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Show WELL-FED TREE8. They pome Into Bearing Latsr, But Last Longer Than Those Underfed. It Is a matter of common obserra- H tlon that fruit troes on thin soils come Into bearing early, exhibit a strong tendency toward frultfulnoss, for a comparatively short time, and die, and that trees on good, strong land come into bearing as a rule somewhat later, grow to much greator size, and live for a vory much groator number ot years, says H. J. Waters, director of tho Wisconsin experiment station. It Is safe to say that woll fed troes may have more than double tho number ot productlvo years than thoso which are underfod usually have. Tho fact Is strikingly shown by tho results ot an experiment conducted by tho Now Jersey experiment station with peaches, In which It was ob-served ob-served that on tho unmanurod land tho crops secured at tho end ot olght years wero so small as to very mate-rially mate-rially rcduco tho avorago for the wholo productlvo period, while In the caso of tho manured land tho average for tho entire porlod was not only not reduced, but very materially Increased. Thus, tho crops secured from tho ma-nurod ma-nurod troca, aftor thoso rccolving no mnnuro had practically ceased to boar, woro greator proportionately than those secured provlous to that tlmo. That is to say, that the properly fed trees woro at their very holght of pro-ductlveness pro-ductlveness at tho tlmo whon tho un-manured un-manured troes had practically1 ceased to bear. LSI |