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I protect by mulching around the roots of the trees. Now I 

 think this sun scald can be remedied just as well without box- 

 ing as it can with it. Of late years I have been setting my 

 trees leaning towards the south-west, and if I can get the trunk 

 to grow properly in that direction and by low heading I am not 

 afraid of sun scald, neither do I want anything like boxing on 

 my trees, and I have succeeded in raising a good many of them. 

 Now, how do I keep them in that form? If you will go to my 

 orchard you will find one hundred trees that have been set two 

 years, and I have tied them over with a cord. I take some 

 twine that we tie our wool with and tie them up so high, and I 

 stick a stake in the ground toward the southwest. Why do I 

 do this? Because in that direction, the southwest, the sun has 

 not the same impression on them as if they were planted in an 

 upright position, and in that form every tree that I plant and 

 have planted for a number of years invariably lives, and I think 

 by following this plan we can save the boxing. But I do not 

 discard it; if that is the best and the only way to save the tree 

 I am willing to try it every time. 



O. F. Brand: Mr. Kenney was one of those men three years 

 ago who was like ninety-nine out of a hundred, said he could 

 buy apples cheaper than he could raise them, and would never 

 plant another apple tree in Minnesota. I wanted to stop his 

 mouth and I convinced him he could raise apples by this plan. 

 He has given me no credit for telling him about this plan, and 

 now he has planted four or five hundred trees. 



J. S. Harris: About thirty years ago I set two trees of the 

 Seek-no-further. One of them I wrapped, the other one I let 

 alone, and the first produced more of as fine Seek-no-further 

 apples than I have ever grown on a tree in the old eastern 

 states. I took the band off every spring after the frosts had 

 come out of the ground, because I thought it would make a har- 

 bor for breeding insects, and replaced the band along in No- 

 vember. The plan of protecting a young tree every winter for 

 a number of years, or perhaps as long as it is valuable for pro- 

 ducing fruit, I believe is a good one, and I do not believe there 

 is a cheaper protection than these boxes and filling them with 

 dry earth. I do not mean dust, but dirt. If we would give our 

 trees any kind of protection to keep them healthy the first ten 

 years, it is my opinion that we could raise a great deal more 

 fruit than we do at the present time. 



Geo. J. Kellogg: I do not wish to occupy much time, but I 

 do believe in this protection. I do not believe in tarred paper, 



