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MR. IIITTINGER: I guess you had the same tr()ul)le 

 we had, the pear psylla. 



QUESTION: I have had this black leaf and black ou the 

 pears. 



MR. HITTINGER : That is just what we went through. 



MR. TUTTLE : I would like to ask just how you pick 

 out your limbs that you are going to cut back. 



MR. HITTINGER : It doesn 't make any odds. I would 

 watch and just see where the suckers come up. and then cut 

 out one limb or tAvo limi)s or something of that kind after 

 you see the wood come back. Sometimes the wood looks all 

 right and you see a lot of suckers. In the ease of the dande- 

 lion planting, quite a lot of suckers came out. showing that 

 the wood was hurt, so I commenced to cut out some of the 

 branches and let the young Avood groAv. and had good trees 

 until the pear psylla struck us, that AA'as AA'hat knocked mb 

 out. 



MR. TUTTLE: What three varieties of pear do you 

 think are the best for market? 



]\IR. IIITTINGER : Oh, of course the Bartlett is a very 

 good variety, but, as I said, the trouble is that the California 

 Bartletts come in before ours are ready and they are here 

 after ours are past. Then the Bosc is a good pear to groAV, 

 and Anjou, !)ut I don't knoAV whether people Avill take to it 

 since the Bosc has come in. It don't seem to sell as Avell as 

 it used to. The Worden Seckle seems to be a handsome 

 pear. 



JMR. TUTTLE : IIoAv about early varieties for the sum- 

 mer trade ? 



Mr. HITTINGER: The trouble Avith those early ones is 

 that the California pears are right here to take their places. 



MR. TUTTLE : I mean for the local trade. 



MR. IIITTINGER : There was a pear they called the 

 Gifford, that we made quite a lot of money on until the Bart- 

 lett come in and took its place. 



]\1R. TUTTLE: How about the Seckle? 



