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trees grow and you will be surprised to see how you will do it. 

 I know what I have done there for three years. The orchard 

 didn't bear very much when I began with that work. 



When I was setting out trees in my orchard — places where 

 they had died out, some killed by grafting, some vacancies — one 

 of my neighbors said to me: "Why are you setting out trees 

 there, you won't be here when they bear apples." "Well," says 

 I, "I just enjoy religion in setting out those trees, for my doc- 

 trine is if a man plants apple trees for the benefit of those not 

 yet born he is making the world better by living in it, and when 

 we do that we can't help having a very good time, and the man 

 that does that and lives that kind of a way he don't grow old any 

 as the years go along." 



You don't know anything about how I enjoy religion over in 

 that orchard. I go over there on Whit Sunday and sit down 

 upon a rock, and there is the buzz of the honey bees and the odor 

 of the apple blossoms in the trees, just as white as tney can be, 

 trees that I planted with my own hand, and I enjoy religion as 

 well as I could if I was down to my church along with Brother 

 Gilbert all the time. 



Now you can get good trees in a pasture, bear apples every 

 year, the cattle running in among them keeps all the grass down. 

 You can't set out a young orchard in a pasture for the cattle 

 would break the trees down. There is lots and lots of good 

 orchard land in Maine. In the Western states there is good hog 

 land that will raise good corn, worth $100 an acre without a sign 

 of a building or a rod of fence on it. We can make our orchard 

 land in this country worth as much to raise winter apples on as 

 the prairie land is to raise hogs. We can do it if we are a mind 

 to, and I believe the time will come and right away. If you 

 cultivate your orchards you are going to get good apples. We 

 can begin and plant new orchards, improve the land and you 

 will find that the railroads will be blocked with anples the same 

 as the Western railroads are blocked with wheat — there will be 

 a demand for them — I can see in the future. Now here we are 

 right next to tide water ; it don't cost but a little to carry a barrel 

 of my apples to Liverpool, ocean carriage is cheap. The apple 

 is the only thing that we export. There is no export demand 

 for anything that the Maine farmer raises except apples. Our 

 apples are better than the apples raised in any other of the 



