TWENTY FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 197 



Hill's Chili is Kalamazoo. I happened to have quite a crop of them last 

 year, and I gave our establishment a couple of bushels to try, and they 

 were found very good. We tried Gold Drop, we tried Crosby, and we 

 tried that large southern peach, Elberta, and that stands up well. It is 

 one of the best, but right second to Hill's Chili is Kalamazoo. This is 

 from actual test, picked under my supervision, becau^ie we have been 

 trying +o ascertain what peaches would reflect most credit on our can- 

 ning. We have $100,000 invested, and we have to manage the business 

 with reference to getting the greatest amount of money out of it, and we 

 find that we can put up goods that outsell anything else in the whole 

 country, and that is because we have the best varieties, and we will pay 

 more for Hill's Chili, if we have to go miles and miles to get them. We 

 have very few of them ourselves. The first orchard was mine, and I got 

 the buds"^ here; the next was that of a neighbor who got his buds from 

 me, and we will not touch a Crawford so long as we can get those 

 peaches. I do not know as that is a matter for you to consider here, 

 but if I were a resident I think I would be looking toward that. It it? 

 not only a question of peaches but of apples, and northe n Michigan pro- 

 duces some of the finest apples in the country. It was only a year ago 

 last September that we sent a man to Michigan to buy, for we put up 

 30,000 bushels annually. And so with all these products, there is profit 

 in canning if you put up the goods properly. 



Mr. Rice: I want to ask one question. It has been said that in fall 

 trimming of small trees they are often killed back. But in trimming 

 large shade trees, that require the tops cut off (large elms or maples), 

 it seems as though the autumn was the best time to trim; and yet last 

 fall, in cutting off limbs, I found that they killed back a good deal. Now, 

 when can we trim maples? Not when the sap will flow. Shall we trim 

 them in the fall and stand the killing back? It follows in the same con- 

 nection with apple trees and everything else. 



A. There is a great difference in regard to trees. The maple starts its 

 buds early, the horse-chestnut also. 



Mr. Williams : If you do not trim your horse-chestnut in the fall, you 

 will lose by the sap flowing, and the best time to tiim the maple is in 

 the fall. If you are going lo cut a big limb off, do your amputating at the 

 joint — make a clean, nice job of it. 



Mr. Greening: My experience is, in pruning maples, if they are 

 pruned late in the fall they will bleed badly. We have a number of 

 maples, and we usually prune during the month of June, and we find 

 that to be the very best time. There is no bleeding. The wound has a 

 chance to heal and get ready for winter. June is really the best time. 



Mr. Willard: If a maple tree is trimmed in June, will it develop a 

 handsome growth after that? My experience has been that anything 

 trimmed in leaf receives a substantial check. 



Mr. Greening : With most kinds of maple, one of the reasons we head 

 in and trim is to check the growth and make them branch out and be 

 more compact. Our young trees in the nursery we prune very early in 

 the spring, but the older ones we prune later, and we have yet to find 

 that it was detrimental to the trees. 



Mr. Rice: I have reference to larger trees. The tops will be full of 

 limbs, and we wish to reduce the surface to produce growth. If we trim 



