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snap off. Let Uumh drop whoru thoy fall, and if you do your spraying, 

 yoji are apt to have large, line apples. Many apples are helped by thin- 

 ning. I do not lot them overbear; if trees overbear they have the scab. 



Mr. Mitehell: Have you ever tried the Illinois style of gathering ap- 

 ples? 



Mr. Burton: No, nor do not expect to try it. 



Mr. Isaac Mitchell: The way I have seen it done, they have a kind of 

 three-cornered sheet they hold under the tree, and a boy gives the tree 

 a knock and the apples fall into that sheet, and then they empty it. 

 They don't let the apples fall twice without emptying it. Once in a 

 while they hit a limb in falling and get a little bruise, but all in all they 

 seem to have little trouble of that kind. 



Mr. Burton: They have a little more excuse for doing that way 

 than I would, if their apples are Ben Davises, for they can take a 

 great deal of abuse and get along about the same; and they don't get 

 anything like the pric^ that I get for my apples. Suppose they had sent 

 some of the apples gathered that way to Pai'is to the show there, how 

 long do you think they would keep? I had a bushel of Winesaps opened 

 up on the 8th of August that had been there nearly a year, without hav- 

 ing a single specked ^apple among them. 



Mr. Isaac Mitchell: They claim they can save a. great deal of expense 

 that way. 



Mr. Burton: Sometimes Ave save at one end and lose at the other. 



Mr. Simpson: While there are some people who gather apples that 

 way in Illinois, there are other people who are going to the expense of 

 building extensive packing sheds, and hauling the apples to them and 

 sorting them out. All the up-to-date packing men are doing- that, and I 

 think it is the method that will pay better in the long run. 



Mr. Burton: We sort our apples from the basket. Putting them into 

 the barrel, and that is the only packing they have. 



Mr. Isaac Mitchell: When do you trim the old leaves off? 



Mr. Burton: Any time when the tioe is dormant; not when it is iv 

 leaf. 



Mr. Isaac Mitchell: In planting on a slope, which do you consider 

 preferable, east, west, north or south side? 



Mr. Burton: The preference is very little. I want an elevation and 

 it may slope in any direction. 



