VICE-PRESIDENT S REPORT, SIXTH CONG. DIST. 73 



Mr. Yahnke : What do you line your mouth with when you 

 eat them? (Laughter.) 



Mr. Taylor : We roll them in sawdust before we swallow them, 

 otherwise we cannot get the taste out of the mouth. (Laughter.) 



The President : The Wealthy is inclined to overbear, and if 

 you take scions from such a tree I should think the young tree 

 would overbear. 



Mr. Taylor: I did not know any better than to get my scions 

 from the best bearing trees, and they overbear. 



Mr. Van Ness : I shook off a good many, and I found the 

 apples were larger and the tree would do better later on. I have 

 an apple that overbears, it is called the Thompson's Seedling. It 

 had over a bushel of apples on ; the leaves hang on very late, and 

 I fear for that tree. I fear the tree will not ripen. I think we 

 ought not to let too much fruit hang on. 



The President : That is one difficulty in getting a long keep- 

 ing apple. It is very likely that such a tree will not mature. 



Mr. C. E. Older : It is generally conceded that it does not take 

 much vitality to produce an apple until it comes to ripening the 

 seed. In the Alderman orchard it was the practice tO' begin picking 

 the apples. Duchess and Wealthy, as soon as they were big enough 

 so they could dispose of them in the market, and they thought they 

 had just as many bushels of larger apples as though they had left 

 all of them on the trees, but with the smaller amount of apples the 

 tree did not need so much vitality to ripen the seeds. 



Mr. J. C. Hawkins : I want to say a word to emphasize the 

 point made in regard tO' the overbearing of the Patten's Greening. 

 I find of all the varieties we are raising in Mower county the Pat- 

 ten's Greening is most inclined to overload when it is young. I 

 know of several orchards in our county in which the trees almost 

 entirely went out after the first crop of fruit, they being so over- 

 loaded that they broke down. That point has been brought up as 

 one of the objections to the Northwestern Greening. I think the 

 trouble is all with the orchardist. The trees should be stripped of 

 their fruit. 



VtCE-PRESIDENT'S REPORT, SEVENTH CONG. DIST. 



D. W. WHEATON, MORRIS. 



Time and the expense do not allow a personal inspection of but 

 a small part of such a large territory as is embraced in this district. 

 Most of the information must necessarily be gained by correspond- 

 ence. It is not an easy matter to reach some who could give needed 

 information. However, I succeeded in reaching some from the dif- 

 ferent parts of the district, and I wish to thank these gentlemen who 

 so promptly answered my questions. 



In the diversity of the reports received, it is not easy to know 

 what to report. Notwithstanding the long continued cold of last 

 winter, reports state that there was but little injury done. Trees 



