144 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, [Jan. 



just as any other part of my farm. The land is some of the 

 best I had on my farm, on a side hill. Do not plant an 

 apple-tree where nothing else will grow ; if you are 

 going to get a good orchard, plant it on the best land you 

 have. Take a side hill, if 3^ou have it, because that is the 

 best drained. There are a good many things I would like to 

 say if the time was so that I could. We raise in our section 

 quite a large lot of early apples, the Early William. I sold 

 them this year for two' dollars a barrel, and the man took 

 all I had at that price, which is more than we got for our 

 later varieties. We began to sell our late ones to shippers 

 at a dollar and a quarter, and finally got down to a dollar a 

 barrel, and even at that low figure I think there is more 

 money in apples than anything else. That is, we get almost 

 as much of everything else, and our apple crop besides. 

 Now, in the little farming town that I live in, we have 

 shipped somewhere from twenty thousand to twenty-five thou- 

 sand barrels, which means about one-half of the money they 

 brought extra to the farmers of that town. If they had not 

 raised those apples they would not have raised anything else 

 to have taken the place of them ; and I advise every young 

 man who is going to commence farming to set out an orchard 

 the first thing he does, and take good care of it. Do not 

 grow your trees fast ; do not get to thinking you want the 

 land for something else ; and do not neglect it so that it will 

 die. I suppose there are a great many orchards that are 

 grown too rapidly. The trees are very large. You do not 

 want them very large ; but you want the tree trimmed, to 

 start with ; then let it branch over so you can pick two or 

 three barrels when it is loaded, by standing on the ground. 

 I picked eighteen hundred barrels of apples this year, and I 

 am confident that in no other way could I have got as 

 much money as I did for my apples, and money is what the 

 farmer wants. That is the very point to-day in farming. 

 [Applause.] We want to raise crops whereby we can get 

 more money. My apples have averaged me for the last 

 fifteen years twelve hundred dollars a year. We want to 

 have more money ; if we cannot get it in apples, get it in 

 blackberries, strawberries, small fruit, or something of the 

 kind. We want to carry on our other farming just the 



