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charge remains yet to be proven. The charge has been made but 

 not proven. 



Dr. L. D. Leonard : How about the bhght at the time of 

 bloom ? 



Prof. Green : We sometimes get it very early. Sometimes we 

 get it at the time the flowers appear, and we may get it later. The 

 charge remains to be proven that the bees affect the flowers, and I 

 don't think you need stop keeping bees on that account. If the 

 charge is not proven the bees cannot be condemned. 



Mr. E. R. Pond : Do you know of any evidence against the 

 bees? 



Prof. Green : If you have a tree that has the San Jose scale 

 it might have been carried from one tree to another by birds. Birds 

 may be as likely to carry disease as bees or other insects. Insects 

 may carry disease from one tree to another under certain' conditions 

 just the same as mosquitoes have been known to carry malaria. I 

 think bees are all right. 



Mr. J. S. Trigg: This lady tells us it was not fire blight as 

 we understand it. She says the blight was simplv on the blossom 

 bud. 



Prof. Green : It is what we call spur blight. It comes early 

 in the spring ; it is a form of fire blight. 



Mrs. L.A. Alderman: Is it not the same form as fire blight? 

 Our theory was that the bees had disseminated it by visiting other 

 orchards and had carried this same blight to the blossoms. 



A VERY INTERESTING FAMILY OF TETOFSKY SEED- 

 LINGS. 



E. H. S. DARTT, OWATONNA. 



About fifty years ago I got the Tetofsky apple from Ingraham 

 Gould, a nurseryman of Beaver Dam, Wis., who had it on his list 

 under the name of Russian crab. He got it from a man in Mil- 

 waukee, who had received it from a man in Canada. About five to 

 eight years later it was boomed as Tetofsky. I sold 2,000 scions to 

 J. C. Plumb, of Milton, Wis., for $38. About thirty years ago I 

 planted Tetofsky seed at Owatonna, Minn. One tree of fine growth 

 and appearance I called Dartt's Hybrid. From its habit of growth 

 and the size and color of its fruit I thought it a cross with the Hislop 

 crab. The fruit is rather large for a crab but much too small to be 

 called an apple. It is beautifully colored and of excellent quality 

 for canning and preserving. The original tree is now in fine con- 

 dition. It has never blighted badly, though standing within thirty 



