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you may grow cherries. Have your ground plowed from seven 

 to eight inches deep and mulch that ground throughly. Then 

 order your trees. Put out your trees as they should be. See 

 that the roots of those trees are not broken. Cut your limbs off 

 all excepting two or three runners, train your tree pro- 

 perly and keep it that way. There are many who think when 

 they order trees from the nursery that the tree should 

 be attended to in the nursery. But it is like a pig in the pen. 

 There are those who will put a pig in a pen, and then say we have 

 got him in the pen, and we have got nothing more to do until 

 we get ready to sell him. But trees are not that way. In order 

 to get anything out of trees you have got to keep them grow- 

 ing. The tree after it once gets bark bound, becomes as 

 a runty pig, it will not produce its fruit its natural size. It 

 stands there and the bark gets hard on it; the leaves look sickly 

 and very small. But I will tell you the way to prevent it, the 

 way I do, everybody else don't do that way. 



When I see a tree that is that way, I make up a bucket of 

 strong soap suds and go at that tree and rub it thoroughly with 

 it, and let it dry. And then I take about three table spoonfuls 

 of salt and have half a quart of flour and mix that with white- 

 wash, about 8 quarts, then I go over that tree. I do so with all 

 my trees. That keeps the bark tender, the tree growing, and 

 it produces fruit as nice as you ever saw. That is the way I do. 

 I find that I have better luck that way than I do other ways. 



I have also tried other trees, just put them in the ground and 

 let them grow like other people would. But it was not a suc- 

 cess. The tree soon becomes grown up with ordinary sprouts 

 on the sunny side and they will soon take the strength from the 

 tree and don't let the sap circulate in the tree as it should; then 

 the tree will have very small leaves and small fruit and hence 

 does not produce its natural size. In order to have any thing 

 you have got to attend to it. If you plant corn and leave it there 

 until gathered, it wiU be a mistake. The corn has to be tended 

 to; the same with trees. Then you can see what the tree will 

 do. I have six trees that are sixteen years old. There 

 shows the fruit in the can (indicating to can of fruit.) Seven 

 bushels and eighteen quarts on one tree; and that was not the 

 largest tree. I intend to get the amount that grew on the largest 



