planted the kind that 

 do bear. 



The CHAIRMAN : The next paper on the program is on the same 

 line as the one we have just heard, and the same discussion will 

 probably apply to both papers. We will now have "The Apple 

 Orchard," by Samuel W. H. Waltz, of Williamsport, Pa. 



The paper of Mr. Waltz is as follows: 



THE APPLE ORCHARD. 



By Samuel W. H. Waltz, Williamsport. Pa. 



This paper is not intended for the expert orchardist or tree 

 planter. He has no need of it — his own study and experience being 

 sufficient to guide him intelligently. It is rather addressed to the 



