Pleasant Grove Review | 1935-02-01 | Page 3 | Use Manure for Orchards

Use Manure for Orchards Where stable manure Is available, It should be used for the orchard as much as possible this winter says A. E. Murneck of the Missouri College Col-lege of Agriculture. Manure will not only add nitrogen but will also Improve Im-prove the water-holding capacity of tlie soil. A fair application for apple trees of average size Is 200 to 250 pounds to a tree, depending on the fertility of the soil nnd vigor of the trees. The use of a fair amount of commercial nitrogenous fertilizer, followed by a moderate dressing with manure and a certain cer-tain amount of pruning of the trees, may be considered a desirable combination com-bination of practices to put vigor Into many of our devitalized orchards.