PREFACE 



In the preparation of this book I have tried 

 to keep constantly before me the conditions 

 of the average farm In the Northeastern States 

 with Its small apple orchard. It has been my 

 aim to set down only such facts as would be of 

 practical value to an owner of such a farm 

 and to state these facts In the plain language 

 of experience- This b^nl^ 5 In no sense in- 

 tended as a final sclentlhc treatment of the 

 subject, and If It Is of any value In helping 

 to make the fruit department of the general 

 farm more profitable the author will be entirely 

 satisfied. 



The facts herein set down were first learned 

 In the school of practical experience on the 

 writer's own farm In Western New York. 

 They were afterwards supplemented by some 

 theoretical training and by a rather wide obser- 

 vation of farm orchard conditions and methods 

 in New York, Pennsylvania, the New Eng- 

 land States and other contiguous territory. 

 These facts were first put together in some- 



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