MY I'LUM ORCHARD. 



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noticed where the apples were set too close together the apples were 

 small and faulty, deficient in size, color and quality, but where they 

 had plenty of room and sunshine and were cultivated around they 

 were nearly all perfect. 



"Well, now," I said to myself, "I have found the secret ; I will 

 grub out two-thirds of my trees so I can cultivate through them the 

 same as the apples." 



So this last spring I grubbed out enough so I could cultivate with 

 a two-horse cultivator. I cultivated twice while they were in bloom 

 and three times after, and I got the finest crop of plums I ever saw. 



Plum orchard in poultry yard— at ];. K. Hynson's. 



The trees had as many plums as leaves on and of the very best 

 quality. There were not two quarts ot poor plums in ten bushels, 

 and I did not spray either. This was on the old plum trees. 



I have a new orchard that I set six years ago, and a part five 

 years ago. I set those sixteen feet apart in the row and the rows 

 twenty feet apart. Forty-five are Rockford. Some of these trees 

 bore a bushel of plums to the tree this year, three year old trees 

 set five years ago, and my Peach plums doing equally as well. I 

 got two dollars a bushel for the choicest ones. I cultivated this 



