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■may we not say that trees are God's power to give us fruit. If heaven can 

 not be gained without the first, neither can fruit bo had without the latter. 

 Now, what shall be done ? Shall we have our farms and lawns disfigured 

 with old, worthless and scraggy trees because they once bore good fruit? 

 Nay, verily. Cut them down and turn them into fuel. Plant another orch- 

 ard, not on the same plat of ground ; but seek a new site and turn the old one 

 into pasture. It will pay as well, and better than those miserable old, tumble- 

 down trees. God planted a garden eastward in Eden. Go thou, farmer, and 

 humbly imitate your Creator. 



Geologists tell us that God swept the earth eons of ages since, with ice — the 

 glacial period. We have had a slight specimen this winter. But a good ax 

 and strong muscles will answer your purpose. "Turn the old trees into ashes 

 and original elements and plant young ones. With wise culture all this 

 dread of a dearth of fruit will vanish, for 'tis made of such stuft' as dreams 

 are," and coming generations will rise up and call you blessed. 



In selecting trees for planting get only vigorous ones. Those two years old 

 are best. No one should be allowed to give us three years old trees if we can 

 buy two years old ones. Don't purchase trees from tree peddlers. Go your- 

 eelf to the nursery. Give tree peddlers a wide birth. If there be no other 

 remedy, train a big black dog to go for them. 



Prepare the ground by deep plowing; set your trees one inch deeper only 

 than they Avere in the nursery; tend the orchard for years, as in hoed crops; 

 see them every day, as you would your lambs, pigs and calves. Follow the 

 above directions, and should you fail to have plenty of fruit, call on me and 

 I'll divide. 



