Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1871 — Planting Apple-Orchards. [ARTICLE]

Planting Apple-Orchards.

No mau, iu so review of, foo past season, -cam say that the apple-trees have done bearing. The yield has beeflbountiful, notwifostanding the great drought, and apples have been' a drug in- many communities, yet good winter apples are now bringing’remunerative prices—three dollars a barrel aad upwurd. Thousands of barrels have been sent into New England, and are-now tollhig in sight of farms ence blest With productive orchards. The excuse few not planting has been the failure .of foe oc trees to bear. Why ateould they hw, given over as they have bedh to uller.'hfijelgct for a whole generation ? A tree can t» mofc bear fnut without nourishment thah'A* obw bfo give milk Without fodder. There are orchards in the older parts of the conn t*T weßrfetl gnd as productive as ever. Therq .xras. -Sever mage encourage meet to plant gdpa vhrie ties’ or the apple than noW. There Is mo danger ol ovorstoekihgilie market with . -gootfiwund Winter apples. Even in thia year tffpidtity, the long-keeping varieties Home.