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doubtedly more severe than here, — it is more severe as you 

 go south, — I would spray it for curl and cultivate it so as to 

 keep it in good vigor. But I would not do very much summer 

 spraying. That is my personal opinion. I think I could save 

 money there. I do not fear the brown rot so very much. I 

 think with thorough spraying in the season in Avhich the crop 

 is produced you can hold it down, unless you have some variety 

 like our old friend Triumph, when it is almost a race to see 

 whether you can get to the station with it before it rots, but I 

 think with ordinary varieties it would not be necessary to 

 summer spray very much in the season when there was no 

 crop. 



A Member. The dormant spray which controls the leaf 

 curl, I presume that is also good to control brown rot on those 

 cankers. Would it hold that in check, to some extent? 



Mr. Blake. Well, not very much, in our experience. It 

 Avas found this past summer that those cankers putting up 

 groAvths kept producing spores, and the winter spraying Avill 

 not preA'ent that. But without a crop in the trees, and in this 

 section, I do not think it AA'ould be serious. 



Mr. Parsons. Does brown rot ever kill the Champion 

 trees? 



Mr. Blake. I do not think so. Champion is going out with 

 us very fast, and we won't haA'e any for it to kill there in a 

 few years. It is so uncertain as a shipper, it rots so easily; 

 and I will always remember the season of 1915, AA'hen I Avent 

 into New York one morning with the market already heavily 

 supplied with yellow peaches and saw 16 carloads from West 

 Virginia, where they had cold weather, and they were all cling- 

 stone. That 16 carloads of Champion broke the camel's back. 

 That is, it Avas a lot of clingstones in there that were rotting, 

 and it hurt the market. 



Mr. Parsons. Have you found anything to take the place 

 of the Elberta peach? 



Mr. Blake. No, and I do not think we Avill for a few years. 

 I think very few of the fruit growers realize that in the Elberta 

 peach you have a commercial variety that has a record that no 

 other commercial variety tree fruit can match. It is either the 

 first or second variety of importance from Connecticut to 



