Show no U PLUM CULTURE NOT DIFFICULT they are the hardiest handiest Har diest of stone fruits and the most profitable also most remunerative plums are the hardiest handiest har diest ot of stone fruits and the crop Is one of the most remunerative in at all favorable seasons from market gardens and cul orchards in private establishments lish ments the fruits of all the best varieties are much valued and less highly flavored ones prove invaluable for cooking and preserving the crop Is therefore one of the most im por tant both tor for market and tor for vate consumption plum trees succeed in any fairly good loamy soil provided the subsoil Is opened and properly drained drut ned the ground should be well trenched previous to planting although the roots of plums are naturally disposed nearer to the surface than those of apples or pears in a very rich soil the growths usually made are too vig orous to become welt well ripened in that which is moderately light yet suf moist the trees succeed and produce the best beat flavored fruits respecting spec ting flavor however much ae on the amount of sunshine and light available in market gardens where plums are extensively grown they are sometimes planted in lines and the intervening spaces are occupied with gooseberries goose berries and currants standards and halt half standards are generally favored but dwarf and bush trees are also ex ten planted in market as well as in private gardens all the finer dessert sorts should it if possible be favored with wall spaces in private gardens as their fruits are invariably of BO so much importance and the crop Is more certain with the protection of a wall than when the trees are fully exposed A temporary covering while the blossoms are open may also be readily applied should frost or un favorable weather prevail in a south ern slope the fruits attain their high est flavor the manner of planting the tree Is similar to that recommended for the apple and the pear mulching in case of dry weather is advantageous to recently transplanted trees in general and should be particularly attended to in the case of the plum for or it if the root fall to supply enough ot of sap to the tree in dry weather gumming Is sure to ensue the more uniform the supply of the sap the more healthy will be the tree the supply of cap sap cannot be uniform unless the moisture ot of the soil about the roots Is steadily maintained and the best means of doing this Is by mulching the usual mode of propagating culta bated varieties is by budding and grafting some sorts reproduce them selves nearly true from seeds as tor for instance the green gage but seed lings generally vary more or less from the original and it Is therefore best beat not to depend on this mode ot of kropa gallon gation beyond the raising of seed lings as stocks tor for peaches etc HANDY LITTLE SPRAY PUMP operated by bellows that fasten to soles of feet of man carrying it Is easily arranged an ingenious spraying apparatus has been patented by a nebraska mac man A reservoir containing the spraying mixture Is carried on the operators back by straps that go over his dere ders A pipe leading from one end of the reservoir has a nozzle on its free end two other pipes lead down from the tank to foot pieces in which the operator stands these foot pieces have bellows attachments that go un K holmi spray pump der the soles of the feet As the user walks about those bellows are kept continually at work pumping air into the tank and driving the spray out of course it would not do it the man could not walk without operating the spray so the toot foot pieces are made to permit of bis his stepping into them or out of them without having to remove or fasten them by band hand hand and power spraying hand spraying is more expensive than power pomer spraying the cost varies much in different cases depending on the efficiency of labor convenience and other essentials and much depends on the apparatus used the pump have capacity to maintain high pressure and the nozzle must throw a fine spray the requirements are the tame same for every kind of foraging foraying Fora ying u |