170 State Horticultural Society. 



B. Logan — The Clark cutaway is too high in price. I hke it all 

 right, but prefer the New York harrow made by Johnson Plow Co., at 

 half the price. 



J. A. Orr — There is a difference in soil, the sandy soil does not 

 need such deep turning. 



J, M. Irvine — I would like to ask if any one knows of an orchard on 

 the Missouri river hills that is cultivated in this way and the soil does 

 not wash. Is this cultivation given all the spring and until August. 



D. Lowmiller — I give this kind of cultivation to my orchard until 

 July and when it washes go across and turn the soil over the other way. 

 My land is not very steep. 



J. M. Irvine — On a piece of the experimental orchard at Parkville 

 the rain had washed the hills badly. 



H. B. McAfee — That is so, and that method is a disadvantage in 

 steep land. Mr. Low^miller's is not so steep. The soil washes less, 

 if well cultivated and a cover crop grown, than where the cultivation 

 is spasmodic. The Clark cutaway is right according to our experience, 

 but you have to keep away from our limestone rocks, 



N. F. Murray. — The best orchard I ever had was on Missouri 

 river hill kmd and was cultivated and it washed, but we never omit 

 cultivation because land washes in a corn field. I cultivated, manured 

 and put clover on part of the time, and after the orchard was cut off 

 the land gave sixty bushels of corn per acre. This orchard paid me 

 $800 per acre in twenty years. 



G. W. Logan. — We have used Clark's cutaway several years and 

 before that had trouble with washing. First we put manure on, but 

 the fertilizer washed to the low parts and since we have with the 

 cutaway thrown the ridges together, this holds the water well. My 

 soil is poor red clay and tended to wash badly, but I can now control 

 the washing by the Clark's Ctitawa}'-. When the cow pea vines had 

 been cut the second time you couldn't tell the cow peas had been 

 there. The cutaway turns over the vines and works the soil fine and 

 kills the weeds and grasses. There is no better implement for orchard 

 cultivation made. 



J. W. Hitt. — In a five-year-old peach orchard which is in fine 

 condition the soil never has been turned, for it gets too hard by turn- 

 ing. It is impossible to use a harrow around Koshkonong because 

 we have so many rocks. We have had thirty-five hundred loads of 

 rock hauled off of a hundred acres. 



B. C. Auten.— I plow with a bull-tongue to stir the soil, but not 

 to turn it. This brings the small stones up and keeps a stone mulch 

 and prevents washing. I use a spring-tootl] harrow to stir the rocks. 



