| Show Starting g an Apple Orchard By y Professor Robert S Northrop Northrop Horticulturist Agricultural Colle College t e N these O days when orchards are arc yielding proms of several hun hundred hundred I dred dr 1 dollars ollars an people In ht all sections Medians of the country are plating the of ut trees In amounts varying from rom a 11 1 few tew trees to it II d dor or more mare nert To Tu tho those c who have hI ve land hall but limited experience In It scents very ery simple to plat plant Wilt trees treos mid and sit alt down iii l wait for them theta to yield M lo live 10 hundred dollar u it year moro morn or ur less lesi e I fur for each c ch acre set et These rhe people uru me the ones who later on will wy say that does doc not nol pay and that sugar beets and aro arc much moro macro profitable If It on am Is expected to 10 yield to 10 the utmost one cue thing must b be 00 kept constantly In mind mild It U is absolutely necessary to too work ork It II This Thin that the ground must bo ho kept elt I eltIn In the most moat fertile cad perfect Ri Rit RiI I e t f r I lion consistent lent with whim the tho developement of or the tree and that Hint the tree treo must Hoist bo ho of tho the right variety properly set el pruned and cared for forTo forTo forTo To secure these points requires un no untiring I tiring tiding work anti energy from the grow rov ei cr lie He should nH uti u II rule rull put the ground which he ho Intends Il to in plant Into Home souse cultivated crop for n a year ar or two be ho before fore setting petting his hili trees thus getting thin the thep loll noil p ll Into a I line mellow condition but this Is not all nil lie He should manure manuro It lt quite heavily with well rotted stable manure and by b having tho the cultivated crop there for tor n 1 year or more It be become becomes come comes finely worked Into Inlo the Ihl soil soli and ami will wilt bo be of benefit for rol 1 s years year Having the soil goll In III i J s the trees may many mn bo be These rhese for tow orchard should be he benano como nano of ot the varieties of ot red reI apples Generally It I It is best b to online tine tho planting to two to or 01 three varieties al nl always ways sways using those which the market seems to tn prefer Just now the Jona Joan Jonathan Jonathon Joanthan than thon Gallo Gino and Hen Bell Davis seem Irem to 10 be the ones oneil most mOM I desired Tho rho trees tree should always be procured tram reputable nurserymen nur and never from the Itinerant tree Iree agent they should l be lie IrtI by u IL of Inspection or fumigation and should i z a G r t then bo be Inspected by the Lu Luer tr lr If Ir any uny of them Hum show how the swell Kwell swellIng In Ing or 01 long lens slender roots illustrated In lam 1 they are probably diseased wIth crown gall lall and should b hIJ be burned bummed or returned to the Ih shipper This Is la a i which U is 1 1 rather prevalent In III Itah mud and should be he h guarded tI I 1 the trees ore ILIO satisfactory they Ih should b hi be planted us as promptly as POM Wh doing doln this cut any In Inan an d noll Inot hack back to clean clenn healthy wood woot and thou then Jet act ct the thit tree tice two or three inches de t r n they were In tn th nursery ard i ti o u cine eure to lO pack tI tit sell Roll thinly the Ute roots The TIll distance III which should he be allowed I t i r l I I I t Jc rp I III Il II I It t shy I fl J ii iii i ii iiI i I l r 12 aI aIA A V between treEs tree Is generally found toun to be bet twenty t feet feel This will allow the tho trees to stand eland until ten tell or twelve years of ot age oge O without tho the removal of at need nood to tobe tobe tobe I At that time Um some seine may mRY be cut out when the trees will stand at nt such KliCh a distance that they will soon noon bo be occupying the ground to greatest ad nd It should be Inc mentioned here heie that limit In III planting only ono one variety I should be put pit In m a 0 row ro und aad It Is h prefer preferable able uhle to have several rows rove of or the thc sane same I 1 variety together This It I Is II plainly I seen will greatly facilitate the spraying and harvesting of the fruit j After Arter the tho trees have hao ha o been set sot the i tops top should be cut NIt off nn at ut it at 1 distance of t I about thirty Incites inches from front the ground This will cause e n a numbes of ot side sl o shouts shoots to come COlne out Olt front from which three or nr four or even live tUe may to be selected to form torm the top Three limbs are probably better b than live If properly selected Notice figure 2 her here three limbs were selected but hut they were chosen from trout I those tho o situated closely together When Whenever Whenever ever eer two or three links come crone off oft nearly at the same place there Is 11 great lie lia liability of ot n heavy load of fruit causing thorn them tn to split spilt as shown This defect la Is I easily managed If when the tho tree tHO Is formed the limbs left to lO be bl leaders are chosen from thoi those e sit situated situated some mie distance say ny six Inches apart Figures 3 0 and d 4 I Illustrate this thin point quite well One c cat can w clearly se set that with either cither three or five flue main malu brunches coming oft off us nil In III these Illus iliUM there Is no ac great danger of nt trees hl down Notice how sturdy dy and stocky they appear anti and how haw able with their heads to hold hohl any 1111 amount of fruit which they may develop with no danger of at Injury After fter forming the tree at RS above aboe out outlined outlined lined this strong stocky condition Is I II isi i I I tom obtained by h not letting the lenders leaders grow grow too long lone 1011 and anI willowy This Is pr vented by cutting culling buck back the growth from front to t each ench year thus Ihus making the tho limbs grow grol In thickness The rho manner of or pruning for tor this purpose Is well 1111 haIl hown In III UK lire 5 the points at which the cutting should he be done being evident If nn orchard of proper varieties Is I started properly and the best atten attention thin tion constantly paid pad to secure a II good 1100 1 strong tree tree free from disease and able to HI set net develop and amid carry cat n a heavy load of If fruit each cich year jear ear In n most sections of ot Utah It will 1111 prove Itself a J very ery profit profitable able Investment and will repay many times the coat coit CO t of starting It It Is no uncommon thing for such Buch orchards to In tonet Innet net as nil high us liS OO O an micro acre and amI In lit sonic some cases ever even more marC We Re mill all know knol ot at orchards which do not oven even pay for foi their ears earo because they aro are Improper planted of wrong varieties not properly cored cared for tor and various other kinds I or ot neglect Is III It worth while w to 10 attend tn to tM the Iii proper method of starting then them Ih and continuing to treat them then UH ns well weli as ns possible |
