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The farms of that famed and beautiful county of South¬ 
eastern Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River border 
line, yielded, in the year recorded, produce to the amount 
of $8,000,000. Next in the value of agricultural products 
is St. Lawrence County, New York, with a total of 
$6,000,000, though the comparison is hardly a fair one, 
because the area of St. Lawaence is three times as large 
as the area of Lancaster. The value collectively of the 
farms of St. Lawrence County is $32,000,000, while those 
of Lancaster are valued at $70,000,000. Lancaster has 
much better railroad connections than St. Lawrence, and, 
moreover, is closer to a desirable market for agricultural 
products. Third on the list of fertile American counties 
is Chester, Pennsylvania, which has an enviable record 
for chickens and dairy produce. It adjoins Lancaster 
Count) to the east, being nearer Philadelphia. It is 
smaller by about 25 per cent, than Lancaster, and yielded 
last year $3,800,000 in agricultural products. 
Still further to the east in Pennsylvania, but beyond 
the Philadelphia line, is Bucks County, noted for its mar¬ 
ket gardening and producing in a year $5,400,000 of agri¬ 
cultural products. Bucks County is 610 square miles in 
land area, but it very nearly equals in yield of its farms 
the most fertile and productive of the New England 
counties, Worcester, Mass., the products of which, accord¬ 
ing to the table at hand, were $5,500,000 a year ago. 
Worcester County is literally in the middle of Massachu¬ 
setts, for it extends clear through the state, in the most 
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central part, from the New Hampshire boundary line on 
the north and the Connecticut and Rhode Island bound¬ 
ary on the south. It is an important agricultural county 
—the most important in New England—but is larger, as 
has been seen, than any of the fertile Pennsylvania coun¬ 
ties with which it ranks in value of products. The sixth 
of the very productive farming counties of the United 
States is Colusa County, California. In area it is larger 
than the three Pennsylvania counties together, and has a 
record of $5,300,000 of agricultural produce .—Rural Cali¬ 
fornian. 
BURBANK ON SHORT ROOTS. 
H. M. Stringfeliow, of Galveston, Texas, a well-known 
fruit grower of that section, advocates using very short 
roots in root grafting and wrote to that effect to Luther 
Burbank, of Santa Rosa, Cal. The following is Mr. Bur¬ 
bank’s reply : 
From my own past experience I believe you are right. I have used 
for years t-inch root and 5-incli scion for root giafting, and strange to 
say in an experiment ten years ago to test the matter, I used 1-inch roots 
with 5-inch scions, and from the same lot of roots and scions some 3- 
inch root and 8-inch scions. In the long rows thus under test I could 
see no difference (apple and pear) in the stand, but in case of pears the 
shorter roots produced the largest and best trees. Apples nearly alike. 
I usually cut back very heavily, but so far have not practiced such 
heroic treatment as you suggest; but as I said before, think you are 
right, and shall test it here. If it is true, what a grand result your 
studies have led up to, and in any case they can result only in good. 
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