Show have plenty of apples for your home use you can cai eat them from augut august to april from A few trees F F rockwell horticultural it used to be that a our icv cita was ins looked forward to getting back to the old farm once in a while largely because thit that meant liing having li ing plenty of nice juicy apples to bitt bite into ones once more now it is almost getting to the he point p t where be lt it a the country cousin who 0 enjoys a a a goad id apple as R one ol of ga the th treats t e he when he goes to it the city t you can hardly take an hour a note nde in an a automobile in III any section of the country without passing scores of places where anywhere fro from in a half aalf dozen apple trees around th the house louse up to fifty or a hundred 1 in a song snug little home 0 orchard hard could be ama groiss n just as well it tf I 1 not lot J rin s I 1 ti trees if u is not room mom tor for adv more wilt ill ga gie e thea the a famil family all the apples i they want for cooking bud and editing eating i tor for many weeks in the fall sad and ea earl r J winter APPLES A E ARE GOING GOIG TO BE BB SCARCE AND HIGH PRICED I 1 feel sure that if more home owners those thoe who hai ha e no thought of grow grom ing apples on a commercial scalo scale could realize what a tremendous is de creme crease there has been bean in the tha number of apple trees in this country in the last ten 5 ears they w u immediate ly take steps ti tc make suie of thou thur own if supply in the future do son for instance realie h that in the ten years between 1910 and ad 1920 the gumbei ot at bearing apple trees in III the lofsted lofted st stites tc fell ell off of 0 or neatly neaily 25 per writ cent and that in the same period the number of 1 young trees not at yet ut hearing bearing decreased over 29 mil lion hen or 40 per cent ce at with these figures wech are am taken from tile the c 1 J hii t completed staring us in 1 the I face it looks as though every cry burns bume omner on ner aho ft ho likes apples wound do ell to put in ins his ou on n supply IOL OL CN GROW TH TUB I 1 ainest QUALM OP OF FOR I 1 OUR OWN OW A good many years ago when grandfather pl planted d apple trees them e everybody v g grew rew them and there didn dian t seem to be much of an 5 thing to bother them then came the introduction tro of the san jow jose scale and one new pest after another these them enemies ruined thousands of small home orchards and hundreds hundred ii oi of thousands thousand 1 of tree i fur for home I 1 uie rice because only chebi the big commercial comme nul knew how to fight these thase pests pats or had the equipment to nus mix and appl playa to control them now however r hen ben one can g get t ready dy made ad spraying materials a of all kinds that need only be mixed with cold water before split ing or that can enn n be dusted on without Us me ing a am wilter at at all the home bome or editor of farm and fireside can save five his few trees pra as good protection as the big commercial grower if one US is willing to attend to this spraying whit h for a few trees for home use will not require A at the most ver oyer two imo 01 02 three hours three or four times a year it will mill be ble to produce just juat as ab apples apple pacot imi as the faucy western api applet jm in boxes w aich you pay eight or ten tea cents a piece pice for intelligent eriv ina i abs lutch intel the ouli only big wet decet about growing apples anyone who is farmer or gardener enough to grow the ord n nary ary vegetables can quickly learn what the trees need in a the E way yf of cultivation and fertilizers to poo produce duce a 9 good d 91 ginilo b IN THE SHADE SHAD r OF THE 01 D APPLE T TREE IN hen the good lord designed the apple atee he was mas parti larl generous not only does it gie agne us cs one of the airiest of all f lisita ui sita but at blossoming bloss oming time in spring no other flowering tree surpasses it in beauty and during the long not days of summer and early full it furnishes an ideal shade you may ma think it is looking a loop long w wai 5 ahead to speak of shade in con lection mith apple fee trees to be set et out now but as afi a matter ot of fact ov on will mill be c surprised at the growth gromb the will make even in the fint three t i i four i ears cars if the bif at alla 11 1 taken take care a of I 1 tes tees t cut I 1 sprine hake spring will 1 nuke a growth f t tian t four feet the fust season and anre or r four more 5 3 ears from now will h have c become big enough to be quite a decorative feature of the place NOT LONG TO M WAIT AIT FOR THE FIRST OF YOUR EFFORT many man people do not realize how hom soon on after setting out apple trees for their own use they will begin to be repaid for their trouble more mam vate vane ties still ill set het a few fruits the s eaid e aid or third 3 car alter after planting and while abul this would not be a in ais return 1 commercials ithe scally rc ally it is ib a big return to pers person who is looking for wine some extra nice apples for dessert purposes grown by his own hand I 1 may m mention tn here too for the benefit of those who have only a ory ery tittle little space around there homes that the standard stan daid duld varieties may be obtained on divari gr mg stocks ho that the ti anes ea can be planted as close ate 10 0 t to 18 feet part apart the apples themselves however are of full size thew thee dwarf grow ing trees have buys the tha still further ad vantage that they are easier to cai caie 0 for the matter of pruning and spray ing th than are the be full fall sired ed trees the d dwarf 0 hiees em alpo alho come into nearing bearing much h 8 loner than the full siz d or standard ones |