| Show CARE OF ORCHARDS MOAB grand county utah may 21 1896 dear sir there la Is considerate consi derale con troverse tro versy in regard to the beet beat way to apply fertilizing material to fruit trees some ati advocate spread I 1 log og the matare or whatever you use uce out as far as the end ot of the limbs limbo as there also is in the end of the root now one who will advocate such an idea as that must be one who has baa never had bad any experience in horticulture you can find fine fibers all through thestil the soil roots are like a blind horse bone they will go where there is something to est eat I 1 used to haul manure out and throw it to in piles one spring I 1 wae crowded with work and tild oot not got get the maiure spreads spread until verv late lat when I 1 spread it li r found between the manure on thil the ground covered with little albere that had bad come there to feed on the rich plant food the way I 1 do is in to spread the manure when hauled out and plow under r as shallow as aa I 1 can to cover the tha ma ure tire and I 1 have good results from so eo doing as a the records will wig show as I 1 have received mure inure premiums than any one competing against me I 1 cultivate as long is as I 1 can get gel through the orchard weeds and grass that are not cultivated out are hoed out some borne men write that they have an orchard that to is older thio they are and that has never tedd plo plowed or cultivated that they know ual H and that tl 91 ey receive fruit fro irom 1 n it ft whore where other orchards have no do n tault alt that does not signify but that the they would receive better and more jr if trev the cultivated their orchards after ap afi orchard comes into beating bearing it should ne DO kept clear of weeds and grasses t manure every two years and out bad back e very every year some limbs cutout out out so 90 theft abere will not be too much top J summer has come at last or spring as an spring has to come before summer there will be a paper issued here beri T next stok by a gentlemen gentleman ron iron denver a weekly issued every thursday it will be neutral in politics and its I 1 columns open to all parties to advocat advocate 6 their ideas ideal it il couched lb iti a right mallner the cold storms on the be mountains mountain ir have bave killed a great many sheep as mot storm came when the owes ewes w re lambs lamb S ing 0 W cwajk |
