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MR. SYLVESTER. I would like to ask Mr. Fraser 

 how he feeds those trees to get half a barrel of apples at four 

 years old? 



MR. FRASER. We have given them the year they were 

 planted about three-quarters of a pound of a mixed fertili- 

 zer around the tree, acid phosphate, muriate of potash and 

 nitrate of soda, something like 5-8-8, three-quarters of a 

 pound to one pound to the tree, the first year, and som^i 

 manure in the fall, and then we have grown a crop in be- 

 tween which we have fertilized, potatoes or beans, and we 

 have tried manuring the land every year, six loads to the 

 acre. We have put on half a ton of slag to the acre lately, 

 and just kept them humping generally. (Laughter). If a 

 tree wasn't growing, why, it got looked after. I would use 

 a little nitrate if necessary, to keep them growing in the 

 spring, and all the manure you can get. It is a good, safe 

 proposition. 



MR. H. L. FROST. Would you give us the varieties 

 you think need pollenization ? 



MR. FRASER. I have Ho evidence of any which have 

 a direct need, other than the Rhode Island Greenings, of 

 the varieties we are growing, which are Greening and Bald- 

 win and Spy, although with the Spy I should put a pollenizer 

 if we had one which blossomed at the same time. But it is 

 difficult to find one that blossoms with it, usually. The 

 fillers we have are Wealthy, Yellow Transparent, Twenty- 

 Ounce, Hubbardston, Mcintosh, Maiden Blush, Boiken and 

 Wagener. I don't know that I have any evidence that 

 they need pollenizers, but there are enough varieties planted 

 so that they will get it if they do. 



MR. VOLES. I would like to a,sk, on a sandy soil, very 

 gravelly, sandj' soil, if there is any use to trj' planting apple 

 trees with about a foot of loam over it? It is coarse sand 

 iinderneath about a foot of loam? 



MR. FRASER. Plenty of moisture in it, or not? 



MR. VOLES. Well, I can get plenty. 



MR. FRASER. I think that would be a better question 



