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afraid to use it on peaches? It is pretty acid, but I tried it 

 for the humus. 



PROFESSOR BLAKE. If it contained a good deal of 

 sawdust, it wouldn't give you as much organic matter as 

 though you had straw for bedding. I think that where 

 anything is applied that might make the soil acid, it would 

 be desirable to have lime to correct it. With us, lime is 

 comparatively cheap, so that it may not be quite as much 

 of a problem with us, but I would not be afraid to use 

 manure with some sawdust if the soil was well limed. 



MR. NORRIS. Using about a ton or so of lime to the 

 acre? 



PROFESSOR BLAKE. Yes. 



MR. NORRIS. It costs us about $7.00 here, I think. 



PROFESSOR BLAKE. It doesn't cost us over $5.00; 

 but I believe if a man has a truck crop or some other crop 

 that needs stable manure very much, he can use it with 

 better economy on that crop and that if he supplies plenty 

 of organic matter by means of a cover crop, he can get good 

 results with commercial fertilizer. 



MR. NORRIS. I wanted to use it in the peach orchard. 

 I didn't dare use it on the vegetable crop, because I have had 

 too much trouble. I have got to use it on the peaches, or 

 throw it away. 



PROFESSOR BLAKE. Well, the peaches will certain- 

 ly do well upon a soil that is fairly well supplied with lime. 

 I think a very acid soil is not so favorable. 



THE PRESIDENT. I am going to ask you, if you have 

 any questions that you would like to have answered, to 

 write them out and leave them with the Secretary, and we 

 will have them brought up whenever the opportunity 

 occurs. 



[An adjournment was taken to 2 o'clock. The Presi- 

 dent announced a banquet to be held on Friday evening, 

 January 16th and a meeting of the Directors at 1.00 o'clock] 



