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ent part of the orchard and at a different season. This was in 

 the fall after the fruit had been taken from the trees. The trees 

 vary in type, but the straight type predominates. 



Now we come to another proposition. That is as the land 

 looks frequently in our section before it is taken in hand at all. 

 There is a section that a year ago, just about this time, I was 

 busily engaged upon clearing, a section of about five acres in 

 area, a rough and rugged piece of land on the hillside, as you 

 see. I went to work and cleared those stones and built seventy 

 or a hundred rods of wall on the lower side, removing all the 

 surface stones at first and then putting a plow in and having the 

 plow followed by two men with bars, taking out the stones, and 

 this spring I planted a section of it to young trees and planted 

 that area to corn. And I had a beautiful piece of corn on that 

 field. I also had a splendid growth upon the young trees. So 

 you may see from that photograph the condition of the land 

 where my orchard had been practically made. It had to be 

 worked slowly and a great deal of expense was involved. But 

 the results have justified the expense, and it takes but a very 

 few years in which to get a valuable and profitable orchard. 



Here you see a picking scene, showing the low-headed trees 

 and the ladders placed upon them and the pickers ready for 

 work with their baskets. The picking of the apples is the most 

 interesting and fascinating part of orcharding for me. 



The next view shows the larger orchard in the dormant pe- 

 riod. It is during the latter part of the dormant period that I 

 'do most of the pruning. I used to do it in the winter, but lately 

 I do m.ost of it in late winter or early spring. 



Here is the spraying outfit which we use. the largest size hand 

 pump, with a tank holding two hundred gallons. Instead of a 

 tower, we utilize a painter's ladder bolted to the wagon upon 

 which a man may reach the tops of any trees which we have. 



We now have a close view of one of the trees, showing it in 

 fruit, and here is where we come close to an illustration of the 

 possibilities in apple culture. Here is a tree which two years 

 ago produced something like ten barrels of apples, selling at 

 that time at $3.00 a barrel. This year we had ten or more bar- 

 rels from that tree, selling at $3.25 a barrel. Think what the 

 returns would be from a whole orchard at that rate, counting 

 thirty trees to the acre ! And what has been done there may 



