ge Kellogg saw it; I can prove
anything by him. (Laughter.) Talking about Prof. Hansen's sand cherry
crosses, I have a number of his trees. I have two in particular that are
nice trees. My wife the last three years has selected her plums from
these trees for preserving and canning. I never saw any brown rot on
them. They are nice trees, and I propose to stick by Hansen as long as
he furnishes as good stuff as that. The locality makes a great
difference in this brown rot. Some of the smaller varieties of Prof.
Hansen the brown rot takes. As some one has said, it will take the plums
and the twigs after the plums are gone. It may be that the locality has
something to do with it.

Mr. Cook: A year ago I was talking with some gentlemen in the lobby of
this hotel here and among them was a gentleman from the Iowa society,
and I was trying to urge and tell them about the great value of some of
those hybrid plums. Mr. Reeves said to me: "Mr. Cook, if you were going
out into the woods to live and could only take one variety of plum with
you, what variety would you take?" If he said five or six different
varieties I would have made a different answer but he said only one
variety, and I said it would be the DeSoto, and his answer was, "So
would any other man that has right senses about him."

Mr. Anderson: It was my pleasure some time ago, I think it was in 1896,
to set out a few plum trees, DeSotos, and those trees grew and grew
until they bore plums, and I was very much pleased with them. It was
also my fortune about that time to sell plums that another man had
grown, such varieties as the Ocheeda, the Wolf and the Wyant. They were
such beautiful plums, and I obtained such beautiful prices for them, I
was very much enthused over growing plums. I purchased a number of trees
of that variety, but up to the present time I have never marketed a
bushel of plums from any tree of that kind. The DeSotos bore plums until
they died a natural death, which was last year.

Mr. Goudy: I have one DeSoto in my orchard which is seven years old,
never had a plum on it, never had a blossom on it. What shall I do?
(Laughter.)

Mr. Ludlow: Cut it out.

Spraying Plums for Brown Rot.

PROF. E. C. STAKMAN, MINN. EXP. STATION, UNIVERSITY FARM, ST. PAUL.

The brown rot of plum is without doubt one of the important limiting
factors in plum-growing in Minnesota. In seasons favorable to its
development, losses of from twenty to fifty per cent.