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Mr. Brown: I believe if I were planting a peach orchard I would get 

 rather small trees and cut back within a foot and a half of the ground. 



The President: You gentlemeti remind me of a little experience I had 

 once in a meeting of this kind. You can imagine the way I felt when 

 Dr. Bessey said to me at one time here in a room at the other end of this 

 building I thought I had said something pretty big, I knew something 

 about gardening and had said something good. After I had sat down 

 beside him after a little while he said, "Young man, do you realize how 

 many people will know what you have been talking about when it goes 

 out in the report?" I have often thought of that remark when we are 

 having these discussions as to how it will appear in the report. Now, it 

 is not only the benefit that we get out of these discussions here, but it 

 it the benefit the people at large will receive and get out of it as it 

 appears in the report. Therefore, speak louder, speak plain so that 

 everything may be well understood. (To which the reporter says 

 "Amen.") 



Mr. Brown (continuitig) : To get rid of evaporation that goes on so 

 rapidly, a peach tree is a little more tender and after transplanting com- 

 mences dying down. Take a peach tree, say, four or five feet in height, 

 leaving all the limbs on, it is more inclined to commence dying from the 

 top, but if you cut it off within a few feet of the ground it will com- 

 mence budding out soon. 



Mr. Marshall: In northern Nebraska and perhaps as far south as 

 Lincoln, the peach tree should be limbed out very near the ground. The 

 top being composed of many rather small limbs with no central body 

 at all. The reason for this is that when the tree has been frozen down 

 by a severe winter which occurs occasionally, the new growth will start 

 much more readily from the stubs of these many small limbs than from 

 the trunk. 



We have practiced this for some time and have been much more suc- 

 cessful with the low limbed tree handled in this way, than with the 

 high headed one. 



Mr. Brown: We have them cut close to the ground in order to carry 

 them through the winter. The root does not kill but the body does kill. 



Mr. Heath: I would like to ask if when they are through bearing, 

 we can make them live longer and' bear by trimming. 



Mr. Marshall: Those trees that we keep the tops cut down to a cer- 

 tain height do better than those that the tops are allowed to grow on. It 

 is very important to have the limbs low down if you wish to renew the 

 top occasionally by cutting back. 



Mr. Christy: I think I can improve by cutting off or cutting back 

 more on peach trees than on other trees. They will branch out in a few 

 years and be much improved. The peach tree will stand all the trimming 

 that you want to give it and on this account the peaches are better. 



There is one thing that I wish to say about watering the trees— to fill 

 the hole full of water and then throw the dirt in around the tree. In 



