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Prof. Hansen: Mine are grafted plum on sand cherry root. 



Mr. Lord: Mr. Heideman has produced sotue fruit from them in 

 that manner. 



Pres. Underwood: What about plums proper? What can you tell 

 us about plums? 



Mr. Lord: I don't know that I can tell you anything-. 



Pres. L^nderwood: How many plums did you raise? 



Mr. Lord: I had about fifty bushels. 



Prea. Underwood: Which do you consider the best variety? 



Mr. Lord: The Rollingstone is the best pluin in North America. 



Mr. Wyman Elliot: Is it profitable and hardy? 



Mr. Lord: Yes; I speak for it on my own place. 



Mr. C. L. Smith: What is the best plum you would recommend 

 for planting-? 



Mr. Lord: If I were to recommend a plum for general planting all 

 over the state, I should take the Desota. I have hardly ever had a fail- 

 ure with the Desota. It will grow in any ground; it will grow alone, 

 or in groups, or among other trees. If I could grow all the Amer- 

 ican plutns as I have grown one or two trees from the New Ulm sta- 

 tion, I should throw away a good many kinds. I have about fifty 

 varieties. I think it would make the most wonderful show, top- 

 grafted, I have ever seen. The Stoddard did very well with me last 

 year, also the Comfort. 



Mr. C. W. Sampson: How do you prevent the stinging of the plum? 



Mr. Lord: The curculio takes the wild plum. The Cheney are 

 taken, nearly all of them, while if you had no Cheney, it would take 

 nearly all of the others. 



Mr. Sampson: How do you keep them off? 



Mr. Lord: Beat them off by shaking. 



Mr. Smith: How about the Brahma chicken? 



Mr. Lord: I don't like to tell about that. I heard that the chick- 

 ens would keep all the bugs off, so this spring I fixed up my plum 

 orchard for the chickens, put a fence around it and put over thirty 

 chickens in, and the result was that the curculios destroj^ed nearly 

 all the plums within the fence, while they did not injure those on 

 the outside. (Laughter). 



Mr. A. H. Brackett: How about the Surprise? 



Mr. Lor(^: It did not fruit for me. The quality of it, they said at 

 our fair, was excellent. I hardly like to give an opinion from one 

 sample. 



Mr. A. J. Philips: Have you ever fruited the Ocheeda? 



Mr. Lord: Yes, I have. I like it very well. It cotues a little later 

 in the season. 



Mr. S. D. Richardson: Did 3'ou ever try the Miner? 



Mr. Lord: It never succeeded with me. 



Mr. Richardson: I saw someparties who said they had not had 

 any for four or five years. The Miner does well with me on its own 

 roots. 



Mr. Smith: Have you the Desota on its own roots? 



Mr. Lord: Yes, sir. 



Mr. Haggard: Is there a sufficient market to pay for raising? 



