Show murdock academy department I 1 edited by club edidin g staff chier 1 E editor aitor krch arch ba noy asat editor md kd harris Man ligor prank frank mcgregor asal mayngor frnnk harris IIi irria this to b bo 3 it n for the basket bull ball tn team til tivo ganies ilive been ilerd ono one villi rid tile iho othor witti with tile 11 aar at cedar in ili both boll I 1 gampa games tiiu boyc were victorio 18 1 lavery nein becot cof alio aegle club le sides cho alio annual joc boo foe for hns to do stunt lieford lie he can call b becq tile a ed member mo of A clio members luom berd have dono done their stunt but roalo tire ro to cobo oi off yet nearly every inor I 1 n 3 g tho C llo born iiii students have a good laugh lit t ho 0 e CA A pense of some coir member ciombor of if tho lie dub club the ali niba st conra lind their jorty thurs layo iny dec llull wili cli was vina n hard harduin uia ball overy everybody boo y dressing dic eying tu to suit the oc cassion most lost of tile the ar me a going ciumo for tho holidays I 1 ajun taken from it i it by A 0 knarp knapp agriculture instructor irrigation is tile watering ot ol tha clio earth to holp help its ila fertility forti lity tile tho word is applied to hooding flooding lloldi directly from anil to or of canaff and ditches called furrows to LO spread the water of a i stream over it broad so ion of land anti it was aas kracl braot cel cej in very early times rimes by egyptians unit Babylon babylonians lana and is now much is ue u e in ili many parts of tile ilia earth in ili amarion it iscis is mora widely applied III plied in tho the western united wo wb nil fill admit that ante hiuer 11 i n gow iary to plant growth but dr do we wc rif all alno know v what part it takes in building up tho the plant liow how does it enter tile the plant if through the roots nil will bolli large nod and small power to absorb tile tho and with it tho soluble food materials the tha largo roots servo serve na as n foundation to tile the tree ili order that f t may oland c v storms etc did and also a passageway tor for water tind ond have not the iho pr of taking up food tile tho waitr w arid food constituents constituent i pass I 1 into we clio trunk of tile treo tree ahn up into the leaves where here it is is manufactured into plant food boil and sont sent out into nil all parts of if tile the plant storing some up tip fur for winter viator and spring use arid and using tile tho rema remainder indor to nako moko ill up new wood buds and f fruit cult tile the largo large roots that pon pono itrato the soil snit to lo great depths car carrying rIng but very little food constituents on account of 0 f not a sufficient amount of 0 air in the s soil it lit those these depths to lo bauso chei chang char ua dissolving diss alementa ole menta necessary for tho the plant food now if the large roots havo have not the clio power of absorption do tho bizall fibrous roots perform this thia i function no they simply berve us as Et ilett loading leading to the tha main mainstream st ronlD tile the laye la ye ga plots tl TI a 0 structure of the he roots mentioned above is such that they are waterproof so po it would lie be hill iiii for thoin to take up water bles this little trip along tho the root take us its to the very apex of the small sinnit fibrous roots and what jo do wo iva find there mil lions of small cou gated ft ct ile 11 called rot root hairs an average person w ud overlook them they are ara so BO dinall now the question arises what is the function of tle the root hairs bairn I 1 will try to explain this nod aud riho alo tile the benefits tile the grower rower may derive from tile tho knowledge in tile the place its ita only the younger of toil hoil roots and pa tl ti the root lit airs li irs rs that tire are fit it to early on oil ab I sorption theurl these roots excrete organic acids arid and carbon which go elitc solution in boll e 0 water tv a t 0 r a and 11 d h have av 0 a s alv e n on SOMO eonia or of the th soil oll Nil ture knew what ans best beat when site she allow allowed ef tho ia root hairs to grow for their structure turo them to bemid a bout and 1 flitton atton out over tho soll soil parti paril clos coming in close contact with tile the luin brou lid alio soil eol ginia gima but not only that abey tl ey increase inci ouse tho the absorbing sulf jeo o ciany tiny times you havo no noticed that chona a plant is IF trans plaited plau tot ted oven even when great caro is is laken tic IKE to break iho roots wilting is apt alit to occur ut arst because iho cho delicate dolic nto root hairs haire have boan torn off dr or have hae died awny away ni its 11 result of tho the ahsoak I 1 of tr ans p soon however now new toot root hairs are at B formed water is again absorbed in plenty y and tile tho plant bicki up lip from its condi tiou djou tile iho water vater sulu blai bles aub stanca in sol iol i ol ution lit in tho th witter anter the root hairs by calub sis and diffusion tile tho vital nio of ouch each grower should be to broaden nud and equally distribute tile tho roots ott oZ tich ettell tree gullis means upon these small root hairs is added enlarging tho the feeding capacity of the tree but how flow fire anre we going to broaden and oquilly distribute tho the root loot sol ely by the proper method of application ot of water tile tho moil tare aboud not lie applied plied choss to the trunk of tho tree as is commonly seen been this method will lessen the feci feeding ling capacity produce 11 narrow contracted root because beci iuso roots will not leave mo me shuo but rather seek it thas tile roots art aio held in ili a limited area now knowing that roots seek ti moist loist tire is ili it not reato to suppose tuat the grower can lead acid tho the roots root in any direction by bt tile the application of gatei vo io develop lev elop n it broad root system in an irchard druhard place two to three furrows nn each sido side of tile tho tree its as tho the root hairs haira are on oil the Bin allar roots und oud not close lu fu tile tho trio tree suing farmers fai say that they have haie tried this and it t tailed failed but as a general rula ajmera armera should not alave hmo moved tho furrows so far fai away tho the first year Hs as tho the tree trea will recene no za 0 moisture at all al |