Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-25

large number of plants received are
diseased, they should be returned to
the nursery. Good trees should be
had from $500 to $4,000 a thou,
upon the varieties purchased.
The choice and number of Varie-
ties should be determined by the use
to which the fruit is to be put. In
commercial orchards, the needs
few varieties ripening in sufficient
quantities to insure commercial ship
mentS; whereas for small orchards
or a. home orchard, a large NUMBER OF
varities insuring a production of
fruit throughout the season, should
be chosen.
Twenty feet each way is considered
the best distance for setting peach
trees. Some orchards have been set
as close as 13 by 10 feet, a great
many 16 by 16 feet, but the ma
jority of growers, are now setting
their trees 20 b., % feet, which gives
approximately 10S trees per acre.
Trees should be purchased so they
will be delivered as early in the fail
as possible: that is, during November
or December. If they cannot be set
out when they come. they should be
north side Of building. The trees
are spread in a trench, their rotos
and lower portions covered with soil
and the soil packed down with a
spade or with the foot. Trees may
be kept in a trench of this kind for
several months. Care should be taken
when handling the trees not to ex-
pose and dry their roots. If for any
reason the tree cannot be set ont az
soon as it is taken to the hole it
may be laid aside for a while. with
its roots covered by a velful of
soil or wet sack,
When an orchard is laid out with a
pIoW and small trees are used, plant
ing is simple procedure. The trees
roots are pruned, SO as to remove all
tWlsted, broken, long. or otherwise
Objectionable mes. The tree is placed
IN the trench. and shoVelful or two
of soil is thrown about it OF hold it
straight. The burrows then are fill
ed by the plow, a man tramping the
soil around the roots. 1T SHOULD then
be pruned to, switch from a foot to
IL inches above the ground. 1t is
advisable not to .prune until plant
ing is finished, as then there is less
danger in breaking the young tree.
In some soils it becomes necessary
to dig hole for sett: the tree. 1t
is well to dig the hole considerably
larger than absolutely required to re-
ceive the root system of the plant.
Holes two feet across and two feet
deep NHo be dug III cecil clay soil,
and peachtrees set therein at a cost
OF four to- five cents per tree; that is,
t.. L
is advisable when setting young
trees to put a pound or two of cot-
tonseed meal, or a pound or two of
bone dry meal in the hole before Set
ting the plant. The fertilizer is
thoroughly mixed with the soil. so it
does not come in direct contact with
the roots of the young plant On the
lighter soils, this fertilizer may be
applied as a top dressing, The roots
are covered with surface soil, which
IS thoroughly tramDed and hacked as
1t IS thrown in the hole. Trees. are
in the nursery row. Some growers
mound the soil about the trees to
take care Of setting; others leave it
evan and level.
. The question of dynamiting for
trees is one that is being greatly
war it cost from $40 to $12 per
acre to dynamite for peaches This
cost includes dynamite, caps and
fuSe, a S we'll as the work of put
ting in the charges. The actual cost
of getting the trees after dynamite
has been exploded is not much be.
low that for digging holes where
claim marked benefit received
from dynamiting holes before set
ting trees; other growers say that
after three or four years it is not
possible. to see any difference be-
tween trees set in holes that had
been dynamited and those set with
out it's use. There are some exper-
lments that have come under OBJ
servation that show absolutely no
advantage one way or the other. The
question of whether dynamiting
should be used or not is one that
his own farm. Where there is a
hardpan, close to the surface or
where the soil is very rocky anC
heavy, 1t might be best to use dyna-
mite. On the other hand, on sandy
soils and lighter soils there seem:
to TO be no advantage coming from
the use Of the explosive. Care should
be exercised in, using dynamite NO,
to explode it in wet soil, for the
power of the explosion seems to sc
compact the soil that the trees
roots have a hard time getting
through the pot-like formation
by the explosion. If soils
are at all wet dynamite will provS
injurious rather than beneficial.
No Apparent Foundation for this
J. S. NJ. Oliver, Ga. writes. There
Is rumar in this section that the boil
Weevll has poisoned the blackberry and
people are AFRAID to eat them. Please let
me know your opinion of this.
In so far as we are able to gather
here at the college only a moderate
amount of calcium arsenate has
been used as a dust spray on cot
ton up to the present time, and it
is difficult for US to see how the
boil ,weevil taking the fine particles
Of this into it's system by reason
II It's habit of drinking dew could
carry enough of it to the blackher-
RES to In any way make them in
furious for human consumption. We
DO not feel, therefore, that there
Is anything in the proposition about |
which you inquire. 1t is, of course |
always possible to be mistaken about
such a proposition, but we have |
never. heard of the fact being es. |
tablished that the use of paris
green or sprays of any other char.
acter containing poison have been
the means of carrying poison to
other crops in quantities sufficient |
to lnJrre human beings. AS a matter |
of fact, Paris green and other poi
sons are often used on CABBAGE.
If the cabbage, however, should be |
subject to heavy rains or if care |
fully washed before it is used no |
injury would ever come to human |
beings. Hence. we do not think it |
is possible for the boil weevil tc |
carry enough poison from the cot
ton plants to the blackberries to |
make their consumption injurious.
Quitting and Curing Sorghum Forage |
for Kay
L. L.. g., Thrift, Ga, writes: have
field Of early amber cane about waist
high and just beginning to seed out.
want to cut and bale it for forage.
When should l cut it? Is there any dan
ger ! cutting and curing the second crop
for forage?
We personally would not cut am |
'er cane for hay until the seed heads |
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