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Show Now is the time to set out your fruit trees. ( Destroy the San Jose scale. It makes the fruit short weight. Cut scions now for grafting next spring. Pack in sawdust or sand very slightly dampened. The orchard 'can be plowed and sowed in peas that will bring good returns and benefit the orchard much. It is estimated that the loss from leaf curl to the peach growers of this country amounts to more than $3,000,-' 000 a year. ' Where orchards are cultivated, the top soil should be kept In a state of fine mulch in order to keep as much moisture in the ground as Is possible. The Injury to apple trees known e Eunscald is one of the most serious hindrances to successful apple culture, cul-ture, particularly in the northern and astern, sections. |