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endure a moderate winter? If so, is it a tree worthy to be recommended 

 for planting? Those are a few questions that are interesting a few farm- 

 ers in my neighborhood. I am not the only one having trouble with the 

 Grimes' Golden, and the question is what can we substitute for it? Or 

 can we get other trees that may have a longer life and more usefulness? 

 I thought someone might have had experience with them. 



Mr. Pollard: I have had the same experience with the Grimes' Golden 

 as the other gentleman has had; I found on large bearing trees the 

 apple leaf turning yellow on the trees. I supposed borers were in the 

 trees, but I could not see any. I could not find any rust on the leaves 

 and I looked to the roots. The roots had dried up and I found by putting 

 blue vitriol around the trees that it stopped it, and none have died since. 

 Whether that will remedy it or not, I do not know. 



There is another question about the age of the trees. You cannot 

 answer the question how long it will live, because it depends on the 

 fellow who tends it. These trees want somebody that can associate 

 with them; that can get acquainted with them. You can associate with 

 your trees, gentleman. Mr. Youngers does not associate with the pine 

 tree, but I could associate with it and make it live. In this age of 

 trees we have the Janet — some call it the Never Fail. We have some 

 that were planted in 1862; they are forty-nine years old, and those 

 trees are healthy and strong and bearing good apples. They bear just 

 as good apples as the others. Some apples we sent to St. Louis to the 

 fair, and we got some of our finest apples from our oldest trees. Our 

 oldest trees made the best showing; the best apples we got were off 

 the old trees. We had the Ben Davis, but they died a long time ago. 



Mr. Williams: I would like to call upon the gentleman here who has 

 had experience in orchard heating to aid us in that matter. 



Chairman: Mr. Dickinson, who has the old Hartley place, tried 

 those heaters last year. Let us hear from him. 



Mr. Dickinson: I understand that the question of orchard heating 

 is to come up tomorrow. 



Chairman: I think we might give a very short time to that subject 

 now. We have some other matters here, but we would like to hear 

 from Mr. Dickinson very briefiy on this subject. 



Mr. Dickinson: Well, I have not tabulated any results and have 

 not figured on it and can give nothing definite. The most I Tould do 

 would be to give it in a general way. Of course, last year was the 

 first year we have had anything to do with it. It was just an experi- 

 ment. I was not really ready when the time came, the spring coming 

 on very early and before we were ready, and I have not given it what 

 we might term a thorough test. There was grass in the orchard and 

 that windy night, the first night, we could not light our heaters on 

 account of being afraid of fire, but on still nights after that blow was 

 over when the frost came we lighted our heaters and we could control 

 the temperature; I think there is no question but what the temperature 



