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hoped that I should have some nice, well-developed fruit. I 

 kept cutting all the sprouts as they appeared from the native 

 timber in order to kill them as my trees proceeded in growth.' 

 I planted my trees. The first difficulty arose when the wood- 

 chucks visited my clearing, and used the bark of those 

 trees to sharpen their teeth upon, or to clean their claws on, 

 especially in the early season. We don't know exactly how a 

 woodchuck does that, but he has a way of doing something 

 of that kind that is pretty bad. Next, the rabbits invaded 

 the clearing, and I found on the trees that stood at all that 

 the fruit had about as many stings of the codling moth as those 

 planted elsewhere, and so I concluded to let the trees take 

 their, course. I removed the fence, and let the chestnuts 

 sprout up as they would. My experience with other tree 

 planting has not all been like that, or I should not be here 

 to-day. 



