Show HOGS RUNNING IN ORCHARD unless animate are well ringed they will do much damage by exposing roots of trees much to Is said and written nowadays concerning the disease and insect posts peats affecting the orchard while many orchards are quite rapidly approaching pro aching extinction for or one cause or another there to Is ono one cause that Is seldom mentioned as it appears to be generally overlooked that la Is the continual pasturing of the orchards by hogs formerly it was the practice of professional fess ional fruit growers to allow their swine free and untrammeled range in the orchard in tact fact some raised hogs for this purpose rather than any pon po sible profit to be derived from pork production believing that the rooting and tearing that the hogs aro capable of doing would be beneficial in the way war of cultivating and mulching the trees and destroying injurious insects however most of them have discovered that although the hogs destroy many barma harmful ful insects the good done in this way unless the bogs are wolf well ringed is many timos times overbalanced over balanced by the damage done to the trees in tearing up and exposing the roots to the weather the little rootlets rootless root lets are very palatable ind and nutritious and as good as a grain ration they make a splendid change of diet for the hog but are rather expensive teed feed the time has come coma when science has developed to such an extent that the hog Is no longer needed in orchard management in this day the posted fruit grower can overcome or at mast least largely prevent the ravages ot of orchard pests and flies the time has long arrived when there is no money in trying to grow fruit without giving particular attention to these features all fruit growers whether specialists or general farmers should post themselves and keep abreast of the procession they will lose money by getting behind |