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ly in increasing the fertility of the soil.
IN. j. Shepherd in Prairie Farmer.
Fall Transplsntlng.
The question has been repeatedly
asked me of late, "What time is best
for transplanting trees, fall or spring."
1t is q very timely inquiry to be made
by all those without experience, or
with too small an experience to enable
them to judge satisfactorily. The diff
ferent opinions of horticulturists,
founded on their own experience, arise
in the main from the varis tions OF
climate and soils.
II the climate is too cold for the
newly set trees to carry forward the
healing process of the cut and bruised
roots, which is the case where winter
sets in early and the ground freezes as
deep as the roots extend, there will be
great danger of loss from planting In
the fall. The combinations which
winter kill will operate with greater
force in all such ATTITUDES. Tender
fruits, like the peach and apricot, will
be found less hardy when newly set
than after they become we'll estab-
lished. For these, in very cold climate
the early spring is greatly to be pre-
ferred. The freezing and thawing OF a
heavy and clayey soil will also befound
to operate greatly to the disadvant-
age OF all newly planted trees.
Where the climate is mild enough for
the callus to form in theground during
the winter, all deciduous trees will be
ready for transplanting as early in au-
tumn as they shed their leaves. In all
dry soils, if this is we'll and properly
done any time before winter sets in, or
even in mild spells during the winter,
success is a reasonable expectation. I
have found trees in thrifty condition,
dug up so as to save their tibrous
roots, to grow right along as if they
had not been disturbed, when trans
planted in November, and the warm
spells of all the winter months.
Some OF the advantages of doing
this work In autumn are of considera-
BILE Importance. In the first place,
most persons having such work to
perform are more at leisure to do it
properly in autumn-other work does
not crowd as it does in the spring. Ii
worth doing at all, it is worth doing
right; and to do it right the necessary
time must be at command.
Then, again, trees transplanted in
the fall have the benefit OF the winter
and spring rains to settle the earth
among all their roots, and being some
what established, they are ready to
improve the first warm days to COM
mence their growth. II this work has
to be done in spring, it is often quite
late before the ground is fit to work,
and If the season be backward it is all
the more important to have them in
place. Trees are ready to handle any
time after they shed their leaves, and
before the buds begin to expand In
spring. Most fruit, and even shade
and ornamental trees, are propagated
In nurseries, and will be obtained from
them. I find the stock | get from the
nurseries in the fall is apt to be the
first choice, and not only selected with
more care. but handled better, as
nurserymen have more time at COM
mand than in the rush of spring or
ders. A friend who set last fall and
again in the spring has decided in fa-
vor of the fall Still another reason
favoring fall planting is that the trees
are better prepared for the dry spells
that come every year. A good mulch
may save q tree in the dryest season,
but if it was early set it stands bet
ter chance to live and thrive. trans
planted g. hundred ounce trees last
fall, and every one has lived. They
had grown from two to three feet by
the first of August, and probably by
the end of che owing reason will show
g. growth of from three to five feet.
To all who think of planting fruit or
shade trees, the loss of labor in reset
ting for those that die, the cost of the
trees and the loss of time waiting are
worthy of consideration.
My experience with Strawberries
points as strongly to fall setting as
superior to spring, with only the ex-
ceptlon of heavy soil that heaves
with frost. Then spring is best.-W.
". Mech, in Practical Farmer.
Bee Notes.
At the recent meeting of the Bee
Keepers Association of Oneida Coun-
ty, N. Y, the members related their
failures and successes during the past
season. The testimony was to the eff
feet that 1886 has not been g. good
year for honey making. Not more
than one-third of the usual quantity
of honey has been gathered.
E. T.. Smith remarked that the vari-
Gus novices in bee culture could often
teach the best apiarists. They fre-