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Mr. Smith : I would like to ask you if you have made 

 any comparison between the yield prior to this treatment 

 which you have described and after the treatment of these 

 trees ? 



Mr. Drew : I could not give you definite figures, but I 

 can say this much. I have one orchard of about two hun- 

 dred trees. For three years I had a chance to observe them 

 before I had a chance to get at them. I suppose on those 

 two hundred trees we were getting an average yield of from 

 thirty to forty barrels. Since the treatment was completed, 

 those same trees have yielded between five and seven hun- 

 dred barrels. That is the difference. The orchard was badly 

 infested with the scale, but possibly the trouble was not en- 

 tirely with the scale. This orchard was on a piece of wood- 

 land, and it had been entirely neglected. As I said, at that 

 time it was yielding from thirty to forty barrels, but now it is 

 giving between five and seven hundred barrels. 



Mr. Gold : Would you practice trimming the trees of 

 these water sprouts during the first summer? 



Mr. Drew : I would thin them out the first summer, and 

 you will probably not take out enough even then. 



Mr. Gold: You think you can save a lot of time by 

 taking them out the first summer? 



Mr. Drew : I think often times the tendency is not to 

 practice summer pruning. In fact, if I was reclaiming an 

 old orchard, I would not hesitate to do considerable prun- 

 ing even then. 



Mr. Fenn: Did you drain that piece of wet land? 



Mr. Drew : Yes sir, I did. Put in a good tile drain 

 there. 



Mr. Fenn: What method did you use? 



Mr. Drew : Simply put in a tile drain in the wettest 

 places. 



