FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 107 



DISCUSSION. 



Question— Did you get any peaches this year? 



Mr. Sessions— Yes, we had in round numbers about eight thousand 



bushels. 



Question — Are you bothered with the yellows? 



Answer — No, not seriously. In our orchard we have about ninety 

 acres and this year we took out four trees only. 



Question — Are you troubled with little peach? 



Answer — Not this year but last year we took out about a dozen. I 

 have not heard of any Little Peach in our neighborhood. 



Question — Do you think that certain varieties are more susceptible 

 to Little Peach than others? 



Mr. Sessions— In regard to that I cannot say. In our own experi- 

 ences we have lost more Gold-Drops by Little Peach than any other 

 variety. Possibly they may be more susceptible. Perhaps it may be that 

 in the Gold-Drop block they were in the side of the orchard where 

 the Yellows and Little Peach came in. There are no bearing orchards 

 north or south and all the disease came from the east and the Gold- 

 Drops are located along that territory. As I said, we lost more Gold- 

 Drops than any other variety. 



Question — Have you noticed that some years when the Yellows were 

 not very bad? 



Mr. Sessions — Three yenrs ago, we took out 34 trees, that is the worst 

 we have had the Yellows in and around our vicinity for nine years, but 

 we were not obliged to take out only three or four trees on the start. 

 I have sometimes thought that Yellows were worse in varieties where 

 the blossoms open up wide. 



Question — What about cover crops? Did you use them? 



Mr. Sessions— That is a subject by itself. We like sandvetch and 

 rye. It is impossible almost to put the whole orchard into vetch and 

 rye for it makes us much work and we aim to get over the orchard at 

 least once in three years. With rye and vetch and a portion of it 

 every once in three years; intervening years we plant crops, we always 

 have cover crops. 



Question — Do you get growth enough to put it under early? 



Mr. Sessions — Yes, we begin plowing when it first starts to bloom 

 and when we get through plowing — it takes a week or ten days — it is 

 getting a little old, but we never had an}' serious results from being 

 too dry. The ground worked thoroughly after it is plowed under. 



Question — Do you roll? 



Mr. Sessions — No, but we go over with a disk or spike tooth harrow. 

 It is pretty hard to get a roller under our trees. 



Question — What is the nature of your soil? 



Mr. Sessions — Sandy loam with clay sub-soil. 



Question — How is the best way to destroy borers in peach trees? 



Mr. Sessions — We don't have any serious trouble with borers. We 

 take them out with a knife. When we get through trimming about 

 the first of June we go over the trees, dig the dirt away, examine for 

 borers and then leave the opening open and then go over again in two 

 or three days and kill what may be found. We never saw any advantage 

 in heading the trees high. The borers just went up in the limbs. We 



