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Show I WHY FRUIT TREES DIE. . Why so many nursery grown trees clio "when transplanted is tersely and truthfuly, stated in Bulletin No. 20, of the Oklahoma Experiment Station. It says: Among the causes of failure have been the following: Failure to prepare the land before trees arrive; ar-rive; hurried and imperfect planting; plant-ing; high heads, exposing' the body of the tree to sunseald and attacks of borers. Planters are urged to set strong, healthy trees, in well prepared soil, plowed deep and Aub-soiled,, first pruning the roots to one or two inches in length, which will cause them to strike down deep into the soil. Start the head fifteen to eighteen inches from the ground and lean the tree to the southwest. Then the. top will f shade the trunk, prevent sun-scold sun-scold and attacks of borers. Give freu mt and shallow cultivation to kee in , tlie moisture ' which the deeply subsoiled- land has caught during winter and spring. Grow only hoed crops, if any, in a young "orchard, and ridne at all in an'old one, except peas or olover ip be cut and left to decay on the land.- ; , |
