e mice. I always put on
a lot of old screen that I take from the cottages that is worn out and
put a wire around it so the mice can't get through it. We must protect
from mice and rabbits.

Mr. Kellogg: How soon do your dwarf trees pay for themselves?

Dr. Huestis: I don't know. I reckon these four have paid about twelve
per cent. on fifteen or twenty dollars this year, and they have right
along. They have paid me better so far during the eight years than the
standards. That might not apply in eight more years, but for a city lot,
a man who has fifty square feet, how many apple trees could he put in
that seventeen feet apart? Nine standard trees. In that same plot of
fifty feet square he could put in sixty-four dwarfs, and it would be a
nice little orchard. I think it is more adapted to the city man. The
ordinary farmer would neglect them, and I should hate to see a farmer
get them, but I would like to do anything for the man living in the city
with only a small plat of land--my vocation being in the city, my
avocation being in the country.

Mr. Kellogg: Are those honest representations of the different apples
from the dwarf and the standard?

Dr. Heustis: I don't know. Those are a fair sample of those I found in a
box on exhibit and are Red McIntosh. They are better colored than mine,
most of them are like this (indicating). I find the Yellow Transparent
that I have budded on the standard better on the dwarf than on the
standard.

Mr. Kellogg: Does it blight any?

Dr. Huestis: No blight; there hasn't ever been a blight. I think that is
one reason why I feel I could recommend them quite conscientiously.
Other trees have blighted when the conditions were favorable.

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TWENTY-FIVE BY SEVENTY FOOT PLOT WILL PRODUCE ENOUGH VEGETABLES FOR
A SMALL FAMILY.--Even the smallest back yard may be made to yield a
supply of fresh vegetables for the family table at but slight expense if
two or three crops are successively grown to keep the area occupied all
the time, according to the garden specialists of the department. People
who would discharge a clerk if he did not work the year round will often
cultivate a garden at no little trouble and expense and then allow the
soil to lie idle from the time the first crop matures until the end of
the season. Where a two or three crop system is used in connection with
vegetables adapted to small areas, a space no larger than twenty-five by
seve