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possible to find codling moth holes or worm holes in the apples. 

 As you looked through the trees the apples were practically 

 free. The next year my quota of hogs was less. They didn't 

 keep the ground clean. Last year I sold my hogs or pigs down 

 still less, and there were more apples dropped on the ground. 

 After picking the apples I put some boys into the orchards and 

 set them to picking the fallen apples, the windfalls, and they 

 picked up a lot of them and it got to the point where I said, 1 

 have got all the apples that my stock can take care of and it is 

 costing me six cents a bushel to pick up the apples and I guess 

 I will let the rest go. And that is where I failed. In that sec- 

 tion of the orchard where the apples were left on the ground 

 — and those windfalls were mostly windfalls from the action of 

 the codling moth — I have picked from some of those trees this 

 year nice large crops of apples, and about one in ten has been an 

 apple clear of a codling moth. Nine out of ten, and in some 

 cases ninety-nine out of a hundred were infested. Saving my 

 six cents a bushel on picking up those apples cost me more than 

 a dollar a bushel. I am not going to be guilty of that again. 



Another conclusion is, as you may perhaps gather from what 

 I have said, I am going to keep hogs enough in that section of 

 my orchard that I cannot plow or harrow so they are going to 

 keep the ground rooted over. I cannot afford to grow grass, 

 but I can afford to pick fine, clean, large apples that are free 

 from the codling moth, and sell them at the top notch. 



If I had my life to live over again, I would dip into the grow- 

 ing of apples to the full limit ; unless I had a family to, as the 

 Irishman, said, contend with — I would if I were alone by myself, 

 I w^ould live on crackers and milk — I can do it and did for a year 

 and a half once to cure the dyspepsia, and I could do it again — 1 

 would live on crackers and milk and I would have a farm, and I 

 would have another farm, just as fast as I could add one to the 

 other, and set them out to apple trees, and keep them growing as 

 they should grow, and if in twenty years or twenty-five years I 

 wouldn't equal the Apple King of Maine it would be because 

 Bro. Whittier had done more than he has already done. And 

 this is a possibility with all young men. Why the young men of 

 this State leave the State and go to the cities or other states 

 and undertake to eke out a miserable existence — and it is more 

 miserable than you think for sometimes according to their glow- 



