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words of St. Paul when Festus said, "Paul, thou art beside thyself. 

 Much learning doth make thee mad." He replied, "I am not mad, 

 most noble Festus ; but I speak forth words of truth and soberness. " 



Fig. 60 illustrates this very clearly. It is meant to represent 

 a portion of one acre (cut off to fit on the page.) It represents 165 

 feet wide and if carried out to full length 264 feet long; in it are 

 the three eight-foot roadways, thus dividing into four one-quarter 

 acre tracts; on the left is shown a tract planted in upright cordons 

 at two by four feet apart of 4,224 trees per acre. Next comes a tract 

 devoted to bushes at four by four feet apart, or 2,112 trees to the 

 acre. Next we have a tract with globe or goblet form bushes, which 

 are a little more spreading and as set at eight by eight feet apart, or 

 528 trees per acre; and on the extreme right we have the U form 

 cordon with the same number of trees as the upright cordons, and 

 occupying the same space, BUT WITH JUST TWICE THE 

 AMOUNT OF BEARING WOOD ; and if need be, you can intensify 

 this intensive culture by 25 per cent by planting those upright cor- 

 dons 18 inches apart in the row instead of two feet. 



Naturally it may be asked here, "If these facts have been known 

 in Europe for ages, why have they not been commercially exploited 

 there ? ' ' Well, it is easy to ask questions but not always so simple a 

 matter to answer them satisfactorily. I will, however, give a scrap of 

 history connected with an analogous case that may point to the 

 answer: Over one hundred years ago there was a man who went 

 out to play with his boys and show them how to fly a kite, when a 

 thunder storm came along and the kite string got wet and thus be- 

 came a good conductor of electricity, and he found the current of 

 electricity was conveyed from the cloud to earth along the wet 

 string. This was Benjamin Franklin. The fact was established and 

 duly proven, but remained unutilized for many years, when another 

 man with his head screwed on differently came along and viewing 

 the conditions, brought his imagination to bear and said, "Why 

 can J t we stretch insulated wires to conduct the electricity from place 

 to place and utilize it where required?" and he stretched his wires 

 and sent the celebrated message from Baltimore to Washington, 

 "What hath God wrought?" This was Morse with his knowledge, 

 imagination and faith, and since that time we have had the electric 

 telegraph in operation and exploited almost to the limit of possibility. 

 When another man comes along with more knowledge, more faith 

 and greater imagination, with head screwed on in an opposite direc- 



