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at the rate of 1,000 pounds per acre, and I shall be greatly 

 disappointed if it does not prove a paying investment. 



A great deal of care was exercised, in laying off the or- 

 chard, to have the rows straight in all directions, and I 

 should like to emphasize the desirability of this point, in 



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my opinion. It is often, in fact usually, neglected. Men 

 will lay out a henhouse, which is to stand for perhaps half 

 a dozen years, and every corner must be perfectly square 

 and every post perpendicular; but an orchard, which is to 

 stand for two or three generations, is laid off with a plow, 

 or the trees are stuck into holes dug at random. To me, 

 the satisfaction of having good straight rows is worth ten 

 times over the added cost of making them so, which, after 

 all, is not great. We laid off our first row with a transit, 

 becanse one happened to be available, but a man with a good 

 " straight eye " could have done nearly as well. This first 



