The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-09-24
FARMERS COLUMN.


The Prdisfe Epmer wants tu hear some.
thing about the success Of the shnrpless
strawberry in the Wrst, aud also about the
Eidwell, Warren, L,ngf,llow, Windsor
Chief, "nna nther kinds SO highly landed in
the East" Is Il possible that such infor-
nation has not yet been furnished ilH But
~ Il don't hear soon il may not at nll, for
these wonderful varieties are seldom heard
Of anywhere during more than year or
two
'The growing Of ine fruits will never be
overdone," says man who raises fruit trees
70 sell. That depends on what is meant by
overdoing. II meant that fine fruit will
always pay the grower, then it is fallacy.
II pays nurserymen, transportation cnmpau-
les, and commission men, while the grow
crs get the least profit Of all, and sometimes
lrsc by it. No skill in growing or packing
can compensate for overcharges IN trans.
r-,tntion, bad handling, or the ros,Nliiics Of
mrldlemen.
Ia planting fruit orchards II is a good
plan not 10 plant as closely as possible, but
To give wide, generous SPACES With wide
spaces you can raise small fruit or truck be
tween the rows, and that means annual
manuring and culture. But il planted too
closely for this there is constant danger Of
neglect, and without manure and culture
your orchard will never be worth much.
So If you raise peach trees, put them say
hrty or ffly feet apart. manure well, aud
raise root crops among them annually.
Close to the trees you will not raise much,
but never mind. manure iust the same, as
The trees will get the benefit Attend also
"a their other wants, and you can count ou
peaches about three fourths Of the time.
califnrhin, once almost Paradise on ac
connt ofexemption from "bugs" and insect
pests, has now got them badly. Peach
borers, lenf.cnrlers, curculos, with the
yellows thrown in, are all there now. This
makes things little more equal between
the East and the West. All sorts Of plans
are offered to free the State Of these pests,
but while under consideration the nsecis
push right ahead, as If to make up for time
lost mn the way in getting there. When the
natives get better acquainted with these
visitors they will not mind them so much.
It is claimed in some quarters that the
peach yellows is cnusei bv minute fungus
starting at the roots and then spreading over
the tree. The remedy is said to be soapsuds
iye, or wood ashes, neither Of which can be
obtained generally in large quantities. Th.
potash Of commerce might do. The suresi
preventive is probably To- keep the trees
craving by some annual mannrine, fr,-
qnent cultivation, and freedom from borers.
The last is an enemy as bad as any disease,
iinot worse. Dig them out twice year.
The National Lips Stock journal very
justly calls attention to the wisdom Of grow
ing the large fruits in connection with dairy
or stock farming. Orchsrls need manure,
and the early fallen fruit, always wormy
and worthless for general purposes, is greed
i.y consumed by cows, hogs horses or sheep.
when they have the chance, and they thrive
BY il. This is one case where "mixed
farming" is advantageous. But the fruit
had better be picked up and fed out than
To maintsin fences, SO that stock can be
turned into orchards Stock will always do
mischief in an orchard, though hogs are
sometime ofservice.