Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-25

through. Good fruit cannot be grown
on such trees.
When a limb is cut from tree be
sure that it is cut off smoothly with
the trunk of the tree or the brancf
from which it came. If the diameter
of the branch cut off is greater thar
one-half inch, the wound should De
painted with white lead or some othel
kind of paint. This will help keeE
out the fungous which causes decay
If YOU leave a stub. the wound does
not heal, and sooner or later the stut
begins to rot. It does not stop when
II reaches the trunk of the tree. bu'
keeps on into the heart Of the tree
and on down towards the roots. A
stub left has been the beginning OF
the end of thousands of trees. The
proper time for pruning a fruit tree
is during the winter while the tree Is
dormant. The ideal time is just De-
fore the buds begin to swell in the
early spring. But for the sake ol
humanity prune the tree properly ano
Istop butchering it. They generali!
grow and produce fruit in spite of US
If YOU will only treat them properly
thev will respond with such crops OF
fruit that you will be greatly sur
prised.
And right here let me make plea
for more and better fruit. There is
no sense in a York county farmers
going to town and buying apples FOL
Christmas when he can grow far bet
ter ones than the average on the
market at this place. l have hearo
New York apple growers say that they
shipped all of their No. l fruit to
New York. Philadelphia and other
large cities. And where did they ship
their No. 2s and culls? Down south
Now let's stop eating No. 2's and culls
because we can grow the No. Is right
at our doors. If we grow and cal
more fruit, and eat less fatback grown
in the west, there will be fewer doctor
bills to pay. And it is claimed that
eating apples will kill the thirst fol
whisky. Truly the apple must bt
something wonderful to accomplish
such results.
Don't plant out an orchard and
then expect to grow a crop OF cotton
between the trees You cannot grow
the most and best fruit in this way
Cultivate the orchard for the orchards
sake. Always cultivate very shallow
and cease cultivating from July 18TH
to August 1st. Cultivate three or -four
times during spring and summer. Ii
the ground is poor, grow crop oi
COW peas and turn them under. Don,
do this every year as you will get toe
much nitrogen in the soil if you do
This will throw the trees into toe
rand growth and the result will be
very little fruit. If any commercla
fertilizers are added, let it be in the
form of phosphoric acid and potash
and only a small amount of nitrogen
Light dressings of stable manure are
good. Remember that you must fer
tilize fruit trees just as you do other
crops if you expect good results.
Pruing, cultivating, fertilizing, etc.
are all important. but the man who
wishes to grow good fruit must dc
something else I refer to spraying
In olden times spraying was unknown
, and unnecessary. All of that has
changed Hundreds of different kinds
of harmful insects and fungOus dis
eases have come into the country ant
are attacking our fruit trees. We mus
fight them if we expect to grow gooc
fruit. The time has come when frui
cannot be grown profitably withou
| fighting these insects and fungous dis
eases. The most practicable method
of fighting them is by spraying. BY
spraying we mean the application o.
a poison to the insect or tree in the
form of liquid thrown as fine mis-
| or spray The poison is generally
mixed with water and thrown on the
| insect or tree by means OF spra!
pump.
Before spraying it is necessary tC
know what you are spraying for. a:
the substance that will kill one insec
may have no effect on another. Be
fore intelligent spraying can be done
| it is necessary to know something O
the life history of insects. All in
sects are divided into two classes
This division is based upon thu
method by which the insect takes il
| its food. One bites off its food, chew!
and swallows it, This is known as thu
biting insect The other class sticks
the bill into the fruit, leaf or stem
' and sucks the juice therefrom. The
method of killing the biting insect i
to put some form of poison all owe
the tree. When this is taken into th'
digestive system. the insects die o
course. Arsenate of lead and Pari
| Green are the most commonly uSet
for this purpose. The potato bug ant
apple worm are examples of this bitin!
Insect. The sucking insects are en-
tirely unharmed by these poisons. a
they get their food from the inside
They must be killed by applyin!
something to them that will kill then
by coming in contact with them. The.
are killed by having their breathing
pores. which are in the skin, stopped
up. They are literally suffocated
Kerosene emulsion and the lime sui
phur wash are the solutions mos
| commonly used for this purpose
| Having this brief history in minC
it is easy TO study the insect and de
termine to which class it belongs anC
spray intelligently.
Any spray material used to kill in
SectS is called an inSecticide. and thOS
used to kill fungous diseases fungi
cideS. In spraying for these insect
it is we'll to make up the fungicide an'
then mix the poison with ii. Thi
will give a combined insecticide-fun
gicide. and one spraying will get bot
the insects and fungOus disease
Some of the common harmful insect
and fungouS diseases and remedie
for the same makes up the rema. de
of this talk and will be given in an
other article in the near future.
If any one in York county wiShe
to ask any questions along this line
forward them to the editor and the
will be answered through the column
| of the paper.
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