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Mr. Eatox : Some of them have been twelve years old. 



Mr. Tves: After you cut them back and move them will 

 tlK\- Ix'ar the next year, or will it take two or three years? 



Mr. Eaton: I think that in larcfe trees the growth is 

 checked quite two years. Of course, in transplanting- a tree 

 I would transplant the off bearing year, so that I w^ould lose 

 a very little more than one year's profit. 



Mr. Hoyt: How many trees would five or six men trans- 

 plant a day, that is, trees six inches in diameter? 



^Ir. Eatox : I can hardly give you figures on that. I 

 had two men who dug up trees from three to four inches in 

 diameter, six or seven years of age, and it only cost me about 

 2^ or 30 cents per tree, paying my men at the rate of a dollar 

 a day. 



]\Ir. Ror-ERTSOx : This fruit that I have seen from Xova 

 Scotia, it has seemed to me, did not have the proper color. I 

 have seen Gravensteins and some other varieties from Nova 

 Scotia, but the Gravenstein, while it was very fine, did not 

 seem to have any color. It was not firm like ours here. Your 

 Xova Scotia fruit, apples, while they are very nice, yet there 

 is no color to them. 



Mr. Eatox : The Gravenstein on highly cultivated land 

 will not color quite as much as we would like to have it. 

 I do not know whether Mr. Hale has proven to your satis- 

 faction that potash will color fruit every time. Lack of 

 color is often due to too early picking with us. 



^Ir. Robertson : Planting an orchard in the way you 

 have described it seems to me that the trees and branches 

 might be so thick that we would not get a properly colored 

 fruit. 



Mr. Eatox: In my own orchards I have not seen this 

 effect. 



Mr. Hale: Don't you think that the roots might cross, 

 as well as the branches, unless they are kept down ? 



Mr. Eatox : In my orchard which was planted by my 

 Connecticut forefathers the roots must have crossed 125 years 

 ago. That orchard is in healthy bearing condition to-day. I 

 think we need to pay very little attention to where the roots 

 go, provided they get something to eat. 



