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Trof. Waite: That is due to iiatuial iiiUuciice that you cau not get 

 where it is phintcd. 



Mr. Graham: In this instance of which I speak, especially this matter 

 of my own, the circumstances were peculiarly favorable for the test. In 

 this case I ljou<>ht the trees of three different nurseries at (piite widely 

 separated points. I [ilanted the same varieties on three dillerent farms 

 the same spring. I keitt the trees myself, from the three ditferent nur- 

 series, from fall until spiing; they were given absolutely the same treat- 

 ment; they were planted with the same varieties. For instance, there 

 were, I think, two or three hundred Elbertas planted on each of the three 

 farms, and on two of the places where they succeeded all right the land 

 lacked very much of being in as good state of cultivation as on the other 

 farm. It was just ordinary farm land with no special care, on the other 

 two places, while on this it had been given special care and cultivation; 

 that is, it had been better plowed and subsoiled, and so on. 



l*rof. Waite: How long was the interval between the taking out of the 

 old orchard and the planting of the new? 



Mr, Graham : About six months. It was taken out in the fall and we 

 planted the next spring. The old orchard was taken out after fruiting, 

 and taken out by the roots, of course. 



. Mr. JSlayton: Who ever knew a portion of the country to be denuded of 

 its forests and then naturally grow the same class of timber over any 

 large extent of the land? 



Mr. Morrill: Why, our timbered lands generally do. 



Mr. Slayton: l*roduce the same kind of timber the second time? 



Mr. Morrill: Generally. 



Mr. Monroe: From my own observation, not only at home but in places 

 where the}^ have^rown trees a number of years, I believe that rotation in 

 the raising of peach orchards is just as essential as in the raising of wheat 

 or corn or any other crop. Of course, I am ready to concede if we had 

 the wit or the wisdom to supply just the right things at the right time 

 and in the right quantities, we miglit obviate this but we must take things 

 just as we find them. I have in mind quite a number of plats that have 

 been orchards eighteen or twent}^ years, and I do not know of one that has 

 been set a second time but is a partial failure. On my visit to Delaware a 

 year ago, where they have been in the peach business a hundred years, I 

 do not recall a single case in which I inquired of those old raisers, but 

 they put particular stress upon the importance of cultivating land with 

 ordinary croi)s four or tive years after an orchard is taken out, before a 

 new one is planted. So it seems to me just as clear as in the ordinary 

 rotation of crojis, that it is a mistake to plant a peach orchard after a 

 peach orchard that has borne anywhere from fifteen to twenty years; that 

 there should be fiv(\ six. or seven years of cultivation of ordinary crops. 

 As I say, I took particular pains to inquire about that point, and I do not 

 recall a case of a grower but put particular stress on those five or six 

 years of cultivation of the ordinary farm crops. 



Prof. Waite: You believe it is something besides the matter of nutri- 

 tion? 



Mr. Monroe: O, there are a number of things — of insects and diseases 

 that come into consideration. 



Prof. Waite: It seems generally that is the line of thought with the 

 growers on that question. This is of course an old question that has been 



