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Show HORTICULTURAL NOTES. Crates, barrels and boxes for cellar cel-lar storage must be clean and dry. Ashes spread under pear trees are good as a tonic. Most soils lack what ashes give. Fruit and vegetables retain a much richer flavor if buried than if stored in the cellar. To prevent rabbits from gnawing the bark and limbs from small apple trees, spray with soapsuds. Pruning during the dormant season sea-son encourages vegetable grewth. Weak trees may he invigorated by proper pruning when dormant. 1 Leave the fruit out in some ;ool i building till about time for a hard i freeze. It will keep better than if put down cellar when first picked. When potatoes and apples are stored stor-ed in a cellar look at them every few days all winter and see that the ventilation is jusf right. Prune out old canes of raspberries and blackberries and burn them. Thin the hills to three or four shoots. Cultivate, Cul-tivate, and add some manure to the soil. To secure maximum crop of fruit of the best quality It is necessary for each tree in the orchard to have a maximum amount of vigorous fruit-bearing fruit-bearing surface. For wounds on trees, melt rosin and pour three parts into one part of previously warmed crude petroleum. This will not run In warm weather nor crack in cold. If you intend to plant a new orchard orch-ard buy the trees which are best adapted to your climaie and soil. Consult Con-sult with the orchardist in your state experiment station. Orchardists who have never used dynamite should be sure to get all possible information from the manufacturers manu-facturers of the explosive before at. tempting to use it. |