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but on the west side the soil has a lime-rock bottom and vou 

 can go down there and pick it up, and the roots can go down 

 there, I don't know how deep, into this lime-rock soil. Select 

 the variety that is suited to your soil. We used to think in 

 New England if we were going into the orchard business 

 that all we had to do was to select a locality, but to-day what 

 we have to do to grow good New England apples is to select 

 varieties for the locality where we wish to put them. 



Mr. Hale: Do you practice thinning your apples in the 

 summer season, that is, thinning out the surplus apples, and 

 do you also harvest them all at one time? 



Mr. Kinnf.y: We never try thinning our apples, but the 

 Greening and the Baldwin, and the Spy and the King and the 

 Spitzenberg I don't think need thinning in our section, pro- 

 vided the trees are properly trimmed. The trimming of trees 

 after they are at the bearing age is one method of thinning 

 fruit. In regard to the picking of our fruit, practically when 

 one tree is ready of a variety they are all ready. 



Mr. Hale: What I meant was, does all of your fruit 

 tnature on a tree at the same time, so that it is in the same 

 stage of readiness for picking on the same day ? Do you pick 

 the ripe fruit that is mature and leave that which is not, or do 

 you pick it all, whether mature or not? 



Mr. Kinney: The fruit I think is all mature at the same 

 time, but the fruit on different parts of the same tree is not 

 all alike. On some parts of the tree it may be very red, and 

 on other parts it may be lighter color, but that light apple is 

 just as much ripe as the red one, in my experience. All of 

 ovir apples of the same varieties, I think I am safe in saying, 

 ripen near enough together to say that they ripen at the same 

 time. You know that all you can get out of your neighbor 

 is fruit plunder, and if a certain variety of apples is doing 

 remarkably well with your neighbor, watch them and study 

 them, and put them in your own orchard if they are a success. 



Mr.' Warner : I would like to ask if Mr. Kinney suc- 

 ceeds in getting a full («rop of Baldwins every year on the 

 same tree? 



]\Ir. Kinney : I think it can be done ; we have succeeded 

 in fruiting them for three years past. But the Snow apple. 



