STATE POMOLOttlCAL SOCIETY. 77 



The Editor of the Maine Farmer, of November 22, 18Y3, reports 

 the product of the orchard of Mr. L. P. Fisher, at Woodstock, N. 

 B., as two huudred and ten barrels the last season. The orchard 

 contains just two acres. It is stated that the land was at first 

 tasked with other crops a few years, but not latterly. It appears 

 that the ground is well cultivated mechanically, but what manure, 

 if any, it receives, is not stated. 



Prof. J. W. Beal, of the Michigan Agricultural College, Chair- 

 man of the Fruit Committee of the State Pomological Society to 

 examine orchards and gardens, among other things reports the 

 apple orchards of Mr. IT. L. Bailey, of South Haven. The soil 

 is a deep gravelly loam. This he has heavily manured and plowed 

 every year, generally taking off a crop of corn, wheat, oats or 

 potatoes, as well as a bountiful harvest of apples. Occasionally 

 he seeds down, but plows the grass under as soon as it makes a 

 good growth. The orchard is fifteen years old. Of the past 

 season's yield the chairman says : " Such a bountiful crop of fine 

 apples is rarely seen East or West, in Michigan or out of it. The 

 trees would run from about nine to fourteen barrels of fruit to the 

 tree, all nicely colored on account of the open heads of the trees." 

 An average between the highest and the lowest would be eleven 

 barrels and a half. 



Cole relates a case also in point. Mr. Moses Jones, of Brook- 

 line, he says, planted one hundred and twelve apple trees two 

 rods apart, and peach trees between both ways. The eighth year 

 he had from the trees two hundred and twenty-eight barrels of 

 apples — a trifle over two barrels to the tree ; and the tenth year 

 many of the trees produced four or five barrels each. During all 

 this time the land was yielding good crops of vegetables, and 

 manure was used. 



The Lessons Deduced. 



Such as these are the lessons for our guide. And thus taught, 

 and by the aid of familiar principles, we may learn how to take 

 sound and well grown trees from the nursery and rear them, and 

 60 to supply their wants, that we may make of them sound, robust 

 and productive trees in bearing. 



The first, and an indispensable step, is to give the tree a start 

 of healthful and vigorous, but not excessive growth. Ground 

 previously cultivated and dressed, and thus put in good condition 



