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You -will observe tluit tlio lower Imtls will conie out soonest. The pruned 

 tree always heads lower to the .ground. I believe that some men plant 

 trees .I'ust as they come from the nursery oven when they know they 

 ouslitn't to. but they dislilce to cut tlioni olT. feariui; they will not do it 

 just right, or for fear they will spoil tlie tree, or becau.se they are too 

 chicken-hearted or something of the kind. They will do this when they 

 know they ought to do otherwise. As 1 have said, if you prune back both 

 the root and the top 1 believe it will make a better shaped head. This is 

 the general way in which we plant trees. 



Some folks say that sentimental reat-ous have no place in fruit grow- 

 ing, but 1 have two little w.iifs that I am bringing up. and I think this is 

 the best thing that 1 could select for tliem to do. 1 want these two little 

 waifs to stay on the farm when they are grown. 1 don't want them to 

 be measurers of tapes and ribbons behind a counter, or to spend ihe'r 

 lives making tigures in liooks. or pleading cases in courts of justice. I 

 want these little fellows to occupy this farm which I have honored. I 

 Avaut these little fellows to grow up with the farm. They can look back 

 when they are grown, on the trees that tiiey have planted, and say, 

 "This is what I did with my own little hands." If 1 plant this in grass 

 or potatoes or corn these boys might say they have raised so many crops 

 of hay, or so many bushels of corn, or so many potatoes, but they will 

 all be gone, and wliat liave they to shoAV for what they have done? The 

 work Avill grow out of their hands. When one of these little fellows 

 plants a tree in the ground and cares for it, and watches it, he can look 

 back when he is twenty-one and say, "That is my tree." You could not 

 get him to leave the farm, he AN'ould rather stay with his handiwork. I 

 admit that your way of planting may be better than mine, but 1 like my 

 way, and I am working more for these boys than for anything else. 

 When I came to this farm there were three or four old orchards, but the 

 apples were very small, and I lost faith in the orchards. I guess that 

 was the trouble, that the people before me had lost faith in the orchard 

 and had quit doing as they should by it. We have been at work year 

 after year and we now have fine apples like these on the table. Get a 

 plan and stick to it even though your wife makes fun of you, and the 

 hired man tells the neighbors you don't know what you are doing, and 

 the nelghboi^ go around and say tliat they have a lunatic in their neigh- 

 borhood. In the face of your wife you will live to see the time when all 

 of the folks will come around and say, possibly not to your face, but 

 they will say it. "There is a big man." No one will hardly say it to your 

 face, but they will say it. Kven your wife will thiid< so. We don't 

 intend to cultivate our trees. We cut the trees back and put them In the 

 ground and let them look out for themselves. Some people put ordinary 

 stable manme around their trees. My idea is that it is a good plan to put 

 this mulch on before the ground freezes. The roots will start out fibres 

 before they start into winter quarters. Put mulch around them. We 



