1 92 Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 



we decided that spraying should be considered 

 secondary, rather than first in importance in 

 orcharding. We reasoned that this whole crop 

 of splendid fruit might have been lost by the 

 neglect of spraying. The Codling worm or 

 Bitter Rot might have caused heavy losses, then 

 with proper spraying the next season's crop 

 could have been saved. As it was, the trees 

 were ruined, their future usefulness largely 

 destroyed, and no amount of labor could restore 

 them. What a change had come over this or- 

 chard. Only a few weeks before it had been 

 a thing of beauty, the grower was proud of the 

 result of his labors, it had attracted the at- 

 tention of the orchardists for miles around, 

 many were the visits and compliments paid. 

 But it was a sad sight to the true tree lover 

 to see those trees broken or wrecked this early 

 in life. The grower was discouraged, his hopes 

 had been blasted, he had had dreams of a 

 bright future, which had disappeared, as he 

 realized his mistake in the building of his trees. 

 In walking through that orchard upon which 

 so much labor had been bestowed, looking at 

 those trees broken to pieces with their first crop, 

 their bodies in many instances split to the 

 ground, we resolved then and there that we 

 would pay more attention to the building of our 

 trees, lest we should meet with similar loss. 



