The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-06-08

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a5 nv 20 feet is better and some of the
large growing varieties in come sections
might do even better planted 30 oy 30 feet
Some of the early varieries may not
/ need more room in many sections than
| 20 by 20 feet This must all be deter
mined largely by local conditions but
the grower should not make the fatal
mistake of planting too close; better the
other extreme if a mistake of either has
| 10 he made.
The grower of commercial apples
should work for LARGE. fancy, high-col-
ored fruit. such fruit cannot be had
from trees nlanted too thick or where
| there arc TOO MANY trees
Remember while reading this chapter
! on tbo selection and handling of trees
| that II lie a mistake to plant large trees
! There is less loss in planting smaller
! treee and besides one can train and head
! the growth of the smaller trees to better
! advantage good. strong two-year-old
| tree is far better than a four-year-old
/ when nlantine see that all broken roots
arc emf off There NAV be an excess of
/ roots If so these should be cut off or
c,,t hock Head the tree low so that the
limbs will set low and thus protect the
| bodv Of the tree from sun scald. and
| This will also shade and protect the
! soil
Cultivation.
After an orchard has been properly
! set the next thing in order will be the
! cultivation. The matter of having the
! soil SO well prepared before planting that
only level cultivation may be used after
: ward is very important. There are a
numDer of good orchard implements now
made by the use of which the orchard
may be cultivated as it should be. Level
! cultivation being the idea a good plan
| for a bearing orchard is to SOW clover
/ and pasture with sheep. hogs and calves.
| While clover is all right for orchards,
! grass should never be used or allowed to
grow in an orchard, as 1t takes up too
much moisture. Neither should grain be
/ sown in orchards.
! The writer would recommend using the
! bearing orchards as a hog lot for at least
a part of the time. The orchard should
| be fenced so that hogs may be turned in
to eat the clover and all decayed or fallen
! fruit, and to destroy insects But this
! matter of pasturing orchards is like all
/ other matters-one must use Judgment
and not keep stock on the orchard in wet
weather to make brick of the soil. Where
hogs are pactured In orchard II they
/ dig holes roofing for food these should
/ be leveled over with narrow. Hogs are
: often of great value in destroying worms
! and other insects IN an orcharo.
Drainaoe.
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neglected. There are many orchards all
! Il ough the great red apple country that
have been planted without any prepara-
; tion whatever for drainage and while per-
! haps most OF the country through the
Ozark regions may have natural drainage.
yet there are many soils that can never
be made TO produce flne frult until some
! system of drainage is provided. Many