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bay better trees in Illinois and Missouri. We have so little woolly 

 aphis now in my part of the country that we do not give it any con- 

 sideration. I do not think we have ever lost a single tree with aphis 

 or root rot there. 



Mr. Russell — I have had some experience with aphis, and have 

 been engaged in the nursery business. Would it not be possible to so 

 wrap the body of the tree that the woolly aphis would not enter the 

 ground at alH Does the spraying of trees have any effect upon the 

 roots'? 



Prof. Whitten — Spraying will affect only that part of the tree 

 which the spray comes in contact with. It will not be absorbed into 

 the tree. 



Mr. Reese — In regard to the rich soil — it is almost the reverse in 

 my neighborhood. Where I have the richest soil I have the most 

 trees to die. I have planted trees there five or six times and they will 

 not live. My neighbor had an old field that was a very high hill, and 

 in that part of his orchard all his trees died. In regard to trees blow- 

 ing over I want to give my experience. I had two trees that were 

 blown over and one of them died. Afterward I was digging a cistern 

 and taking the dirt and throwing it in the orchard, and I raised the 

 other tree and filled up with this dirt, and it is alive now and bore a 

 good crop of apples .this year. The tree was almost dead. Different 

 localities need different methods. My trees nearly all live and do bet- 

 ter where the land is not so good and rich. 



Mr. Tippin — I did not mean when I said good soil, rich soil — I 

 meant land that would make an ordinary crop. 



Mr. Lamm —I want to help you people some. You are getting in 

 a terrible fix in Southwest Missouri, and I think I have a pretty good 

 receipt. Com ■ up into our country where we don't have any root rot 

 or woolly aphis either. 



Mr. Gilkerson — In the farm land around Pertle Springs you find 

 just acres of land there with 30 and 40 acres set out with Ben Davis 

 and they are on sandy soil, that of a wet season gives plenty of rain 

 and this year we have root rot. I do not know wether it is aphis or 

 what it is. It may be deep planting. I have also some trees as big as 

 my arm and the tree is girdled, but above that it is healthy and nice 

 bark and the leaves staid on and it was alive and thrifty until late this 

 fall. I have come to the conclusion that may^be it was deep planting. 

 One man went to the orchardand said it was woolly aphis. He exam- 

 ined the tree below this girdle and found a cluster of fine roots like 

 white threads, but above the girdle it was clean and smooth, and the 

 bark looked healthy. 



