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tion business Brother Gulley brings up makes a great deal of 

 difference in tlie frost. Eight degrees below zero was what 

 the thermometer said at Seymour, but it was thirty degrees at 

 the railroad station. So you can see the difference in tempera- 

 ture between the elevations is great. 



Mr. Barne.s: That has proved true this winter. You take 

 a still cold such as we have had this winter, and the cold 

 seems to go down, but when there is extreme cold with high 

 winds it goes on to the higher land. 



George F. Platt, Milford: We have an orchard near the 

 Housatonic river. I looked yesterday, and did not find more 

 than 5 per cent, of live buds, and many of them were unde- 

 veloped. 



Mr. Welton, Plymouth : Perhaps I have had little experi- 

 ence in the matter of location of a small orchard which might 

 be interesting to you. In one orchard surrounded by sprout 

 land at an elevation of about 1,000 feet, I have noticed the buds 

 are killed. In some varieties there are a very few live buds. 

 In another orchard at an elevation of about 500 feet, on sloping 

 ground, where there is nothing to prevent the frost from blow- 

 ing off, they are alive. 



Mr. Buell, Eastford : Around my house, where eleven 

 degrees was the coldest we had this winter, my peach trees 

 are all right, but in another orchard which is surrounded with 

 hemlock trees, I am unable to find a live bud except on one tree, 

 and this orchard is not more than forty feet lower than the 

 house. I have another orchard down toward the lake, and last 

 year and two years ago the buds were comparatively all right. 

 The wood was all right, and that orchard is lower than the one 

 where the buds were all killed surrounded by trees. 



A jMember: Mr. Chairman, we are now getting back to the 

 point that the mere fact of elevation has but little to do with 

 it. It depends a great deal upon being up where the wind has 

 a full sweep. If you can get up 100 feet where the wind can 

 go through, you are safe. 



: Dry air doesn't freeze as a damp air will ; the mere 



fact of elevation has but little to do with it. It is the breeze 

 and the dry air. ]Mr. Hale has got a might}' windy place, but 

 that dry, cold air doesn't freeze as the damp, still air does. 



