Show facts for Pan nors ors LANO FOK poll Dif different vanc ies of tm require different soils soil there nere are ally s spots awre nil till kiino il of trees tree 10 lo weil well our best button hind for instance produce lital av nil till kinds of fruit to perfection bur bill bench or till lands land sare arc not guid ju id IV idt use u judgment in ill tid for while the pear dow do best iet find nd gives the larget result rc ull in ill it clay loarn or even adobe sui soil s ui the pencil peach here bert would be an entire failure in most I class lands there is diversity of soil even in in a spot large enough for an orchard take advantage of efthia this fact and find select your clay loam for pears and quince quinces your loam for apples your sandy loam soil for peaches and apricots and ind nectarines necta rines also plums if growing ingon on peach roots if on plum or apricot roots a heavier soil will answer cherries should be planted on deep rich gravelly soil in III selecting lecain lec tin land tor this purpose let nature direct you and dont depend too much nuch on mens opinions where forests grow thrifty and well or underbrush id is abundant you may surely know iliac such land is well adapted to fruit trees and you can plant with assurance as urance of success Buter prise OF oll ORCHARDS it cannot be repeated too often for the good of fruit growing that the drainage is is a prime necessity for low lying orchard lands in every region few persons seem to know that fruit trees will not thrive in cold wet soil orchards arc are planted anted upon level heavy beavy clay lands and some of the trees most favorably situated do better than others yet upon the whole the orchard is short lived because the roots do not thrive immersed in water tr r a considerable portion of the year reason and experience teach us or ought to that trees and plants pla ants thrive best in deep porous soil the roots run rundown down deep gathering the storo of food and ne necessary cesary mois moisture producing a vigorous growth of roots body and branches bringing the trees to a strong maturity earlier in the fall than if situated on a an n shallow soil santa rosa ron re republican publican OF SHRUBS ornamental shrub shrubs planted about dwellings arc are often neglected year after year and become distorted in shape and stunned in growth they may be greatly improved by manure and pruning the manure should be applied in autumn as a top dressing extending at least as far from the stem on each side eide as the hight of the shrub tho the soluble parts of the manure will soak into the ground and accelerate growth next season rhe mulching effect of the fibrous parts willbe will be useful next spring before growth begins cut back the longer or larger portion of the branch and leaving the smaller which will avoid any stul stump bring the shrub thus into handsome if the growth is too thick anywhere thin bitout it out if ther therease eare any dead shoots or bran branches clies aut atheni off prairie fanner cultivation OF or WHEAT LANDS improvements in the mode of cultivating cultivating the soil still continues in tin this s locality second plowing of summer fallowed fallowes lands is now almost the invariable rule whilst a few as often as three and some as many as four pawing owing pr R C bailey of the salida calida neighborhood informed us that he be was now plowing some of his land before seeding to wheat the fourth time many others are doing the same saine thing all this system is in striking contrast with the mode of cultivation tenor ten or twelve years nears ago then one half of the fields were cultivated each year by simply dragging ira tg ing a brush over the ground and th the seed ed lost the year before allowed to come up tip voun volunteer teer tho the brushing was done in some occasions to break down the stubble and others to more generally scatter the seed laying on the ground the next year perhaps the same land was aias plowed by py gang plows to the depth of three inches with ned attached but in front of the plows of course after the third or fourth years of such cultivation the yield d per acre became light even in favorable seasons and crop failures from what was then termed drouth years were frequent under jhc present more thorough system of cultivation the yield per acre has doubled and the crops assured with half the rainfall then requisite stanislaus news |