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Mr. Husser: Don't you think that success with cherries is as 

 much due to location and the proper kind of soil as to anything else?' 



Mr. Yahnke : That has a good deal to do with it. If you plant 

 on heavy soil they are apt tO' be infected with fungous diseases. 



Mr. Seeley : I find my early cherry trees burst and crack. What 

 is the cause of that? 



Mr. Yahnke : We find that is true sometimes, but it is probably 

 winter -killing. I do not know to what else to lay it. 



Mr. Busse : I think it is sun-scald. Mine are the same way. 



Mr. Prosser : I want to speak a word on the point of preventing 

 the birds from getting the cherries. The best way is to plant 

 Russian mulberries. The birds prefer the mulberries to the cherries. 



Mr. S. D. Richardson : The mulberries would never save the 

 Early Richmond cherries ; they do not come early enough. 



Mr. Prosser : There is a great deal of difference in the time of 

 ripening of the Russian mulberries so far as variety is concerned. 

 Perhaps you have a late variety. 



Mr. Husser : I hear so many say they would like to prevent 

 the birds from getting the cherries. I put cheese cloth or mosquito 

 bar, or anything else that is open, over the tree. They cannot get 

 through that, and you will save your cherries. If one has many 

 trees, I believe a man would rather keep the birds fed by planting 

 extra trees. 



Mr. Merritt : Have you ever grown the Montmorency or the 

 Wragg on their own roots ? 



Mr. Yahnke : We have not. 



Mr. Merritt: That is very successful. 



Mr. Benjamin : What time of the year does the Homer ripen? 



Mr. Yahnke : About the 4th of July. 



Mr. Benjamin: Do they resemble the Early Richmond? 



Mr. Yahnke : They are larger and of a darker color. 



The President: Earlier or later? 



Mr. Yahnke : - Later. 



The President: Between that and the Wragg about? 



Mr. Yahnke : Yes, sir. 



The President : I have noticed in my travels through the North- 

 west that many people have much difficulty with the Richmond,* 

 and some of them on sandy localities on timber soil have great suc- 

 cess with the Late Richmond. The Homer is generally a success 

 throughout the Northwest. 



