Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1910 — CURE FOR FRUITLESS TREE [ARTICLE]

CURE FOR FRUITLESS TREE

After Stiff Dose of Calomel Hitherto Sterile Plant Yields Prollfieally— Big Results. Lincoln, Del.—That a dose of calomel Is as good for a sick tree as for a sick man is the curious doctrine worked out by William Morrison, station agent here, who claims practical results to prove his assertion. Morrißon has a large plum tree In front of his house. For years the tree has borne but few plums, never over one or two quarts. A faithful believer in calomel for the ills of men, Morrison determined to try his favorite remedy on the tree, and last fall bored a hole in the tree and into this hole inserted a spoonful of the medicine and then 'plugged the hole up tight The result has been wonderful, for the tree that hardly bore enough plums to give It a name bore several hundred quarts of fruit.