Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-02-13


soil.
Some borticulturists say never
put any ether crop in the orchard,
but think the middle OF the row
can be used with profit to grow po-
tatoes, sugar beets, corn or other
crops by cultitvating them, and be
no drawback to the trees, but
would advise never to SOW oats
or wheat in the orchard.
The skillfui fruit grower watches
his trees or plants almost daily.
His past experience teaches him
when to look for attacks of many of
the worst enemies and be prepared
for them when they first appear or
take them in advance and keep
them down and out. Spraying with
the lime-su phur solution in winter
or early spring is very common
with many successful growers.
This is one of the best known fung-
icides and insecticides for dormant
trees, disinfecting twigs, branches
and bud from the curl leaf fur gus of
the peach and killing many monilia
spores on peaches and plums, be-
sides killing the San Jose scale,
aphis eggs, and many other insects.
No one operation stands out more
prominently in horticulture than
pruning. To secure the best resuslt
the trees should be pruned skill
fully. The young tree should be
tratined into the form desired and
the old tree must be kept in control
by pruning. l prefer a low vase
form with an open top, but this is
for each one to decide for himself.
Each species and variety requires
special study to lead it into the
form most dcs ire d. AS a general
rule the annual growth should be
headed back to some definite length
or course. This will cause a great
number of new shoots and twigs to
start out, making the tree too thick.
This is to be annually overcome by
thinning out the young twigs. A
tree so laden with fruit that its
branches bend to the ground may
be a pretty sight but 1T is not good
horticulture. Partly by pruning,
and more by thinning the fruit, the
tree should never be allowed to ov-
, erload itself and break down.
Thinning is one of the necessary
: operations of first class fruit Gull
$ ture and it has been demonstrated
$ by careful experimenting to be q
0 profitable process.
In setting GU new orchard care
: must be taken to procure thrifty
I one or two-year-old trees from
e gratis or buds. See that none are
8 crooked or forked, then examine tht
/. roots and cut out all bruised and
+ broken ones with thin, SHARP
c knife, cutting down from you tc
IS make a smooth. sloping joint on thu
> root. Then place the tree in posi-
y ton, roots a little or tn and east
: from direct line, draw body souht
g west as the prevailing wind il
is from there, and also protect tn
body from the direct rays of the no
g sun in the early spring. This hea
is causes a greater flow of sap to ris
IS ad a sudden drop in temperatur
& may cause the bark to peel Q
t crack, thus producing dead spot {
i blemish on the body of the tree
: After the tree, has been set i
E place and lined up fill in around II
n roots with fine soil, then run waite
70 through the row, thoroughly wet
ting the ground and settling the so
&c in very satisfactory manner
t. When the soil becomes we'll settle
d. and before it commences TO crack
an cover with dry or moist earth so til
ct tree will stand little deeper in tn
cp ground than it did in the nursery
" from one to two inches. Then 20
ad are ready to begin thorough cultivs
on ton and keep it up till the end
re time, except as noted before, whe
n growth becomes too fast, then chez
re by seeding down for few years.
SIS In regard to small fruit, all ha'
seen in the past year leads me to b
ed licve that they will be at home he
ay in Southern Idaho. Raspberries a
'cr easily produced The Black Cap
nd ieties are propagatcd by bendir
to down the canes and covering with
tn little soil. In their natural sta
ay htc canes grow long and droop ov
nd to he ground forming roots. II
&c old cane dies leaving the your
n plant stan ling alone.
Ter Red raspberres are propagate
ire from root cutting or buds on Il
les roots sending up sprouts or sucke
nd which may be cut off with shi