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Mr. Eaton : Yes, cultivating from two to three feet on 

 both sides of the trees. In this intensive system of planting 

 there is great economy in the cultivation per individual tree. 

 Such an intensive system is not generally approved, but I 

 am in for fruit and believe I can get much more in this war 

 and with great economy in many respects. If I change my 

 mind in a few years I can transplant the trees with little 

 loss of growth. So far, however, my experience has been 

 corroborated by the work of a few others. I have had the 

 satisfaction of knowing that many of the best fruit men of 

 our valley are adopting, to almost the same extent, the system 

 which I have. 



Mr. Hoyt : How do you cultivate that twenty-acre tract ? 

 What is your rule for cultivating, so that you can cover twenty 

 acres in one day ? Do you cultivate very close up to the trees ? 



Mr. Eaton : The trees are planted as I explained to you. 

 I widen out the cultivator about as far as it will go. The 

 man goes down one side the row and up the other. Clean 

 and perfect cultivation is thus given around the trees and as 

 far as the roots extend. 



Mr. Hubbard: So he doesn't cultivate the whole of the 

 land? 



Mr. Eaton : No, not in my young orchard. When the 

 narrow strip in between is not cropped, and I desire to keep 

 down the weeds, an occasional disking is given. For my 

 older orchard, I have harrows that will harrow about eiglit 

 feet in width, and the same area is cultivated in a day with 

 a pair of heavy horses. 



The President : Have you any of the large growing- 

 varieties alternating with the other varieties in that orchard? 

 Any of the large growing varieties like the Gravenstein, 

 mixed in with the Wagener? 



Mr. Eaton : Yes. 



Speaking of the cultivation of the orchard, I have 

 about 91 acres in orchards, containing about 30,000 trees, 

 and my man and team has during the last two or three 

 years cultivated that about once a week. A good man and 

 team will cultivate about fifteen or sixteen acres a day with- 

 out over-workins:. 



