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Mr. Glassmire: Yes, set to alternate rows of Jonathan and Ben Davis; 
Gano and Grimes, and others — four and four, some of them eight and eight. 
There is usually a very good sprinkling of fruit all over with such an 
arrangement. 
President Goodman: How many acres in the whole orchard? 
Mr. Glassmire: About five hundred, I believe. 
President Goodman: Do you consider the mixing of varieties in four 
and eight rows better than alternations? 
Mr. Glassmire: With some that I have seen I do. 
Mr. Perrine: I do not believe that varieties mixed in four and eight 
rows is sufficient for the best results. In our early blocks of apples, 
we have them so mixed that different varieties are in different rows 
in some parts of the orchard; four varieties, at least four varieties, should 
be mixed in the same block. We get very much better results and almost 
never have a perfect failure in those orchards. 
President Goodman: Mr. Cox have you had experience in mixing 
varieties in Ohio? 
Mr. Cox: Well, my orchards are mostly mixed; still I have solid 
blocks twenty acres or something like that, of Rome Beauty, and they 
bear all right. 
Mr. Perrine: I find this practice in the Central West helps one or- 
chardist in the vicinity of Olney, where apples are usually scarce. He 
has in that orchard a block of Jonathan running the full length of the 
field; then a block of Akin; and then a block of Ben Davis. At the point 
where the three varieties come together, in two different off years, when 
there were almost no Ben Davis in the country, all of the three varieties 
here were just simply loaded. When away from that point and where 
there were only two varieties you could see quite a marked difference; 
further and further away apples were less and less. It was conclusive to me 
that we need more than two varieties together; three is better, and four, I 
believe, is better than three. 
President Goodman: Mr. Fulton, of West Virginia, have you had any ex- 
perience in this mixing of varieties ? 
Mr. Fulton: Yes, in alternate rows, running about 4 to 8 varieties. Our 
trees are still young and have not yet borne enough to show definitely. On 
the supposition that the trees have been fertilized all right, interpollination 
seems to carry a distance anywhere from 4 to 8 rows. 
President Goodman: Mr. Scott, have you had experience or observation 
on this topic? 
Mr. Scott: I may say that our experience has been about the same as that 
in the Middle West. I think Mr. Perrine will bear me out when I say that 
if conditions are favorable, those who have blocks of Ben Davis will find 
them bearing good. But when conditions are a little unfavorable in one way 
or another, the large blocks will fail entirely while those that are planted 
with a view to pollination will bear more or less of a crop. I have observed 
that myself in the Middle West, and have heard others speak of it. 
Mr. Sears: For two years I have been making a careful study of cross- 
pollination, and I expect in case of one of the new plantings that w© are set- 
ting out at the present time, that we are altogether on the wrong track. The 
