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Title: The autobiography of Horace Greeley : or, Recollections of a busy life: to which are added miscellaneous essays and papers
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
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Publisher: New York : E.B. Treat
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s or can buy a tract of woodland, or land too poor orbroken to be profitably tilled, let him shut out cattle, andsteadily plant choice trees while cutting out poorer; let himcut every tree that stops growing and begins to decay, or shedits limbs; let him not hesitate to thin as well as trim up; lethim cut out Ked Oak, for instance, and sow the acorns ofWliite ; let him, when half a dozen or more sprouts start froma single stump, cut away all but two or three, and by and bycut again; and I am confident that he may thus grow timbertwice as rapidly as where it is neglected, and grow trees farmore valuable than those that come by chance. Nay: ifnear a city, he can make a thousand dollars far more easily,though less quicldy, by growing Timber than by growingGrain. The land I ultimately bought included part of an old or-chard, which I estimated worth a httle more than the fire-wood that might be made of it; but there I was mistaken.Old Apple-trees, never grafted, or grafted with indifferent
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UY FARMING. 305 fruit, and which have been suffered to grow out of propershape to a height of forty or fifty feet, so that caterpillarsflourish in their tops with impunity, are simply nuisances.If you buy or inherit such, cut them down remorselesslythe moment you can obtain fruit for your own use fromothers. On the land I first purchased was a young orchard of twoacres, mainly Russets, — small fruit, but not inviting toworms, while it keeps splendidly, — in fact, hardly becomeseatable till April or May. The Eusset yields bounteouslyand pretty constantly; so that, if I were planting for profitin this region, I should give this sort the preference. Ishould carefully avoid the common error (which I, whengreener, committed) of planting many sorts together; indeed,I would prefer to have but one sort in an orchard, for theconvenience of gathering and marketing. My young orchards are just fairly beginning to bear. Theground was not ploughed so deeply as it should be, — in fact,the grou

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