The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-16

n diseased tree i'm the whole lot. If he
had run them east and west / doubt
if there would have been one entirely
healthy tree among the number at the
number, at the end of the tenth year
CULTIVATION.
In order to obtain the best results
it is just as necessary to cultivate
your orchard or vineyard as it is to
cultivate your corn and potatoes.
Who would think Of raising a crop of
corn or potatoes by simply planting
the seed and cultivatlng the ground
once or twice, and trusting Providence
to do the balance? Do not persist i'm
raising small grain i'm an orchard. 1
have seen young orchards badly ruin
ed by so doing. Corn and potatoes
are the best crops to raise until the
trees come well in bearing, then /
clover and orchard grass are best suit
ed. If possible keep out blue grass
and timothy and never pasture the or
chard with large stock or geese, nor
with hogs, unless you ring them so
that they can't root around the trees
and destroy the young surface root
let's which ale the mouths. Gf may
so express iD that drink in the moist
ure that supplies vitality to the tree.
Give the orchard level culture, never
pillow it up in ridges as dry weather
always injuriously affects ridged
ground.
We now come to one of the most
important aspects of the whole busi-
ness, for upon proper pruning depends
nf no I'd ar
every other requirement has been
successfully met, defeat is often
brought about by lack of knowledge
in pruning. Unfortunately too many
people think that any one who can
handle saw and hatchet can trim a
tree without ever having made it a
study. Il might remark, parenthet-
ieally, that when we were extensively
engaged in the fruit raising business
in southern Illinois, we fell into the
same error and attempted to do our
own pruning without previous in
struction, but found that we wsre not
equal to the occasion and paid five
dollars per lesson (per day. for instruc-
ton, and thought the money well
spent) and thus orchards are some
times well-nigh ruined. If you under
stand pruning, you will, while look
ing at the small tree, see the grown
tree in your minds eye, just as the
skilled architect sees the building
even before the foundation is dug.
Never fail to remove all linn bs while
the tree is small that cross eachother
or will ever do so, or come in contact
when the tree is grown.
In cOnplngiQn and tO amnhaSiZa
What / have said about protecting
the trunk of the tree, L will say that
/ saw, in Kaneas about nine years ago
a fine orchard almost ruined by cut
ting off the low limbs and exposing
the trunk, and very recently exam
ined an orchard in Missouri where
L saw this more fully exemplitied. |
First half of orchard, some ten years
old. lower limbs were trimmed of,
some of them four feet from the earth, |
the trunk to the sun and |
think ten percent are already dead,
another ten per cent hopelessly ruin
ed, and probably fifty per cent of the
affected to such an extent |
as to cause premature decay. The
other half of the orchard is headed
very low, having limbe almost to the
ground and / do not remember seeing
a single tree with diseased trunk,
nor dead one in that part of the or
,hard,
l would like to say something about
he coddling moth, so destructive to
our orchards, and the mode of des-
.rOying them by spraying with Lon
Ion Purple which we will be compel
ed to do ere long or suffer great loss,
,ut as this dissertation has already
grown too long, desist.
ID. b. d. SMELTZER.