Show renovate the orchards it may he truly said that utah is fairly entered upon a new era in horticulture future riana will chronicle tha renais sanc of fruit growing as coincident with statehood and tha real development and accomplishments in that line of industry will bo measured in decades identical with the ones which refer to alie growth ol 01 tha state of utah in the light of demonstrated results in fruit growing in utah and with the perfectly adapted soil and climate it becomes a duty for every man or woman owning trees vinea or shrubs to at least give ordinary care and attention to them not only the young and vigorous vic orous tree be fostered foat ered and protected but many of the old and apparently worth lees trees will pay many times the cost of alie treatment necessary to rejuvenate them and bring them into a state of profitable bearing it is of these old trees that THE wishes to and urge their it ia within bounds to say eliat there are in weber county at p besent not less than old apple and pear that are in healthy and vignola condition or be fco opre the soil cultivate and alie insects driven oat such trees may bo brought into a baale of profitable bearing by lh exercise of simple and inexpensive methods of cultivation in hundreds of instances enera of large trees have been hard to complain that alie trees when oung baie fruit 0 su passing size and flavor but in recent years the product has been email and scarcely worth gathering in every such case the cause is found be lack of cultivation pruning spraying or fertilization or possibly the neglect of all essential operations As well might it be expected that land produce wheat cern or p litotes twenty years in succession without cultivation or fertilization a that the same boil would continuously yield large apples without necessary plant food not only ig the soil impoverished in those elements of plant structure which go to form the tree but the potash and phosphates BO essential to fruit production bee me well exhausted from the soil the renedy for trees EO exhausted icide bound and smothered sred is inexpensive tho ground ahou il bo plowed shallow so as to avoid cutting the roots then the surface should bo thoroughly pulverized by harrowing in most instances fully one third of ahe top hould be pruned out taking care to remove all chort forking and crossing limbs efto operations should be done ab early in the spring as the ground can be properly worked in pruning paini should be taken to make smooth cuts and all stubs or enis of limbs having a well defined heart should be thoroughly covered with paint brown or drab being less unsightly than any other color the fertilizers should bo applied in the tall in to ft tho mot benedit bene tit because of the leac liing which goes on through the winter and early spring if applied in the spring alie greatest good will not be apparent until the following year generally speaking the ot utah are less in need of the nitrogen and ammonia contained in stable manures than the and phosphates of wood ashes and crushed honea three bushea ol 01 wood ashes spread amount each tree ata distance of ten to twenty feet from alii trunk where the feeder roots grow will be of great advantage one half bushel of air slacked lime spaded in around each tree woud be advisable every load of boned and atil from slaughter houses id worth many times the cost of hauling to the orchards these suggestions arc eiven with the presumption that the trees to be treated are of desirable varieties if the trees are of good growth and prime condition but of ss varieties they may be converted into valuable trees by beaus of top working or grafting during the bame seasons that the fertilizing and re going on directions for the grafting will be given in another article in the meantime every utah farmer should embrace each opportunity to a load of wood achee bones or well blotted stable mamre for his orchard without the expenditure of one dollar in money every one of the sound but barren old fruit ireba mav be made to yield a profit of to 1000 per annum Is it not time to renovate ako tko old orchards |