Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-25
OXIDE. Bound" Apple rress.

In many instances old apple trees
| become what some writer's term hide
bound" stop bearing and appear I'M
thrifty so that the branches will grow
but little If at all from year to year,
and the trees will yield little or no fruit
of good quality.
During the summer months when the
new wood is forming 1t Is good plan
to rub or peel the old bark from the
ground to the first limbs, and new.
smooth, healthy bark Will appear and
many times this will have SO saluatory
an effect that the old tree viii go to
bearing. We have seen trees treated
in this manner with very satisfactory
results, especially when the trees were
not too old or were not injured by re-
moving the old bark.
A number OF years ago we made a
night pasture of one OF our apple or
chards and kept from thirty to forty
dairy cows in the orchard nights, feed
ing them grain and soiled crops from
the stable. They kept the old bark
we'll rubbed off the trees and left a
large amount of fertility on the land.
and from this orchard we have harvest
ed some of the best crops OF apples that
we have ever grew. and we believe 1t
has been due entirely to using 1t for q
night pasture that has brought about
this change.
We have also obtained good results
by using an orchard for a hog yard.
but had to remove the hogs a number
OF times on account of them peeling Off
too much bark from the trees, hence
would not advise giving them the run
of an orchard except for few weeks at
time.
FertiIizins Value Of Poultry Manure.
Hen manure stands at the head OF
the list in value. except that made by
pigeons. Dried pigeon manure runs as
high as $50 a ton.
Fresh hen manure runs in value ac-
cording to the feed used from 81 to
$40 a ton. Sun-dried from IS to 50
ton and airdeied from 50 to $12 a ton.
Manures, like everything else. may
do ham. They can not do harm.
however, when ordinary Intelligence is
employed in the use Of them. All ma
nures should be used in moderate
quantities, as 1t is well known that to
get the best results from nanures,
they should he applied often and in
small quantities. Too liberal q supply
will have a tendency to produce an
acid condition in the soil, which in
turn has somewhat OF a deadening
effect on the soil. This was noticeable
| In tho old aeys when farmers rnt the
manure in piles in the fields and al
lowed the piles to remain long time
till the teaching had completely satur-
ated the soil beneath.
It should be kept in mind that the
best results come from light coat put
evenly Oh the ground after the plow-
ing has been done, and then well
worked into the soil with q disk
Dwarf Trees.
Nowadays. when all things Japanese
are so much in peoples minds, and
Japanese gardening, with dts diminu-
tive landscape features. its Towering
shrubs and its dwarf trees, coming into
fashion. 1t may be Of some interest to
learn what may be done by ordinary
people, with little or no technical
knowledge, to initiate the art of pro-
d1,cdnR miniature trees and shrubs
says London Queen. OF course. these
could not bear comparison for q mo-
ment with those triumphs Of skill i'm
ported from the Land of the Rising
sun" firstly from want of the exper-
ience of generations Of successful
growers of these tiny treasures; and
| h~eaMSo g0ecf.