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took the borers out right after trimming, possibly about the first of 

 June and then leaving the holes open around the trees and in about two 

 days we go over the work again and where we can see signs of the 

 working of the worms, we investigate and in this way we get practically 

 all of them. Then the hole is filled. Perhaps I cannot convince some 

 of you that the borers that work up in the limbs are the same as those 

 that work in the roots, but they are the same. 



Question — What is the difference between the saw-tooth and the ordi- 

 nary borer? 



Mr. Sessions — I am not familiar with them but we have not been 

 troubled with them to any extent. 



A Member— I assume that Mr. Sessions sprayed first with lime and 

 sulphur solution. How does he manage to prepare his solution? 



Mr. Sessions — I cannot give you any light on this. We spray our trees 

 early in the spring with blue stone for curl leaf and we have not been 

 troubled with brown rot or kindred rots and never spray for leaf rot. 

 This is the first year that it has ever been serious with us at all. I 

 think I will experiment with at least a portion of the orchard with 

 lime and sulphur. 



Question — How cold was it last winter up there? 



Mr. Sessions — I believe it was about twenty below zero — all the 

 way from eight below to twenty above. I was not at home at the time 

 so cannot tell you definitely. 



Question — Are the borers the cause of the gum that comes from the 

 trees ? 



Mr. Sessions — Sometimes the gum may exude from the tree from 

 injury or freezing or other causes, but if the borers are working the 

 gum will exude. 



Question — Is it possible to disk a cover crop of rye and vetch instead 

 of plowing? 



Mr. Sessions — Yes, it is possible, but if your orchard is in shape to 

 plow you can get it in nicer shape. It is not so satisfactory as plow- 

 ing the ground. 



Question — Your orchard is 24 years old, how many trees have you 

 lost to the acre? 



Mr. Sessions — I should say perhaps about one-quarter of them. We 

 have reset all of these. There are perhaps twenty-five per cent of 

 the original trees that are at present gone. 



Mr. Chairman — The discussion of this question is to be led by 

 Mr. Oscar Braman of Grand Rapids who will now take the floor. 



Mr. Braman — Mr. President, I am just played out and have been 

 under the Aveather for the last couple of days and I haven't really pre- 

 pared anything very definite for this occasion. What few remarks 1 

 do make will be informal, but the ground has been so very thoroughly 

 covered by my predecessor, Mr. Sessions that I don't know as I can 

 offer anything very new at this time. 



Our experience in the growing of peaches — we did not have very 

 much success in growing peaches lliis year — we had zero weather for 

 three weeks and from that down to 20 below, and we didn't expect to 

 grow a bushel of peaches this season, but to onr amazement, Ave had a few 

 hundred bushels. 



