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he has so much medicme ; if he has 100 cash, then he can have 

 so much more, and if one doesn 't kill you the other will. 

 (Laughter). I would size it up by the gentleman's pocket- 

 book, and if he wants to try them all, try them all. If he 

 must spend the money let him go to friend Wheeler and 

 bring his money and buy a carload and use it all. 



A VOICE. That is a practical question. 



MR. FRASER. It is. 



A VOICE. Some of these college men here in Boston 

 tell us, and have told us in years past, that those people 

 v/ho use commercial fertilizers in growing their apples will 

 grow a great deal better apple than we in our section, whj 

 use barnyard manure. For the last three or four years I 

 find that those apples that grew in stable manure, on land 

 manured continuously for the last twenty years, were keep- 

 ing better, with better shape and color, than those that grew 

 on some other soil. So it is a practical question for me and 

 a question which I am not fully decided on. 



MR. FRASER. I think the question really comes back 

 to the individual involved. The fertilizer problem is a lo- 

 cal one. If you are getting good results from any one thing, 

 J would stick to it. I can't really answer for sure. I know 

 just what I would do in my locality. I know that for my 

 peaches I will put certain things on, for my peaches I will 

 use basic slag; I am satisfied. A man can't sell me acid 

 phosphate for it. On my apple trees, if I have manure J 

 will put some on, and I know I will put on basic slag. I 

 have proven to myself that that is paying me. In a few 

 years I may find that I need to change, and just as soon as 

 I can prove to myself that I can change with profit. I will 

 change. I find that it pays me to lime some pears,becauso 

 I have limed part and have not limed part I am going to 

 lime more. The only way I can see that the question cau 

 i)0 solved is to go to the land with the question I am using 

 fertilizers of all kinds and all the manure I can get ; but T 

 am getting returns, and I do feel that fertilizer with 

 manure Avill frequently give better results than manure 



