<62 ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



«ot Fayette county apples? (live your orchards the same care and 

 -attention you give your wheat field® and you will have more money. 



I know a Fayette county farmer that made two or three trips a 

 >neek to Uniontown and vicinity last fall, for three months; his aver- 

 age load brought him $12.00. His orchard covered about five acres, 

 *,nd he told me he cleared some |300. Where is the man in the 

 county that cleared $300 on five acres of wheat? Give your orchards 

 ft chance and they will pay you well. Keep the ground clear of in- 

 sects by using plenty of salt. Make a kettle of concentrated lye soap, 

 take a strong solution of this, mixed with turpentine, in the propor- 

 tion of one pint to five gallons, and wash your trees well, twice dur- 

 ing the season, once in the early spring and once in the summer, 

 licraping away all the old bark, dig around the root and pour in from 

 one to two gallons of boiling lye, mixed with one gill of turpentine, 

 tind one pint of salt well dissolved. 



The greatest enemy to our orchards is the borer. It takes this 

 insect three years to develop, and no orchard treated as above will 

 be annoyed by this pest. We paid at the rate of |4.00 per bushel for 

 plums last fall and plums at that price is certainly better than corn 

 at 50 cents. Dig around your plum trees, cover the ground early in 

 the spring with salt; wash the trunk of the trees as above described, 

 nut away all the knot, apply the turpentine, salt and soap, and during 

 the blooming season spray the trees two or three times with a mix- 

 ture of one-half pint of turpentine to a gallon of lime water, and your 

 virop of plums is a certain quantity. 



The quince is a native of the salt marshes; give it plenty of salt, 

 'Vith a scrubbing of salt, soapsuds and turpentine, and you can buy 

 your wife a new silk dress every year with the money realized from 

 the fruit of a few quince bushes. 



A few years ago I had a dwarf pear orchard of about 50 trees, I 

 rt-as like other people, I was letting my trees alone and scolding 

 because I got no fruit, until some one suggested that I give my trees 

 «iome attention. I went to work with the treatment as above de- 

 scribed, my trees took on new vigor, and the next year I had pears to 

 eat and pears to sell. I kept this up year after year. My trees 

 ^rew vigorously and my income from them increased proportionately 

 to the amount of care and attention I gave them. 



In conclusion, make your home the most beautiful place on earth. 

 V^ou can go there when you can go nowhere else. Spend a few dol- 

 lars every year in some permanent decoration. There is no smoke 

 uor dusty air to mar your work as soon as it is finished. Make the 

 tront yard attractive, decorate the porches and trellises with some 

 of nature's beauties, use such means as come to hand, to make the 

 trees, the grass, the flowers the best that can be produced. 



Farm life is indeed a busy life, and it has a tendency to make some 

 •leglect the home life, but we should remember that the same diligent 



