FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. 9i 



Question: What do 3'ou do for rust — are you ever troubled with it? 



Answer: Use five pounds of Vitrol to 50 gallons of water and six or 

 seven of lime at the same time. 



Question : Do you use hydrated lime? 



Answer: No, barrel lime. 



Question: Where should we buy our nursery stock? 



Answer: 1 have bought from Michigan successfully and Iowa and 

 Illinois. 



Question: Should you get nursery stock from Michigan for Michigan 

 locality? 



Answer: Not necessarily — just so you do not go too far South. 



Question: Can you grow the Greening in Michigan as well as in 

 New York? 



Answer: You get a little better color in Michigan. 



Question: How about cultivating and fertilizing? 



Answer: It is a good thing to cultivate and turn under clover or rye. 

 Be careful in plowing — should be plowed very shallow. I always disc in 

 clover and never plow if I can help it. Never plow more than three or 

 four inches. 



Question: What kind of clover do you use and when do you seed it? 



Answer: Generally medium red clover and seed about the first of 

 July. 



Question: Tell us about that Walkerville Orchard. 



Answer: We keep four or five men. There are fifty-two acres in 

 the piece. Some young trees and around fortj'-two acres of older trees. 

 Two years ago I bought a balanced fertilizer containing potash and all 

 the other good stuffs we could get in it. It aided the crop that year and 

 made buds this last year; 6,000 barrels in 1920 and 8,000 barrels in 1921. 

 We believe there was a good deal in the fertilizing in the spring. We put 

 on potash and phosphate 10-10. We think that aided in making a good 

 color. 



Question: Do you think we need any iron in the soil? 



Answer: You will find better color on the apples in iron soil. There 

 is a sulphate of iron, but I have never tried that. I know potash and 

 phosphate will give color and will ripen your fruit a lot earlier. 



Question : Have you used any bone meal? 



Answer: No. 



Question : Have you used the dust for a spray? 



Answer: No. 



Question : Do you fall plow? 



Answer: I think it is all right but I w^ould rather plow in the spring. 

 Would rather disc than plow. 



Question: How about the use of props? 



Answer: We use props on some overloaded trees. 



Question: Does it help to hold them up where they will color better? 



Answer: No, I would not use props unless I had to. 



Question: You spoke of using advertising matter in the barrels. 



Answer: Yes. I think we are away behind the times and some young 

 fellow will come along and back us off the map. We should tell the peo- 

 ple the facts about Michigan fruit by putting some kind of literature in 

 the barrels. The grocers will hand them out. We should advertise. 



Question : Do you thin the apples? 



