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ounces of lime to 50 gallons of water. The soda Bordeaux I would recommend 

 in preference to anything else for the last spraying of the grape, because 

 it does not color the grape. 



Pres. C. B. Cook: The next speaker is a man that needs no introduction 

 in Michigan. He is a man we have known by reputation all our lives, many 

 of us, and he comes to us as an authority on this subject, and so it is with 

 a great deal of pleasure this morning we call upon Mr. J. H. Hale, of Connec- 

 ticut, on the topic, "Replanting and Building up of Old Orchard Lands." 



Q. I want to inquire if there is any way of controlling the rose bug about 

 the grape? 



Mr, Farrand: I have no way of controlling the rose bug only picking 

 them off. 



REPLANTING AND BUILDING UP OF OLD ORCHARD LANDS. 



(j. H. HALE, CONNECTICUT.) 



We tillers of the soil know and believe in the rotation of crops, and that 

 the more thoroughly we can rotate the crops of a farm, the better results 

 we will get. But orcharding and rotating the orchard with other crops 

 is rather a difficult problem in one's lifetime, and we can't practice our best 

 beliefs along agricultural lines in orcharding, for two reasons: One is, 

 trees are of long life and require a long time use of the land to do their best; 

 and the other perhaps as important reason is that not all our lands are suitable 

 for orchard purposes; and when we find suitable orchard tracts, those are 

 too valuable for orchard purposes to be given over to any other agricultural 

 proposition, if we are in the orchard business ourselves. 



I don't know why this subject was put up to me, except I am in trouble 

 myself down home. I am in the peach business very largely, although I 

 grow apples; and the yellows has been very destructive this past year, and 

 I was gunning around the countiy to my various horticultural friends to 

 know what they knew about replanting over orchards, where yellows had 

 destroyed the peach trees, and because I asked some pertinent and im- 

 pertinent questions along these lines, some of your Michiganders, or some 

 of your ganders that have left and gone east, because we have got more 

 geese down there, suggested this was a subject to talk on. 



I know of no real good reason, if 3'ou are put right to it, wh}" you can't 

 grow any crop on any land continuously, because after we get ofT the rich 

 virgin soils which are rich in all kinds of natural fertility, and where any- 

 thing will grow without care, we are really manufacturers of agricultural 

 products. The land is in a large measure the empty factory, with some of 

 the raw material there,, and what we take out of that factory must and will 

 always depend largely upon what we put in in the way of seeds and plants 

 and raw material and well directed labor; and, believing that to.be so, I 

 have always felt in my agricultural operations, and it has grown more strongly 

 upon me as I have handled the soil more, that we could continuously crop 

 the land with any particular crop if we would furnish the necessary elements 

 that that crop took out of it. It might be better to rotate, but we could stay 

 there with only one crop if we must. I have been planting some of our most 



