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QUESTION: When you get too high you had betteF.,eut 

 it out, I suppose 3^ou mean. . - 



THE PRESIDENT : Or cut the top out. I am very 

 much in favor of taking the old-timers and cutting the. tops 

 down to where you can get at them. . . ■ 



MR. FROST: I w^ould like to state what I saw Mr. J. 

 Norris Barnes of Connecticut do, and see if an}- one tried it 

 here. He made two pickings, and he thought that was about 

 as profitable as he had ever done. That might be . called 

 thinning in the fall. 



THE PRESIDENT : About the ordinary time to harvest. 



:\IR. FROST: They were Baldwins, and he showed me 

 Baldwins that had been left there ten days earlier, that he 

 said were little green Baldwins which had increased in size 

 tremendously, and they were as nice color as I had ever seen. 

 It gave me an idea, and I was wondering if any one had tried 

 it. 



^IR. ]\IUNSON: I can tell of a man who picked his 

 Baldwins— -they were^ grown in sod and they colored up very 

 early — he picked the large and best-colored ones, and ten 

 days later he came back and picked the rest off the ground. 

 So if you are going to run chances against the weather, 

 there is always that to figure on. 



THE PRESIDENT : And you have that to figure on no 

 matter when you pick them. 



MR. MUNSON : Well, th«y will stick on a certain length 

 of time anyway. 



THE PRESIDENT : Still, it seems to me good orchard 

 practice, on a good many varieties, to make at least two 

 pickings. Mr. Frost's point is a good one. Mr. Munson's 

 point is also good, and you have to choose between the two, 

 propositions. 



MR. MITNSON : But in the ordinary Baldwin orchard I 

 think you will have to agree with me, that we haye got to 

 leave them on fully as long as we can, to get good color. 



THE PRESIDENT: But I think you will get a lot of 

 color on them, on the better apples, long before you will on 



