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any pockets last year, but I do not know whether that was the 

 whole cause of it or not. 



Mr. S. D. Richardson : Did you have pockets this year? 



Mr. Older : Not to amount to anything. There was consider- 

 able cracking and knot on the larger varieties, like the Baker and 

 Stoddard and Hawkeye. The Hawkeye was practically a failure. 



Mr Kellogg : Did you spray before the buds started 



Mr. Older: Yes, the first time I sprayed just before the buds 

 started. 



Mr. Kellogg: With blue vitrol only? 



Mr. Older : I use lime all the time ; I use the regular formula. 



Mr. J. C. Hawkins : Is the Miner hardy in your section ? ^ 



Mr. Older : Yes, it is all right. 

 ' Mr. Prosser : Don't you think it would be just as well to spray 

 earlier without the lime ? 



Mr. Older : I think it would be better, although it burns the 

 leaves badly. I am often asked about cherries, but in the reports 

 • there is only one man who says he raises cherries as a crop. He 

 is very favorably located on high land with a river running along at 

 the base. He reports a good crop, and he prefers the Wragg to the. 

 Early Richmond or the Ostheim. I know some people will not 

 agree with me in this, but through our district they report the Com- 

 pass cherry all right. That is a dry weather tree, it is a native of a 

 dry country, and our district is near the edge of South Dakota, and it 

 is certainly doing well in our part of the country, whereas right here 

 I think it is low in quality and too much subject to rot. 



Mr. Hawkins : Does it do as well on older trees as it does on 

 the younger ? 



Mr. Older : I have no very old trees, but my trees bore a very 

 good crop. 



Mr. C. S. Harrison: How does the Early Richmond do? 



Mr. Older : Once in a while we get a good crop. 



Mr. Harrison : Ever try grafting on the native plum ? 



Mr. Older: I have to some extent. It gives it hardiness. I 

 think. 



Mr. Harrison : I think it would have the same effect as top- 

 working on apple trees. 



Mr. S. D. Richardson : We can raise late cherries by raising 

 Russian mulberries. 



Mr. Older : Plant enough cherries for the birds too. 



Mr. Richardson : If I had an orchard of 160 acres I might have 

 a few cherries left. 



Mr. Older : We use the buffalo berry for that purpose largely. 



Mr. Hawkins : What time do you graft your plums, Mr. Har- 

 rison? 



Mr. Harrison : Early in the spring. 



