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Committee on Crop Reports appointed, A. R. Jenks, I. 

 1. Margeson, Richard Hittinger. 



THE CHAIRMAN : Number 24 has been called for, 

 -\\ hether it is advisable to plant more pears. Mr. Margeson, 

 would you mind saying a word on that? 



j\IR. AEARGESON: Mr. Chairman. I think we'd better 

 learn how to grow pears successfully before we plant any 

 more. I think a good many of the pear growers are having 

 a good deal of trouble. I myself am the grower of a youiig 

 orchard, and what I would like to do is to cut the pears all 

 out, get rid of them. I don't know that they are so very 

 profitable unless we grow certain varieties, and it seems to 

 me that you get a nice crop of pears pretty well through and 

 ^ ou are very apt to lose the foliage of your trees and won 't 

 ^ct a matured pear. I think we have got to take into con- 

 sideration the pear psylla and thrip and be able to take 

 better care of them before we plant more pears. There 

 may be a field for pears that we have not got at the present 

 lime, on account of so many of the old orchards going out of 

 business. 



THE CHAIRMAN: You remember yesterday Dr. Par- 

 rott said that a great many growers were planting them in 

 New York on account of so many of the old trees going out? 



A ]\IEMBER : I raise the Beurre Bosc and the Seckle ; I 

 get $3.50 a bushel for the Beurre Bosc; isn't that enough? 



MR. SANDERS : There is one means for improving the 

 crop estimate in regard to apples; I am making a sort of 

 survey of the apples over the state and I have this week sent 

 out the inquiry, asking for the names and addresses of 

 growers by town, from one to four persons in each 

 toAvn. Now there are a nuiliber of the men in this audience 

 to whom I sent them and a number of you have told me that 

 you sent them back. First of all, I want to thank you for 

 your co-operation, and in the second place I want to ask 

 any of the others of you who have received the lists asking 

 for the names and addresses of all growers in your town, to 

 fill them out. It is information that will be extremely help- 



