Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27

to tBe eaS. aas2s.ssI, - other WI NJ naturcH and qualiteA Your land ! issow. and tf. NJ eet and heavy, better not tE3 edit on it, unless thoroughl%z1 Toy blind ditches. with rock throwHS2, or by tilng or clay pipe, Tightening up the soil and making it so that it may be reduced to a dusty or pulverized state. Ifthat can not be done. better not even SOW grain upon 1t, but leave such piece of land to the elements, and nature will clothe 1t with some wild grass. l know of no fruit tree that will do as well in land inclined to be wet, as the pear tree. 1 saw pear trees on the Feather river bottom lands near Marys- vile, while the trees were in blossom, standing in water to the depth of two feet and the water remained on the ground for over month, yet the trees still lived This soil was alluvial. Had the water remained on soil more firm and coherent, liable to become hard and stiff when dry as clay or adobe, I doubt very much whether the trees would have stood such a water or deal. Clay absorbs water greedily and retains the moisture after the water has left the surface of the ground, but afterward will bake, crack { would not, but more quickly return to its natural state.
 Having found out the qualities of your soil, then comes the preparation of the soil for planting. Flow deep but don't blow your ground while 1t is too wet, if you do 1t will injure the soil. Harrow the ground thoroughly, getting the soil fine ! and free from Jumps as possible. If the ground IS uneven level 1t off before stalk 1 ing off your ground In stalking, get your base line straight and another line parallel to it, say 300 or 400 feet distant; | then stake off these two base lines by measurement, sticking stake the dis i tance you want your trees apart, then with line with red string tied on it, say twenty or twenty five feet, or with a wire rope, with links mark where you wish tree. Your orchard or vineyard will then be in straight rows. Don't go ] by the eye from one base line to the other; if you do will make bad job of it. It takes but little more time to do 1t accur- ately and right. Having staked off your whole ground thus, then take yoke or a piece of board inches wide and an inch thick, say 3 or 311a feet long If you want good sized holes). In the center cut out on one side an open circle. and
 
 then take the chisel or hatchet and cut out the end from the hole, making 1t a slot, for 1t Is easier to put the stake
 in than through the augur holes. With this yoke put the half circle up to the stake. always on the same side, and you stake two stakes, one on each end of the yoke firm and straight in the ground; then you have two stakes for each tree
 hole.
 Whenyou commence to dig the holes you make the hole where the center stake
 stands,no removing or disturbing the out
 side stakes until the tree is planted, (din
 theholes deep and large and the ground i;
 not too wet refill the hole two thirds full
 putting good soil in the bottom immedi
 atly, so as to have the holes get dry
 Then you arc ready for planting, one
 man with the yoke places the same ovel
 the stakes, with half circle in front, with
 the tree in one hand and with two mex
 with their shovels filling in the dirt.
 held closely against the yoke in the cen
 ter of the circle and with the other hand spreading the fine soil all around and be
 tween the roots until they are all cover , cred. Then the tree man treads the soi firmly around the trees. Don't under take to plant trees alono for you can't dC F it, unless it is a small shrub. which yoj can hold in one hand and scrape or fill il the dirt with the other There is nc
 economy in trying to plant trees alone You need three men to do it well anC f quickly, and you will ba astonished i
 your soil IS fine. to see how many tree three men can plant in one day, if the, , understand the business. Great car i should be taken not to plant deeper thal
 the trees grew in the nursery If yol , plant too deep you will strangle them , that is the very word to use. You vii
 smother and destroy their life, and man,
 tree planters are apt to err in that way l If you are not careful to get the fine soi
 close and around the roots of the tree
 you will leave hollow, and the roots vii get moldy from the warm, damp air i I such cavity, creating disease and result
 ing in death to the tree. N-Plant only tree 1, of the frst-class, don t plant seeohdsclas
 trees, for if it lives it. will. be -stlnteG
 Take the best care of them the first; don f hinder it's growth whf26 yaung If yo n wish to plant a vineyard, lay off your Ian I. in the same way. In that case you nee
 only one stake, always stuck on the sam T side of your line; then dig your hole, o , one side of the stake, not removing i and put in your vine opposite each stak,
 and your vineyard will be in straightro l. every way. I have given these instru' tions so specific that girl or boy eigl n or ten years of age, can plant an orchar F or set out a vineyard. It is better fc them than to come to the city to learn n trade, already overstocked with appren
 ices, and bound to serve q number a years to learn business which, whe | mastered, may not give you half the con if petepce which you would make on yoj 0 own piece of land with your orchard ( s. vineyard. In that way you would alway r. be an independent man or woman, hal " py in the enjoyment of your own DO d session.