ON PRACTICAL PLANS 
Such a record, coupled with the fact of an ever- 
increasing demand for orchard fruits, seems al- 
most incomprehensible. Yet similar reports might 
be had from numberless other regions where fruit 
production was formerly a more or less important 
industry. 
But fortunately the facts of the situation are 
now being called to the attention of the general 
public, in particular by the workers at the agricul- 
tural experiment stations. Bulletins are being 
issued that call attention to the possibilities of 
rejuvenating the old orchards, and in many re- 
gions results of this work are being manifested in 
the restoration of abandoned orchards. In one 
county in Ohio, in a recent season, 117 rejuvenated 
orchards added more than fifty thousand bushels 
to the apple crop. 
“In several cases,” says the Ohio report, “a net 
profit of $400 per acre has been secured from an 
abandoned orchard.” 
The report continues: “It is like reaping where 
one did not sow, to bring one of these orchards 
into its own again. An investment in one of these 
orchards is better than gold mine stock, for there 
is no ‘luck’ about it. If there is any risk about 
operations of this sort, it is because of lack of busi- 
ness capacity and industry. To take a neglected 
orchard and bring it back to usefulness does not 
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