538 now TO make the farm pay. 



Scrape off all the coarse bark from the roots to the branches, 

 and wash the trunk in strong soapsuds. 



Says K. L. Pell, Esq., of Esopus, New York, a very successful 

 culturist : " For several years past I have been experimenting on 

 the apple, having an orchard of two thousand bearing Newtown 

 l'ij)pin trees. Three years ago, in April, I scraped all the rough 

 bark from the stems, washed all the trunks and limbs within reach 

 with soft soap, and trimmed out all the branches that crossed 

 each other." In the latter part of June " I slit the bark by 

 running a sharp pointed knife from the ground to the first set 

 of limbs. In July I placed one peck of oyster shell lime under 

 each tree, leaving it piled about the trunk until November, 

 when it was dug in thoroughly. The following year I collected 

 from these trees seventeen hundred barrels of fruit for market, 

 besides the cider apples. The trees were then manured with 

 stable manure, composted, and the succeeding autumn they were 

 again loaded with fruit, while the trees not so treated were quite 

 barren." This is the experience of many others who have tried 

 this process in a less thorough manner. 



Pigs and fowls may be turned into the orchard before the 

 fruit ripens, and after the crop is gathered ; they will eat the 

 windfalls, and destroy thousands of worms by their rooting and 

 picking. 



Sheep are less valuable in the orchard, as they only eat what 

 is on the surface. If the orchard is plowed very early and clover 

 sown, when the clover is pretty well grown, a litter of pigs may 

 be turned in, and with a little additional feed will grow fat on the 

 feed an.l the windfalls while they grub about the roots, destroy 

 the worms, and leave their valuable droppings to enrich the soil 



We say to every farmer plant an apple orchard; it will be a 

 i^urce both of pleasure and of profit. Six years from the 

 planting of the seed you may begin to gather enough for your 



