ii6 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Q. Will it pay to mulch small fruits during the ripen- 

 ing' season? 



A. As a general thing when the fruit is ready to 

 gather the farmer has no time to think of mulching. 



Mr. Sharper I mulched mine in winter last year and 

 the mice gnawed them badly. 



Mr. Callahan: I mulched mine last year with green rye 

 and had an unusually fine crop of berries. 



President Hale: Of course they can be mulched at any 

 time, but as a general proposition the earlier it is done the 

 better. 



Q. Who uses a gang plow in their peach orchard and 

 what size and whose make? 



A. President Hale: I use three or more; my brother 

 uses them; the Connecticut Valley Orchard Company uses 

 them; also Mr. Butler. It is the Field Gang Plow, No, 8, 

 made by the Syracuse Plow Company, price about $22. 



A. Mr. Molumphy: We use the Vineyard Gang Plow. 



Q. Is there any better way of keeping the peach borer 

 out of the peach tree than digging him out with the jack- 

 knife? 



A. President Hale: There has been much written on 

 this subject, but after all they all seem to come back to 

 the fact that the only sure way of getting rid of him is to 

 dig him out. 



Q. How about the apple maggot in the apple, is there 

 any remedy to prevent it? 



A. Mr. VanAlstyne: It is a mighty hard thing to get 

 rid of. We have not found any remedy better than to have 

 sheep in the orchard and let them eat the dropped wormy 

 apples. It troubled the Tallman Sweet so badly with us 

 that I grafted them all over. You cannot spray for it and 

 scientific men have not yet found any remedy for it. 



Mr. Gold: My first knowledge of the apple maggot was 

 some thirty or forty years ago in Rhode Island. A gentle- 

 man showed me a row of trees. He said they were not 

 good for anything. They had gotten something, he didn't 

 know what. They were a kind of sweet apple, of moderate 

 quality, but they were all perforated with these railroad 

 marks of the apple maggot. I had not seen anything of 



