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account of this dehorning, but I was very much afraid I might 

 have when I started. 



A Member : I have been greatly interested in the state- 

 ment of the speaker, and I was particularly interested in his 

 method of treatment in renovating these old orchards. But 

 when he says from an orchard that was formerly giving from 

 thirty to forty barrels, by this treatment it yields an amount 

 of from five to six hundred barrels, I would like to know 

 how long it took to do that. 



Mr. Drew : I would say from three to four years on 

 the average. 



Question : About the quality of those apples. Are 

 these apples here from any of the old renovated trees? 



Mr. Drew : They are all from them. While I have a 

 great many newer orchards started, I have none in bearing. 

 I would say that these specimens were not saved or picked 

 out with the idea of being exhibited, but these are only or- 

 dinary ones of what we had. In this old orchard of about 

 two hundred trees were a great many varieties, such as you 

 ordinarily find on a New England farm — Baldwins, Green- 

 ings, Northern Spies, Kings, Fall Pippins, etc. When I 

 started in to reclaim that orchard some of the people in that 

 section said it was impossible to grow Northern Spies in that 

 section, and they pointed to the poor, gnarled, mis-shapen 

 fruit which the orchard was producing. When I started in 

 that fruit was all gnarled and mis-shapen, and had hard 

 cores in it. We could not sell it for second grade fruit. By 

 spraying, pruning and fertilizing, we finally got those trees 

 down so that we got them to bearing in good shape. We 

 got our Kings to bearing in very good shape, also our Fall 

 Pippins, and the Northern Spies came along a little later. 

 After we started out to cultivate and prune and spray, we 

 had no trouble with the Northern Spies, not a particle. We 

 had no more trouble with raising good Northern Spies than 

 we did with Baldwins. I do not know why people have got 



