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practically no harmful results, but conditious may differ so that what 

 would be all right early iu the season would be harmful later. 



Q. I Avould like to ask as to the advisability of planting Kieffer pears 

 for fillers for a young apple orchard. 



A. I have an orchard with the trees placed forty feet apart and 

 Kieffer pears in the center. 



Q. What is your object in planting them in this way? 



A. The Kieffer pears would bring money before the apple crop. Then 

 I could cut them out and the whole ground would be giyen up to the 

 apple. I also have peaches in that same orchard. 



Mr. Smythe — I would like to ask Mr. Sherwood what he is i^lanting as 

 fillers in his apple orchard. 



Mr. Sherwood — I always plant fillers and I use pears and plums^ — 

 mostly Kieffer pears. I had an experience with Duchess apples that 

 I would like to relate. I set an orchard with the trees a rod apart and 

 set out one row of Burbanks, then one row of Kieffers and a row of 

 Abundance, then a row of Bartletts. Then I put in every other square 

 in the center a Duchess apple. I was told to do this by Mr. Morrell. 

 He had large experience and I felt that his advice could be relied upon. 

 I was told by one who had had experience that my trees were ahead of 

 his trees planted the old way by two years, so I feel that I was reason- 

 ably successful. I would never set an orchard without setting fillers. 



Q. Why not use apples as fillers. We have Duchess, Jonathan, etc., 

 so when we spray, we can spray all together. 



Mr. Woodard — I prefer to grow corn instead of trees. So far as I 

 am concerned, I am done with filling in Avith trees. 



Q. I would like to ask Mr. Fritz how long he plants corn? 



A. For four or five years until the trees take the ground themselves. 



Mr. Hale — I am pleased to know that I am not the only one in the 

 county with filled in orchards. Two years ago I filled in with plums, 

 Kieffers, and some Duchess apples. The plums are gone but we are not 

 far away from getting the Kieffer before the apples are in bearing. 



Q. I wish some one would tell the cause of the late pears russeting 

 last fall. 



A. Warm weather in March and cold weather in April. 



THE PEOPLE'S PLAY GROUNDS. 



HON. CHAS. W. GARFIELD^ GRAND RAPIDS. 



I feel, Mr. Chairman, in discussing the topic which is on the program 

 opposite my name that I am taking some liberties in injecting into a 

 severely practical program a bit of sentiment. The only excuse for it 

 is that the most real thing in the world after all is sentiment, and when 

 we sum up what there is in the world, it consists of labor, recreation and 

 affection. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All play and 

 no work makes Jack a real shirk. Love is the greatest thing in the 

 world. It is very easy for me to eliminate the work proposition because 

 that is what you have all been talking about in the most severe terms 



