" What are the best manures for the apple, pear, and other fruits, and what are the best means to renovate old apple orchards?"

W. P. Towruend remembered how the old orchard got all mossy, and his father set him to scrape the bark of the trees. After working a while he got sick of it, and told bis father if he would let him take the team and draw some manure into the old orchard he could scrape the trees without injuring the bark. He drew in upon those premises an average of half a load to each tree; next year the bark began to peel, and of course to bring with it the moss, and they increased in vigor. That summer, turned the hogs in upon the orchard, and they pretty thoroughly rooted it all over. Even to the tops of the trees the old bark has started, and the body had all the thrifty and vigorous look of young trees. The fruit that used to be half or three-fourths wormy, is now fair, smooth, and free from vermin. By invigorating the trees he destroyed the insects that had destroyed the fruit. Common barn-yard manure was best for trees. Had tried it for pear-trees also. It should be applied in the fall, and then you get the benefit in the next two years' crop.

Apply twenty-five loads to the acre every year in the fall.

Mr. Langworthy thought that in heavy clay grounds muck would be useful to lighten it up.