Gonzales Co. TX: News - Logan's Orchard	August 5 1882
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Gonzales Inquirer
from the Gonzales Inquirer, August 5, 1882

Last Saturday our thoughtful friend, S. F. Logan, brought us a lot of fine 
fruit, among which was peaches measuring seven inches around, of several 
varieties; a pear measuring ten inches around, and an apple nearly nine 
inches.  The apple was not ripe; in fact, we think was not more than two-thirds 
developed.  Mr. Logan lives about four miles from town, in the post oaks.  His 
apple trees are bearing prolifically, and his pear trees are loaded.  His peach 
trees are heavily fruited.  An experience of fourteen years teaches him the 
best ground for fruit is sandy soil with clay substrata too remote to be 
reached by the roots.  He has tried manured land, such as cattle and sheep 
pens, and sandy land about six inches deep with clay subsoil, but he finds the 
trees died out very early.  When the roots strike the clay, he thinks 
the "borers" begin, and their ravages soon sap the tree of its life.  He also 
finds it very necessary to cultivate his orchard, and finds it advantageous to 
plant cotton between the rows, and work it during the dry season.  Not content 
with bringing us these, he invited us to come out and help ourself, and 
volunteered to bring us another bucket when the fruit was ripe.  We are going 
out here to camp during fruit season, and will do our editing by 
correspondence, from "Logan's orchard".


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