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alone. In many cases they will give better returns com- 

 bined. Really, to be candid with you, I think that you will 

 have to solve it yourself. 



A VOICE. I understood when I got up to ask you a 

 question in regard to that grafting I spoke of, that you ob- 

 jected to it. Why do you object to that method of graft- 

 ing? I didn't learn anything from your answer. It was in 

 regard to that twenty-year-old orchard that I want to graft 

 over. 



MR. FRASER. Why, on any work of that nature that 

 I have seen, unless the trees are already low, they are apt to 

 shoot up, and there is considerable work and a lot of dif- 

 ficulty. I don't want to run that question down, because it 

 is entitled to a proper answer. Top grafting is an awful lot 

 of work. I tried it on a lot of trees, and I am sorry I did 

 it. I am giving you my honest conviction on the propo- 

 sition. If I could possibly avoid it I would never do it. 



A VOICE. I realize it is going to be a lot of work. 



MR. FRASER. Not only a lot of work, but you will 

 have limbs in there for five years that won 't be working and 

 you will be fussing over it with two varieties on the trees 

 and an awful lot of trouble and bother, and I don't think it 

 is worth while in these days ; I don 't think it is worth while, 

 don 't think it is commercial. 



A VOICE. You don't think but what we can grow good 

 apples that way? 



MR. FRASER. No question but that you can grow 

 them. The only question is, can you grow them commer- 

 cially at a profit? 



A VOICE. If that were the only piece of land you 

 owned, would you do it? 



MR. FRASER. What variety? 



A VOICE. Baldwin. 



MR. FRASER. I would never do it; I would never 

 change. 



A VOICE. That is all right for you, but I know I want 



