Show co 4 De horning males makes old trees become a as new A strawberry plant Is naturally an evergreen not eve everyone who abo farms has a good family orchard intelligent pruning la Is also very necessary to raising fruit the first warm days of spring give gardeners an inspiration for f flowers in general the best results are obtained from spraying applications made in cloudy weather spraying Is at least half of as well as a good part of gardening and truck farming pruning the farm orchard Is a knotty problem to the beginner in fact the older heads beads are bothered be sure to spray the trees from nil all sides and cover every portion from the ground to the ends of the branches for currants make ground rich by liberal use of barnyard manure and c commercial fertilizer having plenty of potash As to the farm orchard there Is no question but what it will pay and the more thorough you are the better the results the oozing out ot of the sap from cherry and peach trees forming drops or lumps of gum arises from a diseased condition of the trees hurry up the grafting if not done last month A paste of cow manure and clay bound on to a partially girdled tree trunk will often save the tha tree pruning should be ba an annual tift aJr and the best time to do it Is late in the winter or just before the buds buda open it should begin when the tree Is trot first planted |