. L'Agriculture du Maine : ... rapport annuel de la commissaire à l'Agriculture de l'État du Maine. Agriculture -- maine. 120 LA SOCIÉTÉ POMOLOGIQUE. L'état est défini sur de vieux gazon ou herbe bleue ou rouge en haut, qui va alors détruire complètement ce vieux tnrf de SOD et de travailler dehors, comme la volaille ; et ils ne peuvent pas détruire les arbres. Ils mangent les pommes, ils détruisent les insectes, et ils nettoient la terre et mettre le sol en jachère sous complètement. Je pourrais appeler votre attention aux vergers de deux ou trois acres en mesure, là où deux ou trois centaines de poules ont été conservés pour une période d'années, où il n'y a rien de se développer- en

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. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. 120 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. is set on old sod or blue grass or red top, that will so completely destroy that old tnrf sod and work it out, as poultry; and they won't destroy the trees. They eat the apples, they destroy the insects, and they clean the land and put the ground under fallow completely. I could call your attention to orchards of two or three acres in extent, where two or three hundred hens have been kept for a period of years, where there is nothing grow- ing on that land but the apple trees, and those trees are grow- ing as they are not growing under any stage of cultivation except high actual manuring, as a result of this tillage given by the. Yellow-edge or mourning-cloak butterfly. birds and the manure deposited there. My little orchard down here, where I am growing six thousand chickens this year— those little apple trees are growing so fast I am fearful for their wintering from the very fact that the manure deposited on that land is causing such a rapid growth there it is a question of stop- ping their growth rather than carrying it forward, and it is a question in these orchards that are intensely covered with chick- ens and with hens, —it is a question of the growth of the fruit, the quality of the fruit—fruit grows as fast as the trees grow. And now were I to engage in growing an apple orchard today, I would select the land, if it were a forty acre farm, and I would put my colony houses containing one hundred birds around in that orchard, and would give a group of one hundred a certain area of that orchard, one row here, another row in that direction, and I would fill that orchard with hens and would put. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original w

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