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STATEMENT OF J. M. ALLEN, OF DAN VERS. 



We have one orchard, consisting- of eighty young trees, 

 Baldwins and Danvers Sweetings mostly ; and then we have 

 scattering trees of different varieties, — Porters, Ministers, 

 President, Pumpkin Sweets, Northern Spy, and graven- 

 stein, — amounting in all to about one hundred and thirty 

 trees, twelve of them very old. 



The best trees are on light, gravelly soil. They are en- 

 riched in the spring with common barn manure. Our best 

 Baldwin apples this year were enriched with coal ashes ; some 

 of them weighed three-quarters of a pound. We are not 

 troubled with apple worms to any account ; we prune in 

 April, and pull all the suckers we can by hand. We feed 

 out the wind-fall sweetings, and make the sour ones into cider 

 ■for vinegar. We dori't dr'inh cider-. 



For market, we consider Gravensteins as good, or better, 

 than any other fall apple, and Baldwins for winter ; though 

 for my own eating I prefer Greenings the first part of the 

 winter. We have this year ninety barrels of very large ap- 

 ples, twelve of which are Danvers Sweetings. The Baldwins 

 fire uncommonly large and fair, although I have noticed that 

 they are not so red as the smaller variety. We tliink if the 

 Committee on Fruit could have seen our orchard, we should 

 have had a premium. 



STATEMENT OF ABIJAH FULLER, OF MIDDLETON. 



On m}^ farm I have about one hundred apple trees of about 

 a dozen difierent kinds, the principal of which are Baldwins, 

 Danvers Winter Sweet, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Kilham Hill, 

 Rhode Island Greening, Harveys, both summer and fall. 

 My trees are mostly young, and I do not enrich them only 

 by ploughing among them. The soil in my orchard is rather 

 gravelly. I generallj'^ prune my trees in winter or very early 

 spring. I am troubled but very little with canker worms, — 



