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Show Hogs Plow Orchard. Hogs take the place of plows and harrow in the cultivation of one- of Hie best producing smajl apple or- chnrdS- in Ontario. Most 01'cluydis.tS? plow and replow and harrow a.nd 9it(ftgi the land between the rows of tree T. W. Turtle of Currie merely tllVjiV. in a drove of hogs. . "When I bought my farm, four years ago," said Mr. Tutlle. "the orchard or-chard had been allowed to grow wild. I gathered only three bags of apples that fall. In the spring I sprayed and pruned the trees and turned 30 bogs into the orchard. They rooted for their living all summer. "By fall every font of soil had been turned up by their snouts. The land looked as if it had been plowed. And it had, for these four-legged plows had done a thorough job and had gone as deep as a plowshare. I gathered 32 barrels of apples that season. That was Ihe direct result of plowing and manuring my land with hogs. "Xext year I got 8-"i barrels and the third year 2015 barrals. This year T have more than 200 barrels." Detroit News. |