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Show ENRICHING ORCHARDS. Any farmer who baa been accustomed accus-tomed to raising apples and other fruit, and have been uniformly successful will doubtless say that if he expects to get good crops he jfej treats the orchard as he does for B any other crop. He manures it II and he finds that a manure that p will do for most other crops will f do for the crop of fruit. It is the H neglect to manure orchards at all g that cause them to bear so poorly and the trees to look in bad con- U dition. Nothing is better than wood P asheR for orchards. Next to wood B ashes there is no fertilizer better j than Barnyard manure. A liberal g application of this, if only once in mm two or three years, "with careful r H pruning and scraping of the trees 18 and ferreting out the borers and all other insects which lie conseal-ed conseal-ed under the bark, will soon make a t change in the productiveness of the "T orchard. November and December I are the best months to apply the manure ma-nure and to give the trunks of the i trees a good scrapiDg off of all old bark. If the trunks were washed with whale oil soap, say one" pound to a bucket of water, there would not be i many insects left alive after the operation |