FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. 39 



President Farrand— I don't know how food can get in tliere if the 

 old trees are all right, that is the last place you want to put a stick of 

 dynamite. 



A Member — Do you bank up young orchards in the winter? With me 

 the banking did more damage than the mice. 



President Farrand — I haven't found any bad effects where mice and 

 rabbits worked. 



A Member — I have practiced banking for the mice and find that it 

 saved my trees instead of making it worse. 



Mr. Morrell — The best way to keep these hollows — get your tree down 

 low enough. I have about 5.000 trees that are from three to eight years 

 old, some about ten years old — well, I let the heads grow up high, then 

 I was always troubled with hollows filling with water. When I prac- 

 ticed cutting them low the hollows didn't appear. 



Mr. Bristol — The ground has been so soft that we have had springs 

 where we didn't have any before — so hollows were made without any 

 effort. 



Question — Is that cellar-covered stock? 



Mr. Morrell — I will say no. I never saw good cellar stock except it 

 was heeled in in the cellar. I do not believe there is any way to do this 

 and have it successful except to heel in as soon as taken out of the 

 ground. I have seen this tried so many times that, without going into 

 detail, I should say, decidedly, no. 



President Farrand — In this connection it would be well to h^ve a 

 replv to Question 21, "What nursery stock can be successfullv set out 

 in the fall ?" 



Mr. Rowe — The sweet cherry is the only tree fruit that can be uni- 

 versally set out in the fall successfully, that is, where it is better in the 

 fall than in the spring. 



A Member — I have set out over 100 acres of peach orchard in the fall 

 and I mounded them clear up into the limbs. By doing this the first 

 growth starts where it will begin to grow right. This makes lots of 

 trouble but I never got anything like as satisfactory results the other 

 way. 



Mr. Rowe — Was this in Michigan? 



Answer — Yes, sir. 



Mr. Rowe — I was aware that that was practiced in some of the west- 

 ern states, but I did not know that it was in Michigan. 



Mr. Morrell — I never strip a tree of mine — a tree that is stripped is 

 not as good as a general thing. 



A Member — Is it possible for nurserymen to mulch trees and keep 

 the roots in good condition, either in the cellar or out of the cellar? 



Answer — ^I am not smart enough to keep the trees mulched up, but 

 spread ray dirt well up into the limbs, layer after layer. 



A Member — I think that is the correct way. A short time ago I went 

 to a nursery for some stock and when I was told to take some Hubbards- 

 ton trees out of a certain bunch, I happened to notice that the roots 

 were dry and I told the nurseryman that those trees would not live. 

 Now, what about the other fellow who gets the inside? 



Mr. Farrand — Many of our losses are no doubt due to poor storage of 

 trees in their packing. I have seen shipments where the roots were bare 

 and all dried up, yet they were delivered as though they were all right. 



