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Mr. Tenny: I do not think so. 



A Member: Wouldn't it be better to use thinning 

 shears ? 



Mr. Tenny : It might. I never tried it. We never 

 have used any tool of that kind. Always do it by hand. 



A Member : I think it is vastly better to use shears. 

 We never think of using our hands for it. 



Mr. Tenny: It does not do any damage to use the 

 hands, if you do it right. We have ne^'er had any trouble 

 with that. 



Mr. J. H. Hale : Mr. Chairman, if you will bear with 

 me foT a moment. I did not get up to ask any question, but 

 I wanted to just speak for a moment for the purpose of em- 

 phasizing the importance of some of these points which I 

 believe have been brought out by this discussion this after- 

 noon, and they have been among some of the most practical 

 and useful that have ever been presented to this Society. 



The talk that we have had from Mr. Tenny this after- 

 noon has been a very practical talk, and I want to emphasize 

 just one point in connection with it. From a boy who had 

 an education at Cornell, he took up the scientific side of the 

 subject for further development at Washington, and has 

 done some splendid work for this government of ours — some 

 most useful work. He gave this up. He gave up this posi- 

 tion and has gone back to the farm, and is making a greater 

 success in farming and in orcharding than he ever did in the 

 scientific field. I just wanted this point brought out because 

 I think it is worth remembering, that a man who has had 

 such a broad experience along these lines in every way has 

 gone back to farming, and is making one of the best suc- 

 cesses and has made one of the best addresses the Connecticut 

 Pomological Society ever heard. 



The Vice-President: Are there any further questions? 



Mr. N. S. Plait : Mr. President, I have no question to 

 ask any more than I wanted to say just a word or two more 

 about the thinning of fruit. It is one of the difficult things 



