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at the highest price. The market is never oversupplied with 

 these large, high-colored fruits, but usually is more than full 

 of the lower grades, with color and quality so poor that few 

 consumers want them, and surely there is no money in this 

 class of fruit for the grower. If we have given the necessary 

 culture through the growing season, with careful attention to 

 the trees, and find, as the result, they are loaded with choice 

 fruit, what are we to do with it ? How shall we place this 

 fruit on the market, making it so attractive as to bring the 

 highest price? In short, how shall we get the greatest returns 

 for our labor ? These are questions we may well ask, for it 

 seems to me that upon them rests the business end of the 

 whole industry. I leave them to be answered by those of 

 wider experience. 



Question: "What tool do you use mostly for cultivation?" 



Mr. Buss: "My ground is full of stones, all sizes. We 

 have carried ofif a good many of the large ones, except some 

 large rocks, but the ground itself is full of small red stones, and 

 that being the case, I do not find any tool that will do the 

 digging like a spring-tooth harrow. A cutaway harrow will do 

 the work nicely, but I do not plow my ground, and as the 

 ground is very hard in the spring, the spring-tooth harrow 

 mellows it up good. I cultivate continually through the season, 

 clear up to the last of August or the ist of September." 



Question: "What amount of cow-peas do you sow to the 

 acre?" 



Mr. Bliss: 'T have not done very much with cow-peas in 

 the orchard. Last season I put cow -peas in my ensilage corn, 

 and we cut it and let it run into the silo. I could not tell you 

 the right amount of seed." 



Question: "Have you points on your spring-tooth har- 

 row?" 



Mr. Bliss: "I have two kinds. One is a wheel -harrow, 

 but on my land it is rather bad to drag around, and so I use 

 this land harrow the most, especially in my larger orchards. T 

 think you ought to have a harrow constructed in that style, as it 

 will dig better. It is sharper." 



Question: "Then, as I understand you, you have your 

 harrow constructed with the points so it will dig better?" 



