The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-05

increase the dose. Not only are the trees
starved, but the fertilizer itself with moth
ing but the bare, pure sand to feed upon,
Is Il any wonder that we get triennial
crops-only every third year satisfactory
results-Is it not about time that We give
our orange groves the same favorable CON
dluOns Of our grand, stately pines ana
thrifty oaks? l notice that neighbOr Hoag
Is making a good beginning in this direc-
ton The temporary stimulus Of CONNER
cial fertilizers spread on burning sands
render our orange trees effemnate, tender,
h-ftted 10 stand our recent cold winters.
The same fertilizer spread on a soil ere
ated by layers Of beggar-weed and pine
leaves and other substances as a mulch
on The land Will enable them better 10
endure the ordeal, and also furnish some
thlng substantial for the fertilizer to feed
on. Is not this better than windmill OF
engine power-very expansive to water our
trees during Notwithstanding water on
parched leaves and burning sand? 1t was
the opinion of Dudley Adams, and ! notice
Of other experts, that orange trees being
native to annual droughts # rightly treated
need no more artificial water than the
pines. That such undue stimulant may
temporarily latter the grower, but prove
an ultimate and lasting injury.
There must be a golden mean between
the clean and anti-clean culturist Is OF
beggar weed (Florida clover going to
.
A grove once seeded to beggar weed viii
re-secd itself The spring and summer
mo~hs viii only keep the beggar weed
from robbing the trees. The plow viii
only need to be used in November or De
cember, when the trees are in dormant
condition. The first growth moved down
and left on the ground as a mulch, the
second crop plowed under-the furrow to
be piowed very shallow near the trees and
deeper and deeper each furrow to the
center of the rows. 1t needs a careful,
trained haud-and here is the rub; tell
an inexperienced hand how | want the
blowing and cultiVating done, and I 90
not get very far away before he forgets,
or is unmindfu of the directions. In line
sases out of ten men and boys relapse
into old habits and hoe a tree out instead
of in, making a circle around the tree
the shape If not the depth OF cauldron
kettle-whereas the water shed should be
away from the tree toward the extrem-
tiles of the roots.
Beggar-weed is destined to save large
expense In commercial ertlizers-fertiiz-
ing on bare sand is a thriftfess method.
In connection with a ground bed of beg
gar-Woed stalks and roots ton Will go
twice as far as on bare sand l gave the
Bradley formula for the use of fertilizer
in a clean cultivated grove: Fifteen to
twenty pounds to a tree four times a year
This on pine land To do this a man
must have capital; plenty of it. The beg
gar-weed or velvet beans are the poor
mans friends, and will muchly help out
those of us from the North depending on
rents and income cut one-half by the Eng
lish standard imposed upon the nation by
fraud and maintained by the bankers Of
Wall street and Lombard street aided by
bribed demagOgue politicians. No method
of grove culture will bar out faithful SUI
perintendence on the part of what are
called professionals. If Northern people
and men Of capital are TO build up profit
able orange groves they are an absolute
necessity