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gladden the surroundings of our homes. But they are all beauti- 

 ful and, therefore, "joys forever," and we are both neglectful and 

 ungrateful if we fail to make a wise and intelligent choice and use 

 of them. 



QUESTION BOX. 



Question. — "Is a crown graft better than a piece graft and, 

 if so, why?" 



Prof. Hansen: I think you get a little better stand from a 

 crown graft, but at the end of four years I don't know that you 

 will find any difference. If we open that question we ought to 

 have t^vo hours to discuss it. I think the true crown graft makes 

 a little better tree. 



Question. — "How is a dibber made for planting apple grafts 

 and how is it used?'' 



Prof. Hansen: A dibber is simply a pointed stick covered 

 with iron. Take a spade handle and sharpen the lower part of 

 it and make a pointed stick out of it ; but the best way is to buy of 

 a seed house a dibber which has a handle on it to push it down. I 

 think the best dibber is this round one, but I think the spade is 

 the best of ^11. A man and a spade make a fine combination. 



Question. — '"If a nurseryman hires a man to work and sets 

 him to work hoeing root grafts and he cuts one-tenth of them ofT 

 can he collect pay for his work?" 



Mr. J. M. Underwood: That is really a legal question, and 

 I am not a lawyer. I think common sense would answer a ques- 

 tion of that kind. I should say he could collect pay for his work, 

 and any man who would set a man to work hoeing root grafts 

 doesn't understand his business. I would not have any man 

 hoeing among them. I think in that case the employer would be 

 to blame. I recollect at one time a good many years ago I was 

 out in the nursery with Dr. Jewell. He saw a man hoeing grafts, 

 and every little while he would bark one. The doctor reprimand- 

 ed him for it, and the man immediately skinned several more 

 grafts, and as long as the doctor stood looking at him he skinned 

 grafts with the hoe. I saw where the trouble was, and I told the 

 doctor he wanted to show him how to do it, and then come away 

 from him and let him alone, of he would hoe off the whole field. 

 The fellow was so nervous after being reprimanded he could not 

 work at all. I took that man out of the field because he could 

 not w^ork — but I never use a hoe among grafts. 



Mr. Frank Yahnke : What would you use ? 

 Mr. Underwood : The best thing I ever found is a weeder. 

 We employ boys and children and furnish them with weeders. 

 Mr. Yahnke : They are a good thing. 



Mr. Uftderwood : They do it carefully and do it all by hand. 

 I never want to use anything as clumsy as a hoe with which to do 

 delicate work. 



