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hundred trees ina day. A fearful drouth immediately followed, 
continuing through June and a part of July. “ Now came the tug 
of war.” If those trees were any of them to survive such a trial, 
something must be done in their behalf. With horse and plow at 
one time and cultivator the next, in every ten days or thereabouts, 
I stirred to a good depth the entire svil, giving no sort of chance 
for weeds. That was the way I watered those trees, and that is the 
way for every man to “work out the salvation” of his trees, and 
thus warrant them himself instead of getting up a paper coutract 
to that effect with his nursery man. Now for the result. Some 
two hundred of the lot died, being chiefly those left of the fall 
sales that had very carelessly heeled in before winter. The remain- 
ing nearly eighteen hundred lived, commenced growing, a few of 
them blooming, some earlier some later, and two trees actually 
bearing apples, that were well ripened, though of only a medium 
size. 
Besides, this experiment proved fully that large trees without 
improper exposure, will live as well as smaller ones, for I planted 
all sizes, and‘the results in that instance—all being equal—were 
rather adverse to the smallest trees. I will here state that no land 
Lhave ever tilled, will equal the friable soil of Jowa, in ability to 
endure a severe drouth, if oft and deeply cultivated during its con- 
tinuance. 
If, therefore, such treatment will secure so large success, under 
such adverse circumstances, in our deep soil, what can we not safely 
depend upon, when the earlier planting of carefully protected trees, 
is followed by a favorable and fine growing season? Let every tree 
planter henceforth warrant his own trees! 
HOW TO CULTIVATE THE ORCHARD AND WHAT CROPS ARE LEAST INJU- 
RIOUS TO IT. 
Land has not yet become so scarce in Iowa as to make it neces- 
sary to raise any other crop at all in the orchard. Every thing 
should be made subservient to the one object of that small enclos- 
ure, and it should be sacredly devoted to the yearly production of 
abundant crops of luscious fruits. Any production therefore that 
would lessen the growth or fruitfulness of the orchard trees should 
in every case be raised elsewhere. 
The most injurious crops for the orchard trees, are those that 
