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and wishes to judge of the availabihty of certain blocks of 

 land on that farm for orchard purposes, the following score 

 card may prove useful: — 



The attempt has been made here to give a list of the im- 

 portant considerations which ought to govern the selection of 

 a site and to attach to each factor a numerical value. Doubt- 

 less these numerical values are not in all cases correct, but at 

 least they are suggestive. 



Under each particular factor many different things might 

 be considered, but the following are at least some of the 

 important ones: — 



1. Soil. 



(1) In the consideration of the surface soil one ought to 

 take into account first of all the fertility of the land, whether 

 it is rich enough to give a satisfactory growth of tree, which 

 is of course desirable; and, on the other hand, whether by 

 liberal use of barn manure it may by any possibility be too 

 fertile for the best type of growth of the young tree. While 

 the latter is much less likely to occur than the former, there 

 are cases where land is too fertile to give the most satisfactory 

 results. 



(2) The second question under surface soil would be adapta- 

 tion of the particular block to the special type of fruit one 

 wishes to grow. This is probably the most important single 

 item in judging an orchard site. We recognize that, as a 

 class, peaches ought to grow on rather light soil, pears on 



