poor soil of the run-down orchard, and are better to plant 
for the first crop, ainee the clovers never do well on 
solls poor in lime. After this mineral has been supplied, 
either in the form of basic slag or pure lime stone, and 
worked into the soil during the first seagon, a legumenous 
crop may be tried. If clovers will grow they are the 
cheapest source of nitrogen. The vetchss3 make san abundant 
growth on limed eotls, but the price of seed practically 
prohibite their use on lands of low value. 
Gover crope which make a good growth in the fall may 
be rolled down just before the fruit is to be picked, and 
thus form a carvet coverines the ground, 
RESULTS OF RENOVATION, 
Rhode Island State Board of Agriculture estimates the 
value of old Baldwin and Greening apple trees based upon 
their earning capacity. They decided that a tree forty 
years old was worth $150.00 and at sixty years of age, 
$250.00, 
Thie looks like a hich valuation at first sisht, but 
when we look at the results of Mr. Drew (1911) in Connecti-~ 
cut, we gain some notion of the real value cf our old neg- 
leoted apple trees, He produced from twenty-five year old 
Raldwine, nine barrels of choice fruit per tree, three 
years after renovation, Such profits would pay a high 
rate of interest on a valuation of a thousand dollars or 
