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Show A Neglected fruit. On many fa rma there la genenl neglect neg-lect In growing fruit There are three wgyn nf growing fruit One la tn plant nut a lot of trees and neglect them n second way la plant them and when they bear themcie tn d.nth the business busi-ness Is at an end and the third wa IS tn plant out and keep planting sn there will be a 'onilnuallon of frult-bearlpg frult-bearlpg treen and j lunla We arc eon vlnced lhat the cherry doea not reeeUe the attention of rrult groweia that It ahmild Thm fruit la giown ton little on most fauns und yet It la comparatively compara-tively eaay to grow The chtrry la not tiouhled with many disease, but liear-Ing liear-Ing treea will soon bear themselves tn death, and occasionally the buds will winter kill anl there will be short irops Ken when we haa Ihe mnat abundant imps there aeema to te no glut in tho market When i-ryhnd has . herrlea tn aell lhet. aie huus for all thai mn l ant .1 inniket Tor the most part planting of 1 berries ia done in amall lota of from a half dosen lo two dnsen trees Thla will do fnlrly well for home consumption but It la entirely too amall planting for thla all toiind good fruit The birds will lake much of the fruit nnd It la all right nnd proper that they thou 1 1 for If It were not foi the blids wi woiil I lime but little use for cherries or anything any-thing else nn this earth A liHlf nrre Is small enough to keep In 1 turtles for commercial purposes There nie man pjlacna on every farm w here n tew (hei ry trees iniild he planted to adwiutagu and on town lota the satur may he said We know nf nne man who planted a I' I of cherry trees Hlotig his line of feme and now he lias more 1 herrlea l'ian Ihe birds and bos of the neighborhood neighbor-hood inn take He finds t Ierit of reo pie who are willing lo Ick the cherries on the Share and his share ts Juit Ilka finding them so far as Ida efforts are loncerncd Almost nn soil Is Rood for cherries if it Is dry The iherry will not do well in wet or swampy ground The trees can be ns close together In rows north and smith ns ten feet hut Ihe rows running east nnd west should bo at least twenty rpet npirt for the best results The I etter the culture the better the growth for tho first llie years, and Ihe earlier the tree will come Into bntlng and Hie better nnd finer the ftult and tho longer Ihe life nf the tree We firmly hellexe ln the plan of I tnntlng n few trees enrh year ns there will be those that will -fall out b this wayside' In the nice nnl by keeping now treea cnnilnc on nil the time there will lie no old ones Colmnna Plural W orld |