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MR. HITTINGER : The Seckle is all right, onl}- I don 't 

 think it sells as well as it did years ago. They seem to be 

 very small, some "way or other. 



QUESTION: Can the Bosc be grafted successfully! 



MR. HITTINGER : As I explained before, you can put 

 the scions in and let the suckers grow .until you get the top 

 up in good shape, then break the suckers off as they come, 

 but don't try to cut them off when you put the scions in, be- 

 cause you will kill the whole thing. 



QUESTION: What is the method of keeping pears be- 

 fore marketing them? 



:\IR. HITTINGER : We generally sell them to the 

 fellows that put them in cold storage. But if you have a 

 good cellar and put the pears in, and ventilate it at night 

 and shut it up in the daytime, you can keep them quite a 

 while. 



QUESTION : What about fertilizers ? 



MR. HITTINGER : W^e don 't use any, only stable ma- 

 nure. We have so much of that that we don 't have a chance 

 to use much of anything else. 



MR. BROWNE: Have you wiped out the psylla? If 

 you have, what spray do you think did it? I have it every 

 year and can 't seem to shake it. 



MR. HITTINGER : I haven 't seen any there for the last 

 two or three years ,and all I used was the oil. I sprayed 

 twice, once in the fall and once in the spring, giving two 

 good sprayings. I said I would either kill or cure, and now 

 I only give it one. and I have hardly any of it on the trees. 



THE PRESIDENT: I was going to ask :\Ir. Clarke if he 

 would give us his experience in fighting psylla. 



MR. CLARKE: We haven't been doing much success- 

 fully. We have been using all that the New York station 

 has recommended and a little more, and still we have it with 

 us, and that is why there is no profit in the pear business 

 with us. But we have a little more hope this year then be- 

 fore ; the pears look better and there are more produced. We 

 have used lime-sulfur at the very last moment before thb 



