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the share and land side. The share will need to be kept 

 sharp and possibly have to be drawn down a little so as 

 to hug the ground better. After the land has been plowed 

 the brush can be dragged out with a rake into windrows 

 for burning, and if the brush is not too heavy an ordinary 

 sulky rake is very satisfactory. 



Land which is cleared from sage brush by grubbing is 

 difficult to plow and harrow because of the roots that are 

 in the soil. These may be so numerous in some fields that 

 it will be necessary to rake them up and burn. 



What Kind of Nursery Stock to Plant 



There is always more or less uncertainty in the minds 

 of the inexperienced fruit growers as to the kind of nur- 

 sery stock to buy. It always pays to get the best, and if 

 the planter is uncertain whether to buy one-year-old stuff 

 instead of two-year-old trees of the same variety it will 

 pay to write to your state experiment station, or to The 

 Fruit-Grower, and find out. The tendency is now for fruit 

 growers to prefer the one-year trees, rather than trees that 

 are older. There are a number of advantages in this, as 

 the trees are smaller and more easily handled, and the 

 head has not been formed, leaving it possible to head the 

 tree just at the height the orchard man wants it. In the 

 Middle West and Western states a low-headed tree is most 

 desired, as it facilitates all of the operations of caring for 

 the trees throughout their life. In the Eastern states it 

 has been the custom to head the trees high, often times 

 above the head of the average man. It is a hard job to 

 pick the fruit off of such trees, especially while they are 

 young. But in general the trees of the Eastern states 

 seem to be longer lived than the Western, and when these 

 trees reach the age of forty years their lateral branches 

 have so spread out that they hang down within easy reach, 

 although the tops are high in the air. 



It sometimes happens that the buyer orders one-year- 

 old trees, and when the order is delivered he has two-year- 

 old trees, the side branches of which have been carefully 

 removed, leaving a whip that looks quite like a one-year- 



