Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-02-18
agricultural.


was elected Secretary pro tenn. whose re-
port. in the Oxford Register. we give be-
low.
The topic for the evening WAS the cult
walton OF fruit.
"SEsRS. the well Unknown correspondent
ofthe Lewiston Journal. was introduced
70 the club. The whole evening was
most proitably taken up by his remarks
and answers to the queries made by the
members present. In order to save space
we eondense the whole in narrative term.
Mr.. Sears said that he hesitated coming
to the meeting of the Club on account of
III health. He would state that for thirty
five years he had been engaged in or
charding, had set 2.OO0.00O scious in CO.
600 trees in Maine. had seen the orchards
all over our country and had talked with
hundreds OF orehardStS and nursery men.
He considered it a great deal safer and
better TO plant seeding trees than ingrait'
ed ones. Our old varieties had deteriorat-
cd by age; the scion will partake of the
nature of the tree; old tree Scions are
not so firm, hard and enduring as Seeding
trees He has an orchard Just coming IN
to bearing. One half was set with IN
grated trees ut his own raising. and
the other halt with seedlings bought in
JAY. In the fiIst half very large
proportion had to be set over, while in
the other. not one. lie had had u large
experience in New York trees, having at
one time been an agent for their sale;
have corrcsponded with the Rochester
nursery mcu and know Sll about them.
They are poor, miserable things, forced for
the market with blood manure. frozen
and dried to death coming, and generally
scullion trees that are sold in Rochester.
for = % per hundred, but the y. \. trees
that Aacs lived. have grown and must
bear we'll The trees delivered by Chase
Bros. are cool trees and well grown. He
did ~, ike root ingraltcd trees, but where
can We 10 hctter2 Maine does Dot raise
enough Connecticut trees limbcd out too
high and were grown too Tar South. II
NJ Goodaie OF Saco. has trees for sale
YOU may DC sure they are good ones. II
he was going to buy 800 he should 70 and
examine ,he Massachusetts, trees. New
81 GROW 81 tree with animal mauureS. One
fourth animal manure and the remainder
in mulchng would make good trees.
They should always limb at four feet or
four and a half leet 10 raise fruit. Most
of our old orchards. through bad manage
ment have passed beyond resurrection.
Uulrs You especially desire 10 save par
ticuIar tree, let them all ~. Five dollars
will make good tree Of = young one, but
il will take much more 10 restore an old
enc.
!; is bad policy 90 pillow orchards. Hon.
s T. Benson. OF Winthrop, who has one
OF the first orchards in KcuneJcc County,
had SAID that il any one wpall pillow hi,
orchard for nothing he would not have il
done Mr. Sears said the true way 10 cul
t;vate trees WAS bv mulching them. Use
anything wooden, pasture weeds, straw,
shavingS, turning>, spent tan, sewdust.
evergreen boughS, or muck il the last
lime and ashes should DE compo>tcd with
il. 10 neu.ralize the acids i, contained.
Mulching serves various offices prevents
the land from diving or treezjng-Sharp.
deep freezing Wi, Kill apple ,rees-ki.ls
the sward, renders the ground light, $ =
fertilizer and the one the trees require
Our old soils aIe not fiji for orchards un-
les YOU give them vegetable manure
Wood ashes i one Of the best fertilizers.
bu, zoo much will Kill tree lie would
apply about two quarts t" . Young tree,
and bu>hcl to AN old one Manure Ill
reCtly upon the roots OF a tree viii pro-
dlce fungi. We would put the manure
on tho surface and mulch over il. New
soils that are covered with raspberry and
other bushes, is the soil Tor apple trees.
tho rocky Il must be deep. ich and
moist not wet. Where the rocks con-
tain iroa i the best; then slate. then
granite Cold will lii apple trces-the
teuicrsor;s first .consequently they should
DC set 2OO feet above running water II
is very beneficial to scrape old apple trees.
the proper time i in the Spring, about
leaving time and Just after rain. Prun-
inc should never DC done in March. rs
six suckers viii grow in place Of every
on" cut -. \ moderate pruning in June
is good. No suckers Will GROW in June
or July. Fall : the best time :or pruning
old trees, or severe pruning Of young
00es. a. AZ that season the wound will dry
hard In order to prevent mice from in
juring the trees, coil birch or poplar bark
rags OF most anything around the tree
from the ground for foot or two. This
WI. also prevent the horcr. if the tree IS
thus protected in August The bark louise
l. doing more damage than people are
aware. They viii poison the wood Of an
inch limb to the heart They can be kill
81 by washing tho trees with one part
common soap and two parts SOFT water,
in the Spring before leaving Never APP
ply lime. it is TOO cauStic. The r. |.
Greening i one Of our best and hardest
varieties. never saw a scion injured by
the cold; it bears more evenly than the
Baldwin, although the crop is only abou,
two-,hirdS - large. Mr. Sears closed his