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Show FEEDING THE ORCHARD TREE One Central Thought We Cannot Continually Take From Soil Without With-out Giving Back Something. (By BESSIE L. PUTNAM.) Said a successful farmer recently: "I have lots of nice apples, and I believe be-lieve that my success is largely due to the fact that I do not neglect to feed my trees. There is Blank, with a large orchard next to mine. But his soil has run out, and now he wants to buy the fruit from two or three of my trees." This man had his own ideas, too, about the renewing of the soil. Detesting De-testing the nuisance of cornstalks in the stable, he used the orchard for a feeding ground in the late fall, and the result was that the added fertilizing fer-tilizing element keeps the ground in good condition. "This year," he says, "I overdid the matter. Look at the nice crop of ragweed rag-weed started." "O'e wondered why so siilisiiiiii :i(liiliiiisi llliliiiwlilll Protection for Young Fruit Trees This Fall. careful and observing a man had allowed al-lowed the weed crop to mature. But he assures us that when about to cut it he hesitated, fearing that the stalks would pierce any apples which chanced to fall. And now, at picking time, he finds that the weeds act as a cushion protecting the falling fruit and rendering ren-dering it scarcely less perfect than that which is hand-picked. Each individual should work out his own problems for himself, as this man has done; but in any case there is still the central thought we cannot continually take from the soil without with-out giving something in return. |