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year, or in 1899, I found that my orchards were becoming 

 deficient in nitrogen. This was evident from the appearance 

 of the trees, and last spring I put on an application of five 

 pounds of the best bone, and a pound and a half of muriate 

 of potash. This gave me, according to the distance that my 

 trees are set, 850 pounds of bone and about 250 pounds of 

 muriate of potash to the acre. This past season I have seen 

 the result of it in a fair crop of fruit, the foliage remained on the 

 trees until the frost removed it, and the trees have gone into the 

 winter, I think, in better condition than ever before. As to 

 stable manure, I have studiously avoided it, perhaps owing to 

 Brother Hale's advice, as much as anything, but I am inclined 

 to think I should have too much wood-growth. I have all the 

 wood -growth, certainly, that my trees ought to have, and I 

 ought to avoid, I think, the probability of getting more." 



A few questions remaining on the list were then taken up : 



Question: ''Who, in Connecticut, has made a success of 

 growing winter pears?" 



Mr. Platt: "Dr. Russell, from Hartford, has exhibited 

 two or three plates which have been very good pears, but I do 

 not know of any of our younger fruit-growers who are making a 

 success of growing winter pears. This gentleman is one of the 

 old school, and has been at it for years and years, and has been 

 fairly successful. He was exhibiting, probably, when most of us 

 were boys." 



Question: "Is Hazeltine's moth trap destined to supersede 

 spraying for insect pests?" 



Mr. Hale: "No." 



Question: "How many orchardists profit by the increasing 

 reputation of eastern -grown apples?" 



President Merriman: "It is a well-known fact that 

 our apples are better liked and bring higher prices than other 

 eastern fruit because of their better flavor. I think that question 

 has been well covered heretofore. 



"Now I wish to thank the members of this Society for the 

 courtesies they have extended to me for the past year, and for 

 the good will and feeling that has pervailed in our Society. We 

 come together at these meetings without trying to outdo each 

 other, or to have any strife between ourselves, but we ought to 



