Photo 55. 



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, 

 w T hich he said he would cut and put under 

 the trees to prevent the bruising of the fruit 



Photo 57. 



Photo 56. 



Photo 58. 



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