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]\Ir. Repp : Yes, sir. 



Prof. Gulley : Have vou got to the thinning part yet — 

 removing the fillers? 



Mr. Repp : No ; we have not got to that yet. Wlien 

 we get there I have it planned to tell my men what to do and 

 then go away. When I come back the trees will be gone. 



Prof, Gulley : Are you pruning those you expect to 

 take out? 



Mr. Repp : Yes ; they are all treated alike and are 

 growing very nicely. 



Mr. Platt : Have you had the experience of your trees 

 blossoming very full, and then failing to set much of a crop? 

 What causes the failure of crop? 



Mr. Repp : I think an excess of nitrogen. You give an 

 excess application of barnyard manure to trees and they will 

 not bear as well as if you used commercial fertilizer. The 

 blossoms seem to blast. 



President Gold: I think that is right. I use very lit- 

 tle commercial fertilizer; we have a good deal of stable ma- 

 nure, and I have had a good deal of trouble with young 

 orchards not bearing ; they grow good wood, but don't yield 

 any sort of a crop of fruit. I have trimmed the trees and 

 done everything I knew of and yet fail to get apples from 

 the young trees. When they get to be 8 or 10 years old they 

 bear some, but run to wood and foliage mostly. 



A Member: What do you use for the San Jose scale? 



Mr. Repp: We use crude oil for the scale and have 

 used it for 10 years. We have only changed once — that was 

 to lime and sulphur, but went back to the oil. 



A Member: I should like to hear from Mr. Repp re- 

 garding his methods of thinning, picking, grading, and pack- 

 ing of his fruit. 



Mr. Repp: The summer apples we pick just the large 

 ones at first; we go over the trees several times, the Maiden 

 Blush as high as six times. Our fruit is shipped to the 

 Philadelphia market, the baskets to be paid for by the con- 

 sumer. If you sell apples in the Philadelphia market the man 



