Show I 1 renovating RENOVA TING AN OLD ORCHARD ground should be broken between trees and sown to some quick growing crop where there is a mat of grass and weeds in an old orchard the ground should be broken between the trees taking care not to approach too closely to the trunks for tear of injuring the tangle of roots that usually run beai the surface for the first year after the orchard s renovation the that are plowed should be sown in or some other quick growing crop the aeration of the soil is the prin JA cipal thing that is sought through this ay cultivation it should be kept ur lor a couple of years and where it property cared for michigan apple orchard is possible to do so the ground should be broken sufficiently to seed a cojei crop of course all dead and diseased wood should be taken out it will in with spraying and picking as well as lottering ottering ott ering a harboring place tor all manner of insects and tree ene enles during the work of renovation all banging bark clinging loosely tc the trees should be pulled away and burned the weeds and trash that have gath ered around the trunks of trees should be pulled away and burned with trash dead limbs and other debris all these things shelter hibernating orchard en emles and by burning them the bugi and lice are destroyed ONE OBJECT IN cultivation it best conserves moisture and lib crates plant food conditions making good growth the main object in the cultivation of a young orchard is to secure the fastest thriftiest thrift iest possible growth ol 01 the trees without unduly endangering them from disease attacks or arora winter killing occasioned by going in to the winter in an immature condl ion continuous cultivation through out the growing season best conserved conser vei moisture and liberates plant food these conditions make for a splendid crowth in young trees A good supply of humus should be kept in the soil of a young orchard at all times by dressing with stable manure or grow ing and working in green manure the best tool tor working a young orchard is an extension reversible disk of the ordinary or the cutaway type this allows working up close to and under low headed trees with aut injury to their trunks A spring tooth barrow may take the place of the disk but cannot be gotten BO close tb the trees without injury to them harrow as free as possible from 1 rejecting parts and short singletrees single trees should always be used in orchard cul lure SPARE INSECT EATING BIRDS drastic measures must be taken to save quail grouse and pheasant from complete annihilation the time has come when every sportsman fp should put away bis gun for five years at least said col G 0 shields during a recent lecture upon birds and animals of america colonel shields argued that drastic measures must be put into effect it emall grouse pheasants and prairie chickens are to be saved from ex unction the annihilation of these birds be said would mean untold pov erty resulting from the scarcity ot crops which would be eaten by infects ninety per cent of the normal bird life of this country already has been destroyed and the other 10 per cent will go in the next five years unless throng measures are employed to atop the slaughter he said careful tell us that it all the insect atlig birds were destroyed the whole nent would within three vears lecome uninhabitable by reason of the of insects that would spring ip and devour every living thing |