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In order to carry this out, we have each year made up a 

 mixture for our young trees of acid phosphate five parts and 

 high grade sulphate of potash three parts, have put a pound of 

 this around each one-year tree, and increased the application 

 about a pound per year. On our bearing trees we have sub- 

 stituted basic slag for acid phosphate. 



A great deal of care was exercised in laying off the orchard 

 to have the rows straight in all directions and I should like to 

 emphasize the desirability of this point, in my opinion. It is 

 often, in fact usually neglected. Men will lay out a hen house, 

 which is to stand for perhaps half a dozen years, and every 

 corner must be perfectly square and every post perpendicular. 

 But an orchard, which is to stand for two or three generations, 

 is laid ofif with a plow, or the trees are stuck into holes dug at 

 random ! To me the satisfaction of having good straight rows 



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