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ing. I asked him "Why so many Duchess ? Are you not making a 

 mistake?" He said, "No, my Duchess paid me a dollar a barrel 

 more than the standard fruit, and I can not beo^in to supply my trade, 

 coming on at a season when there is no competitor, Southern fruit 

 selling at a dollar per barrel when I obtain from two and a half to 

 three and a half." 



True, Mr. Sherwood is only a night's run from Chicago with its 

 2,000,000 people, but Chicago has many sources of supply. So that 

 I say if Mr. Sherwood in Michigan with its standard orchard possi- 

 bilities finds it advantageous to him to grow the Duchess in large 

 orchards, why with the northwest and its cities can we not expect 

 good results from our Duchess and Wealthy, grown in much larger 

 commercial orchards than now exist, with no fear of the supply of 

 good apples being overdone. 



Plant, watch, care for and protect and give our own people an 

 abundance of the good things the gods have given us. 



Mr. Corbett : Some eastern growers have told me they spray 

 four times ; once before the buds open in the spring, and some spray 

 in the fall after all the leaves have fallen. 



Mr. Emil Sahler: I read and studied on this thing of spraying, 

 and I had some trees that I sprayed and some trees that I did not 

 spray, and those that I sprayed had worthless apples and those that 

 I did not spray were full of the largest kind of apples I ever saw. 



Mr. W. C. Corbett : I hardly think the question is worth an- 

 swering, with all deference to the gentleman. The insects infest 

 the apple trees, and we know they will destoy the fruit, and if spray- 

 ing should not always prove successful it is no reason why it should 

 not be continued, because there are so many illustrations of the value 

 of spraying. We know that the people ignorant of the benefits of 

 spraying and cultivation are not successful in apple culture, and 

 those which they do produce are fit only to go to the cider mill, as 

 a general rule. (Applause.) 



Mr. Kellogg : Do you recommend bushel boxes ? 



Mr. Corbett: As a matter of fact there is no package so suc- 

 cessful as the barrel. In the west they market the apples in boxes, 

 and the result was that some of our dealers were compelled to take 

 the apples out of the boxes and repack them in barrels to get good 

 results. 



Mr. Underwood : Three bushel barrels ? 



Mr. Corbett : Standard barrels. 



Mr. Underwood: Is it necessarv to have ventilated barrels? 



Mr. Corbett : It is a good practice ; it is well to have ventilated 

 barrels to have healthy apples. 



Mr. Underwood: From your observation can you say whether 

 it is a good plan to sprav the blossoms of apples? 



Mr. Corbett : Spraying the blossom is of no advantage. Spray 

 the bud when it begins to swell, then follow it up after the fruit sets 



