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reason those who have attempted to grow them have found 

 that the trees would not grow. 



A Member: I think that has been the experience 

 pretty generally, Mr. Chairman. I know the matter has 

 been put up to our Station men, — they have been appealed 

 to to correct the evil, or to tell us what the reason was 

 why we could not grow cherries, and they have pretty gen- 

 erally given us to understand that we have got to go with- 

 out cherries for the present. 



President Gold : Do you agree with that, Mr. 

 Barnes? 



Mr. Barnes: I think it can be done, Mr. Chairman, 

 but I am willing to admit that we are not doing it at the 

 present time. 



President Gold: No doubt it will give a man a lot 

 of pleasure to raise some fine cherries, if the trees will live 

 long enough after he sets them out to find out what causes 

 them to die. I presume sometime we shall know. 



Mr. Platt : Mr. Chairman, I would just say a word 

 on that question. We have some cherry trees that are 

 doing very well. We had a lot of trees that were 

 put in about twenty-five years ago, different varie- 

 ties, sweet and sour, and in the last five years they have 

 done first rate, bearing, some of them, one or two bushels 

 apiece, and they are getting better every year. Nothing 

 the matter with them at all. We spray them. We find 

 that by spraying the cherries with lime and sulphur, or 

 with the oil that they will do first rate. 



Mr. J. H. Hale: It is unquestionable, Mr. Chairman, 

 that sweet cherries have practically gone out, or are nearly 

 all going out of New England and in eastern New York 

 at the present time. Those with whom I have discussed 

 the matter in New York state and elsewhere, who have 

 given it careful attention, seem to think that the present 



