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ever to someone else as to whether to vary the distance 

 apart with different varieties, 



A ME^IBER : I should say with regard to a Wagener 

 tree, that the fruit spur formation would be very much 

 closer than on the other two varieties mentioned. 



THE CHAIRMAN : Perhaps, if there is no further dis- 

 cussion on thinning, we'd better take up this other question, 

 the growing of nursery stock, and in introducing this ques- 

 tion I want to give a little personal experience that I think 

 will put it fair]}^ before us. Quite a number of you are 

 already familiar with what I have to tell, but I think it is 

 interesting as showing the situation on this question of 

 nursery stock. Several years ago, wlien Prof. Waugh and 

 T started our orchard, with which a number of you are 

 familiar, we set out, among our first year's planting, 650 

 Mcintosh, the next year 200 Gravenstein and 300 Sutton 

 Beauty. The next year our ^Iclntosh began to come into 

 bearing, and when I came back from my vacation the fore- 

 man called me and said he wanted me to see them, said they 

 were peculiar looking. I went down and found they were 

 Wolf River. The next year, in our plantings we had set 

 1,000 Mcintosh and out of that lot, about 75 had this prac- 

 tise of bearing Wolf River. When our Sutton Beauty came 

 into bearing, we found they were Scotts Winter, a choice 

 desert variety, about like the Ben Davis. The Gravenstein 

 have not yet come into bearing, but we have compared the 

 trees carefully with other known Gravenstein trees and we 

 see they are not Gravenstein. This gives us 200 trees that 

 are not true to name. We took the matter up with the nur- 

 seryman from whom we bought the trees, and he was very 

 sorry for it and so were we. He Avas rmming for the Legis- 

 lature at that time and his excuse for not coming to see 

 them at that time w:as that he could not get away, but would 

 come later. That seemed to us a good, legitimate excuse 

 and we waited until after election. 



After election he wrote us that he had been declared 

 not elected and was asking for a re-count and until the re- 



