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out a great coarse-grained one, produce the best type that we 

 can, one that is well colored, and then it will sell fairly well 

 at a fair price. 



Along the hne of work that we are doing, besides demon- 

 strating the effect of fertilizing and cultivating, we are endeav- 

 oring to produce other varieties of apples and determine the 

 adaptability of those apples to our Maine conditions. We have 

 a small nursery that is below the orchard. There are about 

 three thousand trees. The original stock was French crab 

 seedlings, set a year ago this last spring. This year in July 

 and August we budded those over, to the apples which appealed 

 to us as being desirable to grow in this section of the State. 

 Of course it takes a long time, it is a slow process, this picking 

 out, selecting, sorting and grading up to get a new variety of an 

 apple that wi'll take the place of the Baldwin as a commercial 

 apple and at the same time bring out the color, and one that 

 will stand up and ship across the water or to any other section 

 of the country, — and stand up as well as the Baldwin and will 

 have as fine a flavor as the Mcintosh. 



The pruning is another thing. We have done what we could 

 to demonistrate the different methods of pruning. We have 

 allowed some of the trees to grow as they naturally would. The 

 Ben Davis is naturally inclined to a close-growing top. We 

 have taken this out to allow the sun to come in and ripen up 

 and color the fruit. It has had a wonderful effect. We have 

 found where we have opened the top up that we have got larger 

 apples and very much better colored apples ; and the fungous 

 diseases which attacked those which were closer gtrowing, 

 where the sun did not have a chance to come in and assist in 

 killing out the spores, have troubled us less. We have had fewer 

 scabby apples and less trouble from the fungous diseases. 

 This demonstrates the advisability, in our section especially, of 

 opening up the top, not trying to have them too dense or to 

 allow them to run into the air too high, but to keep them down 

 loAv and open them up so ais to allow the sun and air to come 

 in. Those are some of the things accomplished this year at 

 Highmioor. 



Now after the crop was grown the problem that confronted 

 us was that of packing and taking care of it. When there were 



