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MR. FRASER OF MASSACHUSETTS. In case there 

 might be danger of a branch breaking, might not one of 

 these Slickers be trained as a leader? 



]MR. FRASER OF NEW YORK. I have never done it, 

 but I don't see why it couldn't be done. There may be 

 someone here "who has ; I haA'e never done it. 



PRES. FARQUHAR. Any other questions? 



MR. FRASER. Mr. President, I would like to take this 

 occasion to thank the members and the people of Boston on 

 behalf of my colleagues and myself for your kindness, your 

 hospitality and the manner in wdiich j^ou have entertained 

 us and greeted us, and I certainly am very glad to be here 

 to express to you on their behalf and on my own our ap- 

 preciation thereof. (Applause). 



MR. H. L. FROST. Might I ask Mr. Frazer if he has 

 ever experimented with dj'uamite in -any way for the young 

 trees ? 



MR. FRASER. Look here: You wnll get all my bad 

 doings out of me yet if you keep at it. (Laughter). I 

 have made so many mistakes, that I don 't want to /own up 

 to all of them. I have made as many mistakes as anybody 

 else, and some more. I knew a gentleman who wanted to 

 plant an orchard in Vermont last spring and desired to 

 use dynamite. He wanted me to look it over. He d;yTia- 

 mited and we are not sure yet as to what the results will be. 

 But I am afraid that in many cases we got a hole which 

 remained below ground, and when the water dried out we 

 had a hole which the roots couldn't bridge, with the result 

 that those trees sank considerably during the season, to their 

 detriment. Also, in one or two places where the hole h.-.r 

 been made at the time of planting instead of probably six 

 months before there has been a higher mortality than in the 

 case of trees not dynamited. So that under some condi- 

 tions you may have trouble from dynamiting in that way. 

 Also, I would question the value of planting apples on land 

 that needs to be dynamited to make it apple soil. I ques- 

 tion very much whether you are not going to be beaten in 



