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Show ! A. C. U. NOTES The Manure Spreader ! Hauling manure with a spreader is c rtainly a great improvement over the : old method of hauliiig it to field with a . wagon and spreading it by hand. vVhen ; manure is handled with a spreader much : more land can be gone over with the same amount of manure according to tha Agronomy department of the Utah Agricultural college. The spreader pulverizes it as it is being unloaded and spreads it evenly over the ground. This enables better treatment of the soil in plowing and cultivating, as when the manure is spread evenly and thin over t ie surface it will not be so apt to interfere in-terfere with plowing or get caught in the cultivator and thus tear out some of Uie plants that are being cultivated. By adjusting a lever at the driver's seat iiianure can be spread heavier on gome pans of the field w ere the soil is particularly par-ticularly thin. Besides thtie advantages advan-tages the spreader saves labor and saves manure. Pruning Younq Trees When Set The future usefulness of the orchard Vciry largely depends on the wisdom of the man who prunes it. Not only this but ihi actual life of the newly set tree is dependent upon its being properly pruned. In the removal of the tree irorn the nursery the roots have been triors or less broken or bruised, and in fact the larg st part of the root system may have actually been left in the nursery row. All the torn and bruised r .ots should be cut back leaving? clean cut which will heal more readily than a I r iggtd one. All the long straggling r ts should b? shortened back to about i of 7 or 8 inches from the trunk of the I sin 11 tree. With the root system so s merely cut back, the equilibrium orthe b .ance of the tree between the top and j me roots has been very much upset. If, in this arid climate, the trees were 1 ;ft without pruning the top, many of , them would perish, due to the fact that ' the very much abbreviated root system would be un ole to support the unpr ned top. Then ore, the tup uf the tree must be pruned back b triable it to withstand the sn .c ( of transplanting. Nut o.ily is this ti be c msiJun d, but W: eire t b via iv sa tpi :-r of the o harti tree .it t .. I date. T.ie a: ual p!um.i cu be dune ,;fu-r l.io tree is planted. The head should be started low for several reasons: First, to prevent sun-scald. The low headed trees are much more conveniently and cheaply handled as regards pruning, ', thinning, picking, and spraying the , fruit. Again, there is less likelihood of j damage to the fruit on the tree from , windstorms if the head is started close , to the ground. |