103 



men, I would set 99 Baldwins." And he sat doA\Ti. Of 

 course, we all had a good laugh. Mr. Barnes wasn't satis- 

 fied and he wanted to know about that other tree, that 100th 

 tree?" And Mr. Piatt said "I have been thinking since I 

 sat down, and I guess that would be a Baldwin." (Laugh- 

 ter and applause). 



Mr. Smith. I don't take too much exception to what 

 Mr. Eace has said, or a great deal of it ; at the same time, to 

 bear out my statement I shall have to show some facts and 

 figures on the case, and I shall have to tell you that I can 

 give you specific information concerning the statement 

 about Tolman Sweets, and yet you must realize that is a 

 special variety with a special demand, and also that your 

 Baldwin is the apple for carload lots, for thousand barrel 

 lots. In this case this man told me of one individual tree 

 which last year picked 12 barrels and his later shipments 

 upon the market were $6.00 a barrel; and this is the same 

 man who had enough results of this sort so that he is en- 

 couraged to plant out two acres of that variety, and still he 

 ds a good Bakhvin and a good Russet grower. That is a 

 specific case and these specific cases ought not mislead us. 

 The Baldwin is the apple and will be as long as apples con- 

 cern any of us in this audience. 



Mr. Race. How about the Baldwin Spot? 



Mr. Smith. I think Professor Maynard will tell more 

 about that. I think it existed at the time I was a student 

 in college, 20 years ago. 



Pres. Some seasons I think it is very mild, and other 

 seasons it is not, in certain localities. 



Mr. Smith. We could get into a long discussion and 

 talk Baldwin Spots for an hour and waste a lot of time. It 

 is not necessarily confined to old trees or immatured trees, 

 because this year we have Baldwins bearing their initial 

 crop and have had just as bad cases, both on the trees and 

 after they came into storage. It is a very annoying and 

 very discouraging thing to think that we had petted them 

 for six years and they developed a good case of Baldwin 

 Spot at the start. It is mighty discouraging. It is a ques- 

 tion arising constantly in the meetings, everybody asking" 

 about the Baldwin Spot, and yet I suspect that if next year 

 is a cold, damp season it will drop out of sight altogether. 



Pres. I would like to hear from Mr. John W. Clark. 

 He says he doesn't have Baldwin Spot. 



