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<]om do help, except to produce and multiply hurtful insects by the millions, all 

 of which can be prevented by the timely and proper use of salt. Not only is salt a 

 saving property, but it is also a great destroyer of the insect pests, a cleanser of 

 the stomach, and the most reliable blood purifier for all good orchard people, as 

 well as of mankind generally — pill doctors not included. The use of salt in orchard 

 land works well and in perfect harmony with all other fertilizers of value which 

 may be properly applied. Salt is good alike on rich and poor lands. 



To obtain the best possible results from the use of salt in orchard land is when 

 the land is most thoroughly and very deeply plowed before planting the orchard. 

 One bushel per inch to the acre may be safely and profitably used : that is to say, 

 when the plowing is twelve inches deep, twelve bushels of salt per acre can be 

 very profitably used in developing the finest fruit; a less amount will be found 

 beneficial. Eighteen inches is jQOt too deep to plow orchard land for best results; 

 broadcast the salt after plowing. To renew old orchards, plow deeply and thor- 

 oughly between the trees, and apply salt freely on the deep-plowed ground; some 

 may doubt some statements made in legard to the value of salt in the orchard ; to 

 all such let it be said : No one is compelled to believe, but to the unbeliever there 

 is no promise of better things. Most people know that salt will save flesh from 

 decay; and even many doctors now prescribe sslt instead of whisky. Good fruit, 

 such as will be most common from well-salted orchards in the good time coming, 

 will cause all good orchard-owners and workers in and the dwellers near such 

 orchards to feel happy and look well; all of which may be credited to the liberal 

 use of good salt by the most liberal of all men— the beneficent orchard-owner. 

 Plenty of good fruit to eat and enough salt taken to cause good health will be hard 

 ou the pill doctors. 



Let it be remembered that salt used in sufllcient quantity in the fruit orchards 

 of America, and taken by mankind ( instead of medicine ), will bring very happy 

 results by eating good fruit and toning up with elixir of life, that panacea for 

 all the ills of progressive orchard people. Salt is one of God's great blessings 

 to mankind generally and to orchard owners particularly. The honey-bee, so 

 necessary to successful fruit-growing, must have salt handy and plentifully. 

 Disease would be unknown among mankind if sufficient salt was used ; domestic 

 animals die for want of salt ; millions of fruit-trees are worthless and dying because 

 of no salt given them. This is only for those who can believe the naked truth. 



Conrad Hartzell, 



St. Joseph, Mo. 

 DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Tippen — I wish to discuss the paper of our friend from Arkan- 

 sas. Every assertion I shall make is drawn from a knowledge of facts 

 in regard to the propagation of fruit-trees. There is not a nurseryman 

 in the United State of America who has ever grown a whole-root apple 

 tree. It is impracticable. You cannot change the nature of a tree by 

 the way in which you start it. Each kind will make its root in its own 

 way. ISTo man can make the Willow Twig grow a tap-root. The Wine- 

 sap will have a tap-root in spite of man. If a tree grows upright, it 

 will have a tap-root. If it is a spreading tree, it will have a spreading 

 root. A whole root grown from the seed, as every nurseryman knows, 

 is twelve or fifteen inches long. If the root of the grafted tree don't 



