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continuously good crops for five years. These trees, however, have had 

 the best care; they had been sprayed and thinned so the trees were not 

 allowed to exceed themselves. They were leady for business next year, 

 same as this year. The trees overbear themselves, and in a case lilie 

 last year we have a failure. It was a miracle for the tree to pull through 

 the extreme drought. We did not expect fruit the following year. 



E. Y. Teas: I don't believe any one with common sense expects h 

 crop of apples every year, but then there are many places in Indiana 

 where apples bear plentifully and are nice. There are plenty of places 

 where orchards do first rate. In our own Wayne County, along the 

 sfreams on the first and second bottoms, there are orchards which after 

 a few years never do any good, but on the hills they do first rate. A man' 

 has to select certain localities for growing fruit. He has to use common 

 sense. In the growing of apples, especially in the central and northern 

 part, my observation is that success is not so certain as it is on the hill 

 lands in the southern part. I think one reason why it seems to me that 

 Illinois is ahead of Indiana is that the people are better informed on apple 

 gi'owing. I thinlv that a great many of the Hoosiers, especially in the 

 southern part of the State, lack enterprise. 



Mr. Little: I think we all ought to be very well satisfied with the 

 apple crop this year, when we take into consideration the extreme drought 

 we had last j^ear. Trees can not have a good crop where they are allowed 

 to overbear. 



Mr. Elliott: I will say a few words on this subject. I went to spray- 

 ing my orchards. Two of them I sprayed this year thoroughly, and I 

 have a good crop of apples; two of them I did not spray, and I have no 

 apples in them. I have more apples, with the exception of one individual, 

 than all others in the whole township. I was offered $1,000 for ninety 

 trees. If there is not money in that, then I don't know what there is money 

 in. There is a v/ay of leading a boy or even a girl to like apple growing; 

 give them an interest in what you have. If you make them do the work 

 and take all the money, they, of course, will become discouraged. I have 

 gotten so old I can not climb trees any more. I have a granddaughter 

 keeping house for me; she climbs the trees and saws the limbs off 

 when I direct her. Some people ask her if she is not ashamed 

 to do that. She says: "I am not ashamed to do anything for 

 gi-andpa." I also have a grandson, and we live only five miles 

 from Connersville. I give that boy all the strawberries he can sell, 

 so I am trying to teach him how to do business. He is selling 

 apples while I am here today. We had a storm Sunday; Vv'e picked up 

 thirty or forty bushels of apples. That boy is taking them to Conners- 

 ville, getting one dollar a bushel for windfalls. Where they are not 

 spraying the codling moth has ruined the apples entirely. My apples are 



