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Before I leave this subject, it will be necessary 

 to speak of the increasing value land would be 

 brought to by cultivating it with apples. 



As one acre contains one hundred and sixty 

 square rods, and each rod measures sixteen feet 

 and a half square, if the trees were planted at a 

 rod apart, it would of course take one hundred 

 and sixty trees ; or if they were planted wider, 

 say one hundred to the acre, we have then to 

 consider what would be the average profit arising 

 from it. In the first place, while the trees are 

 in a young state, the injury will be so trifling to 

 the under crops, for the first five or six years, as 

 to be scarcely worthy of notice ; and by planting 

 good apples and sure bearers, in that time their 

 produce would more than pay every expense of 

 the purchase of the trees and planting, and from 

 that time the profits would every year increase as 

 the trees grew larger ; on the seventh year from 

 planting, suppose you could only ensure one 

 bushel from each tree, making one hundred 

 bushels, (this is putting it at the lowest calcula- 

 tion,) and each bushel worth five shillings, this 

 will amount to twenty-five pounds ; and allowing 



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