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this process. So far as they were, the complete use of the 

 whole ground has proved a profitable one. We are now up 

 tc the thinning process. We were planning to begin cutting 

 this fall, not whole trees, but only one side, or a portion where 

 crowding the parmanent trees, leaving the remainder to produce 

 a crop or two more before the whole should be taken out. But 

 a man, with means, fitting up a place, heard we expected to 

 take out the trees and at once ofifered to buy them to plant 

 again. So we shall take them up next spring and get paid for 

 the labor. I am a little sorry because I wanted to work out 

 the other system and we shall not have any more ready for 

 five or six years to come. But the system to use is to cut 

 away a part and not the whole at one time — perfectly feasible 

 and no reason why it shouldn't be carried out perfectly. We 

 have gone far enough to see that it pays to have the land all 

 covered. In the matter of spraying the trees are in a nice 

 bunch to work with. That very fact of pulling out the trees 

 has given me a new idea; it is just barely possible a man might 

 find it for his own interest to take those trees up and set them 

 out on his own land. A man can arrange to get those trees 

 out very cheap. You can pull them with cattle if you choose. 

 I plant 163^x20 feet, with the idea of making them eventually 

 33x40 feet. 



Question : What would you recommend for fillers ? 



Prof. GuLLEY : I should put the whole orchard in Mcintosh 

 and go to chopping out when ready ; and I should use Mcintosh 

 with Baldwin. Duchess is good; Wealthy is good. 



Question: Wagener? 



Prof. GuLLEY : Yes, Wagener — that will depend how it does 

 on your farm, if it does well — yes. It is a splendid apple. 



Question: How about the trouble with fungi? 



Prof. Gulley: No worse on the Mcintosh than on others. 

 I am not talking to the men who are going to spray. It is 

 coming to that, if you are going to sell apples out of this State. 



Possibly one idea that occurred to me some years since and 

 which I carried through to success, may be of interest to you. 

 Yet I have been laughed at for seriously presenting it to be 

 followed out. It is to grow the orchard, then plant it out. 

 Briefly it is to grow the trees several years longer in the nursery 

 row. Of necessity it must be done on the farm where the 



