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on most soils, and it is valuable in most peach orchards, although I have 

 heard it said, today, that it was not; but with me, it has been valuable. 



Mr. McClatchie: I have tried it at the rate of 100 bushels per acre, 

 and could not observe any benefits. Of course this land was new, had 

 not been cleared more than eight or ten jears. 



Mr. Morrill: Was the timber burned on the land? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Morrill: Undoubtedly it was well supplied with potash. If your 

 land does not contain the potash, you must supplj' it, but I don't think 

 any man can set down a general rule for the application of potash or 

 of other fertilizers. I have used a carload of commercial fertilizer on 

 some land, with good results, and on other with none. I have two 

 farms. On the one, I never apply ashes, but on the other we are con- 

 tinually spreading ashes, because I have seen a return of not less than 

 $50 per ton where I have applied ashes. 



Q. Are our early peaches, clings and partial clings, going to be profit 

 able any longer? 



Mr. Dunwell: I should think that would be according to the condi- 

 tions. What atfects our early peaches now is the southern trade, and 

 f think if their crop should be killed ours would be valuable. 



Mr. Morrill: They are killed, three years in five. 



Mr. Dunwell: That is the reason why I don't know whether it would 

 be best to stop raising the early peaches. I think if I had good varieties 

 of early peach, I would keep them. 



Mr. Hutchins: In setting a peach tree, would you put a handful of 

 oats in, to form a mulch? 



INfr. Morrill : I wouldn't. Perhaps some one else would. 



(i. Is there any experience in regard to cut-worms destroying our 

 young trees? Has anyone a new remedy? 



Mr. Morrill: What have you tried? 



A. Nothing very much, but I have had some trouble. 



Mr. Barry: F^ome tried molasses and Paris green. I wonder how 

 I hey came out. 



Mr. Warner: I believe I can give a remedy for the cut-wcu'm. the 

 first 3'ear. Use buckwheat the year before. Sow it in the ground, and 

 you won't be troubled with cut-worms. I know this by experience, and, 

 if you want to be i-id of them right along, use buckwheat, — sow it every 

 year, though I won't warrant it for more than one year at a time. 



Mr. Rice: Someone told me to sow buckwheat. I did so, and have 

 not been troubled much with cut-worms. When 1 sto]> cultivating in 

 August, I sow buckwheat and mix it with rye. If the buckwheat ripens, 

 I leave it for the quails, and in the spring I turn under the rye, and I 

 think using the buckwheat with the rye helps. 



A Voice: A good remedy is to take tarred paper, cut it into squares 

 of ten inches, split them to the center, wrap around the tree and bind 

 there. • 



Mr. Rice: That is a very good idea. Wool is a failure. 



Mr. Morrill: Do your Oceana county cut-worms carry step-ladders? 



Judge Russell: I am very glad to have such a man as Mr. Rice hefe 

 to back me up in my statement to you. I told you wool wouldn't stop 

 them, and of course vou know better. 



