Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-11-19
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CeSter county.
The afternoon session was opened
with quartette selection by d. w
Sithens, George H. Horner, and their
wives.
The first address Of the afternoon
was by Prof M. A. Blake Of the State
Experimental Station on practical
Horticulture for the Average Farmer"
He said that some years ago the far
naer might be called a general farmer
who saised a little of many things,
while today we find the fruit, dairy or
truck farmer who has specialized,
which is necessary. And he has inn
proved all of these branches. There
are very few fine fruit gardens. But
each farmer should have fine fruit
garden On many old farms we find
many such as these. but more often
the scale has killed the apples and
the peach trees are gone.
Few suggestions on fruit growing for
the average farmer:
Where a few trees are purchased
and.set in different parts of the ground
around the house, they being scat
tered, they are often neglected. There
are few but that can afford peach
trees enough to supply the home and
enough for the local market. A fruit
orchard should consist of enough trees
to pay for spraying. for many different
diseases.
In places where heretofare there
were many fine orchards, the scale has
discouraged the farmer, consequently
the orchards are now neglected.
For the trees which are to bear
fruit they should be set out in rows
35 to 40 feet apart-apple trees; and
where they are punched together the
results are not very good. The first
few years the time spent in pruning
and spraying is very little and usually
the time for this comes when the far
mer can do the work. Grapes are cas-
lily grown in this state.
With our peaches the land should
be cultivated every year. We have
insects that delight in the sod ground.
and if cultivated the land prevents
their living.
In spraying for the Goblin moth we
have a great part of the work. To
spray for the scale is not enough.
We have so many apples with worms
and black fungros on them, that they
need great attention
Bordeaux mixtures should be ap-
piled just after the petals fall and
about three times after that Of about
two weeks apart.
There is no reason why in the home
garden we should not have just as nice
apples as the commercial grower.
At the experimental station we have
no trouble with the San Jose scale il
We spray carefully. If the work is
not done well we waste our efforts.
A careful pruning is also necessary
and saves spraying Most Of the APP
pie trees of the state are NOS pruned
enough to let in enough sun to color
the apples.
For peaches the best grades for
home are the Greensb0roHgh fearly),
Hiley, or Waddell, then Carman, Noun
tain Rose. Alberta or Simox.
For good garden a few of all of
these should be had.
s 1t pays to buy your trees of some
reliable man. The men who often
come TO the door are generally to be
avoided.
Last year a neighbor to the expert
ment station gave a dollar for tree
which a strange nursefyman said was
a new variety and only one tree could
be sold to farmer and when he show
ed il to me | found it to be a Simox-
a common kind of tree in New Jersey.
The prospects for peach growing in
New Jersey are now better than ever.
The Georgia peaches are in the mar
ket and out by the time the Jersey
conTas along. There is a tendency to
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many go into the market at the same
time.
The matter of care and expense and
ability are to be taken into consider
alton when thinking of going into the
fruit growing business. An exact ex-
pense and cash account should be kept
to see how the farmer is coming out
at the end of tLe year.
You should know which team YOU
hire does lie most blowing, for if one.
does two-thirds what another does
this viii cost considerably more in
season. If you can't reduce the cost
OF production you can't expect to do
we'll
IN most Of our soils potash and
phosphoric acid are needed. We
should apply these every year and
not less than 500 pounds to the acre.
At Vineland we can put on bone,
potash, etc, for several dollars less an
acre than we can New York stable
manure and we get much better re-
suits for peaches.
We have many more complaints
from the scale on apples than peaches.
The solution must be put on with
more force. On peaches we should
use the lime solutions We have
peach yellow now in the state that
needs watching. This makes the fruit
ripen from 10 days to three weeks ear
lier than it should.
This is caused by the yellows. In
Hunderdon county he saw many of
these last year, and many are coming
from Delaware.
If your leaves turn yellow and curl.
examine for grubs and if the condi.
ton continues pull up the tree.
The question of the numbers of
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