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years almost stuck as to know what to do. Two years ago I put 

 some sheep in one of the orchards for a month or two, long 

 enough to keep the weeds down, and then again last year for 

 about the same length of time, just enough to keep the weeds 

 down — more or less clover came in and very good feed there. 

 And this last spring I cut off some of those under limbs so as to 

 put my team in and we got out the spring tooth harrow and went 

 over it thoroughly; it was in April on gravelly ground, just as 

 soon as the snow was off, to tear it up thoroughly, and again 

 in about two weeks more we went over it again, and then I put 

 in hogs. And it has looked finely. I got more than a hundred 

 bushels of apples out of it. I will say, back of that, in this plow- 

 ing and cultivating I put on barnyard manure and dressed it very 

 well, and then I put on ashes and from some reason or other it is 

 looking exceptionally well this year and the twitch grass is very 

 nearly all out again. I don't believe in putting in too many hogs. 

 You have got to use your judgment in putting them in, for thev 

 won't use any in rooting around the trees. They will take some 

 one tree perhaps and root it to death and neglect other trees. 

 You have got to watch that quite carefully. 



