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slipped up on it yourself. I kuoAV a case in South Haven where a man 

 took a Northern Spy and grafted it on to another tree. The result was 

 a Winter Banana. I know of another i^eculiar instance. A man had 

 a vineyard of Concords. One year he Avent through and he found some 

 fine white grapes and the next year he went through and found white 

 and blue grapes. Now that is not a fish story. If we had blue grapes 

 on a twig of Concords, that would be due to bud sporting. 



A Member — But the fact remains that when we did our own budding 

 to make our own selection from stock that we know produces all right, 

 gives the right kind of fruit, healthy, vigorous and heavy bearing, we 

 will be more apt to get more satisfactory results than otherwise. If you 

 had a Holstein cow that produced nine pounds of butter, would you 

 prefer stock from that strain rather than from cows producing only four 

 pounds of butter? 



A Member — If I was going to buy a cow, the first thing I would do 

 would be to get a Babcock tester and test her milk and if she was up 

 to the standard, then I would buy her, if not I would turn her down. 



A Member — But how about buying a calf? 



Answer, Mr. Morrell — There is no more important question. If I buy 

 the calf by all means I want to know what its ancestors are and I cer- 

 tainly think I would not buy a calf for milk unless the ancestors were 

 heavy producers. The chances are that you will get a good animal. In 

 this connection I wish to say I am very much in favor of the dairy cow 

 on the fi-uit farm and, handled right, can be made pleasant and profit- 

 able, and too, along with the orchard I think that I may add, the dairy 

 hog as well as the dairy cow, is a fine thing. 



Mr. Smythe^ — I would like to ask Mr. Morrell if he is satisfied with 

 the present way to obtain seed of our peaches? 



Mr. Morrell— That is not the best way. I do not do that. I buy seed 

 down in the Cumberland mountain region, where there are a lot of seed- 

 ling i)eaches grown and the i)eople cut them open and sell the pits, they 

 are very strong. They grow fine stock and run about 6,000 to the bushel. 



I am not a nursery man, but when I am planting an orchard I agree 

 with the nursery men, and grow nursery stock enough to set that 

 orchard. I do not want this particular phase of the question to pass 

 out of your minds, because I believe just as Mr. Hawley said, ''That if 

 you have what you want in your own orchard, or in the orchard of your 

 neighbor has it, you can get your buds, you can get your long scions, 

 \G\\ can grow them for half of what you are paying for them and you 

 who plant a couple of years ahead — with proper ground for your orchard 

 and you will be so much better satisfied in the end. 



I do not want to knock the nurserv men, I do not want to sav they 

 are responsible for all the sculduggery that comes into the business, but 

 I know he has to stand for it and I do not intend it shall be me. 



There will be a good deal better success in growing peaches if this is 

 followed than most peach growers have had before. Take the black- 

 beri*y plant for instance, if you take root cuttings and grow them the 

 final outcome will be much more satisfactory. It is the little care in 

 these foundation operations that makes the difl'erence in the success of 

 fruit growing. Mr. Friday is trying hard to make you understand this, 

 but it is worth more than most of us apjireciate. 



I have one tree in one of my peach orchards that has given me twenty- 



