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If you have a dirt road, get the county's road plow, a road 

 scoop, and level up with split road drag. In the spring or early 

 summer is the best time. 



Peaches. 



Although we only advertise our apples, we have 3.000 peach 

 trees, all bearing, and from these we shipped 20 carloads this season, 

 nearly all Elbertas and Billyeus — I shall, however, leave the peach 

 story to Air. Newcomer to tell the Association about the noted 

 peaches of A\'ashington county. Aid. 



W. W. Boyer. Should Billyeu be planted on low ground? 



Mr. Cohill. I should not advise Billyeus being planted on low 

 land. Our elevation is i.ioo feet. 



Mr. Anderson. Do you use peaches as fillers ? 



Mr. Cohill. We have but would never do it again. 



There is one thing we have had experience with in peach busi- 

 ness, namely, using peaches as fillers in an apple orchard, and I 

 certainlv would not advise anvone to do it. 



Mr. Keller. Why? 



Mr. Cohill. Because, in the first place, the trouble this year 

 has been with the curculio, with us. I would never do it again for 

 a number of reasons of which I think curculio is the most im- 

 portant. Drive it oft your peaches and it goes on the apples. We 

 lost 90 per cent, of our apple crop mixed in with the peaches. They 

 require dift'erent cultivation and dift'erent spraying. 



Disadvantages. 



Greatest disadvantage is curculio which over-balanced any 

 other advantage. The profit of our peach crop was reduced by the 

 loss from stung apples caused by curculio. Spray peach and he 

 goes to apple. Early apples are better than peaches. 



R. M. Eldon. Do your peach trees overgrow the apple trees? 



Mr. Cohill. Our peach trees are now mixed with apple trees, 

 apples 5 40 feet apart with peach fillers and at 7 years old they are 

 coming together. 



C. A. Griest. What fertilizer does it recjuire to grow peaches ? 



Mr. Cohill. I do not remember and I did not put it down in 

 my notes as I did not expect to talk about peaches. Will leave 

 that to Mr. Newcomer. 



After there has been so much work and care to grow the fruit 

 to perfection, the important features in harvesting the crop in- 

 clude picking, grading, packing and erecting and maintaining a 

 star.dard all combined to yield the largest net profits to the grower. 



Picking. 



It has come to be regarded among good orchardists, as im- 

 portant not to bruise an apple as it is not to break an egg. Careful 

 handling of the fruit is the first essential to good prices. Good 

 packing can be brought about by careful picking. The fruit must 



