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apples. However, few farmers will take the time to do this during 

 July and August, but if you shake the branches, and thus shake 

 off a portion of the apples, the result will be the same to some extent, 

 and in so doing you will shake off many of the diseased and wormy 

 apples, and you will have less windfalls. However, there is one 

 objection to this shaking process — you will shake off the largest 

 apples. But yet the small ones will then grow large, because they 

 get more room and nourishment from the tree. Do this like the 

 Irishman who hired out to hoe corn. His boss told him to thin out 

 the corn to three in each hill. Pat did as he was told, but he pulled 

 out all the big corn and left the small ones. His boss rebuked him, 

 and asked why he did this, and Pat replied that he wanted to "give 

 the little fellows a chance." 



Rcsicience of R. A. Schutz, lecturer on horticulture in Minnesota Farmers' Institute. 



In conclusion I will not only add that in gathering the fruit the 

 apples should be carefully picked and placed in new, clean barrels, 

 and that they should be of a uniform grade in size and quality from 

 top to bottom of each barrel, not as the honest farmer instructed his 

 son to do, when he said, "Fill this barrel with apples for the 

 preacher ; put the largest and finest apples in the bottom ; then fill 

 up with small ones, those that we cannot sell ; then nail in the head. 

 When I deliver the apples to the parson on Thanksgiving, I will 

 turn the barrel t'other side up and open the bottom." 



Mr. Geo. J. Kellogg (Wis.) : Did you ever spray? 



Mr. Schutz : I turn in my hogs ; they eat up all the wormy 

 apples, and I never need to spray. 



Mr. Henry Husser : I would like to know whether hogs do any 

 harm to the trees by gnawing them. 



