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take the first rank, have all produced heavy crops of choice 

 apples, and at this date outsell any other variety by fifty cents 

 to a dollar a barrel. 



I have written this much in haste ; regi-et not having more 

 time. You can make what use of it you desire, only I would 

 ask you to withhold the name of the author, if any part 

 should go into the report. 



STATEMENT OF R. C. WARE, FOR B. P. WARE, OF MARBLEIIEAD. 



My father (B. P. Ware) being away for a couple of weeks, 

 I will answer your questions concerning apples, as I am pret- 

 ty familiar with those my father raises. 



Have three hundred and thirty trees, of twenty-six dilfer- 

 ent kinds. Soil loam, with gravelly subsoil and clay below 

 the gravel. Trees manured with compost in the spring. They 

 are treated very much like other crops. Trees are from fifteen 

 to fifty years old. The young orchard was started by setting 

 the young trees twenty feet apart ; the trees were budded 

 when two years old. The orchard has been cultivated ever 

 since the trees were set out, and the trees severely pruned, 

 with the hope of keeping them small and of bringing them 

 into early bearing. The trees, however, wouldn't be kept 

 small, and are now so thick that nearly eveiy other tree will 

 have to be removed this year. 



Very little trouble from borers. They are sometimes hunt- 

 ed with a pliable stick or wire. Caterpillars are kept down 

 by picking off the young nests. Canker worms are kept off 

 by tarred paper and printer's ink, applied fall and spring ; 

 otherwise the leaves would be all eaten off the trees by these 

 worms. The trees are pruned nearly every April. No 

 special care is taken of wormy fruit that drops. 



Baldwin, Pickman Pippin, Drap d'Or, Eoxburv Russet, 

 Danvers Winter Sweet, Sweet Baldwin, Greening, Early 



