Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-12-16 | Page 14 | An Orchard Problem

AN ORCHARD-PROBLEM In Ohio there woro exhibited at the Stato Fair sonio poars which were said to have grown on a treo which came up as a sprout -from tho stump of an old tree long dead and gone. Tho vigorous, upright tree which bore tho fruit, was fivo or six Inches In diameter, and about 15 feet high. It was dllTli-ult to determine whother It sprang from above or below be-low the point at which the original union between bud and stock had been effected, as the stump of tho original tree was almost completely rotted away. Investigation by experts, however, show that tho bearing tree undoubtedly undoubt-edly represented the original variety as had a previous young tree, the stump of which Is Illustrated. The former young treo evidently had nover borne, and It had been tho victim of a dull axe. The own or of the fruit believed It was a seedling. It was almost as truly an apple form or oblate rfs the Japanese Golden russet rus-set pear. The smaller fruits had moro nf the pear si ape. Professor G. B Reeokett. of the Government Bureau of Plant Industry finally pronounced the variety a tine typo of tho Sheldon pear I I Victim of Axo Pruning. Any neighborhood that does not havo enough enterprise to keep Lwo or three log road drags going for a couplo of wooks during the late fall is Eadly behind the times Farmers Who are too lazy to do this ought to bo compelled to drag 'their, weary legs through th I mud to, town next Bpring as they surely wlLL Never sell the best pullets from the flock any ,niQro than you would sell your best sows and ewes.. Only by keeping tho, best for brooding pur. poses can you'hppo'lo build, up your Pnjjk i