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scalded. I would like to know whether to have a tree doc« 

 tor, or shall we cut them down and re-set them? 



MR. FRASER. Where is Whetzel. (Laughter). Why, 

 Professor Whetzel has done a great deal of work in regard 

 to fire blight and canker, which are somewhat similar to the 

 sun-scald, and he has cut out the injured bark and tarred 

 over the cut surface and practically renovated several or- 

 chards in Western New York. He has done a lot of work 

 in that way, cutting out to the sound, healthy wood, giving 

 good cultivation and spraying, and brought the trees back. 

 There were some excellent Kings near Ithaca which were 

 nearly dead and he has brought them back. 



MR. H. L. FROST. This is from the question box: 

 Would you put peaches in among apples on a south- south- 

 west, rather sharp slope? 



MR. FRASER. That is a local question. Now, I have 

 no use for them among apples, personally, but that doesn't 

 answer the question for New England. Pe'rhaps someone 

 here will answer that better than I can. I have no use for 

 them because the peach trees shade the young apple trees, 

 and the latter do not get the right spread. It makes them 

 contracted, and if you have Baldwin trees you want them 

 to spread all they will. The Baldwin grows up close 

 enough, so I have no use for peaches. Greenings will grow 

 out, but on the whole I do not like them together. Per- 

 haps some other gentleman will answer that in more detail. 



MR. WILFRID WHEELER. What do you do with 

 your one-year-old tree when you set it out ? Do you cut it 

 at all? 



]\IR. FRASER. (Indicating on young tree on plat- 

 form). What will I do with this? Take the top off at 

 about 33 inches from the bud and rub off every bud below 

 18 inches and let the rest start, i. e., those between 18 inches 

 and 33 inches, and the next year form the head, if it has 

 started enough limbs. If not, you will have to take a little 

 more time to get it going. That is the proposition with the 

 one-year-old. 



