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out and it reduced the yield soiue. They were pretty heavily 

 loaded. The University boys, Mr. Howard and Prof. Emer- 

 son left 9 trees that they did not spray at all and they lost 

 their leaves, putting it in a rough way I would say that 8 

 trees didn't have any more leaves on them than should be on 

 two trees, and those apples were pretty badl}^ hurt. I looked 

 at them on the ground and I know our graders would not 

 have taken very many of them. The shells were badly col- 

 lapsed and 1 think they would have been classed as bad apples 

 in 60 days. 



A Member : When was that freeze? 



Mr. Marshall: The 12th or 13th of October; it was the 

 worst freeze I ever saw on apples in this country. 1 don't 

 think we w^ould expect such a freeze very often. The small 

 winesaps Avere frozen clear through. I examined them and 

 a good many never did come out just right; 150 miles north- 

 west of us they said their apples were nearly all ruined by 

 that freeze. I saw some apples down below Hamburg, la., 

 that were hurt by that same freeze. 



Mr. Davidson : What was the experience with the apples 

 going through the freeze? 



Mr. Marshall : That didn't show. 



Mr. A. A. Lash : I would not want to chance them in cold 

 storage very long, not over 60 days. 



A Member: What time do you aim to get your apples 

 picked? 



Mr. Marshall : If you want good apples you must let them 

 get ripe. This season they were late, they started late. They 

 were fully two weeks late in the spring in getting started. 



A Member: Did you pick your Jonathans before the rest? 



Mr. Marshall : Oh, yes, we picked the Grimes first and 

 then we followed on the heels of the Grimes with the Jona- 

 thans, and then there was a little intermission between them 

 and the Ben Davis. There ought to be, hadn't there, Mr. 

 Lash? 



