78 TwENTY-FlKST BlENNIAL RePOBT 



now to scatter next spring a few forks of manure around 

 each, tree after they have been mulched with the hoe. 

 What we want nest year, the .year after they should be- 

 gin to bear some fruit, is wood growth so as to get the 

 proper bearing capacity, and we are .going to force them 

 next year. 



' ' We have a cold storage plant here that is buying up 

 all the apples in the immediate vicinity, and this should 

 be quite an encouragement to the apple growers, as tjiese 

 people will buy the apples right in the orchard, either 

 on the trees or picked and put to the table. This makes 

 it possible for a larger orchard to be handled with less 

 farm labor. They do the barrelling themselves, and haul 

 the apples in on large motor trucks 40 barrels at a load." 



Mr. H. Van Antwerp, of the Eowan County Associa- 

 tion, writes as follows: 



"We had no peach crop this year, and the apples 

 are a little too young to bear yet, but the Experiment 

 Station people say we have the fiiiest little orchard in 

 the business. 



"We now have forty acres, sixteen of which were set 

 last spri»g. One of the pictures shows a portion of the 

 more recent setting. The left hand portion of this pic- 

 ture includes some of the apple trees furnished by the 

 State through your courtesy. 



"We do not know that anything much is being done 

 out in the county, but articles in the county papers, and 

 the demonstration we are making here will accomplish 

 a little towards keeping up the interest, and, in time, 

 something will be gained. Nothing is so good as demon- 

 stration, and it takes time for these new things to 

 'percolate.' " 



COMMUNITY POULTRY BEEEDINa 



Out of the demonstration fund provided for this De- 

 partment, it was deemed wise to show the advantages to 

 a community by the proper organization of that conunun- 

 ity into a Poultry Association, with all members of the 

 Association breeding the same varieties of poultry, 



