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keep the trunk shaded from the afternoon sun; in that way you can 

 avoid the splitting of the bark, otherwise you cannot do it. 



MK. SEEDS: Doctor I have got seventy -five grape-vines around 

 my wire fences. Now how would it be to gather the atones on that 

 orchard and mulch every other grape-vine? I have got a stone 

 pile on ever}" other grape-vine. 



DR. FUNK: I would prefer to mulch with alfalfa or clover or 

 anything of that kind. 



'MR. SEEDS: I can't cultivate it, it is pre-tty steep, you know. 

 It's pretty hard to keep the stones from rolling olf the farm. 



DR. FUNK: How do you do with your grapes, squeeze the juice 

 out and let it run down hill? 



MR. WATTS: Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask the Doctor a 

 question. Would like to know whether in a commercial orchard, for 

 instance, you would plant Stayman's Winesap or the York Imperial 

 or the Spy in blocks of four or five hundrecl and will they do well 

 if planted in that way? 



DR. FUNK: There is no variety but what is improved by cross 

 pollenization. Take nine-tenths of the varieties of apples that we 

 have at the present time, and they are practically self-serving. You 

 can take many of them and you put one single scion — you may take 

 an apple tree that is a fair bearer and do that, and you will make it 

 a heavy bearer because it is so strong in the pollenizing power; 

 cross-pollenization is an important factor. 



MR. WATTS: I have quite a good many Baldwin trees and they 

 scarcely fruit at all, and I have attributed it to that fact. 



DR. FUNK: There is an orchard where I think there are sev- 

 enty-five acres of Baldwin apples; that orchard was unprofitable, 

 hardly ever bore until they took about every third row and topped 

 that with the Rhode Island Greening, and after that it was one of the 

 most productive orchards in that part of the State, showing the 

 benefits of cross-pollenization. 



The Chairman announced the Committee on Resolutions as fol- 

 lows: 



SAMUEL McCREARY, Chairman, 



FRANKLIN MENGES, Secretary, 



T. E. ORR, 



MATTHEW RODGERS, 



AMOS B. LEHMAN, 



D. A KNUPPENBURG, 



M. N. CLARK. 



MR. HERR: Mr. Chairman, I move tliat we do now adjourn. The 

 motion having been duly seconded and the question put, it was 

 agreed to, and the meeting adjourned to 7.80 o'clock this evening. 



