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stock and for swine. I know that some of my neighbors have 

 tried the experiment with pigs and store hogs, in years when 

 there was an abundance of apples, and they were hardly worth 

 carrying to market, of boiling apples and feeding them to their 

 pigs ; and I have heard many of them remark that the pigs 

 grew just as well as they would on something else. I do not 

 mean that they were fed on apples exclusively, but apples mixed 

 with other things ; and from experiments I have tried myself, I 

 have no doubt that it is so. 



Mr. Huntington. Is there a Strawberry apple ? 



Mr. Clement. Yes, sir. It is a New York variety, I think. 

 There is an early Strawberry apple, certainly ; I don't know 

 whether there is another or not. 



Mr. Huntington. Ripening about September, I think ? 



Mr. Clement. Yes, sir. I bought a tree at auction once, 

 and kept it a good many years. Once in awhile it would blow, 

 but I could not get many apples from it. I never got half a 

 peck at a time. We would get occasionally a few small apples, 

 red all round, handsome, but too small and too poor a crop, and 

 I worked the tree over to something else. 



Mr. Huntington. The tree I am thinking of grew in Wood- 

 stock, Conn. ; a large apple, very fine flavor, and not altogether 

 red ; striped, but a very handsome apple. 



Mr. Clement. Now, in relation to the expediency of grow- 

 ing apples. If a man has a sandy soil, or a soil that is low, and 

 wet, and heavy, and cannot be sufficiently drained, I certainly 

 would not recommend him to go into the raising of apples 

 extensively, or any other fruit. I do not believe good apples 

 can be raised on what we call pine plains. I have known per- 

 sons to plant trees in such soil very frequently, but I never 

 knew any apples to come from them. 



A Member. Do you know anything about the Red Russet ? 



Mr. Clement. I have seen the apple in one or two instances, 

 and I am told that it is very fine fruit ; I have not tasted it. I 

 am hoping to have some next year ; but my hopes may be 

 blasted, as they are sometimes. 



Mr. Hubbard. I have heard it remarked by some that they 

 have had the Northern Spy set out for a considerable time, and 

 do not get any fruit, and they have become almost discouraged 

 with it ; and I have heard others say, that if they would be 



