Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-01-08

trees in The spring.
meniinn the manure particularly
because an article has been recently
published by high authority, Directing t.
the use Of any manure in planting frul
trees.
Green manure should never be used
about any trees; but compost, which
will not ferment, may be applied in the
manure have mentioned, with manifest
advantage, as my own trees bear album
dant testimony.
By planting the plowed strips of IN,
new orchard with poialnes aud corn, |
think the trees will flourish as well for
five years, ms il the whole ground were
worked the whole should be cleared up
and sH5Soiled and the fruit will abund
artly pay after that tine for any reason
able expense of cultivation.
To show by facts, and not theories
merely, the advantage Of raising fruit, /
will state what has been the value of
the crop of single orchard To which
reference has been made in the Farmer.
MIR. Joseph Robinson, Of Chester, N. H.,
has an orchard of less than two acres.
which produced crop Of fruit in lS47,
for which he was offered six hundred
dollars, on the trees in l519, crop
Which sold for six hundred aud eighty
dollars and Il is year he was offered
& DIS for the fruit of the trees, and de-
clined the offer. Ills orchard has been
long III full lie ring, Bnd bids fair 10 last
for generation 10 come. His fruit has
been sold in the neighboring markets
from one To three dollars per barrel
From tins account am satisfied that the
average nett income of the orchard for
ten Years past has been more than three
hundred dollars year-the interest of
five Thousand dollars.
a gentleman III Hampton in this State,
sold the fruit OF about four acres Of
land, this season, for $500, and last
year he received + l400 for the fruit Of
the same orchard.
Now II we were credlbly informed that
so profitable business as this could be
done ~ Catalonia, fipcks of young men
would peril health and lie even, Ia find
the golden soil but il is too matter oi
fact business To reuaIh aud labor ut
home II requires six sears for trees
which We get from the nurseries Ia come
INTO bearing, aud many of our young
men are too ol / Ia wait SO long.
| recently met a gentleman, who has
one OF the finest orchards ia this vicini-
ny. SAID he, d" am more than seven
" years old, but have set over hun
dred apple trees tins fall Mr.. McClin-
took, OF Portsmouth, who is nineiy-iour
years OF age, tins ear ate of the fruit of
'rees planted with his own hand when
he was eighty SIX
And blythe way, there is no doubt
that IA man who plants trees IN his old
age, lives the longer Tor doing it. An
interest IN the works of naturc-whlch
calls hin 10 active exercise, aud keeps
up hIs sympathy with The puisu,is OF
other men, prevents INN from breaking
down al once like the TeIrcd merchant
or professional man, who dies premature
ly for want Of any ,hiug else 10 do.
As IL profitable investment Of capital,
there is nothing that now promises bet
Ter tor half century in New -Eng,auh \
than fruit raising. The cry ot an over
supply has been kept up Tor fifty years
ullcady, and still the price OF lrull has
regularly increased. Mr.. Robinson say
that whea he planted his orchards with
seeding lIees more than fifty years ago,
his friends told hm there could never be
a demand for SCI much fruit.
NOTABLY doubls that Just at this tine,
an ochard Is OF more value than land
IN any other use. The most ohluse IN
iellcct fields to Il mathematical demon
slraltnn 10y simple addition; but still
the doubt Is, whether there can be de-
nand for all thai can he raised. Thus
question was ablJ considered ia recent
number of the Farmer, 10y one of The
edllnTs, aud need not be here pursued.
lie, th'- subject of huu he kept stead
ily before the public, IN our agricultural
journals. Many viii read and profit 10y
what they read, and many will doubt
and hesitate, and in future years, regret,
as So macy are now daily heard 10 do,
that they had moi beguI, IA their young
ct days Ia plant IL, es.-iI. +. FREsIH,
in The A. T.. Earnaer.