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orchards in. 1902 was 203 bushels, 42 bushels below the average of the 

 other orchards in this town. Of the 1,987^ acres inspected in the 

 remainder of the county, 317 acres have some underdrains, but 831 acres 

 need drainage in whole or in part. 



Perhaps five to eight per cent of the orchards of the county need under- 

 drainage throughout. About thirty per cent need drainage in part. The 

 great loss through neglect of drainage is not in the destruction or damage 



FIG. 72. A " draw " in a ijo-acre orchard wiicrc tJic trees are being gradually 

 drowned out. The tree in the foreground is dying but is bearing a large crop 

 of little apples and few leaves. The owner considers it a phenomenal tree, but 

 it will probably not bear many more crops. 



of the few entire orchards, buin the loss from the few small wet places 

 in hundreds of orchards ; for there are hundreds of orchards that have 

 from one to fifteen per cent of the trees drowned out or badly damaged. 

 There is a low place, a " draw " (see Fig. 72), or a kettle-hole, or a place 

 where the water seeps out, and a few trees are killed or damaged. These 

 vacant places are in most cases waste land. If they were occupied by 

 trees it would not add materially to the expense of caring for the orchard, 



