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been take off low down. I found 15 trees that way, and 

 since then I have been willing to have a high head. 



ME. MARGESON. I wouldn't be surprised if the 

 leopard moth should attack your tree in that way. They 

 will cut your branches pretty clean, and they will drop off. 



MR. WILFRID WHEELER. I would like to ask Mr. 

 Margeson what experience he has had with sweet cherries. 



MR. MARGESON. My experience has been poor, 

 generally speaking. I don't believe they are profitable to 

 grow. 



MR. WHEELER. What kinds have you that you 

 recommend ? 



MR. MARGESON. Montmorency has been the largest 

 money getter. 



MR. WHEELER. I mean, in the sweet cherries. 



MR. MARGESON. Bay State is a fairly sweet cherry, 

 and if you can get a crop, it is a very fine fruit, but they 

 don't fruit very heavily. Windsor is another. 



MR. WHEELER. Have you tried Black Tartarian ? 



MR. MARGESON. I have tried it, but I haven't had 

 much success with it. 



THE PRESIDENT. If there are no further questions, 

 we will give up this subject. We want very much to hold 

 a field meeting with Mr. Margeson, when he will let us see 

 just what he is doing. I have always been astonished at the 

 amount that can be done on a small area, and whenever I 

 have seen a place like Mr. Margeson 's I have felt that most 

 of us are making a mistake in trying to do too much and 

 only half doing it. I wish that this address might go to 

 many of the city people who anticipate buying farms and 

 making a living on them. I don't believe that many of 

 them can make the success that Mr. Margeson has, but if 

 more people could only see what he has done, I believe it 

 would save a great many failures in this respect in the fu- 

 ture. 



Now, we also have with us this morning Doctor E. Por- 

 ter Felt, State Entomologist, of Albany, New York. We 

 have called on Doctor Felt for many years. He is a Massa- 

 chusetts man and a graduate of our Agricultural College, 

 and he has always been much interested in both the College 



