Show CARING FOR FRUITS Annual Waste In Orchards Should Be Prevented Very Ve-ry great Is the annual loss in the waste of fruits It is a r. common thing for farmers to say when we try to sell them a bill of trees The liThe ground is covered with apples now I had bushels of cherries that were never picked My plums rotted on the trees by thousands It is here that the waste Is maul mani- tested and waste is the cause of most of our poverty Waste Vaste not want not is a fine old maxim It is not always the sign of ot a good farmer to be too busy with corn and wheat and hogs to take care of the apples apples ap ap- ples pies writes Walter S. S Smith In Indiana Indiana Indiana In In- diana Farmer Lee McDaniel of ot my myown myown myown own neighborhood boasted that he had never had a visitation of hog cholera cholera chol era on on- his farm He raked up the fallen fallen apples every morning and wheeled them out to the hogs This Thi was done as long as they dropped off oft prematurely After ACter they matured many that fell tell off were good for use useIn useIn usein In some other way then he assorted them and gave his hogs only the bad ones This plan worked a double ad vantage First It regulated the nature natural al processes of digestion and assimilation assimilation lation in the swine Second It trans trans' transPorted transported ported millions of Insect eggs away from their field of ot and reduced reduced reduced re re- re- re the amount of damage Then it kept the ground clear so that when the better class of apples began to fall they were more easily attended to Of course judgment Is required to know when the fruit will do to pick and when It will do picking should begin begin begin be be- gin thus to put an end to the falling of the fruit I If there is a good cushion of grass for the apples to fall on many of them fall without bruising and are fully equal to picked apples |