Show ORCHARD ARE FALLING OF greatest fault Is abnormal growth rf wood trees rui away with themselves in growth it is becoming evident that bom of our older orchards are not producing as abundantly as they did tea years ago there are too many abort crop years and inspection of the orchards discloses the reason in the lack of the vigorous appearance which the trees once had the great eat fault howe Is in the abnormal growth of wood and this la the very neglect against which we have been preaching for many years A acre orchard in otero county Is a terrible ight just because this precaution has not been followed and the flight ot each year makes the trouble more complicated tor the trimming should be done while the limbs are small says the denver field and farm then too aa a rule all trees in tah country are planted too closely and their roots are interlacing and fighting for what there Is to eat it la evident that the problem of fertilizing out orchards must b up seriously and it Is truly a great problem we do not know how to solve it we wish did treatment Is comparatively easy and it it were only the surface with which we hay to deal nobody need worry outmost of our orchards on irritated land are bound to run away aih themselves in their ravenous growth the main part of their root feeding system la many feet under ground how to get nourishment to a starving root tea feet under the surface which has consumed all the material within reach we have not yet discovered but have an idea that the question may be solved by using some soluble fertilizing material in the irrigating water |