The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1911-03-10
NOTES OF THE FARM.
COLUMN OF INTERESTING NEWS
THAT WILL BENEFIT
FARMERS.
Early spring Pruning.

Early Spring Pruning.
Here are few fruit tree prun-
ing rules: Trim little every
year, rather than much in any one
year. Peach trees; at least one
half of the new growth should be
removed each season. Cherry trees
require the least pruning; merely
cut out dead. broken or crossed"
limbs. Other trees need judicious
thinning out and sometimes cutting
back. If two branches interlock
remove the smaller one Avoid cut
ing so as to leave stubs" make
neat cuts close to union; paint all
large wounds. Be chary of cutting
off large limbs; If 1t must be done
saw on under side first, partly
through and then saw from above.
Prune now or In June. Spring trim
ming induces wood growth; June
trimming induces fruit growth,
Which do you want? Mote: On
young trees you should want only
wood growth until they are of
good size and fully able to endure
the strain Of fruit bearingD
In March, before the buds swell,
spray fruit trees for fungous trou-
bles, such as peach leaf-ourl, scab
or pear and apple, fruit rot leaf
blight, etc, The Bordeaux mixture
Is the standard fungicide. (But re-
member the lime sulphur mixture
is also a fungicide; so If you use
il for San Jose scale on your trees
you will not need the early spra!
Of Bordeaux
Don't try to combine arsenal,
Of lead or paris green with lime-sul
phur mixture, .-.. .... ...
II costs twice as much to spra!
large, high, unpruned trees as
does to spray low-headed,, thinnet
out trees.
High-priced novelties are oftel
disappointing, but it is interesting
J to try few each season. Fo
main planting, however, stick L
the time-tested standard kinds
Why not give those trees
decent meal this year? Try 100
} pounds per acre of any good, com
plete fertilizer Or apply stable ma
= nure, bone flour and muriate o
potash t4OO pounds bone, 90
pounds muriate. per acre..
Get ready to plant trees thi
month, as soon as soil condition
permit. ....
p Formula for making the Bordeau
mixture: Four pounds of sulphat
Of copper, four pounds of quicklim'
q fifty gallons Of water. First, dis
solve the copper sulphate. TIL
!, easiest, quickest way to do this
, to put the copper sulphate in
i cheese-cloth bag and suspend III
/, bag in a barrel partly filled wit
water. Next, slake the lime in al
. other receptacle, and strain tn
= milk of lime thus obtained int
the copper sulphate solution. Las
ly. add sufficient water to max
30 gallons,
Don't think the old orchard
= past hope. II too thick, thin OF
!, the trees. Clean out all bad limb
: Spray and cultivate. Feed plent
!. of stable manure, and, my word fC
it, in nine cases out often the oil
" orchard will pay for itself 10 time
!, over. Take care of it, be good
it; 1t pays.
A saw a long-handled pair {
pruning shears, short-handle
pair and the necessary ladders wi
. fill average needs in the prunin
- line.
When the first mild day come
along begin pruning the fruit tree
=. Cut out all interlocking branche
= decayed and diseased limbs, wea
growths and suckers, and head
#, last seasons growth at least on,
half, Keep the trees open in III
center to admit light, air and
facilitate spraying,
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