LiPPiNCOTT's FARM MANUALS 



EDITED BY K. C. DAVIS, PH.D. (CORNELL) 



-PRODUCTIVE 



ORCHARDING - 



MODERN METHODS OF GROWING 



AND MARKETING FRUIT 



BY 



FRED C. EARS, M.S. 



(KANSAS STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE) 

 PROFESSOR OF POMOLOGY, MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



157 ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT 



"If vain our toil, 

 We ought to blame the culture, not the soil." 



POPE Essay on Man 



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