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the game. We have considerable faith in Western New 

 York in imder-drainage of our lands in order to make them 

 lit for apples, much more than we have in dynamite, al- 

 though I am willing to be shown. 



MR. NELSON OF WELLESLEY. What is your idea 

 about scraping? 



MR. ERASER. Oh, if you are attacking a run-down 

 orchard for the first time.* and you think you have a lot of 

 codling moth under the bark, I would scrap them. It will 

 be all right. As a general orchard proposition, where the 

 trees are well sprayed. I don't think it pays. 



MR. ERASER OF MASSACHUSETTS. I would like 

 to ask Mr. Eraser what he thinks about putting a potato 

 crop in the orchard. In bringing back an old orchard that 

 has been neglected for a number of years and hasn't been 

 plowed for fifteen or twenty years, would you advise that, 

 to help cultivate the land? 



MR. ERASER OF NEW YORK. Is it doing well now? 

 MR. ERASER OF MASSACHUSETTS. No. 

 MR.' ERASER OF NEW YORK. Are the trees past re- 

 demption now? 



MR. ERASER OF MASSACHUSETTS. The trees arj 

 redeemable. 



MR. FRASER OF NEW YORK. I would be inclined 

 to try it. I would like to see it first, but I would be in- 

 clined to try it. 



MR. FRASER OF MASSACHUSETTS. The reason I 

 ask is more because I feel that there may be some that have 

 not tried it. I have tried it with great success, and ths 

 profits derived from the potatoes paid for the cultivation of 

 the orchard. 



MR. RICHARDS OF MARSHFIELD. I would like to 

 ask the speaker's opinion as regards orchard planting in 

 sod and kept in sod. 



MR. FRASER. All I can say is that there may be con- 

 ditions where that is good business. Since you are run- 

 ning your business you ought to be able to determine from 



