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used with a feather and applied very judiciously. We don't like to 

 have it run around the trees, but I want it to penetrate as far as the 

 threads go. 



Qnes. What is your method of engrafting? 



Anfi. Theie are two or linee methods of engrafting. I cut my 

 scions before cold weather, then I put them in the icehouse where 

 the sap will be perfictly dormant, then as early as the sap flows in 

 the spring I engraft. I have two methods. If you understand 

 budding 1 can explain about one of them. (Here he explained and 

 illustrated grafting in relation to budding.) This method I got 

 from some plants that were imported from France and I thought if 

 it was good for a Frenchman, it was good for an American. The 

 great thing in plum grafting is having the buds perfectly dormant. 

 All of your seed fruits graft more easily than stoiie fruits. 



Qnes. Do you have green lice on your trees? 



Ans. Oh j-es. We treat them to a good spraying of whale oil 

 soap and tobacco. It is the best thing I know of. 



Qaes. Doesn't the whale oil soap injure the foliage? 



Aiis. Not at all. I can't tell the quantity used because I leave 

 that to the farmers. The tobacco water is better than the whale 

 oil soap, but the whale oil soap in a good strong suds will make 

 the tobacco adhere. 



Qaes. Is your method of applying bone meal and ashes entirely 

 on the surface? 



Ans. Entirely on the surface. 



Qaes. What proportion of bone and ashes do you use? 



Ans We take them and put them on by the handful. We don't 

 mix them. It makes a little difference as to the fineness of the 

 bone meal. If it is pretty fine put on four handfuls. We use very 

 largely of wood ashes and potash. 



1 referred to a bug machine very frequently in the paper which I 

 read this morning. The machine is used especially for catching 

 and destroying the curculio which makes, such havoc with all our 

 stone fruits. The curculio is the worst thing that the plum grower 

 has to contend with. We used to use sheets stretched on bars but 

 we found after a time that it took a man and a boy to run these 

 sheets. A man would carry one end, the boy the other, they would 

 surround the tree and the man would jar the tiee with a sort of a 

 crutch arrangement and the concussion caused the curculio to drop 

 off and then they picked them up and crushed them between the 



