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apples. A part of the trees stand on loamy, and a part on 

 sandy soil. Being much neglected, I received little benefit 

 from them until six years ago. The land has never been 

 ploughed, and was manured but little until 1850, when I cov- 

 ered it with saltpetre dirt from under my barn, and chip ma- 

 nure. I turned the soil over around the trees to keep it loose, 

 and to prevent mice from gnawing them ; and scraped the 

 bark to keep off insects. That year I gathered one hundred 

 and thirty bushels of winter fruit, besides several bushels of 

 fall apples. My winter fruit I valued at sixty dollars, and cut 

 two crops of hay, one ton and three-quarters per acre, the first 

 mowing, and one ton the second. Two years before I sold 

 forty bushels of apples. This method of treating my orchard 

 I find to be quite beneficial. My trees this fall are in a thrifty 

 condition, and I have gathered from them, nearly three hun- 

 dred bushels of apples. 



Elijah Bolticood' s Statemetit. 



My orchard, which is in two locations, contains one hundred 

 and fifty trees. They are all from my own nursery, and have 

 been planted from fifteen to twenty years. They stand in 

 good soil, but have had no extra culture. They contain a 

 great variety of choice fruits ; such as Rhode Island Greening, 

 Roxbury Russet, Summer Golden Sweets, Winter Tolman 

 Sweet, R. I. Sweet, Scotch, Lafayette, and Boston Russet, 

 Congress Apple, Pumpkin Sweet, Cathead, Spitzenburg, Early 

 Sweet Bough, Red Pippin, Oyster Bay, Crow's Egg, Shop 

 Apple, Seek-no-further, Tabor Sweet, Tartar Apple, Leather 

 Coat, Widow Paine, Porter Apple, King Apple, Peck's Pleas- 

 ant, Royal Pippin, Burt Apple, Sawen Sweeting, Baldwin, 

 Pomegree, Jenneting, Golden Kennet, Siberian Crab Apple, 

 and many others, names unknown. 



I have gathered from them this autumn, 150 bushels of 

 good winter apples, and 220 bushels of cider apples. 



