1 6 Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 



mountain sides, giving place for thousands and 

 thousands of fruit trees. This is not a mere 

 dream. We see acres and acres of rough land 

 now in orchards, which are yielding handsome 

 returns for the time and money expended in their 

 development. The people in general seem to 

 realize that we are approaching the time of 

 more intensive husbandry, and are beginning 

 to appreciate, as never before, the value of our 

 rough lands for orchard purposes. The hun- 

 dreds of young men who come with their ques- 

 tions as to location, site, preparation, selection 

 of trees, choice of varieties, planting, care, cul- 

 tivation, pruning, spraying, picking, packing 

 and marketing; represent a great army of fruit 

 growers of the future. 



Their constant tramp, tramp, as they march 

 against the many difficulties which present 

 themselves has caused the writer to take up this 

 work and attempt to encourage, and possibly 

 to aid them, by a few suggestions. 



These pages have been written after years of 

 experience in orcharding on rough lands, and 

 while it is not our purpose to advise any one to 

 hunt out waste land for orcharding, we will 

 try to set forth some of the possibilities and 

 even advantages of such rough or rolling lands 

 as may be at the command of the reader. 



