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This must be done in the fall as the seed must stay in the ground 

 through the winter. I let these trees grow the first year as they 

 come up, excepting I may trim them some. To keep the snow 

 from breaking them down, drive a stake in the row and tack 

 some boards on each side. The next spring take them all up 

 and set them in a row one foot apart. If these trees are properly 

 held, mulched, and cared for in three or four years from the seed 

 they will do to set out. I prefer to raise them as seedlings and 

 graft in the limb. I believe I can get better shaped trees by so 

 doing and they will come into bearing as soon as those grafted 

 in the nursery. In two years after setting out will do to graft. 

 In grafting trees those scions that are making a large growth I 

 allow the sprouts to grow which will act as a preventive from 

 blowing out. Cut them out the next spring. 



Setting out trees. Many of us are not particular enough about 

 setting out our orchards. Who is there of you who would 

 expect any return from your corn and potatoes were you simply 

 to plant them in the ground and let them care for themselves. 

 I find the profit and income is commensurate to the care and labor 

 you put into it. No one crop we may raise upon the farm will 

 show good care sooner and profit surer than a fruit tree. I am 

 convinced that two-thirds of the fruit trees that are set upon our 

 farms die from starvation and never pay the first cost of the tree. 



As you are traveling through the country you may not ask 

 how a farmer is caring for his fruit trees, a single glance will 

 tell you. If they are pruned, mulched and cared for as they 

 should be, even an experienced eye will tell you the variety of 

 the fruit as you will notice the Baldwin, Greening, Spy, Russet, 

 Ben Davis, Talman's Sweet, etc., all grow their branches in dif- 

 ferent shape. 



Pruning trees. We are not paying enough attention to the 

 pruning of our trees. Fruit and not wood is what we are after. 

 You cannot grow good fruit and a surplus of wood. I had an 

 experience with a Beurre d'Anjou pear tree which taught me 

 a lesson. The tree blossomed well every year but the fruit did 

 not set and what did was small and would wither when put into 

 the cellar, I had made up my mind to discard this pear, so 

 grafted one tree and left two good limbs. Those two limbs 

 were loaded with pears and matured well upon the tree. I found 



