No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 481 



MR. CATCHPOLE: Cockshutt Plow Company, Braiidtford, 

 Canada. 



Member: Does an apple tree need more roots when not in cul- 

 tivation? 



MR. CATCHPOLE: I cannot sa.y. 



CHESTER TYSON: I would like to ask Mr. Catcbpole what form 

 of wagon is found most practical in hauling to central packing 

 house? 



MR. CATCHPOLE: There is a wagon which was formerly made 

 in New York by the Thomas Wagon Company, now located at Lititz, 

 Pa., on the principle of the old Champion. They make both the 

 single turn and a double turn in which the hind wheel follows the 

 track of the front wheels. We find it a very desirable wagon for 

 orchard use where one wishes to use the ordinary width platform. 

 (This wagon has a steel gear. The wagon is only one inch above 

 the center of the axle. We use a naked platform without sides, so 

 that yve can haul barrels or crates stacked two or three high. This 

 wagon is made with or without springs. They made it with springs 

 as part of the gear itself or with an adjustable spring. Something 

 like a bolster spring. 



Member: Do you mean it can be equipped with springs with the 

 platform so close to the axle. 



MR. CATCHPOLE: No, that is the ordinary type of wagon. The 

 adjustable spring would raise the platform five inches higher. 



APPLES. 



By Mr. U. T. COX, Proctorville, O., President Ohio State Horticultural Association. 



I am very glad to be with you. In the southern part of Ohio 

 where I came from, it is very hilly. We have some very nice bottom 

 land along the Ohio River, but when you get aw'ay from the bottoms 

 it IS very steep. In some places it is as steep as a house roof. 

 We have good markets and not many farmers in that country 

 produce fruit, consequently, the growers get pretty good money out 

 of them. We people living out on the hills find that we are up against 

 it in some respects. Our land is not worth more than a dollar an 

 acre compared with yours. Your land will produce fully twice as 

 much. We find our hills are no good for anything but fruit, but we 

 can grow fine fruit. I was born there and consequently stayed, and 

 I believe I prefer to remain, but if I were going to move away, I 

 believe I would come east. 



To get apples, we must have orchards. The old orchards down 

 there that were planted about thirty or forty years ago are nearly 

 all dead. They don't live long with us. They bear themselves 

 to death and die while they are in their prime. In fact, you can't 

 find an orchard that is over thirty or thirty-five years old. They 

 come into bearing early and we push them hard. When an orchard 

 gets to be twenty-five years old out there on those hills, it is like 

 an old horse that you Avork to death, or a man who has worked 

 himself to death. Wliether it is better to grow trees that way is 

 to be seen. We get the apple trees down there to bear when they 

 are five to six years old. Rome Beauty and Ren Davis b-?gin to 

 bear well from eight to ten, and you can get enough before that to 

 31—7—1908. 



