Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-04-14
FARM DEMONSTRATIONS.
News of Interest to Hancock County
Farmer.
From the Office Of the county agent G. N.
worden, Eilsworth-1


(From the ONCE of the county agent, G. N.
worden. Ellsworth-1
| The agents schedule for the coming
week is as follows:
Thursday, April Is - Castine; address
community conference and give demon
stration in pruning and grating. Penob-
scot; farm OF H. c. Perry; headquarters
while in Penobscot, A. E. vsrnum's.
Friday, April 16 : Penobscot; farm of
c. Z. Hodgdon; address grange in evening.
farms Of II. w. Lowell and n. HI. Ames /;
address Highlapd grange in evening.
Monday, April 10 = Bluehill; farm OF
Charles H. Dodge. North Sedgwick (;
farms of John circuit and @. M. Allen.
! Tuesday, April 20 - Bluehill; H. w.
Herrick's. Surry; Howard Youngs.
Wednesday, April Plat office, 10 High
street, Ellsworth.
While this schedule calls for definite
visits with certain farmers in each town,
as many others will be visited along the
way as time will permit. Watch for the
county agent, for he will be watching for
! you.
While q complete list OF the demon
strators in each town will soon be given,
it seems best at this time to call special
attention TO those in orcharding, which
are as follows:
Hancock, O. W. Foss, 100 trees
North Hancock, w. E. Foss, % trees
Ellsworth, G. l.. Morang, 80 trees
North Ellsworth, H.. F. Maddocks, SO trees
Bayside, s. 8. Estey, 60 trees
Surry Road, R. B. Cushman, 81 trees
Ellsworth Falls, Oscar Staples, 100 trees
LAmoine. J. B. Carter, Il trees
All of these demonstrations are going
to serve as excellent object lessons in the
best known practices of orcharding, and
will merit the closest attention. II you
are interested in the production OF fine
fruit, make it point to watch the pro-
gress OF the demonstrations now under
way. Special attention is called to the
Cushman and Carter orchards, because OF
the fact that the old bearing trees were
in sod and very poor condition when work
started.
process consisted for the most part in re-
moving all dead, broken and crossing
branches. Such an operation at this time
OF year promotes the development OF wood
growth, and it viii be followed up by
moderate summer pruning which will
stimulate the formation OF fruit buds and
get tie trees into the yearly bearing abit
With nS -
docks orchard, which is being man
aged by the sod mulch method, all
demonstration plots will be ploweu
as soon as the land can be worked,
and kept thoroughly cultivated until the
middle OF July, at which time cover
crop of buckwheat will be sown. This
will check wood growth, allowing the
wood already formed to ripen up, and
furnish protection for the roots during
the winter.
All orchards will be sprayed, and the
first spray will be applied when the leaf
buds are as near open as possible without
exposing the leaves, probably about the
first week in May. The material used
will consist OF five gallons OF lime sui
phur. fifty gallons of water and three
pounds OF arsenate of lead, which will be
for the purpose OF killing and controlling
brister mite, scab, oyster-shell scale,
woolly aphis, eggs of the tent caterpillar
1.-THE 'stentsn OF these caterpillars were ex-
ceediEgly numerous last year, but the
pest may be entirely eliminated by spray
ing). bud moth and cigar-case bearer.
The second spraying will come just as
the buds show pink, and notice will be
given before that time regarding material
to use and reasons. All fruit will be
Trimmed SO that apples will not be closer
than three inches, which will allow the
development OF perfect fruit, the kind
that brings the highest price, and, when
this practice OF thinning is supplemented
by light summer pruning, the formation
OF fruit buds is stimulated and the trees
are thrown into the yearly bearing habit.
Watch these demonstrations. Go to the
farms where they are located and talk
with the demonstrators. Ask them what
they are doing, and why, and how, and
they will be only too glad to tell you all
about it. What we are after is a spread
OF influence from the demonstration farms
to the other farms in the neigh borhood.
The demonstrators are on The firing line,
and every last one Of them may be relied
upon to "deliver the goods'
WARMING.
Hancock county farmers were victimized