Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-06-17


the time I began until I sold out,
during twelve years. | averaged
$500 per year above all expenses, be-
sides al the fruit we could use, and
the pleasure Of living among flowers
and shrubbelv. l sold out for ST.
900 being $500 more than l paid.
Two years after l sold out, it could
not be bought tor $4,000.
SOIL, CLIMATE, CULTIVATION.
Every locality must have varieties
of trees adapted to it, or they will
not flourish. Apples that grow in
other States will not grow in this !;
and apples that will do well in the
centre of the State will not do well in
this county, or in the extreme south
part of the State. Every country
has particular varieties best adapted
to its soil and climate. \ cultivator
of fruit from another country, when
he comes here must throw away his
prcjudices and work to suit the soil
and climate here.
II Won have the trees best adapted
to the soil and climate, you can kill
them with manure. Thepoorest ofour
soil and the most exposed situation,
when the wind has free circulation,
is the best. On the top Of an open hill
at night it is warmer than i'll the
valley, ard cooler at noon than where
= grove protects it from wind, when
the sun shines. The most exposed
place gives the trees the most ece1a
temperature. ! am often asked,
"when is the right time to prunc APP
pie trees" l answer, rhea you
rant to IiN them. The leaves and
limbs protect the trees from the hot
sun and drying winds, which injure
them very much. A good healthy
tree has it's balance; nature knows
best how to balance herself. and the
leares are the lungs of trees cut them
off and weaken the tree in proportion
t. the amount on cut off. For every
limb cut off, the tree is thrown SO
much off its balance. and then start
out the water shoots-an effort of ma
ture 10 recover its balance. The
more you violate nature the more you
suffer the consequences. People say
it won't hurt to cut off small limbs; OF
course it won't do as much damage to
cut off your finger IS to cnt off your
arm. (Mr. C. d. Beeman likened
cutting off leaves and limbs of tree
to improve it, to cutting out part Of
a mans 1ungs to improve nina good
il ustra;ion.-Ed.)
The best way to prune, or regulate
your tree, is to rub off the buds when
you think they start in the wrong
place,
Some say "My trees grow too fast
and bear no fruit" OF course a tree
can't make SO much wood and fruit
at the same time. If you root prune,
or top prune, heavily, you violate the
law of nature so much that you stop
the growth, and your tree is on the
decline; 1t then follows It's nature Gn-
slime, y to propagate itself, for a few
years bears fruit imperfeclly, and dies.
| would rather wait q little longer,
have a healthy tree, perfect fruit, and
plenty of it.
Some say: GLOW is it if have
trees all of the same kind some do
well; others die 20 If you go to the
Nursery, you will see a row Of trees
all of the same kind, planted and treat
ed in the same manner. Some grow
fast, others slow. The reason is,
some are grated on slow seedlings
others on fast growing seedlings.
The tree will partake in measure
of the nature of the seeding root.
Some are grated on seedlings that
suit the climate and soil of course
they do better than if grated on ten
der seedlings. Hence, | prefer to
graft long scions on short roots, as the
root may not suit the climate, and
the less of it there is. and the more OF
the roots Of the scion, which will pro
duee roots, the better.
We can improve our fruits in har
diness by grating on hardy stocks.