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stable manure and the heavy pruning of peach trees gives 

 you trouble by having winter-killing from stimulating new 

 wood? 



MR. MARGESON. You get plenty of new wood, but 

 you cut it out, and I get better results than if I didn't feed 

 them as well as I do. 



MR. BILLINGS. But don 't you have trouble with win- 

 ter-killing from the new wood? 



MR MARGESON. I have very little trouble. In my 

 earlier planting I was very careful, and about the first of 

 September I cut back the new wood, and it seemed to 

 harden up the wood and they stood the winter all right. 



MR. NORJIIS. Is the Ray peach a good variety with 

 you ? 



MR. MARGESON. Yes, very good. 



MR. NORRIS. How does it compare with the Carman? 



MR. MARGESON. I am not growing Carman, but I 

 think it is a better peach. It gets off the tree very quickly 

 if you have much wind, but it seems to keep well and has a 

 very fine flavor. It seems to grow fast and large and heavy, 

 but it presses itself off the stem and we have difficulty in 

 keeping it on the tree. 



MR. BUTTERPIELD. I would like to ask if you have 

 trouble in interplanting peach and apple trees, by increase 

 of borers. 



MR. MARGESON. I haven't found that, but I wouldn't 

 altogether recommend planting peach trees as fillers in 

 an apple orchard. You see, you lose the shape of the apple 

 tree which you desire. The peach tree is the quicker grow- 

 er and takes more of the sun, and the apple tree has to shoot 

 up and make itself a higher tree in order to get its share. 



MR. STAPLES. Have you found any remedy for 

 borers, except the knife and wire? 



MR. MARGESON. I have followed an experiment that 

 I think was helpful. I have taken crude fish oil and applied 

 it to the trunk of the tree with a brush, for probably a dis- 

 tance of about six or eight inches, digging away the soil for 

 about two inches and then going up four or five inches 

 above the ground. 



MR. STAPLES. For both peaches and apples? 



