The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, October 31, 1916, Page 2, Image 2
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GOOD ORCH
HAVE A GOOD ORCHARD AND
BE HEALTHY AND HAPPY 1
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. (\
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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.
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New York, Oct. 24.?"Itoosevelt
i Then?and Roosevelt Now" might be *
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r publican campaign brochure?but
" it is not likely that it will be. At 4j
present the Republicans are busyj?i
5 circulating copies of Col. Roosevelt's 4
? speech at Lewlston, Maine, in sup-!^
port of Hughes. Four years ago the! J
' same Republicans were just as busy *
r distributing copies of Mrs. Annie 4
' Riley Halle's book, "Bull Moose ?
" Trails," which revealed the colonel 4
' in the light of "The Great Impostor." 4
Charles D. Hines, the Republican j
1 national chairman, told Mrs. Hale the!
* morning after the election of 1912 j 4
1 that her book "helped to kill the 4
Bull Moose and defeat the (Roose- ?
velt) three term government, but it I 4
was our misfortune that, when they 1 ^
got pulled away from Roosevelt,!
* they went to Wilson, instead of
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