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I cultivate for the beiietit of the trees, but I thoroughly be- 

 lieve, if we go too close to the gi'ound, we are going to make 

 a mistake. 



Mr. Hale. It is true about losing the fruit from those 

 low branches ; but there isn't a high tree in America but 

 what you lose enormously in the upper fruit, and I believe 

 there are more apples lost from the top of the high apple 

 trees than from the low branches of the low apple trees. 

 You are bound to lose some, either way. What troubles me 

 is, why you Avant to go to Michigan and plant apple trees 

 on that flat, low country, when you had such glorious hill- 

 top orchard lands in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. 

 The mere fact that you did that proves you unfit to control 

 an apple orchard. 



Professor Rane. If Ave Michigan men can afford to raise 

 apples in southern Michigan and ship them to Boston and 

 make a success of it, why shouldn't we do it? I was born 

 and raised in southern Michigan ; it is my native home ; the 

 old farm, the environment we have heard so much about, is 

 there, and my heartfelt sympathy goes back there, and I 

 naturally keep Michigan close to my heart, although I have 

 been in New England eleven years, and l^elieve thoroughly 

 in what Mr. Hale said this afternoon, — that the apple crop 

 can be grown all over this State and up in New Hampshire 

 to great advantage. I think perhaps that will answer in a 

 way the question Mr. Hale asked me. 



Mr. Hale. I am mighty glad I asked it that way. He 

 brought out just what I believed he would. He loves the 

 place where he Avas born. The place in Michigan AAdiere he 

 was born is dearer and better to him, azid AA'ill bring better 

 apples for him than anyAvhere else on the face of the earth. 

 That is Avhat makes a man ; that is what makes a citizen ; 

 that is Avhat makes an American. I always liked him ; noAV 

 I love him, because he loves the good old place where he 

 was born, the home farm ; and if the boys Avho had been 

 born on Ncav England farms had just such feelings as that, 

 or if those farmers who bred boys on New England farms 

 had tauo^ht them the same feeling, the love for the home, the 

 love for the farm, we wouldn't have the boys going out of 



