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weed, and that would hide a horse." I said, "That is just 

 what I was looking for." (Laughter and applause). 



A MEMBER. I have an orchard twenty years old, of 

 Baldwins, and I want to graft it over into an earlj^ summer 

 apple. Is it feasible to do it ? 



MR. ERASER. No, sir. If you have got that bug, 

 just try it once and M^atch. and if I were you I wouldn't try 

 it more than once. (Laughter and applause). 



MR. WARREN OF WHIT:\IAN. I should like to ask 

 Mr. Eraser, if you had a chance to buy a parcel of land 

 which had never been plowed because it was hilly, what 

 could you afford to paj^ for it if you wanted to put it into 

 apples ? It will bear apples, no doubt about that. 



MR. ERASER. I don't know what you could afford to 

 pay for it, but I would rather go and take land somewhere 

 that I could control the situation a little better, personally. 

 I don 't know that I can answer that, as to what you could 

 afford. Personally, if I had it and I thought you were a 

 good customer, and your money was sure, I would let you 

 have it. (Laughter). 



MR. CARTER. I would like to ask the speaker if he 

 can give me any formula for feeding young trees for early 

 bearing. 



MR. ERASER. I think, gentlemen, the whole thing is 

 just seeing what the trees will respond to. Now, my formu- 

 la is no good; I haven't any. Try something on a piece, if 

 they respond to acid phosphate and muriate of potash and 

 nitrate of soda, and it is keeping them going, put it on. 

 We have used basic slag, putting on half a ton to the acre, 

 and we left enough trees without it to check by, which we 

 could see the difference in just as though we had marked it 

 out, Avhere the fruit and foliage and everything else was 

 different. But I don't think it would have given the re- 

 turns unless it had had the land built up with several crops 

 of weeds and organic matter and had manure at different 

 times and been underdrained and a lot of other things. 

 There are just six letters in the formula : B-r-a-i-n-s. Brains. 



