2j State Horticultural Society. 



at all. When I put soap in the wash, it clogged in the force pump. 

 Mine does not stay on like yours. 



Secretary Goodman. — I think these papers are worth a good deal 

 to us. The expression "tired land" is one of the best expressions I have 

 heard used. I would ask the gentleman who made that expression what 

 he means by "tired land." It occurred to me that a great deal of the 

 land I saw in South Missouri was tired land. While the land was 

 good enough to produce a good cro]), it was not good enough to produce 

 a good crop of apples. 



Mr. Todd. — I mean land that has been in any one crop too long. 

 I believe any upland that would bring a good crop of corn would do to 

 plant trees in. If it would not. grow a good crop of corn, I would con- 

 sider it tired and would put the land in clover. 



Secy. Goodman. — It is just as necessary to have rotation of crops 

 in orchards as anywhere else. The farmer has more sense about that 

 than we have. So many of our fruit growers do not do this. We need 

 one year with clover, one year with cowpeas and one year with corn. 



J. E. Mohler, Warrensburg. — How long may I grow small fruits 

 without injury to the trees? Who has tried this? 



Secy. Goodman. — If you can give it good care and attention, I do 

 not think anything is better than growing small fruit. Some of my 

 very poorest land I had, I put in pear trees and blackberries. I made 

 money from the blackberries and pear orchard, and the land was better 

 than when I first planted. 



I think we ought to use lime and fertilizer. I am glad to hear so 

 much about lime, I think it one of tlie best and cheapest fertilizers we can 

 get. Last winter I used seven car loads. I had two men in a wagon 

 and they threw a large scoop shovel of lime under each tree. I use 

 it in the berry patch and in the orchard. In our large orchards, we 

 cio not grow any small fruits, because it makes too much trouble in 

 getting around to gather the apples. I grew small fruits in my orchards 

 at Westport. If a person will use lime and cowpeas, you can grow as 

 much small fruit in the orchard as on other land. 



There is one thing- that we must be sure about in this business and 

 I think bodi the papers failed to touch on this point. That is, you want 

 to locate in good subsoil. It is more important that you have a proper 

 subsoil than a good top soil. The man who says good corn, means a 

 good orchard, is mistaken. If you have a good subsoil you can make 

 the top soil. , 



G. T. Tippin. — In regard to growing small fruits, I have noticed a 

 bad effect, but it can easily be overcome. In growing strawberries with 

 voung growing trees, some of the larofe strawberry growers have lost 



