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Show SELECTION Of-ORCHARD SITE Comiir: Mistake Is Choosing Soil That 'a Too Rich, Cauriig Wood and Little Fruit, A common mistake in the selection of a site for the apple orchard tract, large or small, is that of choosing a soil-that is too rich; ithat will cause abundant, growth of wood, but mighty little fruit. In the valley in which the writer's ranch is located is an orchard of mature apple trees,- as pretty pret-ty a sight from a standpoint of foliage as one could ask to see, which has lately been felled, because it did not deliver the goods. The tract is fat, rich and well watered. wa-tered. Within a gunshot of this tract is a block of winter -s'ellis pear trees of the same age that for several years past have grossed their, owners close to a thousand dollars per acre, says a writer in an exchange. Never was more emphatically demonstrated the fact that soil can be too rich for apples ap-ples but not for pears. Within a mile of these unproductive apple trees, on thinner and lighter granitic soils, the apple trees bear proliflcally to the point of breaking down. |