36 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



The extraordinary produce of the Baldwin apple the present 

 season is worthy of special notice. Universally have these 

 trees borne a full crop. We have known single trees, not over 

 thirty years old, to yield fourteen barrels, and three trees to- 

 gether to yield forty barrels. We know one young orchard, 

 where the proprietor picked with his own hands forty barrels 

 in one day. 



We forbear to extend our remarks on this subject, as they 

 may be thought not entirely within our province, nevertheless, 

 if we could convince our farmers of the benefits to accrue to 

 them and their families, from more assiduous attention to the 

 cultivation of good fruit, we think a good service would be ac- 

 complished. 



A. T. NEWHALL, Chairman. 



Amos Gould's Statement. 



I enter for premium seventy-nine apple trees, set out on my 

 premises three years ago this fall. They were procured all at 

 the same time, nearly all of which are Baldwins, from the nur- 

 sery of Allen W. Dodge, in Hamilton, grown on light soil, and 

 not forced by high culture. When transplanted, they were two 

 years old from the bud, and consequently are now five years 

 from the bud. A part of them were set in land that had 

 been cultivated two years, and a part on land broken up that 

 fall. This last named land has been kept under cultivation to 

 the present time, and the trees upon it have made a much bet- 

 ter growth than those upon the other land, which was laid 

 down to grass the following spring, although it was dug round 

 the trees the two seasons after. All of the land was this year 

 ploughed and planted, expressly for the benefit of the trees, so 

 well convinced am I that in this way the thrift of trees is best 

 promoted. 



The trees were set out with the utmost care, occupying two 

 men for two days, the holes having been dug previously. 

 About three pecks of compost manure were placed round the 

 trees, after being set, and the same quantity has been applied 

 each fall since. Early in the spring this manure has been dug 

 jn, and about a pint of air slackened lime strewed over the 



