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keeping it cold. Last summer was exceptional, because it 

 was excessively hot during a portion of the season, so that 

 Greenings that ordinarily would have matured about the fif- 

 teenth of September were ready for picking along the last 

 of August. We did not begin to pick in many cases soon 

 enough, and perhaps in other cases we let the sun shine on 

 them a time after they were picked. They should be picked 

 and then put in a cool place, and the earlier you pick after 

 they begin to be straw-colored the longer you can retard the 

 ripening process. That was the trouble with the Greenings 

 this last year. 



President Rogers : We would be glad to hear from 

 some one else in regard to this. But if there are no others, 

 we will take up the next question. 



Question No. 7 : What can be done with the neighbors 

 who do not spray and leave the ground covered with rotting 

 fruit full of worms?" 



Mr. Forbes : I would like to ask, Mr. President, if 

 there is any law which would apply ? Is there a law which 

 would comipel him to clean up his orchard? 



President Rogers : Not that I know of. 



Mr. Forbes : Then there ought to be. 



President Rogers : There oug-ht to be some way of 

 getting at that. 



Question No. 8: "What is the experience of members 

 in using peaches as fillers for apples?" 



I suppose that refers to setting out peach trees between 

 apples. Mr. Piatt, can you say a word on that? 



Mr. Platt: Some years ago, Mr. Chairman, w^e plant- 

 ed an orchard, an apple orchard with peach fillers. That 

 was some eighteen years ago. It did very well, and we got 

 very good crops of peaches for six or eight years. When 

 the peaches were eight years old we took them out, and we 

 have had a very fine apple orchard ever since. The trees 

 are about forty feet apart. It has been a good orchard and 

 we have had good results. Before we had some very good 

 crops of peaches on tbe land. 



