The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1901-03-15
horticultural Meeting

Horticultural Meeting
The regular monthly meeting of the
Allen County Horticultural Society
met in the q. A. II. hall on Friday
the Sth. We were encouraged with a
somewhat larger attendance than
usual, but yet, not half so many were
there as should attend these meetings.
After the usual picnic dinner was dis
pensed the meeting was called to order
and the regular routine of business
transacted on the query "How and
when shall we plant early potatoes?"
1t was generally conceded that the
ground ought to be if possible plowed
in the fall or winter and we'll worked
over before planting and plant as
early as possible in March, the first
week if you can or as soon thereafter
as the ground is in good order.
Query, which are the hree best earl
varieties of potatoes? answer by Mr..
Townsend and generally agreed to.
Early Ohio, Early Kansas and Early
Rose. Prof. G. f. VanDemanremark-
ed that the early Puritan was
doing so well in the east and sold so
highl on the eastern market that he
thought it would be wise to try There.
llQuery, is it best to cut potatoes if
small or plant them whole? answer
by an old potato grower, cut them if
they are no larger than pea. | took
three bushel of small potatoes, cut
them and planted two acres and sold
four hundred dollars worth from the
aforesaid two acres.
Query, what fertilizer is the most
profitable for the garden? on this very
interesting subject a paper by the
youngest member of the society was
submitted which is herewith presented
for publication.
Prof VanDeman gave talk on top
grating appletrees. He recommended
that the principal limbs be grated and
the side limbs be cut off in July or
August. Wewho formerly dwelt on
the eastern coast know very well that
you can successfully change an orchard
by top grating no matter how large
the trees are.
Query, is top grating a success in
Kansas? No, you had better grub the
trees out and start new ones. The pro-
lessor suggested THAI very import
ant thing just now is to enlarge
our list of late keeping varieties OF
apples.
Query, how about spraying fruit
trees? in answering this the professor
grew eloquent and the writer feels
that it is impossible to DO justice
to his discussion of the subject
on this paper To be appreciated
he must be heard. Among otherthings
he said the man that raises apples
anywhere in the United States land ifa
little depression is permissible il
might not be amiss to state that inthe
employ of the government he has
Travelled over nearly the entire fruit
producing territory in the L. 5.
and is therefore perhaps better quail
fed in the case than any other living
man, he must spray ifhewould be sue
cessful. And then raising his voice u
so high a pitch and shaking his two
big fists both at once as if to pound the
truth into us, he declared that it was
just as necessary to spray for fruit as
il was to pillow your ground to raise
corn. How we did wish we had haC
some good methodist brother there tC
boiler amen. He told us of expert
ments i'm orchards where one row o
trees,were left withoutlspray and also
where alternate trees in the same row
were sprayed and every time The
sprayed trees grew nice fruit, freeiro
wormslwhile the others grew almos
worthless fruit He said however, il
order to meet with success we mus
know when to spray, what TO spray
for and the proper stuff to spray with
Query, when shall we spray? I'm
mediately after the bloom drops. I
you spray before the bloom drops tn,
poison will enter the calyx and destro,
the crop of fruit,
Query, how often? Spray every two
weeks giving three applications. Fl
said the cost Of mixture and won