The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
The Apple Orchard.
Experiments and Treatment at the
Agricultural College.

er They are unsightly. Some PEG
a. pie criticiso tho practice of al
es lowing any weeds. Some will crit
icise, no matter what course is pur.
!. sued. The object of ceasing to cul,
? tivate in August is to prevent late
. growth,-to induce the wood to
:, mature well.
c Some would like the trees all the
: time in grass, others never; some
: would keep in grass occasionally and
pillow part of the time. Our trees
are mostly about Is years old from
time of setting out. Until within
: four years they had been in grass
for five years. They were becom-
/ ing stunted. We have kept three
rows across the orchard to show tho
contrast between cultivated trees
and those in grass.
Our soil is not strong. With good
culture the twigs of our trees grow
only about foot year. This is
about the right growth.
We have some IS varieties. We
cannot publish the list for certain,
as some of the younger trees have
not borne fruit.
For two or three years we have
been trying some experiments on
CULTIvATING AND MATURING
apple-trees at different distances
from the trunk. Only general |
brief statement can be given here.
Trees which stood in grass and
had small circles about them, kept
clean, and well cultivated, did not
seem to be benefited, even when the
space about the tree was titled eight
or ten feet each way with trees Is
years old). The trees appeared
with yellow leaves and made slow
growth, the same as those in grass
with no culture. Other trees,
which stood in a patch of grass, each
in the centre of a 16-foot grass-plot,
and cultivated well beyond the grass
every way, did apparently as well I
as those with clean culture every
where about them. Piling manure
close about large tree is like trying
feed horse by tying hay to his a
sides instead of before his mouth.
1t is too soon to draw conclusions. ,
but it so far seems to be unnecessary
to cultivate closely to trees to make
them grow well. Iknow fromobscr- ?
vatiOn that most ofthc best-workinc 1
roots of an old apple-tree arc out a
under the ends of the longest limbs :,
and beyond them. The manuring
It different distances about the trees
las not shown much effect yet. 7
TRIMMING. :,
The treesarc moderately trimmed 81
very spring, and young shoots -
ubbed offas they appear on the o'
arge limbs during summer. No TT
limbs are removed which are more
han one inch in diameter, unless G.
hey have died previously. Two
ears ago the cold winter injured
cverely some ofthe tender varieties, 81
5 Sweet Bough, Jersey Sweet, and q,
baldwin. Some of these where w.
cavity cut back, some were lot u,
lone, and others moderately w
The results arc decided W
: against heavily cutting back.
OTIJEp CyDppr,tLvrc
18th striking and positive results IN
ave been tried. Many people all sn
yer the country arc trying the same, ."
nd have been, for many years, all Gu
it'll the same results. They arc pc
5 follows: Young trees arc set in fin
lick sod with only little space dug Lot
,out them,-or they are set in land s;o
llich is often soaked with water CIV
T. weeks together. They will ye
,ver amount to anything. 1t is gin
Dor thrown away. 1t needs no of
ore proof. Let us cease to repeat civ
csc experiments which have been 81
satisfactorily tried. "
Some observations have been .Ho
ldc OH the III
COLDING MOTH, OR APPLE WORM. cha
c catch them by means of thick a -"
'th or paper bands, about four to BE,
inches wide, put about the trunk ticl
the tree and held fast by carpet wb,
*. We have one season used WIN
od straw wrapping paper folded 0N0
o three thickncsses. About be
ce-fifths of the moths hide in the pub
is ofthe bands, two-fifths between Yor
bands Of the tree. prefer
,dof one thickness ofwoolen cloth. v
st season We used one thick Chi
IS of carpet paper, but the birds two
,ked it off good deal in hunting
the worms. We have learned o"0
t the bands must be removed and low
worms killed every eight or ten age
-, or some are liable to escape. six
one time we lost quito full
nber of worms by leaving the ,,o,r
Ills on II days at time. ~ ~.
TIE HOG REMEDY
My partial one. Late in July, CIV
apparently wormy apples were dua'
kcd up from the ground and cut This
n: not one contained worm. Han
the same time go such apples chan
e picked from trees: about % per
only contained larvae. The ~
had crawled out, and were likely out
er folds of bark, out of hogs way. OF y
July Z, 101 apparently wormy orAI
les where taken from a Wag- ne
tree: so contained the worm, man