i62 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Lyman : Did you find, in any case, it was a disadvan- 

 tao^e when you came to harvest the fruit? 



Mr. Hale: Yes; I think in some cases we had too much 

 nitrogen, and therefore too much foHage. I am quite confident 

 we did in one orchard — in the Old Mixon orchard there was 

 too much nitrogen used there. 



Mr. Lyman : I should like to say to the audience that I 

 visitied Mr. Hale's ' place when he was picking his Carman 

 and Waddell peaches (which are very early varieties) and 

 he was picking some fine peaches for shipping, but on ac- 

 count of the dry weather they were small, but had a good 

 color. I went through his orchards, and I certainly never 

 saw so much fruit on the trees ; there was no tree but what 

 was ladened to its full capacity, and beyond its capacity, and 

 I was wondering how he got through the succeeding wet 

 weather with this immense crop ; whether he was successful in 

 marketing them, and if he lost much fruit ; if he got it into 

 the cars, and it didn't pan out at other end as he expected, 

 — that is probably the same result we all experienced when 

 shipping large quantities. It is a very difficult matter to 

 handle a big crop in bad weather, and it is hard to get men to 

 pick in the rain, and when you handle fruit in the rain it must 

 be put into the refrigerator cars, or there is not much use 

 in picking it. 



A Member : I would like to ask Mr. Lyman if he has 

 experimented with crimson clover? 



Mr. Lyman : I grew a good crop once ; it was only a small 

 piece, about ten or twelve years ago, and as I stated, I cut a 

 crop of hay. It was in the peach orchard, and the orchard 

 was not in bearing and of course it was not a valuable crop 

 for hay. I sowed quite a large piece the next year, but I 

 didn't have any success with it, and so far as my experience 

 goes, if I was going to sow any kind of clover, I would sow 

 the common red clover. 



A Member : Professor Clinton has alluded to the Soy 

 bean as compared with other cover crops. Does he think 

 there is merit in the Soy bean for us? 



Professor Clinton : I think in some places, on poor soils, 

 the bean will grow where you can't get a stand of clover, or 



