Show TEACHING TREES TO DRINK KEEPS regularly re near the van ran of or the procession in the t e production of or new ideas and the novel nO cl i utilization of ot old ones nes The e latest I I thing there is the experiments being I made by the experiment station at Fort I Collins Colllns to learn It if there is really any anything anythIng anything thing in a Colorado asser easer assertion assertion I tion that In capillary attraction Is to tobe tobe tobe be found the secret of the successful I I irrigation of or orchards I What bat is the use u c Plage Flage Carter ot of f Park county is jg quoted as a Inquiring of ot 1 trying to feed fe the delicate veins through which a tree takes its food with a ditch three feet teet wide tIde a and d four I feet feel deep d p It Is like trying to perform performa a subcutaneous Injection with a fire tire i I hose hoseI I I hoseI I r have ha e been tor two t years and I am now prepared rep red to de declare declare deI clare dare froth from my ray results that capillary I I attraction will cure sick s k trees produce better results than ordinary methods 11 l of or irrigation and md save 38 water By this thI 4 t W method a bucket of water will 50 so goi goi i i much farther c than many inches i esi in the th ditch under the old method metho methodI I hanga hangi a bucket of water w ter on ona a con convenient cont t limb of Or the ih iree tre e to be lie feS feci fe and cutting off oft the the end of a twig about the size of a ale lead d pencil I bend the cut end into the bucket It Is marvelous to see h hd w the tree will just jus lap up a bucket of water vater It fairly takes Its drink through a straw stran and then rustles for more Through the delicate veins the wa water water water ter permeates the whole vascular Ss system tem tern of the individual One young Qung tree in my orchard had bad been rubbed rubbe ru bed thor thoroughly hor ought by a horse I tried tilts this method of ot feeding the tree and cured It com corn completely Another time I tried it on a asick asick asick sick apple tree title with complete e success The experiment station men were much impressed and arid a series s of f experiments experiments experiments ments is now no under way to determine scientifically the possibilities es of ot Mr dr Carters scheme rt I |