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give the foreman more than 6 or 7 and tell him not to pick 

 a peach himself. Don 't try to economize by giving the fore- 

 man too many men, better hire another foreman. Being 

 near our market we let the fruit ripen on the trees, therefore 

 some of it gets the best of us and drops. The first thing 

 every morning the men go through the orchard and pick up 

 what have fallen. In this way they do not destroy them 

 while working, and they are ready for the day's retail trade 

 and the peddlers. 



By going through the orchard in the winter and picking 

 the dried or rotten peaches, and burning or burying them, 

 and by going through the Greensborough just before they 

 begin to get ripe and picking the rotten peaches, we have 

 had very little trouble with peaches rotting on the trees. 

 Let us go back for a few minutes to the trimming of the tree? 

 We have made it a spreading tree to allow the sun to get at 

 the fr.uit to give it high color. Therefore in order to save 

 many of the trees from destruction we are obliged to bolt 

 many bad crotches and wire from one limb across to the 

 opposite one. This can well be done by using about No. 108 

 screw eyes which are screwed into the wood. Wire across 

 with about No. 12 wire. Many limbs can also be saved when 

 carrying a heavy load by tying one limb to another with 

 soft strong string. Care should be taken when tying trees 

 in this way not to tie too short, but to allow the limbs to 

 bend well over before the string supports them. If they are 

 tied too short it makes the bend in the limb too sharp, and 

 it will break right above the string. After the crop is har- 

 \ested these strings should be cut off to prevent them from 

 injuring the trees. The fertilizer should be bought in the 

 late fall or winter, so that it can be drawn during the slack 

 season, and be ©n hand when needed. It is well to have a 

 little nitrate of soda on hand, then if the trees are making 

 if. slow growth and the fruit begins to drop too much, put 

 on some, or if a tree here or there does not look quite thrifty, 

 doctor it with a little nitrogen. Do not put on too much at 

 V. time but put it on two or three times if necessary. 



After the peaches are unloaded at the sorting shed, they 



