Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1922-01-12
Get Behind the Orchard Movement
Prune, Spray Worm, Cultivate
and Plant--Ask your County
Agent about "Orchard
Week.

When planning the orchard, ther
is one thing that farmers should bea
lin mind. The orchard requires atten
don and must receive such. else al
trees and vines put out will soon g
like thousands OF others have don.
in the State, and all the farmer get!
for his labor and money put into IN
the trees Ia o case of disappointment
We urge you to give the trees fall
trial and see the results, The meth
DDS of caring for an orchard are M
deed simple and inexpensive and any
farmer In the State. who Is not thor
oughly familiar with the methods. will
get In touch with the county agent OF
drop him card and ask for the infor-
nation, this will be gladly given. The
profits will greatly exceed the ex-
pense.
The work to be done this fall and
winter can be summed up, briefly as
follows:
I. Select the sit for the orchard,
which should be on an elevated Sec
ion, not high hill. but simply. as
the farmer would speak Of It, little
knoll. This gives good air drainage
and also lessons the danger Of frost.
2. Prepare the soil thoroughly be-
fore setting the trees. Break deep.
following with cutaway in order to
get the soil as fine as possible. 1t Is
better to do this from two to four
weeks before the trees are set out.
8. When setting the trees, II soil
is not 10 a good state Of fertility. It
will be we'll to haul In a little woods
earth TO place about the roots. II this
cannot be secured. get little barn
yard manure and thoroughly inccrpor-
ate with the sol, that Is placed around
the roots. This will enable the trees
to grow faster the following spring.
I. Be sure to dig the holes IN which
trees are placed deep enough to allow
trees to be about two inches deeper In
the soil than they were In the nut-
sery row and wide enough to allow
ali roots to spread out fill length.
6. Be sure TO trim off all roots that
were injured while removing from the
nursery row. Cut them of Just back
Of the bruise, leaying a smooth cut.
This enables them to heal quicker and
also lessons the danger Of diseases.
Also trim of all small branches and
In case OF peaches, cut them OF from
Is to 1S inches above the ground.
apples should be cut OF about two
feet above the ground.
6. Give the trees the proper dis
tance. The following distances do
we'll for the home orchard; peaches.
1S feet each way; apples; 30 feet
each way; blackberries and dewber-
ries make rows S feet wide and set
three feet In drill: dewberries are Of
ten planted Ak 4 and grapes Ks.
7. The following varieties are rec
ommended for the home orchard:
Apples: East Harvest. Red June.
Horse, Delicious. Terry. Yates. Wine
sap, Staymen; Pears: Keltfer; Plum.
shiro, Abundance and Burbank
Cherry: Montmorency and Early Rich
mond; Figs: Celeste and Magnolia;
Peaches: Mayfiower, Red Bird. Greens
boro, Ma ME Ross. Carmen. Hiley. Bell
Of Georgia. Elberta, Heath Cling and
Stinsons October; Pecans: Stuart and
Schley; Grapes (bunch): Concord,
Moore's Early, Lucille, Delaware. Ma
CARA and Worden: Grape (muscadine
James. Thomas and Scuppernong:
Strawberries: Klondike and Lady
Thompson: Dewberries: Lucretia:
.Rlackberries: Eldorado.
The outline given above Is all that
is necessary to get the orchard start
ed. Let's have an orchard on every
farm, raise our fruit as we'll IS other
things to eat at home.
Work on the old orchard should be-
gin at once, and should consist OF
thorough and careful spraying. prun-
Ing. worming and cultivating.
/. Pruning-preserves the life,
health and yigor of the tree by remov-
ing dead. diseased and interfering
branches. concentrates the growth in
to the fruit forming branches and
Encourages new wood growth IN sup.
port OF the next crop Of fruit.
2. spraying-Safe guards and pro-
longs the life Of the tree by repelling
insect and disease attacks. and de-