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This plat is on ground that slopes to the northwest, about two 

 feet of light clay loam and a hard clay subsoil. These trees always 

 bear heaviest on the side nearest to other bearing trees. The fruit 

 seemed to set, but it would drop ofif before the apples were of any 

 size until the spring of 1900, when we had six swarms of bees. 

 They worked hard on the apple blossoms, especially on the Marthas. 

 In my opinion the bees carried pollen from the other trees near by 

 to the Martha, and that was the reason why they bore a heavy crop 

 for the first time in 1900 and also why they always have most apples 

 on the sunny side of the trees. 



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Plat No. 2 is situated about 200 feet southwest of Plat No. i. 

 In it there are two Martha trees that were set in the spring of 1883, 

 on a gentle slope to the north, in about one foot of clay loam, with 

 hard clay subsoil underneath. One of them stands in an open space 

 between the rows. Fourteen feet east is an old Wealthy that has 

 been bearing since 1893, another twenty feet southeast and an old 

 Early Strawberry forty-five feet nearly southeast. As this Martha 



