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of the soil. Probably no better cover crop can be had than that 

 recommended by the State Experiment Station of one bushel 

 barley or oats, preferably the former, 15 pounds of winter vetch, 

 \-l pounds red clover, and one pound cowhorn turnip. If the 

 grower is prevented from cover cropping, as may happen oc- 

 casionally, cultivation should cease after picking, and weeds, 

 which are much better than nothing, should be allowed to grow. 

 With fairly systematic cover cropping and reasonably good 

 cultivation we have had an uninterrupted succession of thirteen 

 heavy crops, but this of course is on heavy, strong land. We 

 have never used commercial fertilizers, and during the period 

 named our orchards have had only two light dressings of manure. 



Cultivation 



My Napoleons have always been practically in sod, being situ- 

 ated on both sides of a roadway through the farm, 28 feet apart, 

 with grass eight or ten feet either side of the trees, extending 



.. .'!7.--\Ai>oLEON ORCHARD IN BLOOM; SPRAYING APPARATUS IN FORE- 

 GROUND. FARM OP W. L. McKAY, GENEVA, N. Y. 



to the roadway on one side, and with cultivated land on the other. 

 1 hey have always borne satisfactory crops of large fruit when the 

 blossoms have escaped injury from spring frosts, which has- been 

 about three quarters of the time. The trees are perfectly healthy. 



