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a few trees, leaving out the carbolic acid, and the borers were 

 in 25 per cent, of those trees this year ; but where the car- 

 bolic acid was added to the soft soap and lime, there was not 

 a borer in one tree out of a hundred, and we have 6,000 trees. 

 It seems to me the carbolic acid is essential. 



Mr. Yan Deusen. We set out a peach orchard seven years 

 ago, but something that we could not prevent has hindered 

 the trees from bearing up to our expectations. Nevertheless, 

 we have felt well paid. I was thinking of it while sitting 

 here, and looking back over the past seven years, I calculated 

 that we had sold from one acre and a quarter, besides supply- 

 ing a family of eighty people (it is free plunder), $2,000 

 worth of peaches. The land on which the trees were set is a 

 sort of ledge ; underneath is red rock, and it faces the west 

 and southwest. It is not rich land, by any means. One year 

 we had corn on it, — the year before the trees were set out, — 

 with oats afterwards. The corn was not very good, also the 

 oats. It is just such land as 1 would select to-day were I to 

 set out a peach orchard. Some of those present may have 

 heard me say, that if a horse had had too many oats, and 

 was likely to run away, and I had to hold him too hard, I 

 would take away his oats. Now, if we set out trees on land 

 which we call rather poor, we can give it something to ferti- 

 lize it, but if it is too rich, we cannot hold in the horse. I 

 would rather stimulate the land than have it too rich, and 

 attempt to hold in the horse. A portion of our orchard is on 

 rich garden ground, and the trees there have not turned out 

 as well as the others that are on poorer soil. I would say 

 that any land which will grow good corn, where you can 

 make a growth of about fifteen inches every year, is suitable 

 for a peach orchard. Put on Bradley's fertilizer, or any other 

 of these commercial fertilizers that you think well of. I 

 - have used that. I put on this acre and a quarter, a ton of 

 Bradley's fertilizer when I set out the trees. I raised a hun- 

 dred dollars worth of something — I think it was early pota- 

 toes — the first year after setting out, and the next year I 

 raised a hundred dollars worth of cucumbers. After that, it 



