TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. i8i 



them a heavy winter pruning- now there would not be any- 

 thing left. I would not want to sav in answer to that ques- 

 tion until I saw the condition of the trees. 



Something was said here a few moments ago about basic 

 slag, and its use. I want to know if there is anyone here 

 present who has made any orchard tests, and who knows 

 whether the phosphate of lime that is in basic slag is of 

 any particular benefit. Has there been any test to prove 

 that? Anybody here who has had any experience along that 

 line? I would not want to recommend it to the other fellow 

 to use yet, because I do not know, and I am anxious to find 

 out, what the experience of others has been. 



President Rogers: ^Ir. Henry, can you answer that? 



Mr. Henry: No, Air. Chairman. There has been no 

 experiment that I know of. We are going to try that. We 

 are going to put lime on five acres, and slag on another 

 five, and see how" it works cut. There has been no experi- 

 ment along the line that Air. Hale indicates that I know of. 



Mr. Drew : Air. President, I do not know of any care- 

 fully conducted experiment on that line, and I do not believe 

 there has been any undertaken. I think it would be most in- 

 teresting if some experiment of that kind was undertaken. I 

 do not know if any of the Experiment Station people are 

 here or not, but if they are, perhaps they can give us a 

 pointer on that. I think it is a thing which should be under- 

 taken b}- the Experiment Station. I think, as a usual thing, 

 that most of the large fruit growers in New England, New 

 Jersey and Pennsylvania are using basic slag, and are using 

 it in large quantities. They are using it because they think 

 it is good, but so far as actual experiments are concerned, I 

 do not know of anybody who has tried that out for any length 

 of time and kept careful data to find out just what the actual 

 results Avere. I should be glad to hear of anybody that had. 



AIr. J. H. Hale: I know there are a good man\- using 

 it, but most of them have never used any lime on their land, 

 and they are getting some splendid results, but I have been 

 wondering whether their results came from that forty per 



