The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-05-10
Fruit Growing in Waldo County.

| From the Board of Agriculture Bulletin
| WALDO. The orchardist's worst enem,
| is the Trypeta. The fruit that is not com
| pletely burrowed by them has small cork y
places around the blow end and half way
| through the apple. Northern Spy and Bald
anything for these troubles? j. G. Harding
NOTE. Spraying is not a preventive of the
| ravages of the Trypeta. Only preventive
measures can be adopted, and these consist
III keeping the windfalls carefully picked
up and in removing all rubbish. The cork
conditions of the apples is undoubtedly due
| to some fungous disease, which could be
controlled by Spraying.-Secretary.
MONROE. | think that mulching and sur
face manuring will prove the most protita BILE
kind OF work in the long run. The object
OF blowing and narrowing is to furnish a
fine soil mulch; it serves no, other usefu
purpose except green crops or manure be
turned under. Plenty of food for the tree
and the control of insect pests mean gooG
fruit. find the Spy the best for grating
the Baldwin on; with me they do better
than seeding trees. Enoch c. Dow
MORRILL,. Can you tell us anything about
the Rochester spray pump which is said tt
operate by compressed air? ID. .. Bowen
NOTE. The Rochester Spray pump APP
pears to do good work on vines and small
trees. We believe in the principle of com
pressed air. The G0Ss Spray Pump, illus
trated in this bulletin, works on the same
principi e.-Secretary
| NIFTY | am satisfied that the orchard
should be cultivated. Next to blowing and
narrowing between the rows of trees, sheep
may be pastured in the orchard with bene-
fetal results. We have pastured a Young
orchard to sheep for two or three years, and
have noticed that the trees presented a
thrifty appearance and the apples We're i'm
proved. Have had a similar experience in
the pasturing of hogs. Geo. W. Narney.
WINTERPORT. Our land is a high ridge
ggrave!ly loan, slipping to the southwest:
Starkey and for winter, Baldwin, Ben Davis,
locality. We keep the ground in hoed crops.
We wash the trees in June with strong soap
ana water, for OySter-Shell bark louise, and
spray with Bordeaux mixture and Paris
green once before the trees blossom, again
when the apples are the size of bean, and
again III two weeks, using the Empire King
spray pump. Our small fruits are set in
the same soil as the apple orchard. For
Stra"berries, we prefer ground that has
been planted to corn or beans and well
dressed with barn cellar manure the previous
year. We set in the spring, in rows four
feet apart, fifteen inches in the row. cultivate
with spike tooth cultivatOr, and hoe morn
ing, noon and night. The Clyde, Glen Mary,
BrandyWine and Jessie do very well for us.
Raspberries and black berries are set in the
plowed fine and deep. We trim out all old
and weak canes in early spring, leaving five
or SIX OF the best. We have Cuthbert and
Golden Queen raspberries, Agawam, Snyder
and Bangor blackberries A. w. Hardy.
BROOKS. Some ten years ago | began
growing strawberries in small way for the
family table. At the present time | have
about one acre set for fruiting each year, be-
sides nearly as much more from which
plants are sold. Two pieces of land are
devoted to the plants for fruiting, one of
which is reset each spring, alternately Thus,
one patch bears fruit each year, while the
other is growing plants to bear the following
year a bed is picked but one year, and as
soon as the crop is harvested, the vines are
plowed under, the land dressed with ten to
fifteen cords of manure per acre, and reset
to plants the following spring, one-half ton
OF commercial fertilizer being applied in the
drill or broadcast at time of setting. | pre-
Ter to apply the manure broadcast during
freezing weather, on account of destroying
insects that breed therein. When dry enough
to work in the spring, the ground is har-
rowed to a fine filth, and the plants set tif-
teen inches apart, in rows four or five feet
apart, the runners later forming matted
rows about two feet wide. The horse cul-
tlvator is run between the rows once week
during the entire season, and the ground be-
tween the plants kept carefully weeded. A.
B. Stantial