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He told me a short time ago that he was going to set out a 

 couple of hundred more trees, — that he was getting more out of 

 his orchard than he did off his whole farm. That was the 

 importance of it because he took care of it. 



There are two other men that have done similar things. One 

 of them has left his orchard without any cultivation on one side 

 of the fence and the other has cultivated his, and I have noticed 

 the difference. The man who has cultivated his is getting about 

 200 barrels this year — the other man is getting ten or fifteen. 

 That shows the importance. 



Here is another man down in Vassalboro, from two acres 

 of orchard got 358 barrels of winter fruit. He took care 

 of his orchard. Three hundred and fifty-eight barrels 

 from forty-two Baldwin trees, giving an average of a little 

 more than five and a half barrels to the tree. Some of 

 them gave ten. That was the importance. I wrote Mr. Smiley, 

 inquiring something about it, because I was interested in it. He 

 wrote me that he pastured his orchard with sheep, — that there 

 was a large pasture joining and he took pains to yard his sheep 

 every night, or about every nignt, in that orchard, and that is 

 about all he did to it. And the income, — he said that many of 

 those people there had, and were getting $300 an acre. He 

 thought there was no other crop like it. 



Now that is the importance of orchard culture. That is about 

 all that it is necessary for me to say, that unless you cultivate 

 and take care of your orchard you can't get any income. If you 

 sit on a nail keg in the store and smoke and say farming don't 

 pay it won't pay, but when you get up and go to work and say it 

 must pay and it is going to pay, then it will pay. And it is just 

 so with orchards. 



Mr. J. H. Hale said he kept his orchard land constantly stirred, 

 harrowed and plowed and cultivated. This question was asked 

 Mr. Hale : "How many years do you continue this cultivation ?" 



A. Tell me how long I will live and I will tell you. 



Q. Do you remove many crops from the orchard ? 



A. No, sir, I am growing apples. 



Q. What do you put on for a crop ? 



A. Crimson clover, cow peas, vetches, — mostly clover and 

 •cow peas. This question, what other crop do you grow in the 

 orchard, — of course it is admissable in the early days of an 



