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Q. Do you think there would be any danger of injury to an old apple 

 tree trimmed any time in the winter? 



A. We are doing a little experimenting on this point and have trim- 

 med them in the winter, but not when the wood is frozen. 



Q. I would like to ask Miss Mclsaac if she does any trim- 

 ming in the winter? 



A. I trim all through the winter when the tree is not frozen. 



A Member — The other day I heard that Miss Mclsaac was so Indus* 

 trious that she would prune every day when the wind would not blow 

 her out of the tree. 



Miss Mclsaac — I would be more likely to spill out. (Laughter). 



Q. What stress do you lay on wind breaks? 



Miss Taylor — I prefer a wind break. 



Q. Would you want them on a peach orchard? 



A. We have them on our peach orchard. 



Q. The idea is that we have to have the wind to keep off the frost, 

 but perhaps the elevation has something to do with it. 



A. We have found wind breaks of great advantage to us, not perhaps 

 this year on account of frost but there is very seldom a fall on the lake 

 shore that we do not have a heavy frost before the apples are ready to 

 pick and our orchard has often held its fruit when neighboring orchards 

 suffer injury by the dropping of the fruit because of the wind. Some of 

 our neighbors have felt and we have occasionally felt that possibly there 

 might not be enough circulation of air, but with the right spraying we 

 do not think it would make much difference. 



Q. So many are interested in the matter of help that I would like to 

 inquire if Miss Taylor has found trouble in getting help to carry out her 

 ideas? Can you depend on the help you are able to secure? 



A. I have had no trouble. 



Miss Maclsaac — Have you had trouble with the male help you have 

 had to have. (Laughter) . 



A. I haven't had very much. (Applause). 



Q. I would like to ask Miss Taylor if she does her own work or if 

 she hires it done? 



A. Shall I say both? 



Oiairman — I would like to ask what should be done with two hundred 

 Ben Davis in a two thousand apple orchard? Should they be grafted 

 when growing better than any other of the apples. 



A. We are re-grafting our Ben Davis. 



Q. With the present prices of apples and conditions as they are 

 would it pay to do that? 



A. P/>ssibly our experience might help a little. We have sold our ap- 

 ples and have always hnd to take a reduced price for the orchard when 

 we sold as an orchard because there were so many Ben Davis apples in 

 the orchard. And that has couAinced us that if we can change our 

 orchards to different varieties it would be better. 



A Member — Some years Ben Davis will bear when others will not. 



A. Yes that is so. Of course I have not been able to take into ac- 

 count every little item of cost, and charge up the interest against it. 

 Some things you have to take a collection of years in order to get. 



A Member — T would like to ask Miss Taylor how she disposed of her 

 crop of apples this year. 



