Gunnison Valley News | 1919-09-12 | Page 4 | Apply Manure in Orchards

APPLY MANURE IN ORCHARDS Failure of Many Trees to Produce Fruit Is Due to Lack of Necessary Plant Food. Undoubtedly the failure, or partial failure, of many fruit trees to bring forth a crop Is iiue to lack of plant food. Professional orchardisls look after this matter, but the average farmer who has a fetv trees, which he dignifies by the name of "orchard," gives scant heed to providing them with fertility, lie may turn the sheep or the calves in among them but such fertility as they add is apt to be of slight value, comparatively speaking.