THE YOUNG FARMER 



personal to the man himself. Not only do 

 apples, for their best success, require cer- 

 tain soil types, but different varieties of 

 apples require for their best development, 

 distinctly different types of soil as, for ex- 

 ample, Rhode Island Greening, Baldwin, 

 York Imperial and Grime's Golden. Each 

 reaches its best development on different 

 types of soil and some require different 

 climatic conditions. In like manner apples 

 and peaches require distinctly different 

 types of soil for the best success of each and 

 for this reason peaches are not desirable as 

 fillers in apple orchards. 



If at the proper season of the year one 

 goes from Pittsburg to Chicago via Colum- 

 bus and Indianapolis, he will see great fields 

 of winter wheat and a considerable number 

 of permanent pastures. From Chicago to 

 Omaha he will see only occasionally a field 

 of wheat and scarcely any permanent pas- 

 ture. Oats have taken the place of wheat. 

 In parts of Eastern Kansas and Oklahoma 

 the predominant crop is winter wheat. 

 Throughout the whole region from Pitts- 

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