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Professor Gulley : I do not think so, but it is a tre- 

 mendous bearer when it does bear. It wants thinning and 

 care, but I have not yet been able to see that it is what voti 

 call an annual bearer. 



Mr. Buell: 1 have gqt fifty trees, and I was wondering 

 if they did bear every year. 



Professor Gulley : I believe the Macintosh is going to 

 do it. I should plant Macintosh, but you have got to give 

 it more care than you do the Baldwin. That is an apple that 

 will outsell Baldwin anywhere and any time. The buyers can- 

 not see enough of them, or at least, that is what a buyer told 

 me this fall. Anybody can grow Baldwins, but you have got 

 to give more care to the Macintosh. 



Mr. Hale: Mr. President and friends; this is a most 

 interesting discussion. There has been a wonderful interest 

 in varieties, and in apple planting, and unquestionably, for local 

 markets there are quite a number of varieties that should be 

 planted, and which in a local way will prove profitable and 

 will give the growers better results for their money than the 

 Baldwin, but in a great commercial way your main crop of 

 apples at the present time must be Baldwins. You have got 

 to raise, what one speaker said here a few minutes ago, what 

 the market wants. A great many growers have set out thous- 

 ands of Baldwin trees, but they are also going to plant some 

 of these nice show apples, because some of them see how they 

 stand in the market. They are going to plant them, but I 

 am afraid they are going to be disappointed by-and-by in the 

 cash results. I will admit that it is a great pleasure to sell 

 those nice-appearing, beautiful apples, highly colored, than it 

 is to sell the old Baldwin, but at the same time your bank ac- 

 count must be satisfied, and you have got to pay for pruning 

 and pay for packages, and pay for transportation, and we have 

 got to raise the apple that is going to get us out of it the best. 

 If you have got money enough to grow fruit whether it pays 

 or not it is all right, but if you haven't money enough to put 



