The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1864-09-15
Why Western AppIe rrees DC !.

Observation leads US to add some far.
Their reasons to ihOse given by your cor.
respondent why the apple trees of this
section are dying out 80 rapidly
Bark lice are playing the mischief
They have been al work in some orch.
ards for two or three years and some
orcbordis's have just made the discovery
this year. One orchard Of five hundred
trees, just coming fairly into bearing,
the owner is cutting up into stove wood
as the life has been sucked out of it by
the Apbis. A few days since visited
young orchard which had bscn stunted
by seeding down to grass for three or
four years, and found over one.balf of
the trees dead and dying, and complete.
~ scaled over with the bark louise. They
they were 60 thick in spots that rhey
Tapped over one another This orchard
had not failed for lack Of pruning as the
cattle and sheep had attended to that
thoroughly in its younger days. It's
present proprietor is making a vigorous
effort TO conquer tie enemy. Lots Of
trees will die for the want OF little
knowledge how to take care of them,
and many more from lack of Perseyer-
enc0 in thoroughly applying the rene
dies necessary to eradicate this pest.
Many trees die from cerelessness, and
Shifllessness, and penuriousnoss. The
orchard is not fenced and the cattle, hor.
SEES and sheep roam through it, barking,
browsing and breaking down the young
trees. In cullivating, tho trees are
barked and raked down, and grow up
end heart.rottep, pass a sick.
ly existence and perhaps bear some fruit
for few years, and when an extra dry
time, or cold snap, comes, give up the
ghost. Then The farmer concludes this
country is not adopted to Ifuit. Far
mer Penurious thinks il wont pay to
lay out his money for trees and not pro-
tect them by fence. So he tendss his
orchard. Some fine day in passing his
orchard he discoveries that there is
good bite OF feed around the edges, and
there are some corn-stalks and weeds
that the cattle might just as well have
oS not, So in the cattle go. When
they get the best of the feed cared for
they tam to and trim trees and do any
amount of rubbing, hooking and tearing
about.
As you pass through the Wcst you
will see plenty of orchards suffering
from the want Of neglect and care
Worms nests by the score in the tops,
broken limbs and scared bodies, bark
lice by the thousands, and the roots
bound down by an almost impenOtrable
sod, or cultivated crops and weeds
drawing all the nourishmcnt from the
soil that should 60 to furnish tho tree
with food for healthy growth. Truly,
tits no wonder our trees die. 1t would
be a wonder if they did not
People ought 10 understand that
fruit tree will not thrive in pond hole.
Yet how many there are that sci there
orchards on low, wet, or moist grounds,
where water stands half the winter and
during every long, wet spell, .vaiuly
wandering why they die out. When
Western people read and observe little
more and exercise little more common
sense, they will succeed in raising orch
ards that VIII DO them credltand HI their
pockets. But they never will succeed
until they have had little more dear eG.
perierce in tho selecting of varieties
adapted to the climate, and in their
proper cultivation and care. No man
has any business with an orchard until
he comes fairly TO the conclusion that it
will be worth to him all the care, cost
and pains that are required to select,
plant, cultivate and care for it in the
best manner known to successful cult.
yatos.
L. L, FMRculp,