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Joe A. Burton: I want to tell you that unless you are better growers 

 than I have ever seen, you will ruin your apple trees before you take 

 your peach ti-ees out. You have not got grit enough to talie those peach 

 trees out; you will leave them until they injure the apple trees. 



Mr. Hale: I set out peach trees between apple trees and pear trees 

 twelve years ago, and have made a great deal more money off of the 

 peaches than apples or pears. I had no trouble in removing the trees, 

 they blew over. 



W. M. Waltman: In answer to the gentleman's question whether it 

 would be profitable to plant apple trees and peach trees together, I say 

 no. I didn't believe this some time ago, but experience has taught me 

 better. Agricultural writers once in a while get on a hobby and get us 

 into the rut. They say "plant peach trees among apple trees." I was 

 foolish enough to believe one of these editors. The result is, I have 

 neither peach or apple trees. The peach trees robbed the ground and en- 

 ticed borers. Ground is too cheap, apples and peaches too good to spoil 

 the orchard in this way. 



Mr. Elliott: I would say never plant peaches in an orchard of apple 

 trees. In the first place, apple trees need all the air they can get. The 

 peach trees generally outgrow the apple trees and shade them. If you 

 want to spray your orchard they are right in the way, and the cheapness 

 of our land enables most any person to have a peach orchard to itself. 

 I would plant a separate orchard for each. 



A Member: Mr. President: It seems to me that if we are to com- 

 plete the program we must be speedier. I therefore move that discus- 

 sions be limited to one minute speeches. 



A Member: I second the motion. 



The President put the motion, which was carried. 



President Stevens: Our next topic is "Plums." and Mrs. B. A. Davis 

 is the first speaker. 



POSSIBILITIES FOR PLUM GROWING FOR MARKET IN INDIANA. 



BY MRS. B. A. DAVIS, LAPORTE. 



I am expected to tell you something about the "Possibilities of Plum 

 Growing on a Commercial Scale in Northern Indiana," and without any 

 long preface, I will just say from my own experience, it is quite, and 

 altogether possible, to make plum growing pay, from a commercial point 

 of view, provided you attend to several very necessary things, a few of 

 which I will now tell you. 



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