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DTSOUSSTON. 



Henry Speer — The Maliabel don't sprout. Eng. Moi ello is not as 

 ■good as Early Richmond. Ostheim is not successful. Dyehouse don't 

 (Succeed in Bates county. Sometimes cherries rot with us when the 

 weather is wet and hot. 



Mr. Espenldub — I think the Dyehouse is no better than the Early 

 Richmond. Everyone should try the English Morello. 



H. Yeager — The English Morello is the best in i^ewton county. 



Mr. Murray — The i)aper by Mr. Patterson corresponds exactly 

 with my experience. Some years all the cherries to be had are in town. 

 I believe it is because the trees are somewhat protected from high 

 winds. Montmorency bears better than Early Richmond. 



Mr. Hopkins — Is the cherry rot the same as the peach rot "? 



Answer — No. 



Mr. Helvern — Of 20 trees in Jackson county, eight near the house 

 feore good crops; the others none at all. 



Sam Miller — Cherries with high timber on the north bore a good 

 "Crop, while those not sheltered failed. 



Mr. Durand — I had more cherries than all the neighbors, the best 

 ■crop in ten years. My trees are on a high northwest slope, and have 

 not been cultivated for ten years. 



TREATMENT FOR MILDEW AND ROT. 



Black-rot and peronospora or downy mildew have been the two most formida- 

 'ble foes of the American grape-vines. The ravages of these microscopic mush- 

 rooms discouraged and disheartened nearly all our grape-growers. The few men 

 that kept their vineyards came to the conclusion ihat profit from grape-growing 

 could not be expected, except, perhaps, very few varieties resisting rot and mil- 

 -dew better than most others. 



Nothing, therefore, could have pleased us better than the fact established 

 ^fter three years' experimenting with copper remedies, under the direction of our 

 National Department of Agriculture. The fact, I say, that not only mildew (as 

 had already been proven in France), but likewise the still more fatal pest of black- 

 rot, are under our control, and can both be entirely prevented by correct spraying 

 with Bordeaux mixture or other copper solutions ; this was in 1890. Our experi- 

 ence in 1891 fully verified this claim. The season of 1892, with an extremely wet 

 spring and early summer, proved that by spraying we can succeed in most unfa- 

 vorable years, not only with Norton, Ives and Perkins, but with Rogers' hybrids, 

 Delaware, Triumph and the long list of varieties that, even in fair seasons, used 

 to be a mere source of disappointment. 



Last summer it required from five to eight sprayings to keep our vines free 

 from rot and mildew, while three to five applications are quite sutticient in ordi- 

 nary seasons. A neighbor of ours who postponed his spjaying because the inces- 

 sant rains would be sure to wash ofl" the solution made alaiost as complete a failure 

 as another neighbor who argued spraying was useless imtil dry weather had set 



