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six dollars per acre in cultivation has been returned many fold 

 in crops received this year, to say nothing about the benefits 

 which will be received as the years go by. 



Mr. Morse: I want to say we have two or three different 

 orchards. Some we cultivate, — plow and harrow just as we do 

 a corn field, and some we do not. And there are hundreds of 

 acres of land in the state that will bear apples just as well if 

 they are fertilized without being cultivated, as they will with 

 cultivation. We have one orchard which we cultivated nine 

 years in succession, and cultivated it well, and we had a nice 

 crop of apples. I could take you to another in this location on 

 one of these old rocky hills, too rocky to cultivate crops, but we 

 fertilized it every year, and if anybody has raised a finer lot of 

 Baldwin's than we have there I would like to see it. And cul- 

 tivation, the way I understand it, for an orchard, may mean 

 several different things. It may mean plowing and cultivating 

 with a harrow. It may mean fertilizing and taking care of it 

 that way. In my personal experience, apples can be success- 

 fullv raised both wavs. 



THE CRY OF THE ORCHARD. 

 Dr. G. M. Twitciiell, Auburn. 



.1//-. Prcsidoit, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I never stand before an audience to discuss any of the great 

 questions which are confronting us in farm life and work of 

 today, but I feel the increasing consciousness of my own in- 

 ability to clearly set forth the lessons which seem to be implied, 

 or present truths which seem to be demanded. 



Looking over these tables, loaded as they are with magnificent 

 fruit, coming from ]\Iaine orchards, it hardly seems possible 

 that it would be necessary for us to take up and discuss, with 

 any idea of thoroughness, the questions of care and cultivation, 

 of fertilization and treatment, or selection of trees, which have 

 been presented to^lay. or will be presented in the coming sessions 

 of the meeting, yet the great fact faces us that the majority of 

 our orchards today are sadly neglected. Not long ago I heard 

 one of the best authorities in New England say, when speaking 



