Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1869 — Girdled Trees Bearing Fruit. [ARTICLE]

Girdled Trees Bearing Fruit.

Otm readers have heard of the great atrocity of girdling 1,500 bearing fruit trees, at Benton Harbor, Michigan, near St. Joseph, by some unknown miscreant enemies of Martin Green. Tim neighbors turned out and bandaged tlie trees with the cloth strips dipped in great heated kettles of wax. A second lesser raid ’of tlie rascally spoilers was similarly met; and now for the sequel. Every tree lived, and lias come out of the trial bending under such a fruitage as has not liecn before seen in Benton Harbor. All Benton Harbor, and the region round nhout, is filled -with the ruarvql, jtyd, an* orchardUt has promulgated a new theory of fruiting trees by girdling them. Whether or not it will be deemed necessary, as in Charles Lamb’s story of the discovery of roasting pigs, to go through the whole process of girdling an orchard over night, and to have the village turn put'and repair damages the next day, remains to he seen. Those wise in fruit matters believe that, though the interception ofthp snn lias eausQd fruit to grow insteadpnyodii thirseason, tie real; trial of the trees will come next year, ’ As* to that, tiine can only show ; meanwhile, the trees are giving a magnificent yield, if it is to be tlieir final one.— Chit<iga Republican. K ,