Care op Fruit Trees. 637 



Clay lands will produce more than one crop of trees to advantage, 

 without fertilizing, if not " killed " by working too wet. It takes a 

 long time to recover soil spoiled in this way and the only cheap 

 way to reinstate it is to grow clover, corn, potatoes or something. 

 It is well to plow under clover, rye or corn. 



"We like the following rotation of crops if the land lies right : 



Apples after Plums or Cherries or Peaches, 

 Plums after Apples or Pears. 

 Peaches after Apples or Pears. 

 Cherries after Apples or Pears. 



We never grow a poor crop of wheat after a crop of trees. 



We have never seen good results after use of ordinary commer- 

 cial fertilizers. 



We like stable manure, but it is very expensive in quantities that 

 produce results, hence we try to get lands that have not been treed 

 before. 



Wood ashes and lime never fails us. 



Our opinion is that lands that do not produce a second crop of 

 trees are not adapted to trees at all, or that the " life " has been 

 trampled out of it while wet and that fertilizers are not as necessary 

 as proper mechanical reconstruction. 



GEO, G. ATWOOD. 



