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Q. How far east are you? 



A. Forty miles east of Niagara Falls. 



Q. What do you sow for cover crop? 



A. This year I sower alfalfa and mustard. I have one crop I am 

 not very proud of. I was persuaded a few years ago to set out 10.000 

 catalpa trees. T wish I hadn't. If I had set out 10,000 fruit trees, 

 1 would have been much better off. From the looks of the catalpa trees 

 in this part of the country, they are the wrong kind. I happen to 

 have the right kind. 



Q. J would like to have your experience with fall plowing and the 

 ]uuning of peach orchards. 



A. So far as peach trimming is concerned, I know very little. My 

 brother has a large peach orchard. He trims all winter and has not 

 missed a crop of peaches in, I think, fifteen years. He had a very good 

 crop this year and it was practically the only orchard in that section 

 that had a crop. He is a very heavy pruner. 



In regard to plowing — if I had everything my own way, I never 

 would plow up a cover crop in the fall, but if the season is open, I keep 

 the teams plowing. 



Q. Is that for the sake of pu.shing the work or for the sake of the 

 orcliard? 



A. Pushing the work. 



Q. Do you have a hard soil? 



A. Very hard, it is almost all clay. 



"THE MARKETING PROBLEM." 



ROLAND MORRILL, BENTON HARBOR. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I am rather at a disadvantage in speaking to you on this subject be- 

 cause I have had absolutely no opportunity to prepare for it and the 

 statements I make may be rather disconnected. T know that much of 

 it will be, to you older members, a chestnut. 



The question of *'The Marketing Problem" is rather a stumbling block 

 with most of us. We often overlook the fact that a crop well grown 

 is pretty nearly already sold. The market problem commences the day 

 you set the tree. The selection of the variety that is going to be w^ant- 

 ed at the time that tree begins to yield is a problem. The character 

 of the soil you set it in as to whether it will produce a first class sample 

 of that variet.y, is another serious problem. We often put trees in un- 

 suitable soil. There is a difference in variety and the different varieties 

 require different soils. This is one of the things our agricultural col- 

 leges are trying to do — trying to teach our young men these things. 

 Fruit growing is a scientific game and the successful man must secure 

 the best possible information and use it. It would seem to me there 

 ought to be at least five thousand fruit growers at this Convention. 

 There seems to be a lack of ambition on the part of the growers to 



