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and when jou send a stoer or a lioj; away Crniii tlio farm that takes nioi'e 

 phosphoric acid than anything else. In stodv raising year alter year a 

 large amount of iihos])lio!i(' acid is tal<en away. In raising clover, and 

 crops of that l\ind nitrogen is lirouglit Ijaclv. We must liave phosphoric 

 acid in the soil, and must get it there in some way, probably in the shape 

 of bone. You can not raise higlily-colored fruit, of a firm texture, unless 

 there is potasli in flie soil in some form. Potash soils are soils that pro- 

 duce the highest type and class of fruit. You must consider llie question 

 of potash right along with i)hosphoric acid, and the bone will settle the 

 phosphoric acid question for you. and for the potash it would be well if 

 yon would use the wood ashes in some form. If yon look out for all of 

 these things you will surely raise good fruit. 



Now I have here a number of trees, and by the use of them I will 

 show you my idea of getting tliem in shape to plant. I would cut the 

 roots entirely off, and leave lioiliiiig Init a stul). Now since I have cut off 

 the roots I must also cut off the top so that it will not be top heavy. I 

 would dig a very small hole for this tree and stick the root part in, and 

 then with a cup of water in one hand and a cup of sand in the other I 

 would pour them into the liole. This should be packed tightly around the 

 bottom of the tree. TJiis should be covered with fresh dirt, and packed 

 and pounded down. At first the growth will be very slow, but by the 

 time they have grown out, they will make the handsomest tree you have 

 ever seen. They are low so that you can stand on the ground, or on the 

 step-ladder and pick every l)it of fruit off of them. They are perfect 

 dwarfs, and they accomplish wonders. It is not the biggest man in the 

 world that accomplishes the greatest things. Napoleon was a small man 

 but he did a big man's work. It is not the size of a tree that determines 

 the work it will do. I have been asked if you can raise trees in clay 

 ground, and 1 will say that I have tried them in the heaviest clay I could 

 find. 1 have tried them in sand. If there is any difference in favor of 

 soils it is in favor of the heavy grounds. There are some people that buy 

 trees that have an idea that trees must be petted and pampered in order 

 to make good trees of them. Trees will grow under difficulties. When I 

 was a boy I threw a cherry stone into a rock, which had a crack in it. 

 Most people would say that of course it would die. I saw that cherry 

 stone in later years and it had not died, but had l)roken the rock iu twain. 

 It pushed its roots out so that the rock was split in two. This is the way 

 with the trees that we plant in tlie rocky soil in tlie crow-bar hole. They 

 follow the line of least resistance, and make a fine, healthy tree. There 

 is no place for the roots to go e.xcept down, and down they go. I am not 

 sure this plan would work out here, but it is all right in oiu" state. I did 

 Mot come here to recommend this plan to any one. but I would like to 

 iave you try it. The nurserymen do not often send trees to us in this 

 way. I usually take my trees and dip them into a wash composed of 

 sulphur and lime, and in this way wasli any scale off that may have a 



