The Springdale news., 1918-07-12

The iieal YOU have to puf or sooner
tell to fifteen days, as Il : cottonseed
has to ;iecomrose before you can get
res. It's
GLOW about cJover?' "Tl,is block
we stand in he's Cor nine years been
alternated, one middle being sown
to clover and one cultivated, next
year the cultivated middle was seeded
and the other one cultivated and ex-
cept one year the cultivated middle
was sown to rye and that turned un-
der before we seeded it to clover.
Il have block that has been seed
ed to clover three years. We cut the
first crop and mulch around the trees;
the second crop we are not so par
ticular, usually let it lay.
"You notice cut the tops out of nv
trees, cut the limb where some out
growing limb leaves this one and cut
in line with this so it will heal. You
must study your orchard and soil and
general condition, then apply these
methods, when good for your or
chard"
j. R. Cooper, of the University of
Arkansas, who recently came from
Kansas, said he found new conditions
here. He spoke of the relationship of
the experiment station to the farmer
eve are often handicapped by lack of
funds" he said, land we have no or
chard on the University grounds for
experimental work. | hope some
philanthropic orchardist will donate
us block of his orchard for this work.
In doing SO he must not expect the
returns that he gets from the bal
ance of his orchard as experimental
work is often not of remunerative
character but it is cheaper to do that
than let all you men try it. We are
continuing the experimental work of
polarization begun by my predecessor
We are also making experiments with
fertilizers on sweet and Irish pota-
toes, also have had some good results
from seed selection and hope in this
way to produce plants less liable to
disease and that will return better
yields"
Referring to the codling moth he
said the life cycle of this moth varies
and it is hard to determine the exact
time to spray. Cold weather and
rains will lengthen the time Of its ap-
pearance ten to fifteen days. 1t is
safer to band trees with strips Of bur-
lap or other cloth, leaving the band
loose at bottom and tight at the top.
Tie worm will find place here to
pupate. Cut out piece of the band
and put it into lamp chimney, tie
cloth over the top so to give air and
keep the moth in, set the other end IN
the ground under the tree or other
sheltered place similar to natural con-
ditlons and when the moth hatcl.es it
is time to spra;.'
When the crowd left Mr.. Brogdon's
orchard growers from surrounding
territory had been added and instead
of % or 80 cars there were As or so
in line. The next stop was at Ira
Graham's orchard. On the way DR..
Sparkman's orchard was passed. He
had been using a tractor and some
stopped to investigate this. 1t had a
disc attached and the turned soil look
ed AS though it had done very good
work
At the Graham orchard the effect
of nitrate of soda was noted. This is
the second year he has used nitrate on
three rows through the middle Of the
orchard. The healthy color that the
nitrate gives was quite discernible IN
these trees. Mr.. Graham said that
last year the trees produced one
fourth more fruit and this year ne es-
Inmates they will give one-third more
and better quality than the balance OF
the orchard. Later he said to The
TdckeT mai. III WIN Ni4N
raised here. / had wha. l THOUGHT
was pretty good orchard and did
MT think anybody else had any busl-
ness in it or telling me how to work
it but one day Dave Eieher showed me
a picture of tree they had pruned.
| told him he was going to kill his or
chard, but he kept at me till finally
agreed to let him have an acre OF my
orchard to work on They came out
and showed me how to prune and 1 FOL-
lowed their instructions but | tho1gnt
I'l surely kill the tree. 1t worked so
well that next year I tried it on the
whole orchard and have continued
with good results Several times last
spring l went up town to sign up Tor
a car of nitrate, but it would cost me
$1,000 or 81 800 to go over my or
ckard, and when ! got there lost my
nerve, but Pm ready to sign up now.
I'll tell you the Frisco made me. l