Show WIND AND TREES MOAB grand county utah april 1896 whoever has charge of the bellowe over where yu you are I 1 believe old nick has baa charge to in this part of the country there never has baa been such winds Som kimes we would be per amaded that the wind was waa going to atop stop but it was only a cnance of hands after every lull the wind seemed to blow harder than ever at times timea it would be dark from the flying dust duat it has turned cold now and snow enow has baa fallen on the foothill we are looking for old jack frost to come along and clean up the test rest of our fruit crop now to la a good time to rub off sprouts that have started out where they are not wanted take a heavy pair of buckskin gloves and you can easily rub the sprouts off while they are tender it is a great deal easier to rub them off now than to let them grow and then have bave to take a saw and saw them off and have the limbs to clear away you cannot help having plenty of fruit to eat after taking all the care you can where sprouts start out on the cody of the tree if rubbed off they will not leave bubb ugly scare nears as if left and then sawed off I 1 tried setting betting out trees last spring by cutting some on oft six inches above ground grousd and some by shooting cotine sh the top op others I 1 left as dug up it has given best beat results by cutting the tree off say six inches As I 1 was troubled some with the grase grasshoppers bop that eat off some of the new growth some were killed I 1 am trying the plan of cutting off all trees I 1 set out from four to six inches above ground the trees have to be looked after and see that only one sprout is left it id will erow arow up and make a natural tree with a straight trunk while the old way you do not have a tree as nature designed it to grow where the frost has killed the peach crop it to is a good plan to out oft ue the limbs of old trees and grow a new top I 1 would not out oft off all lor for fear 0 of f killing the tree I 1 would like to hear bear from others how they set out ut trees and care for them one item I 1 learned of a man that had bad not had bad any experience but gave his bis idea of setting out a tree so by ex changing ideas we can learn off from each other do not be backward but give us your experience through gil the NEWS as it reaches more farmers than any other paper in the state 0 W |