TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 41 



work in these orchards will be found in the proceedin.g^s of 

 the Society for last year. 



rXirino: the last season the work has been continued in 

 much the same way as in the previous season. One field meet- 

 ing was held at each of these places. At these meetings the 

 second year's treatment of renovated trees was the chief sub- 

 ject under discussion and demonstration. The trees during the 

 growing season had produced an abundance of water sprouts, 

 and the work of selecting and training these sprouts was 

 sometimes a perplexing problem. 



In the Cheshire orchard, which is located on low land, the 

 trees made an enormous growth there, and it was often very 

 hard to see how to take care of the new growth. I think it 

 would have been better to have gone in there and taken out half 

 of those new sprouts, in order to have checked this rapid 

 growth and set the trees in proper balance again. 



In the Cheshire orchard there was some trouble in the 

 nature of bark splitting. The real cause of the trouble has 

 not been accoumted for, but the wounds produced by split- 

 ting healed up very well before the close of the growing sea- 

 son, and no ill effects have been observed. At first the trou- 

 ble was attributed to either feeding or spraying, but when a 

 similar condition was observed on trees that were not treated 

 in this respect we were forced to abandon that belief. 

 Really, that is rather of a peculiar thing, and I would like to 

 know if any of the other orchardists have had any experi- 

 ence along that line. In some cases th'e bark opened up five 

 or six inches, and in other cases it is simply a line down 

 through, just a split in the bark with a slight parting on the 

 two sides. It is rather hard to account for it. and I would 

 like to know at this meeting if the other orchardists have had 

 any experience with it. I haven't noticed it only in that par- 

 ticular orchard. I haven't noticed it particularly otherwise. 

 In this particular orchard it seemed to me it must have some- 

 thing to do with the treatment. Perhaps it was due to se- 

 vere pruning, but that did not seem likely, because some of 



