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Vfho would not wish even fronn motives of simple bene- 

 voloijce to do something in the way of elevating the race? 

 And when this object lies in the direct Jine of pecuniary profit 

 every farmer should be stimuhiled to exert himself to increase 

 very materially his production of good orchard fruits. Thus 

 might man do much by the cultivation of the apple, to re- 

 claim in the present, and avert from the rising generation, 

 much of that evil which has fallen upon mankind, in conse- 

 quence of that sad mistake which a certain woman is said 

 to have made, in the matter of an apple, in the garden of 



Eden. 



E. F. BAILEY, Chairman. 



Ephraim Graham's Statement. 



The Apple orchard, No. 1, which I offer for premium, con- 

 sists of 97 trees, viz: Baldwin, Hubbardston Nonsuch and 

 Pound Sweetings. It was transplanted in the spring of 1849. 

 The holes were dug about 4 feet in diameter, and from 20 to 

 24 in. deep, and filled with compost manure, intermixed with 

 leached ashes, together with the excavated sub-soil. After 

 transplating, the whole field was seeded to grass with wheat, 

 care being taken to have neither wheat nor grass grow within 

 two feet of the trees. In August, after the wheat crop was 

 removed, about a peck of compost manure mixed with un- 

 leached ashes was put to each tree. During the summer of 

 1850, neither grass-roots nor weeds were allowed to grow so 

 as to interfere with the roots of the trees ; the same precaiT- 

 tion was again taken in 1851. In the autumn of '51, 1-6 of 

 a load of manure from the barn cellar was spread around 

 each tree, and turned in with the plow at a distance of 4 feet 

 each side of the line of trees. This, in 1852 was planted, thus 

 having alternate '-strips'' of grass and potatoes; the same 

 was again do!>e in 1853. In 1854, 1-6 of a load of manure 



