FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. 23 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Smeltzer— I would just like to make a suggestion that every 

 "•rower get one of the little rubber stamps with name and a guarantee 

 and put*' that on everv basket or box of peaches that he sends out and 

 live up to that guarantee, and then get a law like Canada, compelling 

 honest work, so that the peaches at the bottom of the basket or box will 

 be the same as those on toi>— that is what our State needs, and the sooner 

 we can get it the sooner will come th.is golden dawn that so many of 

 us are looking forward to. 



President Farrand— We have something on onr program right along 

 this line, so we will not consider this further at present. 



A Member— What do you say as to the distance apart that peaches 

 should be planted? 



Mr. Friday — I know of men who plant peaches sixteen feet apart and 

 all the way from that to twenty-four and twenty-eight feet apart, and 

 they all seem to be making money. I think each one should use his own 

 judgment as to that. There are more peaches planted twenty feet apart 

 than any other distance. Mr. Rose plants considerable further apart than 

 that, and he is doing well. Most trees in our section are grown from 

 eighteen to tAventy feet apart. 



"a Member — One reason why I asked this question is, that I notice 

 that where the trees are given lots of room to grow there is space for 

 green crops which cannot he done where they are so close together. 



President Farrand — We have one cover crop that will grow under the 

 shade of any tree. 



Mr. Rose-^Did you ever note any bad effect from using lime-sulphur 

 for summer spray? 



Mr. Friday — No, but in mixing we were very careful that none of the 

 sulphur went into the solution — on the government experiment grounds 

 there was no bad effect, at least this is the report from Mr. Scott. 



Mr. Morrell — There is one very important thing that I think we ought 

 not to lose sight of and that is that the very foundation of your orchard 

 is your nursery stock. The stock that we get from many nurseries is 

 not what it should be. The fact is the commercial nurseries, as well as 

 commercial stock, may or may not be true to name. Personally I was 

 never able to grow a new orchard satisfactorily unless I grew my own 

 trees and handled them as I would a cabbage patch, from my own cab- 

 bage bed. I knew then what I was getting. A number of years ago I 

 recall that nursery men disputed very vigorously, contending that you 

 could get a good variety by selecting from parent trees. It never looked 

 logical to me and I think today the advanced men believe in plants 

 prop^ated by subdivision and selected specimens will surely reproduce 

 that quality. I know it. but I know that it can be improved upon, be- 

 cause I have reproduced it in my own experience since Elberta has 

 been introduced, and I believe that today that the fruit growing dis- 

 tricts are sufficiently convinced of that, so that they should have local 

 nurseries that they can go to and take fresh dug trees budded from se- 

 lected specimens to their farms and set them out and have them cared 

 for at every stage of the game. You had better pay half a dollar each 

 for such trees (although this is not necessary) and then have them make 

 good than getting other stock for nothing or of some little jobber at a 



