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O. Have you had any experience in marketing apples in any 

 other packages than barrels ? 



A. Yes, we have tested a good many other cases, but have 

 ah\ays gone back to the barrel. We manufacture our own 

 barrels. We have been agitating for some years a legal size 

 for an apple barrel, and to make it a limit of measure, so that 

 it could be used for anything ; the only difficulty now being to 

 get the different provinces to unite on a size. 



O. As a rule do yovir farmers themselves pack their apples? 



A. Yes, unless a buyer when he makes his bargain, says that 

 he will pack them. ]\Iost of our farmers pack them themselves, 

 or employ a packer whom they consider able to do it better than 

 themselves. 



O. Do you calculate to keep your orchards plowed every 

 year ? 



A. Yes, every year. 



O. How near do you plow to the trees? 



A. Just as close as we can. 



O. Aren't you afraid of the roots? 



A. No, for we have a plow we can govern. In setting a 

 young orchard the first fall, after that orchard is set, we bank 

 the trees, the second fall we bank the trees and the third fall we 

 bank the trees. 



O. How high ? 



A. Usually about a foot. It is done for two reasons, to pro- 

 tect the tree from swaying in the ground, and forming a hole 

 round the tree and then when frost comes the hole filling with 

 ice ; and the other reason is to protect from mice. There is no 

 danger of mice injuring a tree if you have a foot of eartk 

 round it. 



