DISCUSSION ON THE FRUIT LIST. 21 



all over the state by any means. He grew chestnut.s there. I 

 have seen a chestnut tree on his place, and it always grew 

 smaller and smaller year by year. (Laughter). I want to add 

 to that that I have known the Tetofsky and have handled it 

 more than twenty years — I sold many a tree more than 

 fifteen years ago — and I have never seen a tree yet in our 

 county that had produced more than a half bushel of fruit in 

 any one year. 



Pres. J. Underwood: I appreciate that this is an interesting 

 subject, but if we go on at this rate we will not get through 

 this fruit list this moraing. If you want to change this fruit 

 list, you must do it by motion. 



Mr. S. D. Richard.son: As a member of that committee, I 

 wish to make a word of explanation. The Tetofsky succeeds 

 in some localities first rate, and I have known trees that bore 

 apples by the bu.shel. It is not hardy enough. In lots of lo- 

 calities it succeeds, for instance, where a man has a well near 

 by and can give it plenty of water; it succeeds then. Our dis- 

 trict is a little different, and I would plant the Wealthy in pre- 

 ference. I think the Wealthy succeeds better with us than the 

 Tetofsky. 



Mr. Dewain Cook: I move the Tetofsky be stricken from the 

 list. 



Prof. W. W. Pendergast: For a good many years I have 

 planted the Tetofsky, and in eight years I have never got one 

 to bear an apple, and I have never got one through the third 

 winter, and never got one an inch and a half in diameter. 



Mr. M. Pearce: I first propagated that as the Russian Crab. 

 I propagated that until I found other varieties that were far 

 superior to that. 



Mr. Philips: We never had a man in Wisconsin in whom we 

 had more confidence than in old Uncle Peffer. He said while 

 the Duchess stands 45 degrees of cold, the Tetofsky could stand 

 50. 



Col. Stevens: I do not know how it is in other parts of the 

 state, but in Minneapolis it is as hardy as the oak. I do not 

 think it is a profitable apple. It certainly presents a magnifi- 

 cent appearance. It grows like a green bay tree. 



Prof Pendergast: I think the question is one of moisture in 

 the soil. I think wherever the soil is moist enough the Tetof- 

 sky is all right, but in a dry soil it is a failure. 



Mr. Elliot: I think there is some confusion in regard to this 

 list. I would like to ask this committee if they have arranged 



