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say you ate fifty-two peaches as large as I have growing out 

 here ?" I asked hiiTi to step out to the orchard, and he said, 

 " Yes, they were as big as" those." Said 1, " If you can eat 

 fifty-two peaches as large as those, I don't know what you 

 can't eat." Said he, " I can eat those just the same." When 

 the peaches were ripe I took six of them and carried them to 

 this man. One of them weighed nine ounces, and they all 

 averaged half a pound apiece. While I was talking to this 

 same man, a restaurant keeper came along, and he said, 

 " Richard, what are you going to do with those peaches ? " 

 Said I, " I have brought them up to see if a man can eat fifty 

 of them." " What are you going to do with them if he don't 

 eat them ?" Said 1, " I will give them to some good friend ? " 

 " Don't do that," said he, " I will give you a dollar for them." 

 I let him have them, and he carried them to his restaurant. 

 I thought I would like to know what his object was in buying 

 them at that price ; so I asked him one day, and he said, "To 

 make money. I wanted them to show in the Boston & Albany 

 depot," "Well," I said, "you didn't make much." He 

 said, " I made a little. I got twenty cents apiece for them." 

 This I say to show the importance of thinning the peach, and 

 almost all our other fruit. We make a less draft upon the 

 strength of the tree, and get more in value. When I tell 

 you that I counted the peaches in a bushel of those that I 

 sold for $8, and it took only 140 to make a bushel, I tell you 

 the truth. Now, it takes 200 good Bartlett pears to make a 

 bushel ; 140 of those peaches made a bushel, and they were 

 worth growing. "Go and do likewise." (Applause.) 



Mr. Sedgwick. In relation to the profits of peach grow- 

 ing : a week before Thanksgiving, I met a peach grower in 

 New York from Marlboro', on the Hudson River, who told 

 me that he had brought down that morning from his place 

 ten baskets of peaches, for which he was paid ilOO — 110 a 

 basket. This same gentleman, who is one of the most suc- 

 cessful fruit growers in that section, has for some time tried the 

 formula which Mr. Augur has mentioned, which Prof. Pen- 

 hallow has recommended for the yellows. He is acquainted 



