Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-04-04
SUCCESSFUL FRUIT-RAISING.

In former article we vcntured to express
the belief that in the aggregate, the net profits
of Embarrassing industry in New England would
make but a sorry figure, in comparison with
what has been realized from the other branches
of agriculture. Except as it regards few spe-
cies Of fruits of minor Importance, the reasons
for this i'll Succpss.are traceable. not to soil
and climate than which few are better adapted
to the business, but rather to bad cultivation,
neglect, and general mismanagement. In many
cases the means have been as miserably adapted
to the end in view, as when a drunken Indian
had expected to obtain well finished canoe by
throwing his tomahawk against the trunk of
fallen tree Here and there however, an en-
couraging example Of success in Embarrassing
shows what may be hoped for, when a man
knows what to do and faithfully does it from
year to year. For instance in a recent CONVEX.
sation with Mr. John Barnard of this c;ty-who
belongs in the front rank of the first class far
mers of Worcester county-he gave us his ex-
perience with young orchard of two hundred
and eighty apple-trees, occupying seven acres
of land. Two hundred and thirty of these
trees were set out in the spring of 1916; the
other fifty were added four years afterward.-
When transplanted from the nursery to his or
chard, these trees were quite small, a few of
them being three years, but most of them only
one or two years "from the bud" In the fall
of last year (lSG0) Mr. Barnard gathered from
this orchard over five hundred barrels of apples.
which were so fair and beautiful that he esti-
mates the knury wormy, and otherwise dcfec-
tive portion of the whole to have been less than
three bushels Among the trees was a Porter,
sixteen years from the bud which bore six bar
rels. The yield Of fourteen other trees-H,tb-
6drdstoR NOReSuck, amounted to fifty-six bar
rels But how was this done? Well. certain
ly, not by any witchcralt. Mr. Barnard did his
work Understandings and faithfully. That is
ALL He first selected fine healthy trees from
respectable nursery; saw that they were prop
erly taken up, with sufficient roots; had them
carefully packed and kept till set out; then
planted out in a workmanlke manner upon a
suitable piece of land, which has been kept un-
der cultivation ever since. Can anything be
palmer or simpler than this? Sure enough !;
but then it must have cost him something. OF
course it did and to Offset the expense he has
already received not less than seven hundred
barrels of fruit from his orchard, and this is on
ly the beginning of the profits, which he has
right to anticipate for thirty or more years to
come. Considering also, the other crops taken
from the land between the trees, this orchard,
even in the years of its infancy, has more than
paid for itself; but, estimating the net profits
on each tree at the low figure of 81 30 annual
ly, for the next twenty years, and the land upon
which this orchard stands, will thus pay the an
nual interest on $1,000 per acre This is farm
ing worthy OF the name, and so--until others
are heard frcm-we put Mr. Barnard's orchard
of two hundred and eighty trees at the head of
the Worcester list.-IP6rcetcr (lHs.) Spy.