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Mr. Farnsworth — Our plant will hold between 7,000 and 8,000 bushels 

 and cost |2,500. The ice plant is located above. In the basement we 

 have a potato cellar. 1 am satisfied that it has more than paid for it- 

 self. 



Q. In the planting of an orchard of a thousand trees, what varieties 

 would you advise setting? 



Mr. Farusworth — I have one orchard in mind that I planted of the 

 standard varieties, such as Jonathans, etc., forty feet apart, then filled 

 in the first six rows with Yellow Transparent, six rows of Duchess, then 

 three rows of Chenango Strawberrys and two rows of Ben Davis, two 

 rows of Wagner; and since then I have top grafted Ben Davis to Chenan- 

 go. I planted Greenings and Baldwins and then filled in alternately with 

 Rome Beauty. By the time the trees between rows have developed I will 

 find out whether my Rome Beauty will amount to anything. If so I 

 will take out the Baldwins. That is one advantage of the filler system — 

 when you have varieties you are uncertain about. I would plant on the 

 first row, Jonathans, then, on the third, fifth and seventh rows, and in 

 this way I would have a square that would check forty feet apart each 

 way. The row in between the Jonathans would be filled in with the 

 Yellow Transparent. This gives a chance to take out the one in the 

 center and still have the trees left forty feet apart. 



Q. Do you spray the plums just as you do the apples? 



Mr. Farnsworth— We spray our plums once before the blossoms open 

 for scale and scab; we go on the principle that the scale is there whether 

 it is or not, and then as soon as the blossoms fall we spray again. An- 

 other point is the effect of the Lime-Sulphur which is somewhat cumula- 

 tive, l^ou can use the Lime-Sulphur once and arsenate of lead. The 

 next spray I would use water and arsenate of lead and the third time 

 over I would use Lime-Sulphur and arsenate of lead. We may thus 

 spray the plums three or four times after the blossoms, then before the 

 plums begin to ripen we spray again with lime and sulphur and arsenate 

 of lead and the result is that we have no rot. 



Q. Do you have any trouble with lice? 



Mr. Farnsworth — We have had some, but we have kept it down fairly, 

 well by thorough use of Lime and Sulphur. 



Q. Weather conditions in July enter into the question do they not? 



Mr. Farnsworth — Y^'es, this has a great deal to do with it. 



Q. What do you know about the Winter Banana Apple and what is 

 your opinion of it? 



Mr. Farnsworth — I have the apple in my orchard and have been 

 growing it for eight or ten years and my opinion of it can be expressed 

 by saying that I have not planted any more since the first lot I put out. 

 I may be mistaken. Sometimes we get opinions that are not correct, but 

 I don't like the apple. The flavor is quite like the old fashioned Man- 

 drake of your boyhood days, and there is not more than one in a hundred 

 that is really fit to show. 



Mr. Woodard — Have you noticed any difference where the trees are 

 cultivated and where they grow in the grass? 



Mr. Farnsworth — Yes, we have found there is quite a difference where 

 the trees grow or where they are cultivated. In the grass they seem to 

 have a better color partly because the cultivation liberates the nitrogen, 

 of course. Perhaps if we would put in more potash to balance it up it 

 would be all right. 



