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can only then be exterminated by a very great amount of trouble and 
expense, more, possibly, than the trees would be worth for several years to 
come. A good illustration of this blight in various stages is given in fig. 126. 
Landlords' and Tenants' Mistakes. 
Ettbrts to improve the orchards of the country will not be entirely 
successful until there is a better understanding between these two 
classes. Landlords say, " I will not buy any more trees for Farmer 
So-and-so, as the last I gave him were ruined for want of a little 
Fig. 127. — Bad Practice in Planting and Fencing Treeb. 
attention. It was too much trouble for him to keep the ties good, so 
the trees were blown against the stakes and injured, and if a rail of 
the fencing broke he wouldn't as much as nail another on, so the 
cattle got at the trees and barked them." The tenants say, "How can 
I be expected to buy expensive trees and pay for the planting and 
fencing when my landlord will not allow me a stake or anything towards 
it, and I may have to leave at a year's notice ? I asked the steward last 
rent day if he would allow me some new trees, but he said ' Times were not 
good enough.' Then I asked him if he would give me stakes or fencing if I 
bought the trees myself, but he said ' Timber was scarce on the estate and 
too dear to buy.' So if the estate is too poor to allow a little for these 
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