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them the right treatment in April, May and June. If this is observed 

 the cherry orchard needs less work than any other tree fruit. 



The picking of cherries has to be very closely attended to, and 

 pickers ought to be taught carefully not to tear down the coming 

 blossom buds with the stem they are picking, and also not to injure 

 the branches of the trees when handling them. Many cherry pick- 

 ing devices have been invented and praised to be perfection. We 

 have tried several of them, but none have proved satisfactory, but 

 the time will come when somebody will invent a cherry picker which 

 probably will fill the bill. There is probably one objection to picking 

 devices, and that is that the stems will be short and more fruit is 

 needed to fill the quart than if the stems are left on, but when cus- 

 tomers knoiw that there is more fruit and less stems in the box 

 they will soon learn that they are worth more and will cheerfully 

 pay the price. When the growers see the advantage of a good instru- 

 ment which will do the work rapidly and satisfactorily, then all the 

 cherries will come to the market in the same condition, and the price 

 will regulate itself to these conditions. 



Mr. C. F. Gardner (la.) : What are the names of your varieties? 



Mr. Yahnke : We have the Schlanke, Bessarabian, King and 

 Morello. We also tried several Russian, but they did not amount 

 to much. 



Mr. Gardner: What variety does the best of all? 



Mr. Yahnke : The Homer is doing the best. In Winona county 

 there are large orchards, and they nearly all have the Homer. 



Mr. Seth Kenney : Are you acquainted with an insect that 

 looks like a snail and eats the leaves so they leave nothing but a 

 skeleton ? 



Mr. Yahnke : I am not. 



Mr. Merritt : That is the snail we are troubled with very much 

 in Winona county. 



Prof. Green : That is the slug. 



Mr. Prosser: We had the same trouble in our section. The 

 leaves were eaten out by some insect, and every tree that was at- 

 tacked is dead. 



The President : I spray with Paris green, and there is no diffi- 

 culty in getting rid of it. 



Mr. Elliot: White hellebore is good. 



The President : I can see no reason for fooling with hellebore 

 when we have Paris green. I use Paris green for everything. 



Mr. Busse : How do^ you manage to keep the birds from taking 

 your crop? 



Mr. Yahnke : Plant more cherries. (Laughter.) 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wis.) : Mr. Yahnke spoke of the cherry 

 on its own roots. Have you anything but the Homer on its own 

 roots, or do you propagate anything else ? 



Mr. Yahnke : Just sprouts. 



