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the close planting of our trees. The party who owned that or- 

 chard made up his mind that they were too close, as they all 

 touched, and cut out about fifty trees, being every other tree in 

 the row and every other row. This leaves the trees about forty 

 tfeet apart. But I should say there were thirty or forty trees that 

 stand out all by their lonesome, with all kinds of sun and plenty 

 of room to grow. These are the only trees in the orchard that 

 haven't apples on them. In fact, these trees that stand out this 

 way haven't a dozen apples each, while the other ones, that are 

 close together, have all the apples they can stand, perhaps more. 

 These trees I mention were cut out last year, so that may be 

 that the ones that are left so far apart have been thrown out of 

 balance by the sun getting at the ground, which they were never 

 used to, although should not think this would have been so up 

 to the time they blossomed and set the apples, as we did not 

 have strong sun this spring. But the fact remains that with those 

 apples that are far apart there is "nothing doing." This was also 

 true in years past with the 145 acres of apples we have right 

 across the road from this orchard. Where half of this orchard 

 is planted double thickness, we have had twice as many apples 

 per tree, and there are twice as many trees per acre, making four 

 times the apples per acre on that patch than the other half of 

 the orchard where they are planted single 34x36 feet. That is 

 true up to this year. Apparently the single trees have about as 

 many apples on as the double spaced trees this year. But, of 

 course, the proof will come when we pick them. Where the trees 

 have been closely planted in that orchard we have gotten enough 

 apples in the last three or four years to pay the whole shot, so that 

 with another year or two I believe I will have made up my mind 

 pretty conclusively about close planting. 



I have been worrying considerable about this, as I have 

 thought for the past year or two that I ought to get in and cut out 

 about every other tree, which, of course, I hated to do. 



Yours very truly. 

 The Underwood & Viles Cold Storage Company, 



Per W. H. Underwood. 



Cedar Gap, Mo., May 13, 1906. 

 Mr. L. A. Goodman, Kansas City: 



Dear Sir — I have just read in the Packer that a Mr. Rouse, 

 President of the Missouri State Bee-keepers' Association, has is- 

 sued, an address setting forth the necessity of some legislation in 



