Show i 11 P T 1 I 1 I 1 1 11 1 1 II starved orchards where trees are growing on good strong soil eoll and receive good cultivation they will produce good crops ot of fruit for several years perhaps without several ln the application ot of ery much in the way of fertilizer but on light and loamy soils they very soon show lack ot of igor and become stunted there are ara many orchards today to day that are starving when we consider that orchards are seldom planted on a virgin soil but in nearly all cases on a soil eoll that has been cropped to grain and from which a large larce part of 0 the potash and phosphoric acid has been exhausted and that the tree requires material to build up wood tissue and an annual crop of foliage tol lago and later ot of fruit we see gee the necessity of 0 providing lood food lor for the needs ot of the trao nitrogen Is required for the wood growth potash for or fruit and phosphoric acid for or seed the most economical way to supply these elements Is by plowing in clover for nitrogen and by supplying the other r ma material aerial by the application ol of hard we wood od ashes where the trees are large sowing occasionally with rape and pasturing it off with sheep will help wonderfully in enriching the soli soil large trees will not be injured by sheep when clover Is grown tor for fertilizing purposes never cut it 11 lor for hay but plow it nil all in when about halt in blossom tor for you need humus in the orchard and lots or of it old chip yards yarda and the cleanings gleanings clean ings from wood 8 sheds beds make a good material tor for this purpose and old rotten pea straw or an anything that will furnish a humus will bo be of benc benefit tit where ashes c cannot an be got potash in some other lorm form should be applied and the phosphoric acid by means of ground bone but these two elements are supplied most cheaply in tho the form ot of ashes good hard wood ashes are cheap for this purpose at from 15 cents to 20 cents per bushel forty bushels to an acre once in two years tor for bearing trees nith a crop of 0 clover plowed in once in two years would bo be lar far better treatment than the best ot of them are getting now and i will ill give on ordinary 8 soils oils very good cod results stable manure Is all right providing you can call get it but as a rule the orchards get very little G C caston casten |