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None in particular at present. 
Dansville, N. Y. W. H. Hartman. 
Montmorency and Morello. 
Dansville, N. Y. Maloney Bros. & Wells Co. 
Birds and worms. 
Dansville, N. Y. Geo. A. Sweet. 
Securing pickers; rot, leaf spot. 
Geneva, N. Y. U. P. Hedrick. 
There are less troubles in growing sour cherry than in 
any other fruits we know of. 
Geneva, N. Y. W. & T. Smith Co. 
Our greatest trouble has been the late frost, or rains at 
time of blossoming. 
Rochester, N. Y. C. M. Hooker & Sons. 
Getting good help to handle the crop is the most serious 
trouble. 
Trumansburg, N. Y. D. R. Pease. 
We have less trouble in cherry culture than with any 
other fruit raised in the Lake Erie Valley. I have to spray 
but once in the spring for immunity from worms. Only 
sweet cherries are likely to have the scale. It amounts 
to this, if I spray in the spring at the time the blossoms fall, 
with a good fungicide and insecticide, and do my work 
thoroughly, I have very clean and luscious fruit, both sweet 
and sours. As to profit, I have neighbors who raise grapes 
skinned alive. Many of them look upon my efforts as a joke, 
but when I attend a horticultural meeting and urge them to 
participate in the joke they do not take me very seriously. 
Westfield, N. Y. John W. Spencer. 
Picking. 
Brown’s Nurseries, Ont. Brown Bros. Co. Ltd. 
Hearts and Bigarreaus are short lived and very seldom 
set fruit. Common Morello is the best—next English 
Morello and Richmond. 
Augusta, Ga. P. J. Berckmans Co. 
Very little trouble with sour sorts. Sweet cherries are 
most susceptible to rot, frost injury, depredation by insects 
and birds. 
Painesville, O. W. B. Cole. 
Least of any fruit. Some years black aphis. 
Monroe, Mich. I. E. Ilgenfritz’ Sons Co. 
Leaf-spot is the disease which does most harm where the 
trees are not sprayed. The cherry slug and plum curculio 
are troublesome, but are easily controlled. 
Eats Lansing, Mich. L. R. Taft. 
Frost at blooming and birds at ripening. 
Bridgman, Mich. C. E. Whitten. 
Birds and leaf blight trouble the growers here the most. 
Very little trouble of any kind with some kinds, if sprayed. 
South Haven, Mich. Frank A. Wilken. 
With thorough spraying, results are satisfactory. 
Vincennes, Ind. W. C. Reed. 
Early Richmond and Montmorency. 
Vincennes, Ind. H. M. Simpson & Sons. 
Shot hole fungus, and sometimes lice or aphis. 
The Coe, Converse & Edwards Co. 
Fort Atkinson, Wis. 
Root killing and fungus diseases. 
Sturgeon Bay, Wis. A. L. Hatch. 
Only serious trouble was with worms in fruit caused by 
the May beetle. Entirely eradicated by breaking sod and 
giving clean cultivation. 
Des Moines, La. Watrous Nursery Co. 
The greatest trouble we have experienced ourselves in 
growing cherries is getting the fruit picked. Labor seems 
to be getting scarcer every year. I think half the cherries 
this year will be lost on account of growers not being able 
to get pickers. 
Des Moines, la. Wragg Nursery Co. 
Wet seasons and poor drainage. 
Parsons, Kans. E. P. Bernardin. 
Sometimes early frost destroys crop, especially in sweet 
varieties. 
Salt Lake City, Utah. Utah Nursery Co. 
Slugs on sweets largely. 
Roy, Utah. Davis Co. Nurseries. 
Gummosis is our great trouble. 
Portland, Ore. J. B. Pilkington. 
We have some difficulty with the cut worms in the start¬ 
ing of our young trees. After the trees are transplanted, 
we have but little trouble with the cherry compared with 
the other fruits. They are subject to scale, and have aphis, 
and some bother with the slugs, but these are more easily 
overcome than some other pests on other trees. 
Sunnyside, Wash. The Sunnyside Nursery Co. 
8. IN YOUR JUDGMENT, WHAT IS THE OUT¬ 
LOOK FOR THE INDUSTRY? 
Concensus: The consensus of opinion is that 
WHERE THE CHERRY SUCCEEDS, THERE IS AN EXCELLENT 
OUTLOOK FOR THE INDUSTRY. ThE CANNING FACTORY IS AN 
IMPORTANT FACTOR IN PLACING THE CULTURE OF THE SOUR 
CHERRY ON A STABLE BASIS. 
Not very good. 
Yalesville, Conn. Barnes Bros. Nursery Co. 
There is a good opening for good cherries, but the expense 
of harvesting is the drawback—to get pickers at all being the 
trouble in most sections. The sour kinds grow readily and 
sell well, but above troubles must be reckoned with. I think 
the monilia can be controlled, but the birds not soe asily 
with present sentiment. 
Storrs, Conn. A. G. Gulley. I 
Good. :i 
Cayuga, N. Y. H. S. Wiley. 
We do not think the industry will increase in this locality. 
Dansville, N. Y. W. H. Hartman. 
Excellent. 
Dansville, N. Y. Maloney Bros. & Wells Co. ! 
Speaking from a nurseryman’s standpoint, we would say 
that the outlook for the cherry industry is bright and profit¬ 
able. 
Dansville, N. Y. Morey & Son. 
Popular taste is for canned cherries and peaches, rather 
than for plums. Outlook good. We should say industry 
is not overdone. 
Dansville, N. Y. Geo. A. Sweet. 
Encouraging. j 
Geneva, N. Y. U. P. Hedrick. >1 
Outlook is good. Canners say that they can handle more I 
fruit than is now in sight. I 
Geneva, N. Y. W. & T Smith Co. ‘ 
In our judgment, the growing of cherries for market is ^ 
bound to be overdone, when all of the extensive plantings j| 
which have been set out within the last five years come into I 
bearing. •• 
Rochester, N. Y. C. M. Hooker & Sons. 
