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order to assist in defraying the expenses of cultivation 

 until the orchard comes to that age when the apple crop it- 

 self is profitable. A summary of the replies to this quest- 

 ion is given in the following table: 



Crop No. of orchards in 

 which it is found 



184 growers gave data on this question. 

 24 of this number took no crop from the orchards. 



From the above table it may be seen that corn is 

 grown in a larger number of orchards than any other one crop. 

 Very few fruit growers plant corn in old, or bearing orch- 

 ards j for the trees shade the land to such an extent that 

 the corn crop is poor and unprofitable; and furthermore 

 the trees need the plant food which would be taken up from 

 the soil by the growing crop of corn. It is a very common 

 practice to grow corn in young orchards. The following sys- 



