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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I went to the Wrentham Orchard today. I replaced
one of the three blue bird nesting boxes, refurbished the other two, replaced
two of the posts and changed their locations. I placed one of the posts in
the inner most row. That is the row in which we have had a lot of mortality
and poor growth. In digging with a posthole digger I found that there was only
about four inches of top soil and a coarse gravely sandy subsoil below. I placed
another post about thirty feet away in the third row. There the top soil was
about a foot deep and the subsoil was sandy and free of gravel and stones. Quite
a difference in only thirty feet.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A car had recently lost control on the road
adjacent to the orchard. There were skid marks on the road,turf was torn up, the
car went diagonally between two of the large roadside white pine trees, then
sideswiped the large Meadow View F 1 in row one and broke a large
branch which I cut free and removed. It then hit another tree which had
bark skinned away and was leaning at about a forty-five degree angle. I
straitened it the best I could with breaking it. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rufin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>