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Show PLANNING TO SET OUT TREES Farmer Will Do Well to Learn All He Can About Varieties He Proposes to Purchase. The farmer who is going to set an orchard will do well to learn all he can about the varieties he proposes to buy, this In regard to their adaptation adap-tation to his soil, and cllmste, as well as to their frultlni habits, their kecp-i kecp-i Ing qunlltles, and their resistance to Insects and disease. Widely advertised adver-tised novelties should be avoided until un-til they have been testej out by competent com-petent Judges, for rot more than one In twenty of these is worthy of general gen-eral planting. There Is too much of a tendency among fanner orchard planters to set too many trees of early varieties, desirable enough In limited numbers, but when it conies to four or five Yellow Transparent, Ked June or other fine early sorts, there will be more fruit on them than a doren families fam-ilies will consume, aud their place would better be occupied by some standard winter sort. |