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T. B. Chandler, St. Francois Co. — We are not discouraged. I 

 live S9 miles south of St. Louis. We had quite a little sprinkling of 

 peaches this year. Some trees were injured. Those who got too late a 

 growth injured their trees. We have fine prospects for peaches next 

 year. 



J. C. Evans. — I believe a tree can be dehorned and still live. I 

 have observed many trees. In every case where the trees were cut early 

 immediatelv after the hard freeze in Februarv, no matter whether cut 

 much or little, they died. While those cut later as growth was starting 

 came out all right. 



J. T. Snodgrass. — I dehorned 22,000 peach trees within three 

 inches of the ground. ISTot over ten per cent of them grew, and very few 

 of these above the bud. I cut them early. Won't do it again. 



Mr. Baxter. — I have a peach orchard of 500 trees, set in '94, sub- 

 soiled and cultivated well ever since. ISTot one hundred of these trees 

 are alive to-day. All the living ones are Elberta. In another orchard, 

 of the same age, of 350 trees all are dead. These were well cultivated. 

 Another orchard of 300 trees, set the same spring, not cultivated for the 

 last two years, strawberries in the rows, are all living. 



Mr. Gilkeson. — I had 1,500 peach trees; they are nearly all dead; 

 not more than twenty-five per cent living. 



APPLE TREE ROOT ROT. 



By Prof. H. von Schrenck, St. Louis. 



He thought it would prove impracticable, if not impossible to suc- 

 cessfully use fungacides in the soil to prevent root rot. In some parts 

 of Europe they bum the soil, from which deceased trees or vines have 

 been taken, to kill the injurious fungi. 



Mr. Goodman said that trees affected with the rot which had been 

 treated with blue stone seemed to look better. 



Prof, von Schrenck feared that chemicals sufficiently strong to kill 

 the fungus in the soil would also kill the tree. He thought that if 



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