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the Keiffer. The trees grow right up. They ought to be headed back. 

 The fruit of these varieties takes the place of the quince, which does 

 so poorly in this State. If I was planting 1000 trees, I would plant 500 

 Garber and 500 Keiffer. The Krull from Mallinckrodt, of St. Charles? 

 is a good winter pear ; I have kept it until spring. 



Mr. Bagby — I can't tell anything about the Krull. It seems that 

 the originator does not care to disseminate it. 



S. Miller — I can't make a tree from its grafts. They fail every time. 

 The original tree grows in a deep, rich soil. My trees are very poor 

 growers. The fruit is good, but with me the tree is a failure. 



Mr. Polster — I have 700 pear-trees three years planted in corn. 

 What is the proper treatment for them now ? 



S. Miller — Sow it in clover, mow it and leave it on the ground. 



L. A. Goodman — You don't want to cultivate it. If you keep cul- 

 tivating you will be apt to lose your trees. 



H. Schnell — I would cultivate four or five feet around the trees 

 to keep mice away. I spade up around the trees in the spring, and in 

 midsummer cut every weed with a hoe. 



J. C. Evans — Have the blue-grass in pasture ; it gets too hide- 

 bound for the good of the trees; don't want it in the orchard. 



Mr. Gilbert — I picked a bushel of fine pears from a five-year-old 

 tree in heavy blue-grass. It is well sheltered by building, and had 

 ashes all around it. 



Mr. Goodman — Mr. Polster's raspberries are checking his trees, 

 for the raspberries are taking the best of the plant food in the top 

 soil. 



J. C Evans — Use common sense. Get a good early growth and 

 don't starve your trees to death nor push them too rapidly. I fear that 

 some of our people will get fooled by this calomel remedy for blight. 

 I had tried that remedy before Dr. Hensley told of it. I tried it on 

 over a hundred trees. In 12 months every one them was dead. I 

 don't believe it is a good remedy. I don't believe there is any remedy. 

 I don't know whether the trees were killed by the calomel or whether 

 they would have died anyway. Every tree to which I applied it was 

 somewhat affected by blight; I skipped no trees. 



Spraying: 



Miss Murtfeldt — It is generally considered that the Codling moth 

 can be thoroughly conquered by judicious spraying. Spray after the 

 fruit is set, and again two weeks later. It is useless to spray after the 

 fruit turns down. The prejudice against spraying is being overcome. 

 Not much can be said in regard to peach spraying. Paris green is apt 



