Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-02
Trouble in the Orchard.

L nave q small orchard, on slight east
| ward declivity, in black, sandy loam, clay
subsoil, planted about fourteen years,
which has been cultivated in corn nearly
every year until 1870, when took possess
sion, and soweG it in oats and clover.
Most of the trees pruned pretty heavily
last season and this, they having previous
Iy been neglected. They fruit we'll until
just before maturity then the fruit specks,
and falls off until the ground is covered
with apples. Scarcely any of the fruit
comes to perfection. A short time after
the fruit begins to speck, the leaves begin
| to die, taking on what / suppose is leaf
blight. Tell me, please, how to remedy
the defect. / never saw q curculio,
but to try the tchip traps' Immediately
in this orchard, as have read good deal
| about the curculio sting. ryL55
l wish to plant a young orchard this
Fall on the same kind of soil as the one
spoken of above, and wish to know what
you think of setting apple trees thirty or
forty feet apart each way, and putting be-
tween the rows a row of standard or
dwarf pears in half the orchard, and
ounces in the ether half-J. AID WEAL
THERLY. ~tsF9EEpessE q cfFFf83ft&
We cannot say what is the trouble with
your apple trees, but fear that it is the leaf
blight. We would advise planting the
orchard with some kind of low growing
crop requiring cultivation in summer
such as beans, potatoes or peas. An appli-
cation of lime might do good, and perhaps
busting the trees with it soon after the APP
pies appear may prevent the blight. tits
well to try various remedies where the
character of the disease is not known. As
for mixing different species of fruit trees,
like pears, apples and ounces in the same
orchard by placing them in alternate rows,
we never. could see the utilitylof such
practice, for the trees of either kind, if
wen cultivated, will livea hundred years.
With short lived trees like the peach, in
some localities, the intermingling of differ
ent kinds may be practiced economically,
but we doubt its ACCESSIBILITY with those
you name. Plant each kind by itself, and
then the special culture required may be
given economically and judieiously. y
How To TREAT Dry AND CRACKED
HooFs.-As correspondent of the New
England Farmer, r. Davis, Troy, VT,
writes: 1--WE keep on this farm two
horses for farm work and other uses. In
the summer of 1869 their feet became dry
and hard. One is naturally fat-focted.
His feet grew at the toe, and contracted at
the heel, and cracked crOsswiSe. The 9TH
er had a straight hoof. His would split
up and down, the edges were brittle, would
crumble off so much that it was difficult to
keep him shod. Tt appeared to me that
they needed some grease or oil or something
else, to soften and tougher them. About
the first of September took oil, which we
keep in the barn to oil our wagons, and
applied to their hoofs in front and upon
the edges ofthe hair, also to the bottom of
the foot. We did this once a week for q
spell after that not so often. Their feet
became better after the first application,
and after while became all right This
last summer we have used the oil about
once month, and have not had any
trouble with their feet. The oil seems to
be just what was wanted, and brought
their feet to the natural shape and condi-
ton ,2ae- a.se4 sig'i5s8