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value, that might be made to bear good fruit 

 in abundance. 



Moreover, there are other thousands who have 

 on their farms neglected orchards, run riot with 

 weeds and bringing no monetary return what- 

 ever, which might be made the most productive 

 and valuable portions of the entire acreage. 



And in each case the grafting of good varieties 

 of fruit on the old and otherwise worthless stock 

 is the key to the entire situation. 



OLD TREES MADE YOUNG 



We shall have occasion in the successive chap- 

 ters to examine in detail the methods of cultiva- 

 tion and possibilities of improvement of the 

 different orchard fruits. Here it may be of 

 service to take a brief general view of the subject. 

 And at the outset I wish to emphasize the possi- 

 bility of making over the orchard material which 

 is now in hand, so to speak, and which is being so 

 often neglected. 



Reports from all over the country tell the same 

 story. In Ohio, for example, according to the 

 report of experts of the Agricultural Station, 

 there are thousands of acres of idle orchards. 

 The production of apples the chief orchard fruit 

 has fallen to less than a fourth of what it was 

 a generation ago. Apple trees themselves are 



