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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Practical Apple Growing Subject of 
Talk Before N. S. H. S. 
Atthe meeting of the North Shore 
Horticultural society last Friday evening 
an entertainment committee was ap- 
pointed and also a show committee,. the 
latter to be composed of William Swan, 
John Chapman, Alexander Shaw, John 
D. Morrison and Mr. Jaffray. Alfred 
E. Parsons was appointed press corres- 
pondent. It was voted to hold a banquet 
and a committee was appointed to make 
arrangements forthe same. The ban- 
quet willbe held on Feb. 3. 
“The speaker of the evening was Allen 
N. Swain, a scientific forester of Boston, 
whose subject was “‘ Practical Apple 
Growing.’’ He took for the basis of 
his talk an old neglected orchard of some 
four or five hundred trees. 
The first thing necessary, he said, was 
the removal of the dead wood and 
stumps, cutting close to the tree that the 
wounds may have a chance ‘to heal over. 
Next comes the pruning of green wood, 
first removing crosslimbs. Ina neglect- 
ed orchard this should not be done at 
once, but a little each year, requiring 
three years to get the top properly thinned 
out and opened up to let inthe sun and 
-air to color the fruit. 
Coal tar and lead paint, he said, are 
equally good for painting the wound 
where the limbs are sawed off, but coal 
tar is cheaper. “Too much pruning in 
one year makes “‘suckers’’ grow too 
plentifully. The tree should be scraped 
to remove dead bark; this promotes 
healthy growth and exposes vermin. 
Another operation is bolting. This is 
done to prevent the tree from breaking 
apart. He spoke also of scales and the 
methods employed for removing same. 
Scalecide, he said, was one of the best 
solutions used for spraying in this con- 
nection. “The nextstep inthe develop- 
ment of the orchard as soon as the frost 
is out of the ground, is to begin with cul- 
tivation. Plow four inches deep and no 
matter if the small roots are cut, this will 
<do,no harm; the ground should be culti- 
vated once a month to keep down the 
weeds and hold the moisture in the 
ground, until July first. Begin arsenical 
spraying as soon as the buds swell. 
Spray again when the petals have fallen 
andten days later spray for the third 
time. In harvesting the apples bundle 
them like eggs. Do net put them in 
heaps to sweat but pack in boxes and 
barrels. Put them in the cellar at night. 
Keep them closed in the day time. 
Following Mr. Swain’s talk a discus- 
sion followed on the varieties of apples 
and other subjects in connection with the 
production of this fruit. Mr. Swain be- 
lieved the Baldwin apple was the one 
great commercial variety. Light colored 
varieties find a poor market he said, red 
apples are the ones most salable. 
The subject of the next meeting, Jan. 
21, will be Chrysanthemums. Charles 
H. Totti, aspecialist of Madison, N. J., 
will be the speaker. 
At the General Court. 
The representatives from this district 
to the General Court, which convened 
last week, have fared well in the ap- 
pointments on various committees. Sena- 
tor Tolman of Gloucester is appointed 
as chairman of the committee on bills in 
third reading, a committee which is 
called upon to read and pass upon every 
single engrossed bill which has passed 
the upper branch. The next committee 
to which he was assigned was that of 
legal affairs on which all lawyers aspire 
to secure a place. He is also assigned 
to the committee on _ constitutional 
amendments, which will have to do with 
all vexatious questions relating to taxation 
and prohibitory amendments to the con- 
stitution. 
Rept. Raymond C. Allen of Man- 
chester is appointed on the committee on 
water supply, one of the most important 
in the House, in which position Mr. 
Allen should prove especially valuable 
inasmuch as he has had practically the 
entire charge of the institution of the 
Manchester additional water supply which 
involved an expenditure of over $150,- 
000. He was also appointed on the 
committee on counties of which Rept. 
Fogg of Newburyport is house chair- 
man. 
Rept. Story of Essex, is assigned to 
the committee on taxation. Rept. Rick- 
er of Gloucester is on the committee on 
public lighting. Rept. Elwell of Rock- 
port is on the committee on harbors and 
public lands. 
Rept. Allen, by the way, will be un- 
able to take up his duties -at the State 
House until the first of February, pro- 
bably, on account of the operation which 
he underwent at the Beverly hospital re- 
cently. He is recovering as rapidly as 
could be expected. 
Beverly Man Appointed Judge. 
Dennis W. Quill of Beverly was nom- 
inated as Associate Judge for the first 
district court of Essex county at Salem, 
by Gov. Eben S. Draper at a meeting of 
tne executive council at the State House 
Wednesday. The appointment is to fill 
the vacancy caused by the death of Judge 
Nathaniel Holden who held the place for 
many years. ‘The district includes Sa- 
lem, Beverly, Wenham, Hamilton and 
Manchester. Itis probable that the agi- 
tation for a district court at Beverly will 
be held up for a while, now a Beverly 
man has been appointed judge of the dis- 
trict court. 
I have just put in a stock of mail boxes 
and letter plates. D. T. Beaton. adv. 
Emerson Shoes for Fall and Winter 
Wear at Bell’s, adv, 
Business Men's Association. 
The annual banquet of the Business 
Men’s association will be held next Mon- 
day evening at City hall, Beverly. For 
the accomodation of Hamilton and Glou- 
cester branch members the exercises will 
begin at 6 o'clock, sothat those desiring 
to attend should leave for Beverly on the 
Gloucester branch train leaving between 
5.15 and 5.30. The Beethoven Male 
Quartet of Boston and Ferrick’s Or- 
chestra of Beverly will be the entertain- 
ing features, and the speakers of the even- 
ing will include Hon. Herbert Parker, 
Ex-Attorney-General, Hon. Sam Wal- 
ter Foss, humorist and poet, and Hon. 
Joseph F. Quinn of Boston. Dill of 
Melrose will be the caterer. 
‘The annual meeting of the Association 
was held Monday evening when the fol- 
lowing officers were elected: Albert 
Vittum, pres., John H. Girdler, Bever- 
ly, vice president, B. A. Patch, secre- 
tary, Roland P. Woodbury, treasurer, S. 
C. Gould, L. A. Sturtevant, T. F. De- 
laney, F. I. Lamasney, John M. Whit- 
comb, L. W. Floyd, directors. 
Smoking Habit Causes Wood Fires. 
‘That the smoking habit is one of the 
chief causes for forest fires in this state 
is the fact which is revealed in the report 
which Chief Forester Rane will make to 
the legislature this month. ‘The total 
amount of damages from forest fires, so 
far as can be ascertained by the wardens, 
amounted this year in the state to $236,- 
478 and the number of acres burned over 
42,808. 
Definite information has been fur- 
nished Forester Rane that more than 90 
cases of fire were due direct to. careless- 
ness of smokers which traverse our for- 
ests either in work or in recreation, and 
such a condition states the report, is, 
without question, “‘the greatest menace 
to future forestry.’’ 
‘*The railroad fires,’ continues the 
report, ‘‘are confined to certain areas, 
but the smoker is everywhere. If for- 
est wardens or their deputies were to 
bring more circumstantical evidence to 
bear against smokers from known con- 
ditions, where hunters, fishermen, camp- 
ers, woodsmen, etc., have traversed, it 
is believed the effect of the law, which 
makes such persons liable for the dam- 
ages, would prove helpful to future for- 
estry.”’ 
Annual Meeting of Bank. 
The annual meeting of the Beverly 
National Bank was held Tuesday after- 
noon at which time it was voted to in- 
crease the capital stock from $200,000 
to $300,000. The directors organized 
with Andrew W. Rogers as president, 
and Jasper R. Pope as vice-president. 
The officials of the bank were re-elected, 
