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than sold for $1.25 when the Ben Davis sold for sixty-five cents a 

 bushel. 



If we want to get the greatest profit from our orchard we must 

 spray our trees and cultivate and manure the ground. I put on 

 twenty acres of ground 100 loads of barn-yard manure each year, 

 spray twice, and keep ray traps out to catch the codling moth. If we 

 grow choice fruit we will get a good price, but if we neglect our trees 

 we grow small, poor fruit, and we get a small price. We all know 

 that it costs the same per bushel to gather, pack, and market a poor 

 lot of fruit as it does a choice lot. There is where our profit comes 

 in. Then how much better pleased our customers are, and we feel 

 better ourselves, to have a choice lot of fruit. 



We always get the best fruit from young trees. I have planted 

 three orchards. My old orchard is now twenty-five years old, and 

 some of the trees that are not profitable I am cutting out for fire wood. 

 When trees get old the fruit is very small. I get one-third more per 

 bushel for my fruit in my young orchard than the fruit in my old 

 orchard, and that is all clear profit. Fruit trees are so cheap now, a 

 person should plant trees every few years — at least every ten years. 

 The trees do not come into full bearing until they are ten years old. 

 The first ten years of bearing is where we get our greatest profit. 

 After the trees get old, say twenty-five years, it is not always economy 

 to let them stand, but have young trees coming along to take their 

 place. The fruit of an old tree is small, the price is small, and the 

 profit is small, and when a man is trying to sell it he feels small. 



THE CURRANT. 



J. p. DUNLAP. 



All of the Dutch varieties of currants do well, but I have had as 

 good success with the La Versailles as with any of the red varieties. 

 The White Grape currants have been the best of the white varieties. 

 Plant in rows five feet apart and two feet apart in the rows. Plant 

 two year old bushes, cultivate with a hand 'wheel garden cultivator, 

 from one to one and a half inches deep, as soon as the frost is out and 

 he surface dry enough in the spring and before the spring rains have 



