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grow them iu the shape of the hill. Of course, it makes it unhandy to 

 get in and out with a team, but it prevents washing. 



A Member: Mr. Johnson spoke like the best way was to lean a tree 

 to the southwest, but I think not. There is no use to set it there, it will 

 be back to the northeast in a little while. The right thing to do is to 

 set them to the one o'clock sun. I have the trees set that direction, and 

 I find the sun never scalds the bark. When the sun scalds the bark, 

 then the tree is gone. Set them by the one o'clock sun, for then they do 

 stay there. 



A Member: One-half or two-thirds of our people don't trim a tree 

 when they set it out, and that is a sad mistake. . 



Geo. P. Campbell: I will say a few words on the line of trimming 

 trees. When setting trees, I trim them back to correspond with the roots 

 left on the tree. I set out a new orchard a few years ago. I cut all the 

 roots off from the under side, cut back all the tap roots; turned the top 

 right over to me and cut that top to correspond with what roots v^ere 

 left. I took a great deal of pains in setting those trees. I saved all of 

 my trees, while my brother-in-law lost all of his. He dug his hole, set 

 his trees in one-half day, while it took me and my boy one and one-half 

 days to set mine. His trees are dead, mine are all living today. Some 

 men laugh at you when you say trim the tops back with the roots. Leave 

 no more top than roots. 



President Stevens: We will now take up the subject of "Trimming," 

 and hear the papers. Mr. Henby first. 



TRIMMING THE APPLE, 



BY J. K. HENBY, GREENFIELD. 



Solomon in his proverb, says, "Train up a child as he should go and 

 he will not depart from it in his old age." This can, I think, be applied 

 to the apple tree even better than to the child. In the training of a child 

 we begin at the nursery, just as we begin with the apple; and its parent 

 is the nurseryman. After it leaves the nursery it enters school in the 

 common school branches and its teacher is "The Orchardist." It passes 

 from the common schools and its professor is still "The Orchardist;" when 

 leaving it has all the requisites that are required for a long career of 

 usefulness in this world and is ready to bear fruit as it has been trained; 

 if the school has been a good one, such will be the fruit; should it be 



