Show olli vit rUi II 11 aho ir jr I the director of the station say maru many of the t trees reel that were wort planted tor for elude shadia and fruit this 1 ar are already dad dead many mor more will cat before the summer Is paal PUL tb the chief cause for thia this lou loss BBS has been ak 1 will be neglect assuming that the trees have been planted propel properly ly and that they wre wire of 0 orta torts adapted to oklahoma conditions at least 96 per cent rent of those via planted a ted hould should I 1 live i e and thrive ardla as an a rule give their tree trees every very needed attention and lou lose but few tree trees the most notable example of intermittent enthusiasm way be seen along the streets of towns sad nd cities when spring comes sea u ly every one eat plant plants trees as a matter ot of crac or to let get rit of arne tree arent too often aton ato n wh n tte tf e planting la is done no to firtko la is given after the dirt Is often piled up in a nice nii in ind nd about the base ol 01 the tree trees poi ably att wito the notion that this will hold the tree in pla place ce the K 1 sult ie in that what rain falls Is drained nv ly ty from the roots of the trees in N 11 t I 1 of toward t iem instead there i ul I 1 be a slight depression bout the ti ea es eo so as to get gt a little excess of wat witt r it t bip and let it soak in cul atlon the summer ifould be given if braes are wanted tho growth cf ef the trees will be better it all the space beleen them Is cultivated after every rain min this Is bardi desirable about the house and the next best thing is to cultivate cuti vate a space about the trees the soil should be hoed and kept loose for a space of from three to falvo dept about the tree trees the larger the cultivated space spice the better it ten ton 1 a hard matter to grow trees if it one will give t iem a little attention right along ud nd will think thin of them aa as a crop tint should be cultivated if it good growth ja 1 A treeless town la Is always cheerless cheer leea to the stranger while at beets bordered with thrifty trees are attractive and are appreciated by till all cultivate the trees emy ciery time it rains and sometimes between times every farmer a garden contains or hould should contain a cucumber patch there Is 1 no product that la grown more easily or that gives better returns work put upon it the soil moll that the cucumber likes beat best la Is a warm sandy light soll any eoll moll however will do if rot exceedingly heavy the fraund should be well prepared which Is thi thoi tor for almont I 1 any crop the alj 01 I 1 way of preparing the groaned was to burn barn over a piece of ground dig a hole and put in a wheelbarrow wheel batrow load of manure thih mode tj ij still with us its the method doca does not commend luelf it elf especially the pirt that requires re a large pile of daoura in the hill it Is far better tu to mix the manure with the ECU alil when the manure I 1 Is in the oil soil in a masi mass the roots that penetrate it dry out more quickly than do the came same loots toots it penetrating a firmer bed it ie Is of no to plant cucumber eed ee d before the has settled down and the ground has become warm cucumbers need a good deal of room and the usual mistake Is to get the hills so 0 o close together that the vines are numerous an I 1 picking la Is done with difficulty should to 19 cot rot closer to each other than four feet when the plants ure gre up tir aney should be thinned out to not more than two or three in a hill it the ground has been worked deeply and the manure well mixed with the soil no watering should be in an ordinarily dry time gather the cu timbers as fast fist as they get birge enough to use so that the vines will continue to bar freely I 1 distante litif tart part to cisal 1 tree on this ution there seems a be title ittle consensus of opinion all kinds of advice are given the 11 ht t of distances art part of planting one car ear Is denied b br r its raal mal era the next the reason for tor this lies in the me great diversity of conditions ono on man eald said to the writer that tie he hid h vi lasted his plum tren trees nine feet apart another said that fifteen was necessary but the th are many vart os of plum tres arid they hive different 11 ablo of at growth there are also atso many kind kinds of soils and each kind varies as to the amount of plant food it contains it la Is safe to say that no rule can be laid down it it Is equally a site ife to advise that the distances dista ocee between trees be as large aa its practicable it Is better to have too much room than too little treca trees are very caos together ether the crossing roots mike make all cultivation difficult close planting alao also the amount of pruning necessary to get good re full whatever the tree be lre it enough feeding ground the nahl u it c bom irom farmers I 1 think ti 1 principal objection to apples in boxes Is that they coat ct more than in barrels and then the package Is too email small to retail out of at by the meas measure ure one advantage I 1 to tte tle uniform quality of the fruit impel f t fruit cannot be so aas easly ly bovein cove op the bushel box for apples des not seem to be gaining in favor with commission men BL L campbell chicago illinois bouc chicks should be te fed led often sometimes ax often as six and eight time times a day bat they must not be overfed this means ehst the man in charge must have learned his lull busl neaz many a deluge of has corn come out of a pint plat flask |