Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-04-21
Instructions for Transplanting and the
Management of truit and other
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wet straw loaded into your wagon,
the same to be used for covering the
roots Of trees If you nave . hay
rack by all means use it in place of
the wagon box 10 view of packing
them more snugly and not bruising
the bark.
Trim no limhs from your trees the
first year OF setting ont Trimming
gives them black heart. No tree
fails TO live through the frat season
on account of much top. Keep the
roots from drying from the time of
their removal from the nursery till
set in orchard rows, and Won will
never lose = tree from any cause at
removal.
IF you have not The time for inn
mediate transplanting upon arrival
at home with load OF trees, bury
the roots in the ground ct once To
await yonr convenience.
AT the setting out of trees some
have way of stan ling them the
same side north as they stood in the
nursery. which is unnecessary. Turn
the tops in such way as to best re.
sist the west winds, and for blowing
about them.
Set your trees about as deep as you
found them in the nursery, and pack
the ground we'll about the roots
leaving no openinge among the roots.
The first year the roots and tops
make but little growth and so do not
require loose soil The succeeding
water puts the ground in right con-
dition TO allow the roots TO grow, so
that it makes DO difference the first
year how compact the ground is
about the roots of trees
Ii the tops of trees be tall. better
to stake them at setting out to pre-
vent any hnrtful effects of the wind.
A 81, m lching with straw or leav IS is
"a most excellent way to keep the
ground moist during dry weather
and insure the life and health of
trees during this critical process of
transplanting and managing.
Trees are never found diseased at
the root The tops and body are
the parts for disease to attack. In
this country, owing to our late fall
seasons and failure of most kinds of
the apple and other fruit trees 10 ma
ture their wood, they are extremely
liable to what is known as black
heart, or IL sour condition of the
wood, causing diseased circulation,
and u killing Of certain parts of trees.
For black heart there is no remedy
but in cutting away the parts affect
ed-which may be done with safety
only in the month of July, the time
for any pruning required to give
shape to trees and raise them to ia.
vored standard. Experiments made
last year from Spring till Fall prov
ed the tenth July TO be the best
time for pruning, at which time large
and small limbs were cut away, and
trees stript of their bark, body and
limb, new bark entire forming with.
out any visible effect upon trees
The wounds made by pruning such
time, the tenth July, are now of q
light colorand Indicate perfect health
At no other time of year has pruning
an affect SO healthful. Late Fall
Winter and early Spring pruning
are almost fatal to trees. Such is
not the effect, so far as we can learn,
anywhere else in the world but in
the northwest. We now feel con-
titent that most orchards 10 thie sec
ton have been partly or wholly ru-
ined by unreasonable pruning, the
written s orchard of several thousand
trees being referred to for the proof.
The trees of his orchard were prun>
ed late Fall and Spring some FIVE
years since, and hundreds never sur,
vived it. Whilst above half his
trees have since been pruned of lar
ger limbs, but in late June and July,
without any hurtful effects, certain
ly with the greatest visible benefits
Ju'y pruning is proven to our
mind to have these effects 1t gives
great vigor, and insures the wood to
rlpen early, and thus frees trees
from danger of frost it cures bar.
renness, as it insures bearing one or
two years after after July pru-
ming you will see but little further
signs of languishing from the diseas
es incident to the Countrywide per,
feet fruits of all which our trees are
loaded as testimonials.
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WHO'S TO CONTROL THE CHICAGO
AND NoRTHw EsTERN RAILROAD CON-
PANY.-The Chicago Tribune confess
es with sore regret, that the Cowdery
party, that is the Milwaukee and ST.
Paul r. II. stock holders have secur,
ed majority of the stock of the
| Chicago Il Northwestern E. r. CO.,
and will probably rule its policy af-
ter the Northwestern election in June
next. This of course gives good
deal Of diequiet to the Chicago specu
lators az the Northwestern road will
then be run, not for the sole benefit
of Chicago but somewhat for the in,
terest OF Milwaukee, This is an an
expected blow to a certain clique of
spectators in Chicago who expected
to rule hereafter the company which
has grown up to be the largest rail-
way corporation IN America, and
which in past years has been most
effectively used to advance the price
Of property in Chicago even at the
sacrifice Of the property OF the sto ok.
holders Truly the good time is COM
ing, when the Wisconsin cities on
the west shore of Lake Michigan will
derive their Just benefit from the
hundreds OF miles Of railways in our
state under the control Of the North
western Company. Daily VISION
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THE RAILRoAD.--At the meeting
of the officers Of the Mineral Point
Road with the officers Of our Rail.