Show of ears NEGLECTED ORCHARD NOT HARD TO RENEW Demonstrations with old neglected orchards In west western em North Carolina made by the division of horticulture have line shown that these properties can be renewed reneged and be made to pay a good return II 11 It U. extension exten sion slon horticulturist working In this finds that many home orchard are rapidly disappearing while others othen planted for commercial purposes have so deteriorated that they hardly bear enough nough fruit for the family table Many of these orchards cease to bear fruit been because use of a lack Inck of ot soil fertility while others often bloom b but t the fruit falls falls' before ripening because of Insects insects In sects and diseases A demonstration made on the farm fann of ot w W. W. W Walker In n Henderson county shows n a good margin of profit for the work done In n his orchard Thirty five trees about twenty years of age made up of tho the Winesap Stark Ben nen Davis and varieties were used In Inthis Inthis Inthis this demonstration The orchard had received some attention In the past had been sprayed several times limes but the other phases of orchard management manage manage- management ment had hod been neglected Last winter a complete program of orchard management was put on In Inthis Inthis inthis this orchard The trees were pruned sprayed and fertilized according to the methods advocated by the horticultural horticultural horti cultural workers The sod was plowed under and a n dust mulch provided until early arly summer when the ground was sowed to soybeans these turned under In the fall and the land pu put puG back to a winter cover of rye Three trees of the 35 were used as checks and were not treated From them only one half of a peck of cull apples was received while the remaining remaining re re- 32 trees produced bushels of good marketable fruit that sold for foran nn an average of per bushel ushel at nt the orchard The financial record l shows that the cost of the work was 43 13 the return from the apples was leaving n a net return to the owner of 3 ns as payment for his attention Had he not cared for tor these trees he would have e made nothing as shown by the three check trees |