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pressure it receives from the feet above. This scraper can be suspended by a 

 connecting rod when not required. The first roller is drawn by shafts hung 

 directly on its axis, and turns on a king-bolt, allowing the scraper and the 

 hardening roller to be turned or backed. This is very useful on new or uneven 

 lawns to work in advance of the mower. For carrying urns, jars, earth, water, 

 stones, etc., this roller is exceedingly useful, never cutting the lawns even when 

 the ground is soft. 



RENEWING AN OLD APPLE ORCHARD. 



As regards setting young trees in an old orchard, their are many theories 

 why they don't do better. Some claim that the necessary fertilizing ingredients 

 in the soil have been already used by the old trees ; others hold the ground is 

 too full of roots of the older ones, etc. My observation leads me to believe 

 that the failure is owing more to first-class neglect than anything else . A thrifty 

 apple tree will grow and thrive wherever other trees has grown, if it has proper 

 care and attention. The farmer is apt to pasture his orchard at various times 

 during t the summer with horses and cattle, and the smaller trees make fine 

 scratching posts for such stock. My attention was called to this fact last Sep- 

 tember when passing through an old orchard in which there were about 30 trees 

 three or four years old. It was in clover, and as I drove by I saw two old cows 

 making their morning toilets on the young trees. 



The owner of that herd and orchard who was driving the cows, will say 

 young trees won't thrive in an old orchard — and they won't in his. His theory 

 may be, that the land is too lean, and that young trees must have the best of care 

 or be a failure every time. 



Use plenty of wood ashes and keep the ground around the trees well loosened 

 and there will not be much trouble in renewing an old orchard. Care should also 

 be taken that the little trees should not be set in the shade too much, as sun- 

 shine has more to do with the growing of a good tree than anything else, except 

 good soil. Anyhow I would not favor the resetting of an old orchard. I'd much 

 rather set the trees by themselves, for the chances would then be better that 

 they would get the food they need. Setting young trees among old ones is too 

 much like putting little pigs with the big ones and expecting them to do well, 

 which they never will do, for they can't stand the racket. — R. N. Y. 



" I have just been talking to a man who annually uses 3,000 pounds of 

 fertilizer to the acre on potatoes," said the writer to J. H. Hale. "And I'll 

 guarantee he would rather use 1,000 more than 500 less," he replied. Right you 

 are, and every fertilizer farmer says the same. 

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