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aiang tnose two rows, keeping them together so I may have my 

 eye upon all operations and see that they pick the apples care- 

 fully and do not leave any apples on the trees or break the 

 trees. 



We now have a picture of a tree which has been planted four 

 months on a section of land which the winter before was cov- 

 ered with forest. This is a type of land which we are using. 

 This tract of land was literally a forest, from which was cut 

 hundreds of, thousands of feet of lumber and a great many 

 cords of wood. In the early springtime the brush was burned, 

 and the trees were planted right among the stumps and stones. 

 No effort was made to remove a thing except that in the spring 

 from this section were taken enough stones to build quite a piece 

 of stone wall. Since this time, which was two years ago, the 

 piece has been pretty well cleared of stones, but the stumps are 

 still there. The trees are growing. Of course the methods of 

 caring for trees under these conditions are entirely different 

 from those where you put in a plow and harrow. I grubbed 

 about them with a grub hoe, putting on a bushel of stable ma- 

 nure to every tree, and the result has been, I have obtained a 

 very fine growth on those trees. 



Here is another of a block of 600 Baldwin trees, shov/ing 

 them in fruit. The limbs gre low and it is easy to gather fruit 

 from such trees. Old men or children can pick fruit from 

 such trees, and pick it as cheaply and as easily as an active man 

 can from a ladder. 



This is an interior view of the storage building. Here you 

 see a room where we can easily handle 3,000 barrels of apples. 

 In this room there are something like i.ooo barrels. And a 

 place like this or a storage house of some kind, in my opinion 

 is most essential for anyone engaged in apple growing on any 

 large scale. I have tried all ways for packing apples. I have 

 tried packing them in the field and packing them inside, and I 

 am firmly convinced that w"ith me. and under our conditions, it 

 is far more satisfactory to pick the apples and put them m a 

 storage building, and then at a later time, at my convenience, 

 pack and ship them. If you pick and pack at the same time 

 in the orchard, you run into periods of wet weather. You gel 

 your barrels wet and get them out of shape. You are delayed 

 in your work. Whereas, when you are picking you can give 

 all your energies to that operation, and then, when you have 



