Show A Sure Crop Every Year An exchange provides a plan for insuring orchard yields which might be well worth trying It is as in when the first cold weather go into the orchard with pick and spade and dig around each tree to a depth of ten forming a circle ten feet from the If you have a ditch you can run water to each as they do it in the irrigation If haul four to eight barrels of water and pour over this loosened allowing it to soak in and wetting it to a depth below even where it has been This will freeze and you will have a solid frozen body all around the roots of the After it has been thoroughly haul straw and spread over the top of a say of twelve Cover this with dirt sufficient to hold the straw in providing against Do not remove the top dressing until after the period of late spring As long as the ground about the roots of the tree remains frozen the sap will not move and there can be no buds or bloom to be killed until after the season of safety has This will retard the starting of buds two to four but in all the middle west and the in all over the United States where danger of frosts the seasons are long to mature fruit after this cutting off of four weeks in the The cost of this to the ordinary farmer or should not exceed 25 cents per trees There you have an outlay of 25 cents again to at yield of |