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annually does not bear on the terminal bud. 



THE CHAIRMAN : You do not suggest though, what 

 makes the difference in the terminal bud. 



A MEMBER: That makes the w!hole fruit bud. 



MR. CONANT: There is no question but what some 

 trees inherit a larger tendency toward fruiting than others; 

 now and then you will notice that in a Baldwin tree, but 

 what influences it is pretty hard for any one man to deter- 

 mine. ' 



MR. SEVEY: Regarding fertilization, I should infer 

 that bone is poor for bearing trees; how is it for young 

 trees, for starting a young orchard? 



MR. CONANT : I would like to ask if you mean ground 

 bone? 



MR. SEVEY : Yes, ground bone. 



MR. CONANT : Well, I know of a case in our neighbor- 

 liood where a man wanted to force along some yearling 

 trees and decided to put them out in a trench and force 

 them along by applying nitrogenous fertilizers to them and 

 set them out the Spring following, and he secured some 

 groimd bone, dug his trench nicely and worked the soil into 

 the trench. He worked his ground bone into the soil in 

 splendid shape and set out his "whips " He took them out 

 the following Spring to transplant them, and was horrified 

 to find that his ground bone had not even changed color. 

 Therefore, I would not advise anybody to try to grow any- 

 thing on ground bone, especially the first year. I do not 

 know whether it would be available as plant food after the 

 first season. 



THE CHAIRMAN: I have another story, this is one of 

 Mr. J. H. Hale's many interesting stories. He tells a story 

 of starting a peach orchard and putting ground bone in the 

 bottom of the holes when the trees were set, and 16 years 

 afterwards, when he took the trees out, finding the bone 

 there; so this story is way ahead of Mr. Conant's. (Laugh- 

 ter). 



