News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
IN THE ORCHARD.
A Practical Fruit-Grower Gives Advice of n
Useful Nature.

In setting trees, especially the apple,
to insure free growth and success, the
following requisites are essential in thei1
| selection
1. See to the thriftiness of the scions,
or young trees. The bark of both trunk
and branches should be straight and the
branches well balanced.
2. Trees with bad crotches, or those
having equal division of two branches
near the upper part of the trunk should
always be discarded, as they will in
varably split down and ruin the tree
when loaded with fruit.
3. As to the proper age of scions, or
trees for transplanting, those of one or
two years are old enough. They are more
apt to live and grow freely than larger
ones that have their roots much short
ened, bruised and injured in taking
them up, and less labor and care is re-
quired in setting them.
4. The trees should be stocky. Trees
crowded in nursery rows Gas IS often the
case) are generally spindling and slender.
Discard these OF take as few as possible.
5. Trees over two years old should be
marked, and the side that grows to the
north, in setting, should be placed to
that point. The reason is plain. If the
position is changed the bark has also to
UNDERGO a change, which is detrimental
to growth and health Every farmer
L., Al Il a., I i
bark, between the north and south sides
of trees
6. Some young nursery trees have all
their roots ON one side. Such trees will
invariably toppIo over or careen to such
an extent as to render them almost
worthless.
7. Select your trees, if possible, from
the nearest reliable nursery.
AS an appendage to the above we
would remark that we have lost more
trees by sun-scald than from borers or
any other cause, or from all others COM
bined. The injury is mostly to trees
from four to six years old that lean to
the northeast, caused by the 3 o'clock
sun in July and early in August. The
tree with exposed trunk is blistered and
scalded, the worms get to work, the
bark will peal off and the tree might as
well be removed and new one set in It's
place.
Remedies: 1. Low heads. 2. The
protection board-Take two boards 3
feet long by s inches wide; nail the
ends together at rig hit angles, place the
upper arm, that points to the zenith,
close up to the trunk; put a flat rock on
the other part or pin it to the ground
with a cedar pin with head.
After spring planting, if the trees are
exposed to high winds, place flat rocks
around their stems, and no stalking is
necessary.
NERVOUS. nervous American writes
from Massachusetts to the Mayor of
Chicago a vehement protest against
allowing Britons to put steamer on the
great lakes. The writer is apprehensive
of trouble in the event of war, when the
British vessel might become pirate and
levy contributions from every port on
the lakes. Mayor Harrison replies that
his jurisdiction extends no further than
the Chicago River and the skating pond,
and that the instant British pirate ap-
pears there he will call out the militia.
SUGAR.-Of the six largest sugar pro
ducing countries of Europe, Germany
this year carries off the palm, with SO0,
900 tons, Or % ~ ~.A4t. ~c IL Ill
Next comes Austria with Ats, 900 tons,
France with $4,000, Russia with 250,-
900, Belgium with $4,000 and Holland
with $4,000. Germany has not only the
greatest number of refneries, 357 out of
1904, but the largest also.