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same advice given every day in agricultural 

 papers and books throughout the country, and 

 yet for some reason a really well kept orchard, 

 with all the trees in prime condition, the fences 

 in neat repair, and not a superfluous twig to be 

 seen, is one of the rare sights of the country. 

 It is also the commonest sight to find upon one 

 farm a few trees which give a splendid grade 

 of fruit, while the next mile or two will show 

 nothing but apples or pears scarcely worth the 

 picking all because the man who planted 

 would not take the trouble to pay a few cents 

 more in order to get choice stock from a good 

 nursery. Of all the economies that pay least, 

 is the saving of a few dollars in stocking a 

 young orchard. I have talked with many of 

 our farmers about this, and almost invariably 

 the blunder is due to small economy; they got 

 their trees from some one in the neighborhood 

 who sold cheap as compared to the prices of 

 first-class nurseries, and as a result, year after 

 year, their orchards gave them half the returns 

 which would have been received from good 

 trees. My ambition is some day to prove by 

 dollars and cents that it is not impossible for a 



