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of the cultivation we gave them. Those that were not cultivated 
seem to do just as well, bear just as well and do not blight at all. 
The President: That part that is in sod, do you allow the sod 
to grow up close to the trunk of the tree or do you keep it clear 
around the trunk? 
Mr. Stellar: It is all sod right up to the trunk. 
The President: Is it blue grass? 
Mr. Stellar: Well, it is what we call June grass. 
Mr, Clark: I want to say a word in regard to Mr. Latham’s 
paper. [Iam a traveling man and I met last fall at Fargo a travel- 
ing man who was selling apples. The firm that he was working 
for had been down to Missouri buying those apples and shipping 
them up north, and he would order a carload to this town and to 
that town, and then he would go there and sell them. They wrote 
or telegraphed him that they had a full carload of Jonathan, and he 
wired them to send them to Fargo. He went there and sold every 
barrel of those apples for $5 a barrel. Now you all know that the 
Jonathan is one of the best eating apples grown, and the point I 
want to make is this: I want to impress upon your minds the fact 
that you can get more money from a good straight carload of 
Wealthy apples than from any other variety. Send them to a large 
town and the people will not hesitate to buy them. Go and plant 
Wealthy apples and raise plenty of them. 
Mr. Jewett: I want to add a word in regard to raising a crop in the 
orchard. We can hardly call our orchard a bearing orchard—the major part 
was set in ’95—but at the same time we set strawberries, raspberries and 
blackberries. We have now about twelve acres all set out with apple trees, 
and they made an extra fine growth during the season. We have had no 
root-killing, no winter-killing and no blight. One thought was brought out 
in regard to mulching of the trees I want to speak of. Our trees are thor- 
oughly cultivated, and then they are mulched with a very heavy mulch of 
straw. We water the trees thoroughly, water them every fall, and they go 
into winter quarters thoroughly wet down and the ground mulched. They 
make a very fine growth. This year they did not bear, but one can judge 
whether those things help the growth of an orchard. They are set two rods 
apart. We run an alley every twenty rods across the orchard, and we know 
in that way just how much a quarter of an acre is. The land slopes to the 
southeast about three feet. 
Mr. Secor, (Iowa): Any water near? 
Mr. Jewett: We have a lake to the northeast, three and one-half miles 
long and a half mile wide. On the south side the orchard is protected by a 
growth of timber and on the east side by the lake. Those trees that start- 
ed last spring came right along this spring. 
Mr. Dartt: Which is the best for bearing? 
Mr. Jewett: Our best bearing trees are the Virginia crabs. They have 
borne best, and next to that has been the Wealthy and next to that the 
Peerless, and the Shields crab bore very finely. 
