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laying a better foundation. The orchard vvliicli is set in 

 hiiate this year, will probably be excelled in ten years by 

 one which is thoughtfully planted, three years from now. 

 The fruit grower must be a man of method. 



It was said twenty-five years ago that apples would not 

 be worth picking in ten years from that time, and there 

 is record of a farmer in Western New York who cut down 

 an orchai'd of ten acres because of that supposed fact. 

 This same man has since planted an orchard of twenty- 

 five acres, and is said to be getting profitable returns for 

 his land and labor. It is extravagant to suppose that 

 the supply of apples can exceed the demand in this coun- 

 try. The country is settling up much faster than orchards 

 are being grown, and there are large portions of the coun- 

 try in which apples can never be grown, but where they 

 will always be used. 



LOSSES FROM THEFT. 



In some places more fruit is lost from theft than 

 from the combined depredations of injurious insects. It 

 is a trouble, also, which is exceedingly difficult to man- 

 age. So long as parents neglect to teach that petty lar- 

 ceny of fruit is no less a theft than taking a man's 

 money, so long will the trouble continue. There are 

 always some families in the neighborhood in which such 

 teaching is never heard. These families are commonly 

 the ones who do not attend the meetings of fruit grow- 

 ers, who do not attend church, and who do not take a 

 good paper. It is therefore hard to reach them. It is 

 comparatively easy to check a spirit of pilfering when 

 the oifender can be brouglit to hear mild discussions or 



