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trees had borers. Wq took hold of it last spring- and pruned 

 it very severely, and then cultivated it, but in spite of that I 

 picked from one tree about ten barrels of fruit. It bore enor- 

 mously. I had no idea it was going' to bear so, or I should 

 have thinned it. 



I was interested in what the gentleman said who has just 

 spoken about hogs in an orchard. I was in ^Nlontville this 

 fall. I went down to the house of a friend of mine there who 

 has a farm of two hundred acres. On that farm he had a wire 

 fence enclosing about half of his orchard, and in that enclos- 

 ure were hogs. The trees in that enclosure — why, they were 

 loaded with fruit, and the ground was covered with apples of 

 a number of different varieties, Northern Spy, Baldwin, etc., 

 and the foliage was beautiful and green. On the other half 

 of it there was not a leaf on the trees to amount to anything 

 and no fruit. 



A Member : I would like to ask Mr. Staples if the hogs 

 disturb the bark on the trees ? I should think if you put hogs 

 in your orchard they might be apt to injure the bark. 



Mr. Staples : Whenever I have turned hogs into my 

 orchard I have nailed around the orchard strips of board close 

 to the ground, and wound it round one, two or three times 

 with barbed wire. By doing that I had no trouble. Some- 

 times they would get into the orchard before we had had a 

 chance to get that done, but we never had any trouble because 

 they would eat the grass and things of that kind before they 

 would touch the trees. I presume if you left them there until 

 the bark was the only green thing left, probably they would 

 take that. 



Mr. Ives : I would like to ask Mr. Fuller if the hogs that 

 he saw on that place in Montville did not eat the apples at all. 

 He said the ground was covered with apples. Didn't the hogs 

 eat the apples at all? 



Mr. Fuller : There were so many for the number of 

 hogs in there that thev couldn't eat them all. 



