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% GOOD ORCH HAVE A GOOD ORCHARD AND BE HEALTHY AND HAPPY 1 I Mr. I>outhit Tells How He Handles His Orchard to Insure Plenty of Fine Fruit. My actual experience in orchar-i i work began three years ago with the sowing of bur clover In the old orchard. The trees had once been well cared for by my father, but were then suffering from years of neglect, numerous insects and nearly every other per>t known to the Southern orchardist. The younger trees had grown unshapely and. as were the old ones, were badly in need of pruning. The first act was to gather all information possible from the leading Authorities In fruit production. Fore- 1 most among the guides has been The Progressive Farmer and Green's Fruit Grower. Then I purchased a : $rood hand pump, pruning clippers, ; raw, lopping clippers, rubber-soled shoes, stop ladder and a bucket of paint. The entire cost was nearly ; $2'. My plan was to save the best of ! the old trees until new ones could be brought into bearing. The centers of the trees were cut out along with the dead branches and twigs and overcrowded live limbs. Ex- ' cessively long limbs were cut back slightly, and all large wounds were 1 covered with a lead and oil paint. ' Care was exercised not to cover prune, thereby causing an excessive 1 growth of water spouts. Many 1 trees were not sufficiently thinned until the second season's pruning. The first year required much more time and work than last year, experience and thoroughness of the ! pievious year's work being the cause. The removed limbs were burned ' promptly after being cut. '< While pruning I kept a lookout for diseases and pests. There were the dreaded San Jose scale, trunk 1 borer. shot-hole borer, fire blight, 1 die-back of the peach, and a few of the trees had root-knot. The San Jose scale has been nearly eliminated by two winter sprays of commercial lime-sulphur. I have also sprayed my neighbor's orchard 'or this pest. Painting the trunks, mounding them in early July and tearing the mounds down late in October, have about destroyed the iborers. The shot-hole borer is more stubborn. He persists (not so disastrously, however) In spite of cutting and burning all infested branches and stimulating growth of trees. Fire blight is mean hut has been checked by the removal of dead twigs as soon as they appear. The die-black disease has been stopped! l?y pruning slightly infested trees | and removal of the worst eases from the orchard. The trees affected with! root-knot have been dug up and burned. A quarantine has been placed or the corner of the orchard vhert they grow. With the slipping of the shucks after the blooming of the peaches oatne the necessity for the application of poison for the worms. Two pounds fresh lime, two pounds of arsenate of lead and fifty gallons of water sprayed on with force did the deadly work. Two weeks later a combined spray of poison and self noiled lime-sulphur was given to check the rot and kill remaining worms. In the meantime, the apples had re-.i ' ed full bloom, the pet i!s had fallen, leaving the blossom end of the little apple wide open, inviting the codling moth to come aud deposit eggs. So a poison spray similar to the first spray on peaches was applied. Although the calyx soon closed, it shut in with the worm enough poison to make it lose its taste for apples. Eight days later the apples received a combined ppray of arsenate of lead and self boiled lime-sulphur to kill the lab | wormi and give the first blow to the rot germ. On June 10, I applied Bordeaux mixture to keep down rot; and ?eipeated the dose six weeks later on the apples. J. B. Douthit. Pendleaon, S. C. o ltuy Trees Direct From Reliable Nurseries. When we first began to buy fruit trees we generally bought threeyear-old trees from long-winded agents, with# the result that the trees were a long time about establishing themselves in their new quarters and our purse was greatly depleted. Now we let our farm papers be our guide, buying directly from a reliable nursery, whose adrertisements are always found in re- ; liable farm papers, at a saving of i one-half on prices, and we have decided that one-year-old trees are better than older ones. t, ' 3 IARD IDEAS1 Late last season we bought 5t trees which were sent by mall, thej were well rooted, but were verj small. We planted them on a hill side where mellons and peas wen grown the year before, and as th< space between the trees looked s< great we decided to grow melons anc peas between them this year. So w< onened ? deen fnrrr?w mlHnrnu k. tween the rows of trees, filled thii furrow with barnyard manure whicl was covered with a plow, and meloni were planted on the row, hills beinj eight feet apart. When the melon were laid by, peas were plantec broadcast over the entire patch. We made a good crop of meloni and peas and the trees have growi wonderfully fast. They are large now and more thrifty looking thai any older trees we ever planted wen after being planted two years, anc while this has been an unusually drj year, only one of the fifty trees died and it was accidently injured with i plow. We plant a few trees every veai and always plan to have trees of dif ferent varieties to Insure a succes hon of ripening fruit. We suppose the one-year-old trees make more rapid growth because the root in jury is less when they are removed from the nursery than that of oldei trees. I secured four fine grape vine? with my renewal from The Procres sive Farmer la at spring and thej promise fruit next season. It is re markable how fast they have growi and remarkable too that while fig! and grapes are the finest fruits it the South that so few are grown. Mrs. L. E. Armour. Pleasant Hill, La. o Spraying Almost Insures Good Fruit Pruning of fruit is very necessary and increases the lift and yields ol a tree very considerably, but the ureatest results are to he obtainec from spraying. After trees ar< carefully pruned and all done tha i.aii uc iiiMn- wim inc Ktme, tne yieli of salable fruit can be doubled am trebled and oftimes more than tha by spraying. Then after the healtl of the tree is insured the fruit mus be protected from its natural ene mies. My trees were very severely in fested with the scale and I sprayed ii the fall and again in the spring be fore the trees put out with the boile; lime-sulphur solution 18-18-5 Then I sprayed the peaches with th self-boiled lime-sulphur solution 8-8-50, with arsenate of lead addei to the mixture. The apples I sprayed with th 5-5-50 self-boiled lime-sulphur so lution with the arsenate of lead ad ded. Our fruit, both apples am peaches, was from 05 per cent to 10< per cent free from worms. W made about two sprayings with th above solution. I used a barre sprayer which cost about $25. We have sold about $160 worth o peaches, and the apples I suppose will reach around $100 or $250 fo both, coming from about 50 trees more than half of which are younf trees. We have also used all w< wanted besides giving some to ou: neighbors. I will say that without spraying ] do not believe it would hardly b< possible for us to sell $50 worth o fruit.. J. A. Floyd. Fairmont. X. (\ o? Orchard and <>ardrn Work Till! Week and Next. It is still seasonable to set ou strawberry plants. No farm home should be without this delicious fruit. Before placing apples on the mar ket, see that they are properly grad ed and packed in neat packages. ivememuer mat a good orchard besides affording much pleasure yields returns more than sufficient t< pay for the care that is bestowc< upon it. There is pruning that should hi done in the fall, (iet ready for till work by purchasing a good set o pruning tools. Gather pears after they are ma ture, before they soften, and store i a cool, dark place. They will ripei better and keep longer. You will be able to get twice a many trees for the same money b; ordering them direct from a reliabl nursery rather than patronizing tree agent. Have you decided on the locatioi for your orchard? I>o not choos the poorest land in the most neglect ed portion of the farm, but plao< the orchard on good ground conven lent to the house. You will fln? yourself taking greater pride in see Ing that it is cared for properly. F. J. Older, Associate Horticulturist. Clemson, College, S. C. ME LANCASTER NEWS Tt IdON'T take_a chance1 I Lancaster People Should Act in Time. t If you suffer from backache; If you have headaches, dizzy spells; ' If the kidney secretions are irregur lar, Don't delay?likely your kidneys , are sick. ' Lancaster people recommend Doan's 9 Kidney Pills. a Here's a Lancaster woman's stateI ment. Mrs. W. L. Byrd, S. Main St., Lan^ caster, says: "Two of the family have " taken Doan's Kidney Pills with s splendid results. Both had weak kidneys and suffered from backaches. < In one case the kidneys and bladder 9 seemed to be Inflamed and there was ? a lot of trouble from the kidney Be- ? s cretlons. Dropsical symptoms also j appeared. We were much pleased with the prompt relief Doan's Kidney < filis Drougnt." . a Price 50c, at all dealers. 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