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and can be spread with a fertilizer sower. We shall use a 

 carload of this the coming season, applying at the rate of 

 1,000 pounds per acre, and I shall be greatly disappointed 

 if it does not prove a paying investment. 



A great deal of care was exercised, in laying off the or- 

 chard, to have the rows straight in all directions, and I should 

 like to emphasize the desirability of this point, in my opin- 



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ion. It is often, in fact usually, neglected. Men will lay 

 out a hen house, which is to stand for perhaps half a dozen 

 years, and every corner must be perfectly square and every 

 post perpendicular; but an orchard, which is to stand for 

 two or three generations, is laid off with a plow, or the trees 

 are stuck into holes dug at random. To me, the satisfaction 

 of having good straight rows is worth ten times over the 

 added cost of making them so, which, after all, is not great. / 



