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the only thing to do is to check the abnormal growth m some 

 way. But the abnormal growth is not always the only 

 reason for unfruitfulness. There are other reasons for the 

 trees failing to bear. It is oftentimes due to something de- 

 ficient in the soil, (possibly phosphoric acid.) sometimes caus- 

 ing the tree to fail to bear. It will throw out a largo 

 growth of blossoms, blossom out naturally and yet you will 

 have no fruit. That is almost a sure indication, or the indi- 

 cation points that way, at least, that the soil is deficient in 

 phosphoric acid. Oftentimes, too, we have a soil not drained 

 properly. There you will have a case of unfruitfulness, 

 when summer j^runing would have very little effect upon 

 producing an improved condition. 



MR. EICHARDS. If they grow, say, two or three feefc 

 you would call that a pretty large growth ? ' 



PROFESSOR JARVIS. I should say that is too much 

 growth when you want fruit. After you get your tree to 

 the size where it ought to bear, then I would say that eight 

 or ten inches is plenty of growth for one season. 



MR. RICHARDS. Then j'ou would have some summer 

 pruning? 



PROFESSOR JARVIS. If they should produce more 

 than eight or ten inches I would do some summer pruning. 



PRESIDENT FROST. Our time has now come to close 

 this discussion, and I think that if any of you have not had 

 opportunity for asking questions you will be able to reach 

 Professor Jarvis later in the afternoon, or tomorrow morn- 

 ing. 



Coming to our next addresses, I will say that I never 

 have heard any addresses on the marketing end of fruit at 

 any convention that I have ever attended. Two years ago 

 T had an idea that I could retail my fruit. I tried that and 

 I found that I could not do it. So this year I h-ave decided 

 that I have got to use the commission man, and I have also 

 decided that he is not as bad as most of us are making him 

 out to be. As I stated this morning, about two weeks ago 

 I went into one of our nice suburban stores and I picked up 



