Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1914 — FARM & GARDEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FARM & GARDEN

TALK TO* FRUIT GROWERS. J. H. Hale Gives Same Sound Views on Orcharding. J. H. Hale, the veteran orchardlst in a talk to fruit growers, said: Give the orchard the best Boil you have, rolling land preferred. Prepare this land thoroughly and continue thorough tillage. Get good trees. Plan ahead and transplant trees two or three times before setting in permanent place, or pay nurserymen for doing it. .Head your trees low ; Manufacture them to suit your idea. Get them down where you can handle them easily and cheaply. Prune annually and spray often and thoroughly,., Thin apples. Good trees overbear. This is the most paying operation of all. Pick two to four times to get all of crop at proper 3tages of ripeness. We don’t pick the whole of any other fruit crop at once; why apples? , Don’t plant dwarfs, but rather dwarf your standard trees by summer and root pruning if they, are overvigorous. Throw such trees into bearing by plowing deep and subsoiling. Cultivate early and thoroughly until middle of July, then seed to cover crop and let alone.

Mr. Hale hsis used commercial fertilizers supplemented by cover crops for forty years, and thinks them equal to barnyard ifianure. He has secured results in color and quantity with potash, and he says use care in harvesting. If possible put apples in cold storage every night Communities should unite and build storage plants, ft