Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1875 — Summer Care of Apple Trees. [ARTICLE]

Summer Care of Apple Trees.

We frequently notice apple orchards in which nearly every free is surrounded by a dense mass of suckers springing from the base of the steins or larger roots. To remove these is one of the things needing attention in summer. The longer *lhe suckers are allowed to remain the more difficult to remove, and the more abundant they are likely to become. If the sap of the free is diverted from the branches to producing suckers at the base of the stem the more abundant will buds become at this point, hence the continual increase of such useless mid in- i jurious appendages. In removing suckers the soil should be removed to their very base, and then cut them away with a sharp instrument. A strong chisel is an excellent implement for this purpose. After removal fill in the earth again. While the base of the stem is laid fear? it is a good time to look for I

apple-tree borers, especially the larva of the Saperda Candida, which usually deposits her eggs close to or just under the surihoe of the ground. If one has ashes, lime, charcoal or even old plaster from walls, it may he applied around the stems of apple trees with beneficial results. The removal of what are called “ sapsprouts” from the main branches of all trees should be attended to while they are small, unless one cares nothing for the future welfare of his orchard. Every season’s neglect only tends to increase the quantity as well as injurious effects. Tent and canker worms need looking after at this season, and the first 'appearance of those pests should be heeded, else multi-, plication of numbers will bring corresponding disastrous results. Washing the stems and larger branches with soft-soap will not only remove the mass and old dead bark but prevent insects from depositing their eggs thereon. The flat-headed apple-tree borer (Chrysobothris femorata) is very partial to neglected apple trees with a very rough bark as the cracks are convenient and safe places for laying her eggs, but when scraped smooth and well coated with some soapy substance they are usually avoided by this mischievous insect The various species of bark lice so destructive in some portions of the country may also be kept in check by frequent applications of soap or strong lye during the early part of summer, before the scales of these insects become hardened. Good cultivation or liberal mulching when the trees, are growing in dry soils will do much toward keeping them free from bark lice. Stunted trees, like stunted, half-starved animals, invite the attacks of paraaitio insects and diseases. If every farmer would keep this in mind there need be little theorizing in regard to causes of failure among plants or animals. —Rural New Yorker.

A citizen who was driving along the Jackson road the other day, says the Vicksburg Herald , saw a man up a tree near the roadside, and, halting, he inquired : “ What are you doing up there?” The man made no reply, and the citizen continued: “What’s the cause of your being up there?” At that moment a woman rose up from the fence comer, rested a club on the fence,. and remarked: “I’m the cause, stranger, and if you’ll wait till he comes down You’ll see the worst field of carnage around here that ever laid out doors.” The citizen drove on, and she turned to the man up the tree and continued: “Polhemus, I can’t climb, and you know it, but if you’ll drop down here for two minutes I’ll give you a quitclaim deed of the farm!” August Schutknhelm, a liquor-mar-chant of Hoboken, put a bullet through his head with fatal effect recently. He had met with business troubles, and the only way he saw of getting over them was by Schutenhelm-self. —Boston Post. This is an advertising age. Every man who is up to the times takes care that the world knows it. A trade candle is not hidden under a bushel, but placed upon a hill. Business is found to increase in direct ratio with the amount of money judiciously expended in letting the public know where yon are and what you have got to sell. The great difficulty is to know when, where and now to do it. This led to the establishment of advertising agencies, of which the most extensive and reliable is that of Geo. P. Rowell & Co., of New York, which has met with a success unparalleled in the history of similar undertakings. They are the largest customers the newspapers of the United States have, and have so managed to simplify and arrange th« advertising system as secures the greatest amount of publicity for the lowest amount of money. More than five thousand American periodicals are received regularly, and kept on file at their office, which is located in the New York Times building, 41 Park Row, and we are informed that their corps of assistants outnumber the combined force of any four similar establishments now in existence. Visitors to New York will find their office a capital place to find news from home, for it must be a secluded spot which is not represented by a paper on their extensive files, which are always open to free inspection.—Davenport (Iowa) Democrat.

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