264 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



150 Beurre de Anjou, 150 Duchess, 150 Lawrence, 100 Beurre 

 Clairgeau, 50 Howell, 50 Flemish Beauty, 50 Seckel, hO Ros- 

 tiezer, 50 Louise Bonne, and 50 Sheldon. 



I find that after the blight has prevailed for a series of 

 years, it will often disappear and the trees that remain will be 

 healthy, vigorous bearers for a long period. I think the farmer 

 with a soil suited to pears could scarcely fail to make their 

 growing profitable, for if three-fourths of the trees on an acre 

 died, there would be enough left to give a large profit, as the 

 crop from a single tree will often bring more money than an 

 acre of corn. I would plant sixteen and a half feet apart, as 

 the growth of pear trees is usually upright, and they will bear 

 close planting. My Bartlett orchard is now fourteen years old 

 and is planted this distance apart, and none of the trees interfere 

 with each other, or look as though they would for many years 

 to come. 



I have always had good success in transplanting pear trees 

 at one year old from the bud or graft, but have found when 

 large trees were moved a considerable per cent of them would 

 die. I think that one-year old trees can be bought at most 

 nurseries for about twenty cents each. One hundred and sixty 

 trees, which would plant an acre, would cost, including the labor 

 of setting, about forty dollars. During the three or four years 

 that the orchard should be cultivated, crops may be grown on 

 the land, which will pay for the labor and a fair interest on the 

 investment, and after that the grass would pay at least a moder- 

 ate interest, and if forty trees escaped the blight and came into 

 full bearing, enough would be left to give a large profit, as good 

 pears are always in demand at fair prices. 



In proof of the statement that enough trees are likely to sur- 

 vive to render pear growing profitable, I give the record of sev- 

 eral orchards. My first planting was in 1859, twenty-seven 

 trees. In 1883 there were thirteen alive, ten of them vigorous 

 and full of fruit. In 1869 I planted an orchard of eighty Bart- 

 letts, of which there are now standing forty-five. This orchard 

 has suffered severely with blight, but it has been decreasing 

 for a few years, and it now shows very little blight. Another 



