SOME ORCHARDS ABANDONED 3 



not yet in bearing. So that when all the trees in the country 

 in 1910 had come into bearing, there would be only fifteen million 

 more than in 1900, provided no trees died in the meantime. But 

 every one knows that they are dying by the thousand every year. 

 Even in relatively good orchard sections one may see many and 

 many an orchard like that shown in Figure 1 which is already 

 practically a negligible quantity so far as production is con- 



FiQ. 1. — One reason why orrharrlinc will not ho ovrrdnnn' An orrhanl killod by scale and 

 neglect. There are thousands like it. 



cerned. And in the really poor sections, particularly if the San 

 Jose scale is there, such orchards are the rule and not the 

 exception. 



Some Orchards Abandoned. — Passing now from Uncle Sam's 

 estimates to the opinions of less important persons, we find it a 

 verj^ general opinion among people who have given the matter 

 some thought, that a great many young orchards which were set 

 out with high hopes a few years ago are already abandoned as 

 hopeless. The writer himself can think of dozens. This was 

 inevitable, considering the people who set them out, men and 



