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Hopkins. — On six-year peach trees the bark split and curled, yet the 

 leaves put out well. 



Hensley. — AVould you cut the injured part now ? 



Hopkins.- — Yes; but not dehorn. 



Goodman.— Where the tips are dead will it not be ,2;oo(l to cut off 

 four or six feet down to the sound wood ? 



Hopkins.^ — If you do not cut oft' too much leaf surface and enough 

 is left to avoid harm. 



Helvern. — Mt. Eose, Crawford Earlj- and Elberta limbs broke with 

 fruit one year and I sawed off these and even others about July first 

 but they made a pretty growth and were not hurt by frost. 



Evans. — iSTo ; the cold will not hurt those cut off. but the trees now 

 dying at the tips will be dead in August. 



Hopkins.- — Elberta, the tenderest in bud, but hardiest in wood, of 

 all, started finely. 



Murray. — In Holt county, there seems to be a peculiar condition. 

 The apples are killed at the root and peaches are not hurt. This is true in 

 the nursery as well. Thousands put out well but are now dying. Young 

 pears are three-fifths killed. Peaches are killed in the top, but not 

 badly injured in the body. I advise cutting off half way down so the 

 body will support the new top, and next year we will get fruit. In 

 north Missouri the ground froze first under the snow, then froze four 

 feet deep and lasted from February until April. In consequence we 

 will have good prices for some years; better varieties will be produced 

 and overproduction is buried. 



Geo. Bill, Arkansas. — In Wisconsin one winter the ground froze 

 to a depth of seven feet, and the sunshine, dry wind and warmth created 

 sap action, but the roots did not act, so the trees were lost. Native 

 cherries were killed in the same way this year in Arkansas and the nur- 

 series also. 



Irvine. — Forty per cent of the Ben Davis trees were wrapped with 

 wooden veneer wrappers and the bark on those trees is turning black 

 almost clear around, the unwrapped trees are not so. Of 3,500 trees iu 

 wooden wrappers many were lost by excluding the sun and air; they 

 also wore by rubbing the bark and proved a harbor for all kinds of 



