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middle notch and we had the tree exactly where the original 

 stake stood. The objection is that it requires too much time, 

 but if you handle it rightly it does not take very much time, and 

 you get your tree back exactly where the stake was, and if the 

 stake has been put in the right place you will come out 

 all right. We set 530 of the dwarfs and we lost 14 trees. We 

 thought that was doing pretty well. We set 300 Hubbardstons 

 and lost 6 trees, that is 2%. We thought that was doing better. 

 We set 500 Wealthy trees and lost just three out of the bunch, 

 and set 650 Mcintosh and lost the same number; and the rest 

 of the trees practically all made a heavy growth. I think that 

 is a remarkably good record for any year, and considering what 

 a dry year this was, it seems to me it proved that we used prac- 

 tical methods in the setting and care of those trees. 



A word in regard to the way in which the trees were set. Of 

 course when the trees came in the spring we took them out of 

 the boxes and heeled them in. The men started at one corner 

 of the orchard and the first thing was to put in the small stakes 

 to locate the tree. Then a part of them went along and dug 

 the holes, possibly 15 inches across and about that in depth, 

 jihe land was good, friable land and we did not consider it 

 necessary to dig very large holes. The foreman and one of the 

 men meanwhile went to the place where the trees were heeled 

 in and pruned the roots of the number of trees they could take 

 out, cutting them back pretty well. We had two large kerosene 

 barrels mounted on a stand about half full of water, and the 

 trees were put into these barrels and taken out to the field. Of 

 course there was not the slightest chance of any of them drying. 

 The trees were taken out of that half barrel of water and placed, 

 and the different varieties were interplanted. 



Now I am going to say just a word on which I know you 

 Maine growers will not agree with me, in regard to the heading 

 of trees. We bought our stock from Maryland and bought, as 

 far as we could, one-year-old trees. I know there is a preju- 

 dice in some quarters against southern grown stock, but I lived 

 ten years in Nova Scotia where they have gone into orcharding 

 extensively and where they have a rigorous climate, and prac- 

 tically all the stock is grown in New York state or perhaps as 



