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The Hundred-tree Orchard 
■ I should advise that, instead of plant¬ 
ing an orchard of 100 trees on a farm, 
Which are not enough to have a commer¬ 
cial value, it would be better to plant not 
more than two trees of the beet varieties 
of apples, Summer, Autumn and Winter, 
those best suited to the locality, and plant 
them in a fruit garden where they can 
have better care. With the labor condi¬ 
tions on the farm, the general farmer has 
all he can attend to in the growing of 
general crops, and especially if there is a 
dairy of any size. For this reason even a 
small orchard will be neglected, and the 
family will, most of the time, be without 
fruit. A fruit garden, made an adjunct 
to the kitchen garden, can be cultivated 
at the same time. If half dwarf trees 
were planted the children would become 
interested in them, who would help in 
their care. 
We find that farmers with but few trees 
do not care to try to grade what fruit 
they have, in accordance with the require¬ 
ments of the law, and allow fruit more or 
less poor go to waste. Several farmers 
now regularly buy from us a good grade 
of apples for Winter use, paying last 
year $4 a barrel for them ; other years, 
$2.50 for the same grade. 
GEORGE T. POWELL. 
Columbia Co.. X. Y. 
One Hundred Farm Fruit Trees 
For this section. Eastern Monmouth 
Co., X. ,T., the following list of apple, 
peach, pear, plum, cherry and quince trees 
Will give fruit from earliest to latest, and 
besides supplying the family needs the 
surplus will always find ready sale in the 
local markets: 
Fifty apples, as follows: One Yellow 
Transparent, one Red Astrachan, two 
Oldenburg, two Williams Early Red, one 
Nyack Pippin, two Gravenstein, one 
Maiden's Plush, one Fall Pippin, one 
Twenty Ounce, one English Codling, three 
Wealthy, five Grimes Golden, two Win¬ 
ter Banana, two Baldwin, three Delicious, 
three Rome Beauty, three York Im¬ 
perial. 10 Staymau, three Stark, two Par¬ 
agon and one Transcendent crab. 
Twenty-five peaches : One Greensboro, 
one Carman, one Miss Lolo, one Ililey, 
five Belle of Georgia, three Elberta. one 
Hale, two Francis, five Fox’s Seedling, 
three KrummelV October, two Iron Moun¬ 
tain. 
Six standard pears, two Bartlett, two 
Sheldon, one Seckel, one Keiffer, two 
dwarf pears. Ducliesse d'Angouleme. 
Seven cherries, three sweet; one Xnjxi- 
leon or White Amber, one Windsor, one 
Schmidt’s Bigarrean; four sour, one 
Early Richmond, one Montmorency, two 
Louis Philippe. 
Eight plums: two European, one Im¬ 
perial Gage, one York State Prune, six 
Japan, two Abundance, one Red June, 
two Shiro. one Burbank. 
Two quince; Orange or Champion, one 
of each. Both are good and time of ripen¬ 
ing is no advantage with the quince. This 
list is easily revised by the desires of the 
planter; if too many varieties, some can 
be left out and the number added to other 
varieties. As this is entirely a family 
list it is made to include the earliest and 
latest ripening varieties, and to carry it 
through the whole season. The Kieffer 
pear will be sure to give fruit when the 
other varieties fail for pickling, preserv¬ 
ing and storing; it is, to many, one of the 
best for family use. e. s. ulack. 
Monmouth Co.. X. J. 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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FERTILIZING TO GROW MORE GRAIN AND HAY 
ON EVERY ACRE 
Cumulative 
O N the average 
farm the hay and 
corn are fed to 
live stock, and manure 
is returned to the land. 
If carefully saved, a 
part of the nitrogen 
comes back to be used 
over again. The fer¬ 
tility circulates on your 
farm. Not so much is 
shipped away as when the grain is sold 
But manure, while rich in ammonia, is 
lacking in phosphoric acid, which is used 
to make the bones in animals. When- it 
alone is used, ears of corn are slow 
maturing—frost catches them; soft corn 
results. 
Don’t depend upon manure alone, or 
keep live stock in order not to buy fer¬ 
tilizer. Fertilize your feed crops as well 
as your food crops—grow more hay arid 
grain on every acre— keep more live 
stock—get more manure. 
Fertilizers 
Experimental tests 
have shown that the 
grain and hay neces¬ 
sary to fatten nine 
steers can be produced 
on a fertilized field 
which, if unfertilized, 
would feed but six. A 
fertilized pasture main¬ 
tained nine sheep; 
where unfertilized it 
would keep but five. The result was not 
only more beef' and mutton—but more 
manure as well. 
Those who fertilize their corn, hay and 
pastures are increasing the stock-carrying 
capacity of their land from 50% to 80%, 
and making more money—getting more 
manure—more humus. Every year they 
put back more plant-food than live stock 
take away. They are practicing cumu¬ 
lative fertility. 
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near you. f (19-3c) 
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I wonder if any > f your readers have 
ever used sprouted buekwheat instead of 
oats for chicken feed? I have been in 
the habit of raising large quantities of 
sugar beets for green food for chickens 
in Winter, but this Winter was unable 
to take the time to raise any. I had no 
oats available, so tried buckwheat; have 
been using it all Winter, and find it very 
satisfactory. After soaking it about one 
night or day in water that is lukewarm 
when put over it, I drain one pail of 
buckwheat into a large leaky pail. When 
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