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no good and he decided to graft them over. But just before he 

 did he thought he would think over how he had got along so 

 far, and he found that the one-fourth of his apples that were 

 Ben Davis had yielded him more than three-fourths that were 

 not, in that orchard, and he let them be and they are all right 

 yet. 



From six-year-old Wealthy trees a barrel to the tree has been 

 harvested, showing that a man who can comb his hair with a 

 towel may still set out apple trees and get the result before he 

 dies. From six-year-old trees the husbandman harvested a 

 barrel to the tree. 



I have apple trees on my farm that were set in the spring of 

 '97 that have borne two barrels to the tree. A patch of apple 

 trees that I have in mind over in Vassalboro — of about forty 

 trees — has borne four vears in succession, has never rested, and 

 borne very heavily. 



Charles Moore of East \^assalboro has a Spy orchard, an 

 orchard of Northern Spy trees of about fifty to sixty trees, that 

 have borne hundreds of barrels in a single year, and borne every 

 )'ear for the last seven years. He is a butcher by trade and has 

 a good deal of fertilizer from his shop, and he puts that on and 

 everything else he gets hold of, and he don't know whether 

 there is any nitrogen in it or what there is ; but he knows there 

 are apples at the end of the year. He gets Spi.es that will weigh 

 those tall trees down clear to the ground, and packed on there 

 as if it were one continuous wall of apples, — year after year in 

 succession, on the same trees and on the same limbs of the trees. 

 And they are mostly Spies, but he has other varieties that do 

 equally well. 



On a four-acre patch of orchard two years ago last spring I 

 began to put phosphate, and last year I got a good crop of apples, 

 and a good crop of apples from the same trees this year, — two 

 years in succession. It was dressed with high grade phosphate 

 at the rate of about a ton to the acre, just put right, on and 

 thrown away as most folks would have thought. It wasn't 

 tilled. Pastured to sheep. So that I have come to believe that 

 orchards will bear every year if they are fed enough. In fact 

 the orchards in western Xew York do bear every year, as many 

 men know to their sorrow. Xow in western Xew York there 



