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It depends upon the market. Local conditions vary. 



Q. Does it not make a difference what kind of a peach- 

 tree you have as to the length of its life ? 



There are only a few varieties that I would set out any 

 way. I have six or seven varieties. 



Q. What varieties would you recommend? 



Greensboro, Carmen, Champion, Wardell, Hiley, Elberta,^ 



Q. What is the best location for a peach orchard? 



I would select an eastern slope every time. I get the 

 most peaches from the eastern slope. 



Q. What is the best soil? 



Eotten sandstone. It is what you put on that brings 

 the color. I believe in the use of slag. There is iron in the 

 slag. 



Q. Is there any iron in the soil? 



We plant on any kind of soil. The Elberta does better 

 on general kinds of soil. Massachusetts people have the 

 finest conditions that I know of; you have the markets here 

 and can get half as much again as we can for what you 

 raise. 



Q. Do you use lime-sulfur for summer spraying? 



Yes, we cook it right on the farm. 



Q. Do you use arsenate of lead? 



No. 



The meeting then adjourned till 10 A. M., Thursday. 



Mr. Parker was unable to be present owing to sicknesa- 

 in the family but sent his paper. 



PEACH GROWING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE 

 ELMER B. PARKER, AVilton, N. H. 



Peach growing in New Hampshire has in years past 

 been more of an incident than an industry. In a small way, 

 we find peaches have been grown in Southern New Hamp- 

 shire for thirty-five years, and have recently learned of their- 

 successful cultivation in Tamworth, up in Northern Coos 

 County, where a man purchased a run down farm, and con- 

 trary to the advice of his friends, recently planted a few 

 peach trees. He has proved to the people, by an abundant 

 harvest, that they only lacked faith. 



Near Lake Winnepesaukee, a body of water that freezes 

 over, and from a scientific standpoint the conditions wouldJ 



