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fruit trees do not bear a full crop, as the trees rest a 

 year. Fruit does better when the poultry are among them 

 because the chickens get all the worms, bugs and insects 

 that would otherwise ruin the fruit and trees. The only 

 place where plums do well is where poultry is plenty, as 

 they kill all the culture worms and other insects. 



How to Plant Trees and Have Them Do Well in Any Soil and 

 Climate. 



For a forty acre farm buy the trees in a nursery in your 

 own state, because you know then that they are acclimated. 

 Order them early in the spring, and just as soon as the frost 

 is out of the ground dig holes forty feet apart for apples, 

 twenty-five feet for cherry trees, twenty feet for plum and 

 pear trees and other trees that do not branch out too far. 

 The idea is to get them far enough apart to get air and sun 

 when they are ten to twenty years old. While the apple 

 trees are growing you can plant plum and cherry trees be- 

 tween them and when the apple trees are fifteen to twenty 

 years old, the cherry and plum trees will die out from age. 

 In this way you use up all the ground possible. This is the 

 best place on a farm to raise poultry. They manure the 

 land and keep bugs and worms off the trees. It is a good 

 place for shade and is better than in the woods, as there are 

 no hawks or other animals to bother them. The thick 

 woods hide the hawks, crows and animals which pray on the 

 chicks, while the orchard is free from them. 



When and How to Plant Fruit Trees. 



When your trees come put them in a cool place and pour 

 water over the roots. Do not plant them on a dry warm 

 day when the sun shines, as the roots are very delicate and 

 will die if exposed to the sun. The best time to plant is 

 after four o'clock in the afternoon and before the sun is too 

 high in the morning, say seven o'clock. You should have 

 plenty of help to plant your orchard and do it right. 



