PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 10^ 



BEST ORCHARD PLOWS. 



Q : AA'bat is the best one-horse plow for plowing close to grapevines and 

 orchard trees? 



Mr. Graham: I can not really sav. I presume in every section of 

 country there is a different make of plow, probably, and all of them are 

 similar. Through our country we use almost universally the Bissell No. 7 

 for that purpose — a one-horse plow-. 



Mr. Morrill: So do I. 



Mr. Graham: It is very easily adjusted and gives good satisfaction. 

 The handles are also adjustable. It is so that you can set it either to or 

 from The row. 



Mr. Morrill: I have three or four of these Bissells, made at South 

 Bend, Indiana. 



CROP CONDITIONS OF THE YEAR. 



Secretary Reid: There is one question upon the table of a quite general 

 scope and character: ''What about the present season's crops, also con- 

 ditions of orchards, health, insect pests and diseases?" That means the 

 past season, of course. 



Mr. Graham: With us some crops w^ere very satisfactory, so far as 

 production was concerned. I presume that holds good throughout the 

 whole state. The small-fruit crops were variable, but the quality was 

 good. Of course we understand the prices were low'. 



Mr. Morrill: The crop was more satisfactory than the prices. 



Mr. Graham: There was no crop at all of apples, and peaches were a 

 very short crop. Taking it altogether, wdth the peaches, 'they brought 

 in considerable money and the prices were very satisfactory. The crop 

 of grapes was very large and the prices fairly satisfactory for so large a 

 crop; the cherry crop w^as good and the prices good, I think the present 

 condition of the orchards is first-class. I do not remember a season when 

 the orchards, especially the peach and plum, and the berries — raspberries, 

 blackberries, currants — went into winter quarters in better shape than 

 they are this year. The buds seem to be sound and hardy and the trees 

 have dropped their foliage at about the right time, neither too early nor 

 too late, 



Mr. Morrill : What about insect pests and diseases the past season? 



Mr, Graham: I think there has been an increase, both of insect pests 

 and diseases. There was a very short crop, especially of the tree fruits. 

 The condition of the weather prevented a great many people from spraying 

 who otherwise might have done so. It seemed almost useless to attempt 

 to spray an orchard last spring. It was raining almost every day and 

 freezing every night about the time we ought to have been spraying. 

 There was a weakened condition of the trees. It seems to me the insects 

 were w^orse than ever, and I know yellows has been worse in our section 

 than any season of which I can remember, although I think the commis- 

 sioners usually have been watchful and careful in taking out infected 

 trees. 



