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more on plum roots than I do on peach. I have tried dif¬ 
ferent ways of exteminating the borer. While it does not 
kill the tree, it injures it, and it takes more fertilizer to keep 
up the tree than it would if the tree were free from this insect. 
The remedy for root knot is to mulch the ground thoroughly 
and then leave it alone. I have applied potash to my peach 
trees. I could not tell where I applied it and I have never 
been able to tell where I put potash. I have used blood and 
bone or cotton seed meal and bone. I can buy this cheaper 
than I can any other kind of fertilizer. This year instead of 
cotton seed meal and bone I bought blood and bone as it 
furnishes the same material, and because I could buy a 
pound of nitrogen and a pound of phosphoric acid a little 
cheaper that way than I could in the form of cotton seed meal 
and bone. That is the way I buy fertilizers, and I always- 
look at the price and the analysis when I am buying. 
About Pears. 
The Committee on Apples and Pears submitting no report, 
the subject of Pears was discussed as follows: 
G. W. Mellish —Pears are doing veiy well around De Fu- 
niak. Our greatest enemy is the blight; that is about the 
only serious enemy we have. Pears are certainly a profitable 
fruit, and are very easy to raise. The bitter blight is a well 
known disease and I have no new remedy to offer. The only 
remedy I know of is to cut off all the blighted limbs just as 
soon as they appear, and the more thoroughly and quickly 
they are cut off the better. I have seen a good many orchards 
that have been neglected and they keep getting worse and 
worse. Orchards have been preserved in the midst of other 
orchards that were badly diseased, simply by cutting off the 
limbs. 
S. S. Harvey —I believe in the success of pear culture in* 
the State of Florida. I believe further, that at the present 
time it is the best paying crop as a permanent investment that 
pan be raised in this state. In my own neighborhood there 
has been no blight. We have never had any in m}^ county 
that I know of. I have a neighbor that has an orchard nearly 
£S large as mine, who came from California with the idea that 
