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cleans it up, and when we want to turn the sod under it is out of the 

 way. When we have to keep them in shelter we feed them there only 

 a few days, and then we put them in the pasture, and in that way we 

 avoid the cornstalk trouble. 



Dairy stock. You all know how I feel about that matter. One 

 trouble has been the confinement of the cows. Here is the young- 

 stock. How can we raise good young cattle and horses and keep 

 them confined, and how many times do we see young stock confined 

 in the stables and not let out for air or water until spring? 



But my time is more than up, and I have barely given you a few 

 thoughts on the subject. But I have outlined the thought, and that 

 is that our success is connected with the tree, the shelter for our 

 stock and for our homes, and if we heed the admonitions of nature 

 in this respect we shall have a fair measure of success. (Applause.) 



Mr. Clark: Mr. Gregg says he has no stables to protect 

 stock against storm. Would he not have to arrange so as to 

 feed them to a certain extent? 



Mr. Gregg: We have it arranged so we can feed them, and 

 thej'' are provided with shelter against storms. The cows must 

 have stable protection, and in bad storms we want to be able to 

 give feed and water to all the stock under shelter. 



Mr. Clark: Would you have them sleep in those stables all 

 winter? 



Mr. Gregg: The steers stay out all winter. 



Prof. Pendergast: I do not want to oppose your right to 

 willows around the outside of evergreens. I was confined in 

 my remarks to evergreens. I looked down the list a little 

 further, and I thought others would handle the deciduous trees. 

 But I bslieve in a snowbreak on the outside of the evergreen, 

 and then on the inside you will have a better protection for 

 smaller trees. I have one Wealthy tree that bears more than 

 all the other Wealthy trees I have, and that is on the north side 

 of the house and within the shelter of it, and it runs up twenty 

 feet before it gets above the house. It has the most beautiful 

 apples I ever saw. On the south side I had some Malinda 

 apples protected by the south side of the building, and every 

 one of those died in a few years. 



^Mr. T. T. Smith: Mr. Gregg speaking of stock recalls a visit 

 to Mr. DeGraff's farm, where he had several temporary sheds in 

 the forest. He had cutout squares and kept his stock there. 



Mr. C. L. Smith: Twenty-four years ago he fattened a lot of 

 shorthorn steers and claimed he made a nice profit. 



Mr. Gregg: The idea is not to keep them out all the time; 

 give them shelter when they need it. 



Mr. T. T. Smith: He had his sheds open in the front and had 

 his hay put up with rails. 



Mr. Gregg: I saw it and thought it was cruel, but, I declare, 

 the man was doing better than I knew. 



