ANNUAL MEETING, I902, N. W. IOWA HORT. SOCIETY. 37 



"What Shall We Do With the Commercial Apple?" G. H. 

 Purely, Mason City. — This paper related mostly to the manner of 

 packing fruit, that all packages, whether they are boxes, barrels or 

 otherwise should always be of the best, neat, clean and attractive, 

 and the fruit should be well assorted. A few inferior specimens 

 lower the grade of the whole lot to second place or lower. 



C. G. Patten gave a short talk on color and said that he thought 

 that there was being too much stress laid on color. He admitted 

 that the color was better if red, but it was not imperative, and 

 much good fruit would and did sell well if not red in color. 



"Where and Where Not Shall I Plant My Apple Trees." Edson 

 Gaylord, Nora Springs. — On high elevation, with north or north- 

 east slope ; soil, clay loam with yellow clay subsoil. 



"Why We Should Plant Young Trees." A. E. Bentz, Cresco. — 

 It was the opinion of some fruit growers that by planting trees about 

 five years old they could obtain fruit sooner than by planting 

 younger trees, but from his standpoint of view it was a great mis- 

 take. It was his experience that trees planted w^hen three years old 

 from the graft would bear more fruit in the subsequent six years 

 than a tree planted when five years old would produce in the same 

 length of time. 



President Elmer Reeves gave an interesting exhibition of an 

 apparatus, or powder gun, for the purpose of applying Bordeaux 

 mixture to trees in dry form. The mixture is purchased all ready 

 for use, wdth its dififerent ingredients ground together. It is put into 

 the machine, and by turning the crank wheel (which is belted onto 

 the fan or blower wheel) the mixture is forced through the ex- 

 tension pipe and applied to the tree. The pipe can be lengthened or 

 shortened to correspond with the height of the tree. The work 

 should be done when the trees are wet, or a heavy dew will answer, 

 Prof. Wesley Greene says that this dry mixture seems to answer 

 the purpose well for insects but is not as good for fungus as the 

 Bordeaux mixture with water. 



"Our Responsibility as a Society," W. H. Guilford, Dubuque. — 

 We cannot well afford to lose the old and useful leaders in horti- 

 culture and originators of new and valuable varieties, but time 

 is passing on and it will be but a few years at most when these 

 pioneers in horticulture will haive passed on, and we as a society 

 are responsible in a measure for the education in horticulture of the 

 younger men that are to follow them. In sowing apple seed that 



