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Capt'. Reed : On what sized limbs do you graft ? 



Mr. Kenney : About a quarter of an inch in diameter ; about the 

 size of a pipe stem. 



Air. Harrison (Neb.) : Do you make splice grafts? 



Air. Kenney: I split the scion and the stock, and then I wind 

 with wax cloth. 



Mr. Brand: How high do you graft from the ground? 



Mr. Kenney : I begin at the top and work down about two- 

 thirds of the way. I find tops grow more rapidly than do the 

 lower limbs. I got nearly thirty barrels on the lower limbs of my 

 Duchess trees, and after I picked the Duchess the sap went to the 

 Malindas. That is the way I think I got the size in the Malindas. 



Mr. Brand : You did not understand what I meant. How high 

 were your grafts from the ground? 



Mr. Kenney : About two-thirds of the way up. 



Mr. Brand : How far would that be ? 



Mr. Kenney : About twelve feet. 



Mr. Brand : And those that failed, were they all as high as 

 that? 



Mr. Kenney : Yes, some were higher. On the Peerless they all 

 failed but one, and that was a limb on which the snow lay pretty 

 deep, and I had reason to believe the snow kept it protected. 



Mr. Brand: Were these Gould crabs in the lower part of the 

 orchard or the higher? 



Mr. Kenney : They were about on average ground. 



Mr. Brand : On one side of the orchard or on the inside ? 



Mr. Kenney : On one side and about one-third of the wav up 

 hill. 



Capt. Reed: What time of the year do you prefer cutting 

 scions for grafting that you expect to use next spring? 



Mr. Kenney : I have already cut some, and I have sometimes let 

 them alone until March and then cut them. I do not see that it 

 makes any difference. 



Capt. Reed : How do you keep them? 



Mr. Kenney : I put them in sand in the cellar, although this 

 year I put them in a keg of rotten sawdust. Three years ago I cut 

 off a lot of Transcendent scions under some trees, and I put them in 

 a keg in which there was some rotten sawdust, and in the spring 

 when I pulled t'hemi out I saw a good many of them had rooted. I 

 set them out, and I have now fifteen Transcendent trees on their own 

 roots that started in the cellar in that rotten sawdust. I want to 

 ask if anybody has ever had a similar experience. 



Mr. Harrison : I have grown them in the spring. 



