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Answer. We have some that bear very young. We have the 

 earliest ripening free-stone that I know of. 



Question. What do peaches average per bushel in price? What 

 can you clear? 



Answer. It will run a little over $1 per bushel. 



Question. Are they mostly buds or seedlings ? 



Answer. Mostly buds. 



Question. What is your experience in propagating from seed ? 



Answer. They do not come true from the seed. 



Question. Have you ever practiced letting trees down 1 



Answer. I^o, sir. 



Question. You know how it is done, don't you ? 



Answer. Yes, sir ; I expect Mr. Murray has had more practice in 

 that. 



Mr. Holsinger — We heard that you had been grafting peaches on 

 Myrobolean plum stock. 



Answer. I did not. 



Mr. And people have been stating that they would stand 35 



below zero. 



Mr. Goodman— What kind of agents do you have up there ? 



Mr. The kind that sell. 



Mr. Eassell — So far as that is concerned, when things are damaged 

 by the cold the top is damaged. 



Question. What kind of protection have you? 



Answer. None. I use the highest ground I can get. 



Question. What do you do with Hill's Chilli ? Does anyone 

 buy it ? 



Answer. Yes, sir; I will send you a sample. 



Mr. In Central Missouri we have a disease that is doing great 



damage to peaches, and I thought perhaps you could tell us what it 

 was. The fruit ripens prematurely, from two to four weeks. The flesh 

 outside shows red spots and inside the flesh is red. 



Answer. No, sir. 



Mr. 1 have nothing farther to say on the peach question fur- 

 ther than to endorse what Mr. Russell has said. I have known him for 

 17 or 18 years. When he moved out to Nebraska to start a peach 

 orchard, everyone thought he was going daft. The idea of going to 

 Nebraska to start a peach orchard was something that no one else had 

 the courage to think of. However, he went out there and started it. 

 I think he put in 50 acres the first planting. Whenever I would go 

 out to Mr. Russell's peach orchard I would always find him digging 

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