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President Rogers : I certainly could, but we cannot grow 

 them on my farm to good advantage. 



A Member: Where can they grow them to advantage? 



President Rogers : In Vermont. 



A Member: Mr. President, I would like to ask how 

 about the Sutton Beauty? 



President Rogers : I don't know. Professor Gulley can 

 tell about that. 



Professor Gulley: That is a good apple. We had out 

 at the College about twenty or thirty barrels, and we had a 

 buyer over there that had come into the state buying apples. I 

 happened to have a lot of those that we did not want, and so 

 I said to him, "Come over here and see these, and perhaps 

 you will like them." He did not want any Baldwins or Green- 

 ings. We had quite a lot of them. I showed him those ap- 

 ples, and when he opened the first barrel he said, "I will take 

 the whole of them." The Sutton is a very good apple, but it 

 has got to be handled properly. The trees have got to be 

 thinned and trimmed and kept in good condition, but once the 

 Sutton gets to growing you are going' to have a mighty fine 

 apple. One thing that I am after is to stop this crowding 

 of the Baldwin to the exclusion of everything else. We have 

 got a lot of localities in this state that can handle some other 

 varieties. I am in favor of raising some other varieties. I 

 am not running down the Baldwin, because I am a friend of 

 some other varieties. Mr. Staples spoke about the Spy. In 

 New York it ranks with the others, but it is so long in coming 

 into bearing that it is quite an objection to it. I do not think 

 we want to plant the Spy in Connecticut. It does not do here 

 as it does west of the Hudson River. While occasionally a 

 man will do well with it, it does not do much, as a rule, in Con- 

 necticut. W'here you find one that makes a success with it, 

 there will be a dozen that will fail. Up in Maine and out 

 in ^Michigan, though, the Spy is one of the leading apples. 



Mr. Buell: I would like to ask if the Sutton does not 

 "bear every year. 



