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ground, and it will stay there until you want it again. I made mine 

 by hand, and they averaged me between three and four cents. A 

 man can make them very quickly if he uses proper wire. I could 

 make one in about twO' minutes. They are easily made, quickly 

 applied, last indefinitely and afford just the protection needed. 



Mr. Emil Sahler: How many lath do you use? 



Mr. Leach : Nine or ten. I wire the lath together. 



Mr. Underwood: How do you adjust them? 



Mr. Leach: I cannot adjust them, and I do not need to adjust 

 them. 



Mr. Underwood : Here are the limbs, how are you going to 

 adjust your lath to adapt themselves to those limbs. 



Mr. Leach : Oh, once in a while you have to cut a lath on one 

 side or the other. When you get a protector made once and ad- 

 justed you do not have to make another the next year. I have 

 used my protectors continually for twelve years, and I have never 

 lost one. I have them all on my place today. 



Mr. Philips : Mr. Leach has the best looking lot of apple trees 

 in the state of Minnesota. 



Mr. Kellogg : Mr. Underwood has figured the cost down to 

 almost nothing, but marsh hay is cheaper than anything. 



Mr. Sahler: I would like to give my experience in keeping 

 jack rabbits and other rabbits away. I put one shock of corn in 

 the orchard and let the rabbits know that 1 am their friend, and then 

 I take some steel gopher traps and set them all around and I catch 

 all my rabbits that way. 



Mr. Bentz : In reference to Mr. Underwood's objection to 

 limbs coming close to the ground : that is the way I grow all my 

 trees. I could not use the lath protection at all unless I adjusted 

 the boxes to the different trees, and the tree protector is only valu- 

 able where the limbs start high up on the trunk. My experience 

 has been this, that the best protection in the world is something that 

 can be applied easily, even if it does not last very long, and I take 

 a newspaper, perhaps because I have so many lying around, and 

 wrap it around the tree, then take a piece of -stove pipe wire, cut 

 it in six to eight inch lengths and bend it around the newspaper and 

 nothing will touch that tree, and it is also very effective against 

 sun scald. 



JUDICIAL MINDEDNESS IN HORTICULTURAL 

 EXPERIMENTATION. 



1,YCURGUS R. MOVER, MONTEVIDEO. 



I dozen years ago I made my first trial station report to this 

 society. There had been growing on my grounds at Montevideo for 

 two seasons some half dozen species of Russian poplars. With the 

 enthusiasm of a beginner, I gleefully reported the extraordinary 

 growth that those poplars had made. I felt certain that the ideal 

 trees had been found that would quickly produce a forest on the 

 dreariest and bleakest prairie. Had I been more judicial minded I 



