sixrr.iixrjj .iNNU.if. mriiiing. <i5 



Id the time when inure of onr growers will spray and spray 

 right. 



A ]\1 ember: llow about raising the Siberian crab apple? 



Mr. Miller: J know' nothing about it, only that we have 

 one crab apple well adapted to our soil; we get an abundant 

 crop of fruit one year and practically nothing the next year. 



A Memi'.er : IX) you plow and cultivate your largest apple 

 orchard ? 



-Mr. Miller: Yes. we plow and cultivate and fertilize 

 ihc largest trees we have. 



A Member: Don't they grow pretty near together to do 

 that? 



^\r. Miller: Our distance apart is 40 feet between the 

 rows and 35 feet in the rows. We plant our trees as we wish 

 to ha\e them for all time. 



A ]\Iember: How can you cultivate when your limbs 

 grow so near the ground? 



Mr. Miller: Never under the trees; only to the extrem- 

 ities of the limbs; under the trees is grass. 



Mr. Cox: You mulch, then? 



Mr. Miller : No, because the grass is taken off. 



A Member: I don't understand how you can plow and 

 culti\ate \\hen A'our trees are full grown; there is no space is 

 there between the limbs. They touch each other, don't they? 



Mr. ^Iiller : Tliey will very probably in time; that time 

 liasn't come yet. Thirty-five and 40 feet are further distances 

 than a good many orchardists put their trees. Too close inter- 

 planting of trees is one of the mistakes. Some do it with 

 the idea of cutting out every other tree, but so far as I have 

 observed they have 1)een left until there are two poor trees 

 instead of one good tree. 



A Member: Did you ever try mulching, comparing it 

 with cultiw'ition? 



.Mu. Miller: We find that a rotation of crops and tillage 

 of an orchard is very profitable. 



.\ Memi'.er: Did you ever try the nnilcih system? 



Mr. Miller: No. sir, T never have. 



A .Member: Did T understand yow to say while talking 

 witli a man in tlie rear of this hall, that 65 per cent, of your 

 fruit is perfect? 



