Show HINTS PICKED UP IN THE ORCHARD Set Trees Trifle Deeper Than They Stood in Nursery Row Avoid Avoid All Air Spaces By my I I. I M M. DENNINGTON BENNINGTON In transplanting your trees set them the same depth or a trifle trIne deeper than they stood in the nursery row Sun Sun scald scald Is death teath to trees Valuable Valuable able oung young trees can be he protected by bya a cylinder of heavy paper not much trouble and it pays Of course you will spray your trees at least once and perhaps twice this I spring but how about your neighbor who sprays not at all How can you protect yourself against the pests that are driven from his orchard Into yours Apple trees that have been long neglected neglected neg neg- should not bo be pruned too severely severely se se- severely se- se verely the first season Too much sun on branches that have always been shaded will wili Injure them It is not necessary to slash away at your trees every year Prune Just enough to keep them In shape and prevent useless sprouts from sapping the trees tree's strength Never chop oft orr a limb that Is more than one inch thick Use a II saw AIwas Always Al AI ways was leave a smooth surface on th the stub It is all right to cultivate some low low- growing crops between young trees Early potatoes and early cabbage would do well for this sort of or work When these are out of or the way sow clover as a cover crop for winter and turn it under In the spring |