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comes off the roll, the thickness being about as it unwinds, and it is 

 tied down with strong twine. 



" If this should be as successful with all fruit canners as here, there 

 is no longer need for patent fruit cans; for any bottle with a wide neck 

 •suitable to receive the fruit, or any jar with glazing which is perfect, 

 to allow no entrance of air through its walls, will be all-sufficient for 

 (keeping the fruit for winter use. 





ORCHARDS. 



LARGE OR SMALL APPLES. 



A tree bearing five barrels of small apples, would have to furnish 

 plant-food for twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty seeds, while 

 the tree bearing ten barrels of large apples has to furnish plant-food 

 for only fifteen thousand two hundred seeds, and a relative proportion 

 for core and skins. The five barrel apple tree bears three thousand 

 seven hundred and fifty apples. The ten barrel apple tree" 

 bears one thousand eight hundred apples. The five barrels of 

 small apples, after deducting the cost of picking and mar- 

 keting, would not bring in more than two dollars. The ten 

 barrels would afford a net profit of not less than ten dollars, 

 and frequently twenty dollars. It is clear, that instead of a tree bear- 

 ing three thousand seven hundred and fifty apples, we want a tree 

 bearing one thousand eight hundred apples. How can we bring about 

 the change? Taking off half the fruit would do it. I have tried this 

 plan. But before it can become general in our large orchards, we 

 shall have to have a new generation of farm men. As a rule, anything 

 which checks the growth of an apple tree, throws it ipto ex- 

 cessive bearing. It would seem, therefore, that the true plan is to 

 adopt some method of increasing the vigor of the trees, such as prun- 

 ing, fallowing and manuring. — American Agriculturist. 



THE SWEET PARADISE. 



Apples are considered to be more nourishing than potatoes, which 

 require other food with them to render them satisfying to bodily needs. 

 Apples are medicinal, too ; a noted physician used to say that he used 



