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learned, and the soil and climate being so nearly uniform, until we get 

 near the rivers, I think the same remarks would apply to all Northeast 

 Missouri. 



I am sorry that your time of meeting conflicts with the Cider and 

 Cider Vinegar Makers' convention in Chicago, which deprives me of 

 the pleasure of a personal " shake." 



SETTING OUT AN APPLE ORCHARD AND CARING FOR IT. 



BY H. A. ENSIGN, NEVADA. 



This subject has furnished the theme for many an article of more or 

 less merit. The public has had precept upon precept, here a lesson and 

 there a lesson, yet ignorance as respects the best methods to pursue is 

 the rule, and enlightenment is the exception. Our admonitions have 

 evidently fallen upon sluggish ears and have not been heard, or, if heard, 

 not properly heeded. Many farmers set their trees very nearly as you 

 would set a fence post. They dig an 8xlo hole in the ground supposed 

 to be deep enough to cover the roots of the tree, and then proceed to 

 cut off and to double in until they arc able to force the tree into its 

 prison house, afterwards throwing on a little dirt to make everything se- 

 cure. In this condition the tree stands between life and death until 

 some unruly bovine come along and breaks it down and its epitaph 

 should be, died from brutal treatment. There has unquestionably been 

 enough fruit trees set out within the boundaries of our state to convert 

 every farm into a fruit paradise, but a decent regard for truth compels 

 me to admit that not a few of our oldest farms have not to-day a dozen 

 fruit trees of any description standing to cover their nakedness, \\hile 

 one-half of our farms have not sufficient fruit trees upon them to sup- 

 ply the wants of their occupants, to say nothing about commercial pur- 

 poses. Under such circumstances what shall we do. I answer, "we 



