The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-10-08
PLAN HOME ORCHARD.
Season Here for Making Preparations.
Things to be done.

the things that farmers should be
planning at this season is the home
orchard. There is no one thing on
the farm, according to c. F. Niven.
assistant horticulturist OF Clemson
college. that gives more pleasure,
aside from the profit gained there
from, than the orchard. There will
be fresh fruit all summer and a sur
plus to put away in cans to furnish
an adequate supply the year around.
The real profit in home orchard is
usually found in that portion Of the
fruit that goes to waste. Farmers
too often utilize merely what they
can during the ripening season and
allow the surplus to fall to the
ground and 60 to waste. Under such
conditions there is always a scarcity
during the fall, winter and spring
months, when the supply has to come
directly from the grocer.
When planning home orchard,
says Prof Niven, the farmer must
bear in mind that an orchard requires
attention, else all trees and vines
put out will soon go as thousands
have gone in this State and the farm
er will get for his labor and money
only disappointment. If the trees
are given a fair trial, results will
come. The methods Of caring for
an orchard are simple and ineXpen-
sive. The profits will greatly ex-
ceed the expense. If there is any
farmer in the State who does not
feel sufficiently familiar with the
methods to put them into practice,
he will receive personal directions if
he will write to Clemson college.
Prof. Niven sums up as follows the
orchard work to be done this, fall
and winter:
1. Select site for orchard, which
should be on an elevated section;
not a high hill, but, as the farmer
would call it, d little knoll. This
gives good air drainage and lessons
danger of frost.
2. Prepare soil thoroughly before
setting trees. Break deep, following
with cutaway in order to get soil as
fine as possible. 1t is better to do
this two to four weeks before trees
are set out.
s. If soil is not in good state of
fertility when setting trees, it is well
to haul in a little woods earth to
place about roots. Lacking this, get
little barnyard manure and mix it
thoroughly with soil that is placed
around roots.
4. Be sure to dig holes in which
trees are placed deep enough to al
low trees to be about two inches
deeper in the soil than they were in
the nursery row and wide enough to
allow all roots to spread out fully.
5. Be sure to trim off all roots in
jured in removing from the nursery
row. Cut them off just back of the
bruise. leaving smooth cut, to help
them to heal quickly and lessen dan
ger of diseases. Also trim off all
small branches. In case of peaches
cut them off from Is to Is inches
above ground. Cut off apples about
two feet above ground.
6. Give trees the proper distance.
The following distances do we'll for
the home orchard: peaches, IS feet
each way; apples, 80 feet each way;
pears, same as apples; plums and
cherries, 20 feet each way; black
berries and dewberries, make row.
5 feet wide and set feet in drill;
dewberries are often planted 4
and grapes s x s.
7. The following varieties are rec
commended for the home orchard:
Apples: Red June, Horse, Early
Harvest, Staymen, Winesap, Shock
ley, Ben Davis and Mrs. Bryan.
Pears: Kieffer, LeConte, Bartlett
and Seckel.
Plums: Wild Goose. Climax and
Abundance.
Cherries: Early Richmond.
Peaches: Mayfower, Greensboro,
Red Bird, Hiley. Georgia Belle, Car
man, Elberta, Old Nixon Free,
Crowther's Late.
Blackberries: Early Harvest, Ell
dorado, Loyet and Wilson.
Dewberries: Lucretia.
Grapes: Moore's Early. Lutte,
Lindley. Delaware, Niagara, Concord,
Brighton, Norton and Goethe.
Poor Willie!
What on earth are you crying
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