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'On a piece adjoining mine a neighbor had some seventy- 

 five Mcintosh trees. I do not know just what he does 

 for them, or what lie fails to do. He tells me that he does 

 not get much fruit from them, that it nearly all drops off. 

 I think that they need to have some other trees planted 

 with them. My trees bear some every year. I have one 

 or two trees that have been bearing more and more right 

 along, and have been doing that for the last three or four 

 years. 



Questions How would it do to turn the pigs into 

 the orchard and let them do the cultivating? 



Mr. Knapp: That might do very well. 



President Gold: I think hogs in the orchards are 

 generally recognized as a good thing, although a little 

 care has got to be taken, because they are apt to get in 

 the habit of barking the trees. Then again, they will not 

 touch them at all. It is a matter which you must guard 

 against. If they get in the habit of attacking the trees, 

 they will girdle them sometimes all the way around. 



Mr. Stevens : We concluded on our place that we 

 got a good deal of benefit by letting the hogs run in the 

 orchard, from the fact that you will not have nearly so 

 many railroad worms in the orchard if the hogs are run- 

 ning through it. That has been our experience. We nave 

 one orchard that we had not cultivated at all, and we are 

 not troubled with the worms. Right across the road from 

 us is an orchard which has been badly infested. 



President Gold: I think Air. Stevens' remarks are 

 well taken. Xo doubt hogs go a long distance towards 

 destroying the maggot or railroad worms. 



A Member: I would like to ask what you feed the 

 hogs to keep them from barking the trees? 



President Goed : It is a very difficult thing indeed 

 to keep them from doing it when they once get started. 



