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the impression that it is impossible to raise Northern Spies in 

 that section. You can do it just as well as you can raise any 

 of the other varieties. 



Mr. Fenn : Another question. Did you do any top- 

 ping work? Did you do any regrafting of other varieties on 

 those old stumps? 



Mr. Drew : No sir, in all cases we kept the same va- 

 rieties. 



Mr. Fenn : Suppose you wanted to. Do you think it 

 is advisable to set six or eight different kinds in the top of 

 an old tree? Do you think it is advisable to set six or eight 

 scions in? 



Mr. Drew : I never saw it done. I should think it 

 would be much better if you could use the original. I should 

 think it would be pretty poor policy to try to graft those stubs 

 where they were so wide across. 



Question : Take the natural growth under your treat- 

 ment. If these branches are pruned up, say, ten or twenty 

 feet from the ground, do you think that you would get the 

 growth ? 



Mr. Drew: Well, I do not know as I understand your 



question. You say twenty feet from the ground when you 



start? You mean the branches starting out being twenty 

 feet before you start to prune ? 



Question : I say ten feet. What I want to know is 

 this, if you would get the growth from those water sprouts 

 before heading. 



Mr. Drew : The tendency of these water sprouts is 

 to grow upright, and you will leave that until they begin to 

 fruit a little, then the tendency is to spread them out. 



Mr. Sterling: Do you advocate scraping the old trees? 



Mr. Drew : No sir, I do not. I would rather clean 

 them off with lime and sulphur. 



