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very inexpensive. You can get them for $35 a thousand. You can 

 plant them, let them grow rive years and bear, and get eight or ten 

 bushels of apples from each, and you are through with them. In plant- 

 ing a commercial orchard, I think the idea is to get your money out of 

 it as soon as possible, and then you are through with it. The same is 

 true of a stock man. Or, I will say, the same rule could be applied to 

 orchards and to stock — let them mature as soon as they can and then 

 eell them. I would have the young trees produce what they are capa- 

 ble of at once, and then let them go. 



Mr. Tippin — Pardon me for speaking again, but the scripture says, 

 "Out of the mouih of two or three witnesses" a thing shall be estab- 

 lished. It seems to me that the sentiment of this Society is against 

 me in my method of planting orchards. But even then I find that 

 things are working in my interest. I am a seller of trees. And if the 

 gentlemen plant their orchards 12 or 15 feet apart, it will take more 

 trees to till their orchards, and I will have a chance of making more 

 sales ; and also, if they plant them and cut them down in a few years, 

 they will have to have other trees to plant again. So, I say, although 

 the sentiment «eem8 to be against me, I have some compensation. 



Mr. Marion (to Mr. Goodman ) — Don't you think that to plant the 

 trees 12* feet apart would produce the best results, and still be far 

 enough apart to do away with the necessity of pruning the trees and 

 catting them out? 



Mr. Goodman — No, sir. I think that is too close together, unless 

 they are cut out as they grow larger. 



Mr. Lamm — I had an orchard planted that way, and it produced 

 good fruit. But it is dead now. It did not grow but five or six years. 



Mr. President — On the question of fertilization, we have an 

 orchard of Ben Davis apples, which is seven years old, and last year 

 had borne two good crops of apples. They have fertilized themselves 

 without being mixed with others. I will tell you a circumstance con- 

 nected with it. I went down to this orchard one time after there had 

 been a big rain. It was during the season when peach trees were in 

 full bloom. I went down there and found the people to be tilled with 

 ■wonder and very superstitious about the orchard. I said, ''What is 

 the matter?" And they said it had been raining sulphur; the air was 

 filled with sulphur. They were very much wrought up about it. I 

 laughed at them and told them that it was only the pollen from the 

 peach trees. The air was tilled with the pollen for miles. I don't think 

 it a good plan for apples to be mixed with other fruit. 



Mr. Lamm — How about Wild Goose plums? 



