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Show SOIL TOO RICH FOR APPLES Trees Wijth Beautiful Foliage, but Mighty Little Fruit, Were Finally I Removed by Ax. A common, mistake in the selection of a site for the apple orchard tract, large or small, is that of choosing a Boil that Is too rich; that will cause abundant growth of wood, but mighty tittle fruit. In the valley in which the writer's ranch is located is an orchard or-chard of mature apple trees, as pretty a sight from the standpoint of foliage foli-age aa one could ask to see, which has tately been relied because it did not deliver the goods. The tract is fat, rich and well watered. wa-tered. Within gunshot of this tract is a block of winter Nellis pear trees 'Of the same age that for severad years past have grossed their owners close to a thousand dollars per acre, says a writer In :tn exchange. Never was more emphatically demonstrated the fact that soil can be too rich for apples, ap-ples, but Dot for pears. Within a mile of these unproductive apple trees, on' thinner and lighter granitic soils, the pple trees bear prolifically to the point of bracking down. |