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heard quite so much, although we might well have done so, about 

 the apple scab and rot and so on. But do you know that these 

 wormy fruits and these windfalls that are upon the ground are 

 indeed a very serious menace to our future crops ? and it will pay 

 our orchardists to destroy that fruit even if they have to do it 

 by hand instead of turning in the hogs and sheep, or turning 

 those fruits into cider. As a safeguard to future crops then, 

 destroy refuse fruit. 



Mr. Gilbert: That is just the reason we have this subject 

 upon the program. We want to find out the way to get some- 

 thing to pay us for picking up this fruit. 



Prof. MuNSON : Do it whether you get pay for it or not. 

 You and your children will get the pay in the future if you don't 

 this year. 



Mr. Whtttier : The way we have disposed of that fruit, such 

 as we leave on the ground — it is not fit for canning nor evaporat- 

 ing, it is not worth picking up for anything except to feed out, 

 and the way we have done, we have left it on the ground and let 

 in a lot of hogs and pigs to pick it up for us and it don't cost us 

 much in that way. 



Mr. Cook : In regard to these inferior apples and drops, as 

 they are sometimes called, if you have the right variety of apples, 

 if you have Baldwins and Ben Davis, the windfall apples that are 

 large enough and are not too wormy will do to ship to your 

 Boston markets, and what won't do to ship are not fit for the 

 cannery or for anything else unless it is the cider mill or stock. 

 The gentleman spoke about No. 2 apples and then went on to 

 describe No. 7 apples. When he spoke of apples s'lightly ill- 

 formed, gnarly, one worm-hole in them, a little under size, that 

 was really the No. 2 apple, but the apple with a number of worm 

 holes that he talked about, bruised, and but an inch and a half 

 in diameter, those are not No. 2 apples, not second quality apples 

 at all, but are only fit for waste, whatever use you make of 

 your waste. I let the sheep and hogs and young cattle and colts 

 in my orchard all the time from May till December. I think it is 

 a good plan, that I get more apples from it, and get rid of these 

 worms in that way. I remember once we had a wind that blew 

 off a large percentage of the crop the last day of August. A 

 good many of those apples in the vicinity where I am acquainted 

 were packed and sent to Liverpool. The windfall apples in the 



