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iiing plants that are there were started — to take care of their imperfect 

 fiiiit. They produce over fifty-three per cent of the evaporated apples 

 put up in the United States, over 30,000 tons a year for the past five years. 

 In the latter part of July of that year of failure the fog which keeps 

 them cool during the summer season, disappeared and stayed away, and 

 the apples just literally cooked on the trees. They had practically no 

 apples that year. The codling moth which had been so prevalent before, 

 since then has been but little in evidence, although we found evidence 

 of it in all the exhibits to a greater or less extent. 



A Member — My cousin has just returned from a trip out in that north- 

 west country and he says that he found one section where there had not 

 been any, or at least he did not see any evidence of the insect, but it was 

 just beginning to get in there. 



Mr. Eowe — You may go into these orchards and you do not find any 

 wormy fruit. They sell all their cull apples to the Chinese. They go 

 through their orchards every other day and everything is picked up. 

 All the early drop fruit is evaporated or canned or made into cider. 

 Nothing is wasted. That is one remarkable feature of that section. 

 You might go through that section and hardly see a wormy apple, while 

 at the same time there may be as many wormy apples as we would have 

 here, or more. 



A Member — I understand that in Fennville there is an orchard owned 

 by a man who offered -flOO if a wormy apple could be found in it. I 

 understand that one man spent seven hours of time trying to find a 

 wormy apple but failed. 



SELECTION AND PREPARATION OF AN ORCHARD SITE. 



O. S. BRISTOL^ ALMONT, 



Ladies, Gentlemen and Brother Fruit Growers — I am glad to see you 

 all today and if you will kindly listen to me for two and one-half hours 

 I will try to explain something about orchards. At home, where I am 

 known, the people all take to the hill country when I am going to speak. 

 Whenever I do get a chance to speak, as a rule, I watch the audience, 

 and as soon as I see that they are all quietly sleeping, I slip out. I am 

 something like a woman I heard of who was considerable of a talker. 

 Her husband was a saloonkeeper. One Saturday night he came home late 

 and his wife began talking to him on the temperance question, which 

 was her favorite theme. He tried to quiet her, but without effect. She 

 said to him, "1 would like to have anybody tell me one good thing in 

 favor of the saloon." He replied, ''My dear, there's one good thing about 

 the saloon." She was all animation in a moment, and said, "If there's 

 any good thing in a saloon I would like to hear of it," and his reply was, 

 "They have to shut up at eleven o'clock." (Laughter.) 



In regard to selecting a place to plant an orchard it seems to me that 

 it is a very important question, because T think that probably mo"e fail- 

 ures in the apple business come from not planting in the proi>e * place 

 than from almost any other cause, in other words we can attribi'^e more 



