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Swine have in some instances been kept in orchards with 

 good eflfect, sheep like to roam over just such land as we have 

 described. If such could be set with trees, where there is a 

 rich, deep soil, and cultivated around the trees for a few years, 

 and then stocked with sheep, we have no doubt it would be a 

 profitable investment, if the sheep can be protected from dogs. 

 Inform our legislators of the result, and we should hope they 

 would change the laws and protect the sheep instead of the 

 dogs. In view of what has been said may we not suppose that 

 there is much land in the County of little value, that may with 

 little or no cultivation, produce large quantities of the best 

 quality of late keeping winter apples. Our object in writing 

 this essay has been to increase the production of late 

 keeping winter apples. Our long life of more than four 

 score years has been spent on an apple growing farm, 

 and in an apple growing region, and our opinion now is, 

 that the apple crop has been as a rule, quite as profitable as 

 other crops, notwithstanding all the obstacles we have had to 

 contend with. The caterpillar and the canker worm prevailed 

 in our early days. We well remember in days of boyhood, 

 carrying the kettle of tar in one hand and brush in the other, 

 to tar our father's trees to protect them from the ravages of the 

 canker worm. That pest has prevailed more or less over the 

 orchards from that day to this, and those persons who have 

 protected their orchards from those insects, have been well 

 remunerated for their trouble. 



More recently the borer has made much trouble in some young 

 orchards, and now the apple worm has increased to such ex- 

 tent as to almost destroy the whole crop, and the worst of it is 

 there seems to be no remedy. We have taken considerable 

 pains within the last two years to get what information we 

 could in regard to tlieir habits. They appear in the early part 

 of the season, enter the apple, perform their work of destruc- 

 tion, then leave the apple. Others follow on in course through 

 the season. We have some new cases the present year, as late 

 as October, where we have cut the apple and found a worm 



