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Our Fruit Book is FREE 
It contains a wealth of valuable in¬ 
formation for the orchardist, 
farmer, or anyone interested in 
fruit growing. If you have a 
home you need this book. 
A postal card brings it 
promptly. 
REILLY BROTHERS 
(The Oasis 
Nurseries) 
375 Reilly Road 
Dansville, N. Y. 
Reilly’s Bearing Size 
Fruit Trees Give 
Quick Results 
W E are one of the oldest and largest 
fruit tree growing firms in the United 
States, and perhaps the only nursery firm 
that can furnish these Extra Size Fruit 
Trees, Some of Which Have Borne 
Fruit in the Nursery Rows. 
THEY COST NO MORE 
and some of the varieties will bear the 
first year. C 
Save money on your purchase and avoid 
the loss of years of time, money, and disap¬ 
pointment by buying your trees and plants 
direct from the growers at wholesale prices. 
Mr. George W. Savadge, of Brookside, N. J., says: M J have 
bought fruit trees from a great many nurseries from different 
States, and I have found your trees the best I ever bought; 
cheapest in price and best in quality. I have about ten thousand 
trees now planted, and will order more this Spring. One of 
your Spy Apple trees, five years old, bore 1 X A bushels of Apples, 
3o filled one-half bushel.” 
Standard Apple Trees for 3Vic Each 
Standard Pear Trees for G l /zc Each 
And a choice assortment of Ornamental Trees, Roses, Shrubs, 
and Small Fruits for Spring delivery. Send a trial order for 
one of our Home Garden Collections. 
QQp Special Apple Collection QQ P 
vOb Agents Charge $3.00 J70C 
2 Ben Davis 
2 Winter Banana 
12 Peach Trees 
for 98c 
3 Elkerta 
2 Champion 
2 Early Crawford 
3 Late Crawford 
1 Early River 
1 Carman 
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My Pennsylvania Grown 
BUDDED and GRAFTED English Walnut 
and Pecan trees will succeed with you. 
You will find my catalogue of mere than ordinary interest 
and I want you to have a copy. 
11 you don't order some of my Hardy Budded and Grafted trees 
this season, you will do so later. 1 feel sure, because they are of 
such value and Importance that you can't afford to not do so. 
J. F. JONES, The Nut Tree Specialist, Box 527, Lancaster, Pa. 
J. H. SHEERIN’S TREES MADE DANSVILLE FAMOUS 
S00,0 00 Peach Trees, 5 to 7 feet, 9C; 4 to 5 feet, 7c; 3 to 4 feet, 5c; 2 to 3 feet, 4c. 400,000 Apple Trees, 6 to 7 feet, 12c; 5 
to G feet, 8c; 4 to 5 feet, 6c. 50,000 Pears, 45,000 Cherry, 30,000 Plum and thousands of small fruit plants. Secure varie¬ 
ties now, pay in spring. Buy from the man who has the goods and save disappointment. Catalogue free to everybody. 
SHEERIN’S WHOLESALE NURSERIES 48 Seward St.. Dansville, N.Y. 
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A 10 Poach, First Class, for 60c. 3 to 4 foot. 
19 3 Elbcrta, 2 Champion, 2 Late Crawford, 2 
Crosby, 1 Greensboro. 
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sworn KtAtcineut ami actual photograph* of Soo,ouo 
Fruit Tree* in our Nuraftrlea, Guaranteed and Sold 
Direct at HALF AOKNTS PRICE. 
Tlu* U SI. J. HI ILLY .N( ItsPHILS. *22 Ossian St.. Daimvillc, N.Y. 
BIG SHRUB SPECIAL 
Largo, bushy, well-rooted shrubs 2 to 3 foot high 
One of eoch for S2.00 Any four for $ 1.00 
Here is the list.—lted-bark Dogwood. Double Deut- 
zia (pink or white). Tartarian Honeysuckle (pink or 
whltei. Golden Bell, Rose Weigela, Mock Orange. 
Bridal Wreath, Large-flowered Hydrangea. De¬ 
livered free east of Ohio. Send order at once lor 
Spring planting, Our new free catalogue is ready. 
OLD COLONY NURSERIES. Inc. 
(Established 1840) Dop’t K, PLYMOUTH, MASS. 
FRUIT BOOK Cages'"?ree* 
as a premium to our customers. 110 Varieties of 
Fruit, 4(1 of Roses. Shrubs, etc., all in colors. Tells 
all about Planting, Pruning, Spraying, etc. You 
can not afford to plant without it. We grow every¬ 
thing from a berry plant to a shade tree and offer 
Thousands of Guaranteed Trees at 4c each. 
Write today for handsome catalog and premium 
details. THOMAS E. SHEER IN, Nurseryman, 
‘21 Main Street, Dansville, N. Y. 
MILLIONS of TREES 
PLANTS, VINES, ROSES, ETC. 
The oldest, largest and most complete nursery in 
Michigan. Send for catalog. Prices reasonable 
I. E. ILGENFRITZ’ SONS CO. 
THE MONROE NURSERY. Monroe, Mich. 
Roses, Plants, Seeds 
^£3 
Treei, Shrubs, 
Bulbs, etc., by 
mail, express 
or freight. 
Safe arrival 
and satisfac¬ 
tion guaran¬ 
teed. Every¬ 
thing you 
want for 
lawn, garden 
or orchard. 
12 iX) acres de¬ 
voted to growing stock, (M) in hardy roses alone. 
45greenhouses. til years' experience. 192-page 
Catalog Free. Write for it today. (89) 
THE STORRS& HARRISON CO. 
Box 565, Painesville, Ohio 
FRUIT TREES 
Are you in need of Fruit, Shade or Or¬ 
namental Trees; Shrubs, Roses, or Berry 
Plants; Spray Pumps, Lime-Sulphur, 
Arsenate of Lead, or Scalecide? Write 
Calls' Nurseries, Perry Ohio, for Price 
List. They deal direct with their cus¬ 
tomers and thousands of our best fruit 
growers are their customers. 
NATIVE EVERGREENS-S^ e «^ ; 
Balsam Fir, lito 12 inches, $5.50 per 1,000; a,000 for 
$25, f.o-b. Also transplanted evergreens. Write for 
price list. The James A. Root Nurseries. Skaneateles, N. Y. 
DWARF 
They bear quicker, need less room, are prac¬ 
tical for the home garden and lots of fun for 
the amateur. 14 pages of our beautiful 
FREE CATALOG tells about them. 
WE ALSO HAVE STANDARD GROWN TREES IN ALL THE FRUITS 
FRUIT 
TREES 
Commercial Orchard Plantings a Specialty 
We make special rates on small first-class 
trees for orchards. Ask for our prices. 
The Van Dusen Nurseries 
W. L. McKAY, Prop. 
Box R, Geneva, N. Y. 
| Fruit Growing and Poultry Keeping 
C OMBINATION WORK.—Many farm¬ 
ers desire to have more than one line 
of work, “more than one string to one's 
bow,” and there is frequent inquiry as to 
which special lines of farm work com¬ 
bine to best advantage and can be work¬ 
ed together with least conflict. Experi¬ 
ment has demonstrated that combining 
fruit-growing with poultry-keeping gives 
most satisfactory results in profits and, 
by rightly planning the work, with prac¬ 
tically little conflict of insistent duties. 
One extensive fruit and poultry grower 
states that strawberries and peaches are 
the only fruits that conflict with his 
poultry work, and lie lias cut out straw¬ 
berry growing because strawberries were 
less certainly profitable, and because they 
conflicted with necessary work with 
growing chicks. As lie has also cut out 
blackberries because <>f their conflicting 
droppings to fruit trees was shown m>* 
by a farmer down in one of the coast 
counties of Maine. In one high and dry 
corner of his orchard was a Northern 
Spy apple tree which had grown to be 
more than six inches through the trunk 
and had never borne an apple. One year 
the owner set a coop of baby chicks di¬ 
rectly beneath that tree, the chicks be¬ 
ing kept there until well grown. The 
next Spring this tree blossomed, and in 
the Fall there was about a peck or so 
of apples gathered from it. A coop of 
chicks has been set under that tree each 
Spring and Summer since, and for more 
than half-a-dozen years that supposedly 
barren apple tree has grown good crops 
<<f first-quality fruit. 
Conflicting Tasks. —On a combina¬ 
tion fruit and poultry farm the work 
should he planned so that there shall be 
with the peach crop, it would appear that 
he closely studied both crops and profits. 
Benefits Secured. —There is much 
satisfaction in growing two profitable 
crops on one piece of ground, especially 
when each of the crops is benefited by 
the other. The fruit trees and bushes 
are benefited by the enriching of the 
ground with poultry droppings, and by 
the destruction of countless injurious in¬ 
sects and worms, and the fowls and 
chicks are substantially benefited by the 
shade of the trees, also shelter from 
hawks. Where growing chicks can range 
through hush-fruit grounds it has been 
found that hawks cannot successfully 
pursue them, and it is certain that shade 
is as necessary to the comfort of chicks 
and fowls as are the droppings of the 
fowls and chicks to the trees and shrubs. 
This decided benefit of poultry droppings 
to both old and young trees is loss well 
known than it should be. On a large 
poultry farm in Western New York can 
he seen old apple trees which were set 
out by the grandfather of the present 
owners, which trees grew but moderate 
crops of ordinary fruit every other year 
until the poultry plant was extended so 
the trees were inclosed in the poultry 
yards. In the last dozen years those old 
trees have grown good crops of first-qual¬ 
ity fruit every year, and they evidence 
their better condition by heavier foliage, 
by larger leaves, and an appearance of 
freshness and vigor which is a strong 
tribute to the richness of the poultry 
droppings. 
Effect on Apple Trees. —On a poul¬ 
try and fruit farm in Rhode Island we 
were shown a Baldwin apple tree which 
is probably 75 years old. and from which 
the owner told ine they had just picked 
and packed 21 barrels of first-quality fruit, 
and that tree bears annually; the trunk 
is about two feet through two feet above 
the ground, and that tree looks husky 
and vigorous in spite of its great age. 
Another old tree in that orchard has 
been grafted into six or seven different 
varieties of apples, and yields one or two 
barrels of each variety; that tree is of 
itself a complete family-supply orchard. 
These handsome old apple trees have lay¬ 
ing fowls running about under them ail 
the year around. One of the most strik¬ 
ing examples of the benefit of poultry 
little conflict between must-be-done tasks. 
The Winter days are used for the al¬ 
ways necessary pruning of the fruit trees, 
so that job is out of the way when the 
Spring work comes crowding on. The 
hardest job on the fruit farm is spray¬ 
ing and fighting the San Jose scale, and 
the hatching of the chicks should be 
planned so as not lo interfere with the 
lime-sulphur spraying; the second spray¬ 
ing comes the last half of May, and 
should be got out of the way of the corn 
planting. The first fruit for marketing 
is strawberries, the last of June come 
the cherries, followed by raspberries. In 
the latter part of July plums come along, 
then peaches, then pears. In the first 
half of October the apples have to be 
picked. In the poultry department, dur¬ 
ing September, the year-old hens must 
be gone over and the best third of them 
picked out and put oil’ by themselves, 
to be kept for next season’s breeders; 
the remainder are sold to market. The 
poultry houses should be thoroughly 
cleaned out, the walls and ceilings white¬ 
washed. and the pens put in good order 
for the pullets, which are now coming to 
maturity and should ho brought into the 
houses early in October. 
Arrangement of Houses. —The poul¬ 
try houses set in tin* apple orchard should 
(Concluded on page 377) 
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! : A Peach Orchard on Shares : ■ 
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(Concluded from page 330) 
under orchard cover crops, etc. 5. This 
is a hard question to answer, but under 
good management and profitable crops 
(he trees ought to double the value of 
th(> land, or in other words, the orchard 
ought to be worth as much as, or more, 
than the land, if the land was non-pro¬ 
ducing before the orchard was planted. 
<>. Fifteen years is considered about the 
life of the average peach tree, and on 
light soils probably less. 7. It may he, 
hut even at that I haven’t lost anything. 
S. If tenant assumes management of or¬ 
chard I should consider this fair pay for 
use of house and pasture. 0. This form 
of lease or partnership agreement will 
embody more or less the salient features 
of any contract that may he made. 
Indiana. s. H. BURTON. 
