The Mena weekly star., 1922-01-26
Notes of Farm, Orchard
 and Country Life
By J. A. sLOTE

By J. A. SLOTE
 -~--~~-~-~-~-~~~>-~~--~-~ --~~-~~~>r~'~--~~----- Trim your grapes now. Two or three buds left on the new branch is enough, and don't leave too many branches. Trim them severely for fruit. Don't be afraid. You won't hurt them. Do it now.
 1 For new vines dig a hole about 8 inches square and the same depth, near the parent vine. Now buckle one, two or three of the lower runners in this hole and pack dirt aver them tight These will root and perhaps bear fruit this summer. Next spring cut them from main stem and trans plant where wanted, those having fruiting wood make quick bearers. Save your cuttings also, trim to 3 joints. plant them s inches apart in row, 2 joints below ground; 90qo will make root if season and soil is good. Do it now.
 Get start of the grass and weeds. Plant your onion sets. Do it now.
 Ebert Butler sold our dealer 2 hens for $700.
 L. w. Hall, a produce buyer, paid "a farmer Friday S28.50 for 32 hens. A farmer and stockman near town of fered the choice of his milk cows, fresh or coming fresh, for $16. Stock cattle bring from S5 to $10 per head. If possible to keep them don't sell. A milk COW is worth as much to a family as she ever was, and there is just as much food in 1000 pounds of beef as ever. When the tide turns the prices will go over the top. The stayers always win.
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 At this time all prospects are fav- orable for bumper fruit crop. Trees have recovered from their last over burdened load, fruit spurs and buds are fully developed and seasonably we'll retarded. Go over them care fully, remove broken limbs, cut close to limbs or body, remove those rub ping In trimming care should be taken not to remove too much, if any fruiting wood. Later if good crop sets more can be removed. Get all dead canes out of your briar fruit patches, burn them to kill any borers or eggs they may contain. Not much more time for your dormant spray Clean up, white wash, etc. Do it now.
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 For the bentfit of newcomers who are groping around to find possibili- ties of the grape growing industry in Polk county, we will say one farmer here has 5000 bearing vines, a small canning plant; raised and put up 150( cans of juice, part of which went tc Mena residents, some sold over the refreshment counters of the same place, 300 cans went to South Dakota a church organization get several hun dred for sacramental purposes, anC the balance was rationed out, as tho demand far exceeded the supply. Tht secretary of an organization repre- senting several thousand acres in thi: state also lives in Polk county. Oul own experience teaches us to get ths vines high from the ground and where the sun first strikes in the morning for the quick drying off of the dew which is conducive to black rot, which appears June 15. This we find the fruits worst enemy and humid seas. ons hard to control. The vines won't die with any neglect (speaking of | Concords).
 Frank Rork has 800 winter cabbage plants well started in his garden Charles Cook also has nice lot set and rooted.
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 Ii Shall Spray?
 l You should spray with lime-sulphu1 or some other contact spray now if you have scale or scab. This smooths up the bark also, and prevents hiding \ places for insects. The kerosene emul- sion is also good for this. If your trees are clean you should spray twice in apple blossoms. If you spray but once do it when the petals fall, but before the blossom end of the apple closes, this to poison the apple worm I the eggs of which are laid by the coddling moth in the blossom end. A mist of poison gets the worm first bite on matching. After the blossom end closes you cannot get spray enough on the apple to get it, but shortly after you would get few where a leaf rests on an apple or two touch, and moth sometimes deposits its eggs. Two pounds of arsenate o1 lead to 50 gallons of water, or that ! proportion, we find best for this ana to put 2 pounds of lead in the 30 gal Ions of Bordeaux, you do two jobs al once. To kill the apple worms, rust scab, etc, makes nice clean fruit. We have never found anything so gooc for a summer spray generally as Bor. deaux mixture. This is made by dis. solving pounds of blue vitrol or blue [ stone, or an other, name, suIphate 0. ; copper, in one jar and 3 pounds oi 1. lime slacked and put in another jar Then mix the two in 30 gallons oi water. You can add 2 pounds of leat to poison all leaf eating insects. Tn, ) lime is added to prevent burning ths ] leaves. Bordeaux is good for nearl, : all leaf sprays, and we always ge } more fruit premiums from it's us, ! than we have with the diluted lime 7 sulphur summer spray. Use Bor ? deaux on your grapes; also for soot , rot, etc, and lead for leaf eaters. Fol brown rot on peach fruit self-b boiled 5 lime sulphur is probably best, but ", : have never been able to fully contro it on some varieties. For nice, clear fruit cultivate. fertilize and spray i 5 you need it. Do you? Is it worth it THIS SEEMS FAIR.
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