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Mr. Zink — I would like to ask if Mr. Wiley has ever used the 

 Leconte root as a stock grafting? 



Mr. Wiley — I have and cannot say that I see any difference. 



Mr. Zink — Grafted on the Leconte root it will not grow well and be 

 healthy. 



Mr. Goodman— I want to say that at Olden about 2,500 Leconte 

 roots were grafted upon, and out of the twenty-five hundred grafted 

 upon nearly every one died; they never paid for the trouble. 



Q. What is the objection to a Japanese plum grafted upon peach 

 stock ? 



Mr. Miller — I would say nothing if you plant it over the joint. 



Q. What is the effect of spraying the apple in Jane and later? 



Mr. Whitten — We always spray the apple a little later than June 

 for the scab and ordinary fungus diseases; we spray up until July and 

 sometimes up until the gathering season almost. If apples are sprayed 

 up until nearly the gathering season with Bordeaux mixture and there 

 is no rain, it is apt to discolor tJbe fruit. We never had any apples 

 discolored at gathering time if they were not sprayed later than within 

 six weeks of the gathering season. 



Q. How late should spraying be continued if fruit is healthy ? 



A. For scab, skin blotch and leaf rust, which occurs in the dis- 

 tricts where cider apples are prevalent, that spraying up to the first or 

 middle of July will be sufiBcient to keep those off, but in bitter rot you 

 want to spray right on until nearly time to gather the fruit. 



It is somewhat expensive, but you can make the sprajing less and 

 less each year ; where we have gone right on spraying for three or four 

 years we find now that we do not have to spray more than two or three 

 times a year in order to keep scab and skin blotch all off. 



Q. What kind of a cellar is the best to keep apples for family 

 use? 



Mr. Miller — A deep clean one, with a contrivance to keep open 

 and ventilate in cool weather. 



Mr. Whitten — I think one with moisture is good so they will not 

 shrivel. 



Q. What is the beat storage for apples ? 



Mr. Goodman — I wish to say in connection with this that our cold 

 storage plants are partly a failure. There were hundreds of thousands 

 of barrels of apples put in cold storage in large cold-storage places in 

 Kansas City, and thousands of those barrels were lost absolutely. We 

 were looking for a few barrels to send away to a foreign country, and 

 we couldn't find them that were fit to send, and those very men who 



