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Show B HALE ON ORCHARDING. Wk At a recent meeting of fruit grow- B crs, J. IT. Hale, the noted Connecticut jB fruit specialist, told the orchardists B present that the old cider orchards arc 9 passing out of (existence and commer- M cial orchards must supplant them. M The apple is the all-year-round fruit. 9 He further said in part: Give the orchard the best soil you have, rolling land preferred. Prepare gg this land thoroughly and continue 1 thorough tillage. Get good trees. I Plan ahead and transplant trees two I or three times before setting in pcr-f pcr-f mancnt place or pay nurserymen for m doing it. Head your trees low. Man-I Man-I " ufacturc tlucmi to suit your idea. Get them down where you can handle a them easily and cheaply. Prune annually an-nually and spray often and thoroughly. thorough-ly. Thin apples. Good trees overbear. over-bear. This is the most paying operation opera-tion of all. Pick two to four times to pet all of crop at proper stages of ripeness. We don't pick the whole of 1 any other fruit crop at once, why ap- I pies? Don't plant dwarfs, but rather i dwarf your standard trees by sum- 1 mer and root pruning if they are ovcr- 1 vigorous. He has thrown, such trees 1 into biearing, by plowing d'ecp and. sub- j soiling. Cuhivatc early and thor- 1 oughly until middle of July, then, seed 1 to cover crop and let alone-. Has no use for mulched trees unless it be an expedient to throw ovlcr-vigorous trees into bearing. Mr. Halehas used commercial 'fertilizcrsJupplc-fl 'fertilizcrsJupplc-fl mented by cover crops fr forty B years, and thinks them equal to barn-B barn-B yard manure. Has secured results in B color and quantity v$ith potash. Use H care in harvesting If possible put H apples in cold storage every, night. K Communities should unite and build m storage plants. B In concluding, Mr. Hale impressed B upon the young men the importance B of planting orchards and then caring m for them. He. knew of no more B profitable venture? but young- men B were too impatient- and most of the apple orchards were being- planted by old men. There might be a market for a limited quantity of fancy West-cm West-cm apples at a high price, but the bulk used by classes of moderate means would btc the apples produced near home. Look about you. Most golden opportunities are found near home if we can only sec them. |