SUMMER MEETING AT OREGON. 



suckers are sent out ; rather than cut out the sucker he would remove the 

 old branch ; he did not believe in allowing all the suckers to grow, but 

 would cut out judiciously. He favored cultivation, in order that the trees 

 would not stop growing in July and begin a new growth to be injured by 

 the winter. Cultivation, mulching and irrigation will keep a tree growing 

 until September, and then it will ripen off in good condition to stand the 

 winter. Had used white arsenic 2^ oz. for lOO gallons of water, applied 

 with a force pump, and it had done no harm to the leaves, while it would 

 kill every insect. 



Mr. Had cut back the top of an old tree, which had the bark 



removed from the trunk; the water sprouts had grown up and borne good 

 crops. 



Mr. Bell, of Boonville, speaking as a fruit dealer, agreed with the 

 Society regarding growing fruit from young orchards and cutting out the 

 old ones ; he liked to give the old orchards the go-by, and found, that 

 when he bought fruit from young orchards, he could dispose of it any- 

 where. For dollars and cents he would use young orchards, planting 

 such varieties as would suit the climate and soil and find a ready market. 

 He would keep his orchard cultivated ; he had found in southern Illinois, 

 where apples are successfully grown, they grow their orchards on the 

 above principle. The great complaint against Missouri apples is on ac- 

 count of the worms which they contain ; the spraying with arsenic is a 

 certain remedy, and in many localities is practised regularly. The plant- 

 ing of orchards in the old fogy way will not be profitable ; plant only 

 two or three varieties and as many as you can take care of, there will be 

 no danger of over-doing it ; would not attempt to doctor up old orchards. 



Mr, Grant, of Maryville, accounted for the premature decay of orch- 

 ards by the overbearing, which had weakened the tree by overtaxing 

 them ; to remedy it, he would prune carefully, early in the summer of 

 the year when trees show a tendency to overbear. 



Dr. Goslin — Had used 2\ oz. of white arsenic with one-half pound 

 of Lewis' concentrated lye in crystals for lOO gallons of water. The lye 

 is only used to hasten the solution of arsenic ; this applied in reasonable 

 amounts, will not burn the foliage. If the trees are drenched, the leaves 

 will be burnt in spots. Profs. Forbes and Cook, and orchardists in all 

 parts of the country, report the best results from spraying. If we can 

 produce apples free from worms, we have the markets of the world open 

 to us, as the Ben Davis is a good keeper. A strainer should be placed 

 over the lower end of the pipe on the barrel, as the chips from the hole^ 

 apple blossoms, etc., will clog the valves of the pump and get into the 

 nozzle. Five hundred trees can be sprayed in a day ; go over the trees 



