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tofore made, may understand precisely the attitude which I have 

 assumed, in which I have been confirmed by the experience of 

 those who have spoken before me. 



Mr. Beebb. I own a large amount of mountain land, and 

 apple-trees are scattered all over that territory, in the woods. 

 Three or four years ago there was a very dry season, and there 

 were hardly any apples in this country, but wherever I found 

 one of these wild trees near live water, that tree was full of 

 apples, in many instances bent to the ground ; but wherever a 

 tree stood on dry loam or in the woods, entirely sheltered, and 

 no water visible, there were no apples. I infer from that, that 

 lire water may be a good thing in the production of apples. 



Mr. Moore. I would like to ask the Doctor if he would ad- 

 vise us to pull up all the apple-trees where the prohibitory law 

 is at work ? That law has made cider apples worth two dollars 

 a barrel in my place. That will never do. What are you going 

 to do without cider ? 



Dr. LoRiNG. You may not get as much cider cultivating 

 trees in the way I have suggested, but you will get a great 

 many more apples. 



Mr. Moore. I do not care anything about cider, because I 

 drink but little of it ; but I have raised good crops of apples 

 right straight along, and I do not know why the rest of you 

 cannot. I do not believe at all in the theory that orchards 

 exposed to the wind will not bear anything. 



Dr. LoRiNG. There is no theory about it ; it is a fact. 



Mr. Moore. I have a row of five or six apple-trees, standing 

 in a field so situated that, if the wind blows anywhere, it blows 

 like a hurricane there. Yet I got from those trees, this year, 

 some twenty barrels of apples, that brought $6 a barrel. Last 

 year I got a lighter crop, and the year before twenty-five barrels. 

 There have been no crops grown under them. If I can raise 

 apples, I do not know why you cannot. I do not believe that 

 doctrine. 



Then, while I respect and admire Col. Wilder, and believe in 

 about all he says, I do not believe in his theory about peach- 

 trees. I admit that I have lost almost all my peach-trees. 

 Twenty years ago I raised peaches so abundantly that I dumped 

 large quantities of them into the pig-pen. Previous to that 

 time, the disease called the yellows started down in Delaware, 



