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have had two good crops of peaches. Getting a crop of peaches once 

 in three or four years, and running the risk, on a commercial scale would 

 not be profitable in northern Indiana; of course, I don't linow anything 

 about any other part of the State. Last year we had all over our part 

 of Laporte County a most excellent crop. Northern Indiana had a good 

 crop of peaches, the best we have had for years. This year I doir*t 

 believe there is a hatful of peaches in the county. I have not seen 

 a peach, and for peaches commercially in northern Indiana I would 

 emphatically advise against it, but peaches for family use, say in lots 

 from ten to fifteen or even 100 trees where a person could afford them, 

 and not take too much of his time, and too much of his valuable land. 

 I say that every farmer that has a few acres of ground or a farm should 

 have a few peach trees on it, and that is the advise I would give. As 

 far as seedlings are concerned, I kave fifteen or twenty seedlings, I could 

 never see any difference in their bearing qualities. When I had peaches 

 I had peaches on all trees, and Avhen I had no peaches, I had no peaches 

 of any variety. I don't think there is any great advantage in seedlings in 

 northern Indiana. We hardly ever get peaches, but when we do we get 

 a full crop. 



Mrs. B. A. Davis: I would say he is mistaken about northern Indiana. 

 We live ten miles north of him. We get four good crops out of five. 

 I am sorry Mr. Hem-y lives so close and not near enough to Michigan; 

 that makes the difference. 



W. B. Flick: I am not a peach grower. I have within my neighbor- 

 hood a man, who planted twenty acres in peaches and waited seven years 

 before he got a crop, but he got $4,300 worth of peaches. The next year 

 was a failure. Then the following year he sold $2,800i worth of peaches. 

 His trees then were gone. In the meantime he had blackberries in the 

 same held, and he said he made profit every year off his blackberries; 

 so it seems to me, then, in central Indiana we can make money off of 

 peaches on a commercial scale. He sold his peaches in Indianapolis under 

 disadvantages. The first year the market was not very well supplied. 

 The second crop vei-y much oversupplied. 



.T. G. Kingsbury: .Tust a word about those blackberries you speak of. 

 He has blackberries in his peach orchard along and between rows. Now, 

 why can not peach and apple orchards l>e planted with berries in the 

 same manner. 



James Little: I have a very fine peach crop this year. I had one 

 bloom, one peach. 



E. B. Davis: I think it not best to plant peach trees between your 

 apple trees, even if we could get an occasional crop of peaches. They are 

 gross groAvers and feeders. 



