;,S LESSONS IX AGRICULTURE 



harvest of apples, peaches, and other fruits ripening in 

 the autumn in our neighbors' orchards, to share in this 

 bounty by planting fruit trees on our own farms. And 

 this is a commendable resolution, for fruit is a most 

 wholesome food, ttnd the demands for it in the markets 

 of the world are annually increasing. 



Extension of orchards. Many hillsides and rolling 

 fields, poorly adapted to grain culture would produce 

 profitable orchards of apples, peach, cherry, or smaller 



FIG. 2( 



M. 



IERX METHODS IN ORCHARD CULTIVATION 



fruits. It would be better for the soils of many farms, 

 and for the purses of many farmers, were their hillsides 

 planted to fruit trees rather than to grain, for in the 

 former case the harvest will be barrels of fruit, while 

 in the latter it is too often scattered grain and weeds 

 in a badly washed and gullied field. 



