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that will work to good advantage in many places. One trouble 

 that those that have disc harrows have is that they are apt to 

 ride over stones and so escape some ground, but I have used 

 one of those with good effect in the spring; that is, a Cali- 

 fornia Cutaway with three discs that would reach close to the 

 tree. I did not find it, in my orchard, where there are some 

 stones, to advantage to use that tool except close to the trees, 

 where I had already thrown the stones out; it did good work 

 there. I understand Mr. Hale has found it to work well on 

 his Glastonbury orchard. These things have to be worked out 

 by the orchardists themselves, and you will find on visiting 

 orchards that they use certain tools and combinations of them. 

 There is no use in getting a lot of tools and making them 

 useless unless j^our ground is such as to require quite a variety. 

 I do not think that is necessary hereabouts anyway. 1 believe 

 our people have pretty well accustomed themselves to their 

 conditions, and know how they can take care of their orchards. 

 Perhaps the main point is to just do what they think they 

 ought to do, and use such tools as they think they need, and 

 not permit other orchardists to suffer from the use of needless 

 tools." 



A Member: 'T would like to inquire the price of this 

 Syracuse hoe." 



Mr. Platt: "It costs about $12, I believe, and there are 

 one or two attachments to it which make it cost a dollar or 

 two additional. There is a spring-tooth attachment which I 

 think costs about three or four dollars more. It is a tool that 

 can be used to very good advantage. All it wants is a fair kind 

 of a horse, a horse that can go straight ahead. It does not 

 require but little room to turn around. It can be turned in 

 perhaps ten feet." 



A Member: "Does the driver ride?" 



Mr. Platt: "Oh, no; he walks behind. He has one 

 handle which is stationary, and the other one moves the 

 rudder. He does not have to work particularly hard, but he 

 has to keep his eyes open, however, to carry the implement 

 close up to the trees where he wants it." 



The last speaker on this topic was Mr. A. C. Innis, of 

 Stratford, who briefly covered the following points: 



