TWENTY-riRST ANNUAL MEETING. 61 



I guess all of us have been using some lime. 1 have 

 been using it for about fifteen years. 



A Member: What do you use, the lime rock? 



President Rogers : I first got common skiked lime 

 from mason builders. When I first began to use it I could 

 get it for practically nothing. Take a team and they would 

 load vou up with a load of lime ; but you cannot do it to-day. 



Question No. 3: "After Baldwin and Spy what is the 

 best red winter apples to plant in Connecticut?" 



A jMember : I have one tree that has got one limb on 

 of Spies. That is all the Spies! have, but if I could get a 

 crop equal to what I had this year I would grow more Spies. 



President Rogers: In Vermont, — I Avas there last 

 year — I saw some of the nicest Spy apples I ever inspected. 

 The people there told me they could grow them fully as 

 good as Baldwins. If they will grow and produce as well 

 as Baldwins, I think I should grow more Spies. It is cer- 

 tainly a fine apple, to use in most any way. 



Question No. 4: "What caused Greenings to ripen 

 and scald so early the past season?" 



Mr. Kelsey, can you answer that question ? 



Mr. Kelsey : I tried to answer that this morning. 



President Rogers : Before we go any further on this 

 program we would like it very much if when a gentleman 

 arises to answer a question, or to ask a question, if he would 

 give us his full name. We have a reporter here w^ho^ is tak- 

 ing the proceedings for our annual report, and we would 

 like to get in each man's name, if possible. These questions 

 and answers are not much good for our report unless we 

 have the gentleman's name to enter in the record. So please 

 give us your name when you arise. 



Mr. Kelsey : The natural time of the ripening of the 

 Greening when left on the tree, or on the ground, as nature 

 would have it, would be in October. The Greening, which 

 matures its size and seed about the first of November, would 

 then be past its commercial value. Those sixty days may be 

 lengthened into six months bv the process of cooling and 



