190 State Horticultural Society. 



Whereas, It is believed that this rejection is largely a subterfuge 

 on the part of the German officials to discourage the importation of 

 American apples, and 



Whereas, It is a well established fact that there is no danger 

 whatever from infection of orchards from fruit infested with scale, 

 therefore be it 



Resolved, That it is the sense of the American Apple Grower's 

 Congress that our Department of Agriculture furnish some system of 

 inspection either of the orchards or of the fruit before leaving the 

 port, and be it further 



Resolved, That the department try to convince the foreign au- 

 thorities that there is no danger of infection of orchards from fruit 

 mfected with the scale. 



Holt, Clay Co., Mo., October 19, 1903. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, 4000 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, Mo.: 



Dear Sir — Received card announcing meeting at Columbia. I 

 am intending to be there if able. But there is one subject that I have 

 become much interested in, and that is blue grass sod keeping down 

 some fungus diseases in orchards. The only apples I have seen 

 this season clear of scab are in an orchard with very heavy sod. I 

 have one tree standing in A^ery heavy sod for several years ; while 

 every tree in the orchard is affected with scab this tree is entirely 

 exempt. 



I have an old Willow Twig tree which has borne apples entirely 

 worthless from rot. So this spring I bored a hole in each side of 

 it and put in an ounce of calomel and drove pins in the holes. Result, 

 as fine a tree of apples as one would wish to see. I got some very 

 fine show apples off it. Question : Which did it, the holes or the 

 calomel? Now another question, when you read from some facile 

 pen telling some old farmer how to raise strawberries he generally 

 begins and ends up with manure. So the old farmer gets disgusted 

 and don't plant ; he wants his manure for his corn and hogs. Now all 

 this makes me very tired. Spring before last I planted some straw- 

 berries on land that will not make ten bushels of corn with the best 

 of cultivation. Result, the finest and best crop of berries I have ever 

 grown; they beat anything on the place, and that isn't all, the same 

 vines have been having ripe berries for the past month and plenty 

 btg green ones, and some blooms now ; they are Clydes and Haver- 

 lands. 



Perfect apples, it is very hard to find them. I have some 600 

 bushels, but 19 out of 20 are freckled-faced, and like the freckle-faced 



