It would be well to form 

 apple orchards nearly or 

 quite that height. 



W. I. Chamberlin, 

 editor of The Ohio Farmer, 

 is a wise man. He has a 

 large orchard, the heads of 

 whose trees are formed in 

 this way. Photo 68 gives 

 you a partial view of said 

 orchard with Mr. Chamberlin under a bending limb of apples, which hardly reaches 

 his head. He plows and cultivates right under the trees. This photo was taken about 

 the middle of August. In a drive of some twenty miles that day, all other orchards were 

 about alike. They looked dried, famished and root-bound, with here and there a few 

 gnarly apples. But Mr. Chamberlin 's had 

 been plowed and sowed to Hungarian grass, 

 which he said he would cut and put under 

 the trees to prevent the bruising of the fruit 



Photo 5^ 



Photo 56. 



