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have never had a bushel of fruit altogether from those Martha trees, 

 two of which we have been growing for seventeen years. 



The spring of 1899 I placed four swarms of bees about fifty 

 feet away from my two largest Martha trees. These have increased 

 until I now have about fifty swarms, but we still get no fruit from 

 our Marthas. 



But I have noticed since we placed bees in the orchard a remark- 

 able increase in the blossom, and spur blight on the Duchess, Wealthy 

 and other varieties of apples. 



Unfavarorable conditions at Mr. Cook's Trial Station. Effects of sleet storm. 



The spring of 1892 we planted six each of Cheney and Ocheeda 

 plum trees. They were on their own roots. Perhaps I injured 

 them by too much manure and cultivation. They have not been 

 satisfactory, though we did get one good crop frOm some grafted 

 Cheney trees in another location. But we never could get any- 

 thing worth mentioning from my Ocheeda plvim trees, whatever 

 the location, and are of the opinion that the proper place to plant 

 an unproductive fruit tree of any kind is on a brush heap. 



My first planting of the Weaver plum failed ; my second and 

 third plantings proved not true to name, and by that time my desire 



