Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-05-18
How to Have Good Fruit on the
Farm.
- APPLE CONTINrED.


The apple IS hardwood tree, and
when set out should be fertilized heaYi-
| ". and the growth Of the tree favored
all that it is possible until it comes to
bearing fruit. then the orchard should
be kept in sward fo1 two or three years,
alternately. but remove sward from
around the crown Of the tree. The
young orchard / should prefer to work
as follows Plant ground to potatoes or
corn using well rOtted barnyard ma
nure. plowed down; SOW 70 wheat in
the autumn, feTtiliZed with good com
mercial fertilizer, and sow 70 clover.
| Do not pile barnyard manure around
the crown of any tree. A little well
rotted manure worked in the soil Is ben
eficial but piled around the tree 1t IS
an injury and makes good harDorlng
place for injurious insects. Better use
BARNARD manure for other crops, and
use commercial fertilizer for fruit.
Train young trees to what we call the
whip stock system, that Is, allow 40
limb to grow on the main stock until
Your tree is about five feet or more in
height You want air and sunshine
about the trunk Of your tree, if you do
not want to create hotbed for fungus
growth, and you want your tree so that
you may work near it with your team
without tearing the bark from the
limbs Prune your trees 50 that the top
is open to allow sunshine to your fruit.
Great care should be taken in pruning
trees, thev should not be allowed to
form too much top. If we allow too
much top the tree will bloom too heavi
ly which will exhaust the vitality Of
the pollen, the tree not being able to
furnish n n1urishment sufficient to make
strong pollen, and without being proper
ly polenized the fruit cannot develop
properly. There is more miss crops of
apples for want of pollen than there is
by being killed by frost. In the spring
of 1898 the heavy rains washed the pol
en- from the apple blossoms and conse-
quently there was very little good fruit.
| said that we must not allow too much
top, neither must we prune too close
for the tree must have a sufficient
amount Of leaves or it cannot grow, it
is by the action Of the sun and air
through the pores OF the leaves that the
sap is drawn up until II comes in con-
tact with the oxygen Of the air and re-
turns between the sap wood and bark
and forms new wood ! grated good
hearty apple stock three feet from the
ground the graft made very heavy
growth and was broken off by heavy
storm during the summer, the next
spring | grated again and again the
graft made fine growth and was brok-
en- off the second time during this time
| kept off all suckers, and grated the
third time the tree did not respond but
died-roots and all Why? For want
Of leaves Again / had hearty plum
tree five feet high, tied piece of lap
ing yarn around the stock about three
feet from the ground where the stock
was about one inch in diameter the
tree grew for three years, showing poor
leaves the second year and died dow n
to the roots the third year, never send
ing mp any sprouts; On examination ]
found that the string had cut through
the sap wood cutting off connection be
tween the root and leaves causing the
death Of the tree. When CRAFTS on young
trees make strong growth there should
be good stab driven close to the stock,
cord tied tight TO the stab to keep 1t
from sliding down and then tied losely
around the graft 10 keep storms from
breaking it. Should the graft stock
grow crooked, put stabs on each side,
tie cord around stab tightly then around
crook in graft and draw straight.
WM. J. T.
East View Fruit Farm May -, 30
TROUBLE is brewing in Cuba, the
Cuban intriguers have compelled Gen.
Gomez to abandon his connection with
the money distribution, the situation is
not satisfactory and Gen Brooke may
be recalled