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On a good elevation, should not care much which way 

 the land sloped. 



How far apart should peach trees be planted? 



All the way from 11 1-2 feet up to 22 feet ; plant 20x20, 

 then inter-plant. 



What time do the pruning? 



After the severe weather of winter is over. Better 

 prune when you can but if you have but a few to prune, do 

 it as early as you can. 



I suppose you have been in the business 20 years. "Will 

 you thus prognosticate for the next 20 years? 



Twenty-five years ago orange culture in California was 

 not known, now, they will this year ship 30,000 car loads 

 •of oranges. Within the last ten or fifteen years prior to two 

 years ago, there was a steady decrease in prices. The crop 

 two years ago sold for higher prices than it has at any time 

 in twenty years. I believe that with the growth of our popu- 

 lation, the greater appreciation of fine fruit, there will never 

 be at a time when good peaches or good fruit of any kind 

 will not sell here at good prices, because we have no freight 

 tariff to pay. Labor does not cost any more here thq,n in 

 ■other parts of the country, and I do not think that peaches 

 ■will sell for less than they have for the last twenty years. 



What causes the peach trees cracking? 



A rapidly growing tree filled with water freezes, but 

 that tree will live and grow twenty years if kept up in 

 other ways. 



What is your opinion of the conditions that will be 

 brought about by the setting out of orchards in the South 

 ■and AVest? 



That will not make any difference. They cannot grow 

 as good apples as we can here. In regard to spraying, I 

 want to ask you how many times you spray. How many of 

 you spray 5 times, how many 4 times, how many 3 times, 



Mr. Fisk. It seems as if we ought to spray from six to 

 ten times and it puzzles me as to the most practical way to 

 do it. 



My laborers are Italians from the north of Italy. They 

 love growing things for they have worked among them all 

 their lives. It was the first country to spray intelligently. I 

 am not up-to-date. I use a single barrel pump on a truck 

 and a horse can get around everywhere with it. Last year 

 one of my Italian workmen was over in Italy and he brought 



