The Tipton advertiser., 1877-05-17

effect by our excessively dry west
winds. The trees are half starved fol
water and the intense cold finishes
the job.
Ii this is the true theory, the all inn,
I, portant problem To solve is, how te
best protect our fruit trees from these
extremes of drouth and cold. One
method is by groves or belts of timber
another is by low, dense tops asalready
/ indicated, and still another, and we
believe the most effective of all, is by
mulching, which may consist of any
kind of straw, or of weeds and foNtail,
or by good crop of clover, or of clover
and timothy. Mulching is Nature 's
| plan of raising trees, both in temper
ate and incorporate climates. Mulch
! ing retains an even moisture both i'm
in winter and summer, keeping the
earth mellow and porous. permitting
the easy ascent Of moisture in times of
drouth, and its rapid decent in times
Of ofexcessive wet. Mulching prevents
deep freezing, and in this way enables
the roots to supply the tree with sap
as rapidly as the wind absorhs ii from
them.
Our gardeners and florists every.
where avail themselves of the benefits
of mulching in protecting their tender
shrubs, vines, monthly roses, and
many OF our finer lowering roots.
Selecting Of hardy varieties is suit
ing the tree TO the climate. Mulching,
or otherwise protecting the tender va
rieties, is modifying thcclimateto suit
the tree.
With low, dense tops and generous
mulching, | am confident that we can
raise all the valuable, tender varieties
that we have heretofore regarded as
forbidden fruits.
The annual mulching with which
nature supplies our forests, besides the
benefits already enumerated, supplies
| the soil with all the vegetable rabu-
lum necessary for the growth of the
| timber. Is not mulching the safest,
cheapest and most suitable fertilizer
that can be applied to an orchard?
While on the subject of manuring
orchards, ! wish to simply state that
nothing III my experience or ohserva-
ton will justify the extensive use of
strong manure in an orchard. | have
seen orchards ON thin Ohio soil, and
on rich Iowa prairie thus treated and
have heard some Dragging on the re-
suits; but sooner or later | have seen
these same orchards come to grief, and
so general has been the rule, that |
would no more put wagon load of
strong manure about an apple
tree than ! would give valuable
horse Il sack of wheat at a feed. Ma
nuring our prairie soil, already too
rich for an orchard, is worse than car
rying GOALS 10 Newcastle or "iron
to Pitt.burgn What we want for
safety and profit, is a healthy, moder-
ate even growth of trees. Orchards
grow and flourish in the Eastern
states Oh very thin soul, and, with lit
tie or no manure, bear abundance of
excellent fruit, and, when not butcher
ed by trimming, live to a venerable
age. An apple tree can not be grown
in night. as mushroom nor in "A
single season, as corn stalk. There
is no simiitnie between them. Make
haste slowly" is good motto in
raising an orchard. The long lived
oak i of slow growth.
In regard To the various insects, and
other enemies to the orchard, We
shoot the rabbit, trap and poison the
gopher, poison the mice with arsenic
in corn neal-using about pound of
arsenic to 4 half bushcl of meal Put
Il tablespoonful in a paper package,
place these packages pretty thick
along the outside rows for the conven-
icnce Of mice tina, may visit the or
chard -one package 10 eight or ten
trees il eaough in the interior of the
orchard; place them under some kind
of rubbish. Ii is not necessary that
they should be close to the tree. This
is sure and inexpensive remedy
for this pest.
THE BDRER.
The best remedy for borer- is to de-
stroy the eggs by washing the trees
with strong lye, or thinnish soft soap.
The last days Of June, after they get
into the tree, ctlt them out with
sharp knife.
GANKER WORM.
| have had some pleasant experience
with the canker worm. For two or
three years previous to - had OBJ
served il few canker worms in my or
clarl, but they never made respect
able showing until that year, when |
found them spread over about 1900
trees. procured a force pump with
hose and sprinkler attached, a quanti-
ty of potash, made strong lye, and
sprlnkled few trees cflectually, (at
least SO far as killing leaves was con.
cerned.l The worms let themselves
down from the limbs on the grass,
summed themselves awhile, then made
for the body of the tree, went up it
and went to business, and for any
thing ! could observe took the whole
thing n a joke. The lyc did not kill
a worm. Next bought "A box of par
is green; mixed half a pound in Il bar
rel of water and with this kind of
medicine sprinklel about 70J trees
killed good many worms, but they
had already commenced going into
the ground, 50 that this experiment
was not entirely satisfactory. During
the summer of -, / learned that
John Smith, of Des Moines, had used
arsenic with complete success. In the
spring of ID, procured 80 pounds of
arsenic, dissolved the arsenic by boil
ing, put ii on the trees in the same
manner as the lye and paris green. If
the arsenic is Il pure article, one pound
is enough for l50 gallons of water; at
first we used it stronger than this, but
scOrched the leaves and fruit some