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Mr. Nordeen: I can't see any difference. We make some- 

 times three grafts from one root. We never see any difference. 

 I don't think anybody can. 



Mr. Kellogg, (Wisconsin:) When you say the whole root, 

 what do you mean? 



Mr. Nordeen: It is the ?(;/4oZe roo^. 



Mr. Harris: I think the crown graft makes the better piece. 



Mr. Kellogg: Well, now, I know it don't. (Laughter). One 

 year I tried it with the Northwestern Greening; I took the 

 first section and three or four cuts, sufficient to try them. The 

 fourth cuts did not come as well, but in the rest no one could 

 tell the difference. 



Mr. Harris: Did they have as good feeding roots? 



Mr. Kellogg: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Dartt: I once grafted fifty of the ground grafts and fifty 

 second cuts. I grafted them alike and set them, and they grew 

 about the same; I could not see any appreciable difference in 

 favor of the ground graft; the second cut was just as good as 

 the first cut. 



Mr. Nordeen: I think I know where Mr. Harris gets the idea 

 of the first cut being the best one. It is the thickest portion 

 of the root, and if I can put on a good sized scion it may make 

 a larger growth the first season than the second cut would 

 make, but at the end of the second season you could see no 

 difference. 



President Underwood: If you were setting grafts by the thou- 

 sand, two, three hundred thousand, and putting a good deal of 

 money in it too, you would see which was the most practicable. 

 We have set them in large quantities, not fifty, but probably 

 ten, fifteen or twenty thousand of short scions on long roots 

 and long scions on short roots and tested them, and there is no 

 appreciable difference. The short pieces will grow just as good 

 trees as the long roots. A short root is just as good as a long 

 one. 



Mr. Wedge: Could we not take a show of hands as to those 

 who are in favor of the whole root and those in favor of piece 

 root trees? 



Mr. Kellogg: I don't see that that would do any good. Every 

 one would do as he pleased anyway. 



Mr. Wedge: This is only to get the sentiment of those pres- 

 ent who are interested in apple growing. I would like to see a 

 show of hands as to what they prefer for our climate. 



