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better than the trimmed. If you trim your trees you make a sappy 

 growth that does not bear good fruit. 



Q. When do you begin to head them lower? 



A. We leave them as thev come from the nursery. 



Q. Are they one or two years old? 



A. Two years old. I have never bought one year old trees. 



Q. Did you ever cut the tops? 



A. No. Only the limbs that cross each other. 



Q. How many limbs do you leave on the top? 



A. That depends on the shape of the tree Avhen it comes from the 

 nurseiy. I leave three if there are three good ones and sometimes I 

 leave five. 



Q. What height do you leave them? 



A, Just as they come from the nursery; about eighteen inches or 

 two feet. 



Prof. Eustace: Will you tell us how many acres you have in your 

 farm ; how many acres in apples ; how many men you employ, and how 

 your buildings are arranged? 



Mr. Allis: I have the poorest arranged buildings in the United States 

 and probably have the poorest cared for. The buildings that I have, 

 except my cold storage, are all ordinary farm buildings. I have built 

 none of the buildings that are on the farm and they are a disgrace to 

 a man that will go out and talk to a bunch of fruit growers, but T 

 have a cold storage that I think cannot be beaten. 



In regard to our help, we have, I think, five or six tenant houses. 

 We hire all our tenants by the year. Of course, we hire extra men 

 during the fruit season. We pay our year men |.500.00 per year and 

 extras. For the day help we pay |2.00 per day and board. One of 

 the best men I ever had was from the M. A. C. This year they sent 

 me one of the greenest men that ever got away from Ireland. 



Q. How manv acres have vou in vour fann and what varieties of 

 fruit? 



A. I have sold several farms and only have about 300 acres, with 

 one hundred and fifty acres of fruit. It is mostly apples, we have some 

 cherries and some pears. I am thinking of setting twenty acres of Bart- 

 lett pears in the spring. 



Q. Did vou head vour ai)ple trees back? 



A. Not at all. 



Q. When do you trim? 



A. We trim all winter. 



Q. Is it customary in your section to trim the peach trees 



A. Yes. They are beginning to trim now in some orchards. 



Q. Do you trim Baldwin trees this time of year? 



A. This is the only time of year that we can trim. If things were 

 just as I wanted them, I would not trim until spring. 



Q. Does pruning help bearing? 



A. I think it does. 



Q. Do you notice any difl'erence in the fall and spring plowing? 



A. I do not see any difference. 



Q. Do you use a tractor? 



A. My brother has a tractor and thinks he cannot get along without 

 it. My farm has a large deep ditch in it so I cannot use a tractor. 



