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tion. I noticed the hogs did go and lay under the trees. I found 

 one or two places where they had rooted, although I had rings in 

 their noses, but I thought it would be a benefit to the ground where 

 they stirred it a little. 



Mr. Kellogg — A neighbor of mine a mile from me injured an 

 orchard by turning in a large quantity of hogs. The season was 

 wet and the foliage not very abundant, and those hogs tramped that 

 ground sufficiently to injure the orchard. 



Mr. Peffer — I have a neighbor that has a small orchard of twenty 

 trees, and one who had fifty trees in his orchard, and the corn was 

 not very good and the hogs wanted something to eat, and they 

 gnawed the bark off the trees; and when there was not enough of 

 that, they gnawed the bark off the roots; the consequence is, there 

 is not a live tree there. 



Mr. Chipman — There was no gnawing the trees whatever in my 

 orchard. There was plenty of corn for them to eat, and they lay 

 there and packed the ground. They had some fifty acres of grass 

 they could run out to if they chose, but they chiefly ate the corn 

 and came under these trees and lay there; and when they had laid 

 there long enough they would go away. We planted the orchard 

 to corn the same as we did the field. I intended Lo fence between 

 the orchard and the field, but so many said the hogs would benefit 

 the apple trees, I let them all go. 



Mr. Keyser — "What breed of hogs did you have? 



Mr. Chipman — Pretty well graded up Poland-China. 



Mr. Field — What condition was your ground in? Was it packed 

 down very hard? 



Mr. Chipman — Very solid. The land had been corn land for 

 about seventeen years. That was the first year I ever turned hogs 

 in it. Under every tree where the hogs lay the ground was packed 

 as hard as a road. I think the packing of the earth was the cause 

 of the dying of the trees. 



Mr. Kellogg moved that the thanks of the joint convention be 

 tendered to the different railroads for their kindness. 



Unanimously adopted. 



On motion, the convention adjourned. 



