PREPARING THE ORCHARD SITE 

 Courtesy E. R. Lake 



CHAPTER VII. 



PREPARATION OF THE SITE. 



"The dark brown earth's upturned, 

 By the sharp pointed plough — 

 And I've a lesson learned. 



My life is but a field 



Stretched out beneath God's sky, 



Some harvest rich to yield." 



The preparation of the orchard site is a mat- 

 ter which should and must have more thought 

 and study by the future fruit growers if they 

 expect to succeed, and not as it frequently is, 

 be ignored and treated lightly. The average 

 corn grower of today prepares his seed bed most 

 thoroughly, although the crop to be planted 



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