SUMMER MEETING. 127 



Thursday, 3 p. m. 



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 



Mr. Hartzell — The beat fertilizer for the orchard is ashes. Asbf 8 

 are good and are easy to procure. If a man can't get ashes he can 

 get the concentrated lye. 



Mr. Evans — I want to tell of one thing that every farmer can get, 

 and that is cow peas. Of all the fertilizers we have experimented with 

 the cow peas are the best we can get, so far as their value for a fertil- 

 izer is concerned. 



Q. When shall we plant ? 



A. Plant in the fore part of May and the latter pkrt of June ; 

 then plow down and grow again ; that is good treatment for an apple 

 orchard. If your land is in moderate good condition for an apple 

 orchard, sow your land in cow pease in June, and that will be all that 

 will be necessary, and in the fall turn your hogs in and they will get 

 fat. Plant your cow peas and turn your hogs in and they will tram- 

 ple it down, and in June plow it up and turn your hogs in again and 

 your orchard will increase in fertility each year. 



GRAFTING PEAR ON APPLE ROOTS. 



Mr. Goodman — I would say that I had tried grafting pears on 

 apple roots in a good many instances, and have budded the apple trees 

 with pears also, and got a large growth of pear trees, and a good many 

 I planted and a good many I sold. They will hold for a good many 

 years if the union is planted below the ground, but if it is not they 

 will break off. You will get probably 10 or 20 per cent out of the graft- 

 ing of pear on apple roots. 



Q. I would like to ask a question on that point. Will the woolly 

 aphis attack the pear grafted on the apple root ^ 



A. The woolly aphis will attack the apple root no matter what 

 the top is. 



Mr. Wiley — I will give my experience along that line. It acted 

 similarly to the Chinese stock. The trouble with the Chinese stock is 

 that the sap rises in that stock much sooner. I would prefer the apple 

 seedling. I found that after they had been growing for two or three 

 years they established their own roots, and then they become a good 

 pear. 



Mrs. Moore — How would you set the pear grafted on the apple ? 



A. Just. as deep as on any other ; make the graft quite low down ; 

 there is a very small per cent of the grafted fruit that lives ; it depends 

 a great deal on the variety. 



