Ten Acres Enough, by Edmund Morris, Part 2
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
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Keeping Worms Out of Your Trees
I have unfairly saddled on the orchard the whole charge of $200 for manure because it went to nourish other crops which the same ground produced, but let that go. Ten well-grown bearing trees were harboring 190 worms among them when I undertook the work of extermination. The peach, unless carefully watched and attended, is a short-lived tree, but it returns a generous income to a careful and generous grower. If any worms had been overlooked, the chips thrown out by their operations would be plainly visible at the week's end.
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