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fair all over. If you spray a tree, let me tell you one thing: You must 

 get all around that tree and throw the spray thoroughly all over. I take 

 my paris green and mix it up in one-half-gallou cans and let it stand for 

 about five or six days before I want to use it. For 300 gallons of water 

 I take three pounds of paris green and three pounds of arsenic. I put the 

 arsenic in salsoda and boil for aii hour, let stand five or six days, then 

 add twelve or fifteen pounds of sulphate of copper and as much lime 

 as I want to for pears. I don't think I have seen a dozen worms in all 

 the pears. I have fifty peach trees. There is one thing about them, they 

 hold the spray better than an apple. 



Prof. Troop: I would like to ask some of those old apple growers 

 if there is any good reason why an apple tree will not bear every year? 



A Member: They just won't do it. I have a Jeniton tree which bears 

 every other year, aud always has done so for forty years. 



A Member: I have been cultivating my orchard for six years and I 

 have had a good crop of apples every year on th;tt orchard, and would 

 have had a good crop this year had it not been for our storm on the 25th 

 of June. 



E. B. Davis: I think if you thin your apple trees you will have a crop 

 every year. I think wo let our trees overbear. 



Mr. Kingsbury: I have a tree twenty years old, and for the last five 

 or six years I have tried to make it bear every year by thinning, but it 

 has done no good. My observation is that central Indiana is a first class 

 apple gTowing region. Mr. Flick says that his orchard has not made but 

 one failure in twenty years. 



E. J. Howland: Mr. Flick is located on the height of land and the 

 ground slopes in every direction from his orchard, and he is on the highest 

 point that I know of in Marion County. I attribute his success largely 

 to his location. 



W. B. Flick: I think Mr. Howland is right in regard to frosts, but 

 otherwise I do;i't see that it has much to do with the question. I know 

 people in central Indiana Avho have small orchards that are equally as 

 successful as myself by attending to them. I think the main point, as 

 Prof. Troop has said, is the man. 



.Tohn Tilson: Now, I have traveled through the northern part of this 

 county (.Tolmson) and I am satisfied after seeing one orchard that it is 

 the man. I have a friend whose orchard is full. He had sixty barrels 

 picked, the best I ever saw, and had sent off fifty barrels the day before 

 I had called. Now, I ))elieve it is the man and not the gi'ound or location. 

 His location is no Itctter than in this township, Clark, Pleasant or any 

 other place. I think you can grow apples here and plenty of them. 



