THE APPLE ORCHARD IN JULY AND AUGUST. 245 



Mr. Brackett : Is your soil a sandy soil ? 



Mr. Schutz : No, it is a clay loam, a portion of it. , I have three 

 orchards, and some of the ground is sandy soil ? 



Mr. Brackett : If we try to raise apples without spraying they 

 are not fit to market. If we keep our apples cultivated they will 

 blight to the ground. 



Mr. Schutz : I have a sandy soil, I could not help you out. Do 

 you turn in the hogs to eat the wormy apples? If you will do that 

 you will keep them clean. 



Mr. Brackett : That does not prevent our apples from showing 

 scabs. 



Mr. Schutz : It does prevent it in some way ; the hogs will eat 

 the diseased apples. 



Mr. R. A. Wright : I do not believe in the pruning the gentle- 

 man suggests. 



Mr. Schutz : That is all right — let the sunshine in. 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wis.) : I have not had much to do with 

 hogs, and I don't want to start in now. I heard of a man who, 

 instead of fixing up his home as he ought to have done, raised more 

 hogs and bought more land and raised more hogs, and one day a 

 man who had business with him came along and went up to the 

 house to inquire for him. He saw his wife and said to her, "I don't 

 see any of the men folks around here; have you got any?'' "O, yes," 

 she said, "I have three in the hog lot. You will find my husband 

 and two boys out there ; you can tell them because they have hats 

 on." (Laughter.) I have a son-in-law who sprays his orchard 

 with hogs, and he raises smoother apples than I do. The hog 

 sprayer is always ready. He raises something like 125 hogs, and 

 he has an orchard of four acres. As soon as the apples are large 

 enough so the children will begin to eat them he turns those hogs 

 in and leaves them in perhaps three hours. If he finds they leave 

 the apples and begin to root or show signs of doing damage he 

 takes them out. He keeps that up through the season, and after 

 they are through picking, the hogs are turned in again, and they 

 do the gleaning. He arranges the hogs as he wants them, and they 

 eat up all the wormy apples, so he has no occasion to spray. 

 (Applause.) 



Mr. Elliot: How many hogs have 'you? 



Mr. Schutz : In reply to Mr. Elliot I would say that I have 

 about 150 hogs, and I can take my choice among those hogs as to 

 which I want to turn in . I have a lawn and on the outside of that 

 lawn and near the house there is a flower garden which my wife 

 and girls take care of, and I would not be permitted to let my hogs 

 run loose. The outside hogs are not allowed to go into the orchard, 

 but I use judgment in that line, and I have been verv successful 

 with my orchards. 



