Show t. t t nab oab b Horticultural ting Big Success Lawrence C. C Davis 11 lr Agricultural Agent ent educational meeting de deT de Au n T wa was served up to Grand rand xe se l farmers and fruit grow grow- 1 last tast Friday a of night d 1 Visiting tny g s Beakers l' l akers Included Dr as L. L L world Martin a distinguish distinguish- and aM world renowned soil from the Brigham J ung university Dr M. M L L. L be e head o of the hort- hort department department Utah State State t cUltural College extension and d Clar- Clar p extension horti- horti wrist from Irn the Dr w Martinis talk centered und id keeping our soils solIs feeding healthy j d productive lve oby by feeding the lions of soil soli organisms con- con m ined ed In each cubic Inch of soil wan of organic matter In th the form barnyard ure and green manure cro of s. s tie stressed th Importance of feeding these a soil oil organisms b by that with I almata out thet that m live In plants and our so soils soll life could exist If U no 0 lot lof we take lake care 5 our friends In ln the soil as s Well as we take care of we our pet C Cour cow can practically eliminate the need ed do for commercial fertl fertilizers bers so said Dr nr Martin Dr Edgecombe lectured on the various methods hods of pruning Peaches as ihei they have with them at the college and at the orth Ogden ment station The They have Worked with four different methods I Corrective taking out but dead wood thInnIng out new method now used In this area conventional conven- conven conventional open center type type- cutting to outside laterals laterals' i SOme headIng head head- ading ad- ad u ing back severe cutting back bark k u ing back severe cutting back bark k aU ail branches to o 4 46 6 8 Inch eh length Of the first method corrective tive higher ieh Pr production was was' pot POs POs- sable for the first three to four fou r yeas yea's but alter after this time ce centers cen cen- tern of trees died out production out limiting g to an outer shell around the trees and over th the e top P ThIs me method d also produced produce d many undersized fruits On th the e second method thinning out th the e yIeld Per tree was not as hl high for the first Law few years as on th toe the e corrective but the fruit wa was s larger and better colored After r three or four years years' however the thinning out method was va s superior to corrective in all al t ways Of the other two methods con con- and severe the pea peach crop was limited by the too se severe se- se vere were pruning pruning- Heavy sucker r growth occurred In both these types of I pruning and the crop was primarily In the tops of the trees Clarence Ashton gave several gave several pruning demonstrations Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day morning as the group visited visited vis vis- various orchards In the area |