No. 85.J 31i 



By a reasonable attention to these insects and the means for their 

 destruction, little difficulty would be experienced ; and by the careful 

 transplanting and thorough culture already recommended, much great- 

 er products may be obtained and with far more certainty, than by the 

 neglectful treatment which orchards too often receive. The objec- 

 tion that such good management is attended with increased labor, should 

 have no weight with the enterprising and energetic cultivator. For 

 the same reasoning, and a corresponding practice, applied to other de- 

 partments of agriculture, would be to substitute unproductive and 

 thriftless tillage for thorough and profitable. If any crop eminently 

 affords a good return for the attention given, it is this, where the ad- 

 dition of a few dollars in care and labor, is often remunerated by an 

 increase of fifty or a hundred. 



CLINTON COUNTY. 



Extract from the report of J. L. HackstafPs farm, as contained in 



the proceedings of Clinton County Agricultural Society : 



I have thirty-five bearing apple trees, twenty of which are grafted ; 

 also plum and cherry trees sufficient to furnish a supply for family 

 use. My apple trees produced 100 bushels of graft apples, and 140 

 bushels of common fruit, of which 30 bushels were made into cider, 

 and the remainder sold and used in family. 



Produce of Orchard, 



100 bushels graft apples, 4s $50 . 00 



50 " common do 2s 12.50 



50 " " "Is 6.25 



,40 « « " 10c 4.00 



Value of apple crop $72.75 



Expense of gathering and marketing, at one-tenth, 7.28 



Nett profit, , $65 .47 



