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the trees which were not pruned severely were affected to 

 the same extent. 



The trees in both orchards have made a satisfactory 

 growth, and it is beheved that it will be unnecessary to con- 

 tinue the work in these orchards after the present season. 

 The Pomfret orchard during the past season bore the largest 

 crop in its history, and the Cheshire orchard shows signs of 

 becoming a very profitable orchard in the near future. A 

 late spring frost injured the blo'ssoms considerably, and 

 therefore the yield for the past season was not as it should 

 have been. The owners, however, are well satisfied, and 

 have renovated the whole orchard in the same way as was 

 suggested for the first two rows. I must modify that some- 

 what, because we do not now intend to discontinue the work 

 in these orchards until we have demonstrated to the owners 

 and the neighbors in that vicinity that this work of renovat- 

 ing old orchards is a paying proposition. Both the Pomfret 

 orchard and the Cheshire orchard show signs of beconting 

 very profitable in the near future. Many of you know that 

 we only undertook to renovate two rows in the first place in 

 that orchard. The owner got a little afraid, I think, that we 

 were going too far. But I think the owners of both those 

 orchards are now convinced of the usefulness of the work 

 we have been doing, and they are now taking up the work 

 themselves, particularly in the Cheshire orchard, and alsoon 

 the opposite side of the street. Other farmers in the vicinity 

 of these orchards are now realizing the possibilities of im- 

 proving their orchards, and it is believed that these demon- 

 strations have bad some influence in bringing about this 

 change of attitude. 



During the past season one-day demonstrations were 

 held in nine different places, in addition to those at Cheshire 

 and Pomfret. The dates and locations of these are as fol- 

 lows : 



March 20, on farm of D. L. Ives, South Windham. 



March 24, on farm of F. O. Jackson, Middletown. 



March 28, on farm of P. G. Seeley, Washington. 



