164 State Horticultural Society. 



C. B. Green. — Tf you can get the necessary mulch I think vou need 

 very little cultivation. We must be g-overned by the circumstance and 

 adopt the methods that yield the best results. 



W. H. Stephens. — A neig-hbor raised a large crop of fruit in his 

 orchard in clover, but in a few }cars it was in blue grass and was soon 

 gone. It was fifteen years old when he quit cultivating it. 



Mr. Steiman. — Blue grass is very different from clover. 



Cooper County Man. — We broke a rich grass sod and planted one 

 3^ear apple trees. The orchard was planted in corn with pumpkins in 

 the tree row. The pumpkins made a fine feed for the hogs. It was also 

 better for the trees than to have all the land in corn. I continued this 

 for six years, leaving a wider space near the trees each year, till the 

 whole ground was in pumpkins. The trees made rapid growth, but they 

 did not bear. Judge Sam Miller suggested that I seed the orchard down 

 to clover for a year or two, v/hich I did. The result was after two years 

 of clover that it began to bear and has not failed to bear since. I am 

 satisfied it is good to cultivate in corn for several years, but to leave a 

 space near the trees for pumpkins. I have since plowed up the clover, 

 taking it from under the trees by hand culture ; but I don't see any gain 

 from cultivation. 



Mr. Gladdis, Lafayette County. — Several years ago they planted the 

 whole country to apples near IMayview in my county. After two years 

 I planted my orchard entirely in pumpkins. They left the ground in fine 

 condition. Later I seeded it down to clover. ]\Iy orchard has done 

 better than those of my neighbors. Sentiment in the Mayview district 

 is running to clover, after six or seven years. They have too much 

 humus in that rich soil to continually cultivate the trees. A hail storm 

 this year ruined the fruit. 



A Member. — I cut my trees oft' about thirty inches high making the 

 heads eighteen or twenty inches. I use the pruning shears every year 

 where I see a limb too close or crossing another. I thin them every 

 spring. I continue till the trees begin to bear well; and nearly every 

 year since they began to bear I have pruned some, cutting out the broken 

 limbs, at least, every spring. 



Mr. Luke, Wisconsin. — I have about 5,000 bearing trees. I am 

 told to cultivate clean without any crop. My land is strong upland soil — 

 rather an ideal location for Wisconsin. The trees are eleven years old. 

 One man says prune, another says let it alone. I have not pruned. 

 Clover does not last many years in Wisconsin. After clcn'^er we have 

 solid blue grass. I would like to know what I am going to do. It is a 

 little quandary, like being ^between the devil and the deep sea. I do not 



