rl58 THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The Society reassembled for the closing session of its 

 -Annual Meeting at 1.30 p. m.. President Putnam in the chair. 



By request, a number of questions from the Question 

 List were called up for discussion, as follows : 



Question SZ : Will it prove a commercial success to spray 

 thirty and forty-} ear-old apple trees for the San Jose scale? 



Mr, Dennis Fenn : I think it will. The best way to 

 do is to go into the tops of the trees and cut out the limbs, 

 but I would not advise cutting the whole top in any one sea- 

 son. I began that two years ago; I did not have sufficient 

 help to do it last year, but I hope to do some more this year. 

 The reason I would cut the tops out is because the Scale 

 troubles more there, where you can't spray them thoroughly. 

 My old orchard is in a vigorous condition and I do think it 

 will pay to keep that orchard sprayed. I know I got quite a 

 little money out of it last year, and, as long as I can do that. 

 I i)ropose to keep at work on my old orchard. 



Question 45 : Can the maturing and coloring of apples 

 in cultivated and heavily manured orchards be hastened by 

 the addition of fertilizers? 



Mr. J. H. Hale: I don't know, but my judgment would 

 he that keeping off the highly nitrogenous fertilizers and 

 applying potash will help to increase the color : the use of 

 nitrogenous manure will increase the foliage. 



Question 9: If a cover crop should always be used for 

 fall and winter protection in cultivated orchards, what is best? 



Mr. Fenn : What is the matter with mulching, instead 

 of sowing a cover crop? 



Mr. Hale: T say use clover. 



Secretary Miles : What about vetch ? 



Mr. Hale: The seed costs too much. 



President Putnam : Vetch don't make a heavy enough 

 cover. I have used barley and crimson clover, where the 

 temperature runs very low ; it comes through and makes a 



