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ROM E ANB FAKAÍ AÍAGAZTXF SECTION
Orchard and Garden
OIL for tho berries should be fair­
ly fertile, free from sod or roots,
S such
as quack or blue root grass
that there is no waste of the products
removed from the trees.
There is no set rule by which one can
gauge the euiling-out, but it is difficult
to overdo the matter, since the fruit
will grow bo much before harvest time.
Usually it is safe to pull every piece
of fruit that shows the least signs of
worms or the blight of decay, since such
fruit either will drop off tho tree be
fore picking time or prove worthless for
storage or marketing purposes.
If such products as those mentioned
above are left on the tree, they are apt
to cause all tho fruit to be eontami
nated by decay or become infested with
worms and thus ruined. By getting all
these undesirahlo pieces of fruit out
of the way that which is of good qual
ity will have a better chance for proper
development, while it is a loss of the
tree’s vitality to sustain and develop
a greater quantity of fruit than it can
properly nourish, or to promote the
growth of worthless or inferior pro­
ducts. It should be mentioned that tho
fruit produced where thinning has been
thorough and careful is not only of
superior quality for Btorage and home
consumption, but it will command a
premium price on any market. 1 hese
two points, together with the promotion
of a longer and more useful life among
the fruit trees, should commend the
thinning o. fruit to all farmers.
rich color. When the violets cease
blooming tho foliage Balvias can be
used as u “ fill in.”
If tho old fashioned garden, with its
indiscriminate flower massing, is pre
ferred, a host of flowers, dear to our
grandmothers, presents itself. Holly­
hocks, cosmos, larkspur, poppies, peren­
nial phlox, sweet williams and pinks
breathe the very essence of old fashion-
edness.
In order to have success with any
flower two things aro necessary, cul­
tivation and a sufficient suply of ma­
nure. In extreme hot weather a straw
mulch about tho roots serves as a good
retainer o f moisture. There will be very
little trouble caused by insects on out
door plants. In case there is, a pre
pared tobacco extract serves as a good
remedy. Different flowers call for soils
of varying richness, but with judicious
fertilization, a comparatively rich soil
may be obtained. The best fertilizer,
well-rotted manure, should be worked
into the ground every year after the
flowers have ceased blooming.
therefore his opinion should be of great
value.
CLEAN CULTIVATION.
RACTICE clean cultivation in the
orchard from the beginning if pos­
sible. It means better care in so
many other ways. It means better a o
quaintance with every tree in the orch­
ard, and consequently better attention to
its needs. In particular, it means lesa
borers, and in localities where they aro
troublesome this is a very important
point.
If absolutely impossible to cultivate,
on account of the steepness of the land,
then practice the so-called “ so-cultnre
method; that is, mow the grass and
weeds which grow on the land, and leave
them for a mulch about tho trees.
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and all foul weeds. Flow rather deep,
and harrow until the earth is perfectly
fine and pliable. Too much manure has
been known to bring on “ the yellotos, ’
a disease fatal to berry plants. And let
It be said right here, if any yellow
plants aro ever discovered they should
be pulb'd up at onco and promptly
burned.
Mark the ground with a corn marker
three feet each way. Set every row
one way, and every other one the other
will be given anyone who tries a
way—making the rows three feet by six
feet.
can of Crescent Baking Powder.
Plants should bo set as soon in the
It raises the dough and does it
spring as they are largo enough—say
perfectly.
from four to six inches high. Put them
In deep; six inches is a good depth.
They must havo a good, firm rooting to
help tho heavy plants withstand the
bard winds the following years.
Cultivate and hoe often enough to
beep the field free from weeds. The
eake or biscuits, read Bulletin
more often the soil is stirred tho
No. 103, U. 8. D ept of Agri­
greater will be the yield. In a dry sea­
ROFESSOR C. P. GILLETTE of Ft
son frequent cultivation draws the
culture. Learn
Collins, Colorado, in speaking of
moisturo to the surface and helps to
the truth about
dormant sprays for orchard trees,
tide the plants over until the rain
aluminum com­
says it is difficult to recommend the
comes. 8od will soon “ run ou t’’ berry
pounds in bak­
best sprays without knowing the par­
brushes. Keep the land level and clean.
ing powder.
ticular insects or diseases that aro to
If no yonng plants aro wanted for
be treated. However strange it may
Ask us for
the next year this finishes the first
H E N the farmer, with up to date seem, it is a fact nevertheless that many
copy.
season. If, however, new sets are de
methods for land cultivation, ap­ fruitgrowers spray without spraying
sired, cither for homo uso or for sale,
plies them in beautifying the farm for some particular reason, bat simply
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this is the way to get th-'m. By the homo or yard, ho will have done much becauso their neighbor is spraying with
MFO.
toward solving tho problem of keeping something for something for which the
COMPANY
grower may have or may not have. The
the boys and girls in tho country.
Seattle, Wash.
25c lb. All Grocers
There is one way to beautify his fruit-grower should never spray with
grounds that is within the reach of out spraying for some particular pur­
every farmer. That is the planting of pose, some pest or some disease, and he
should know tho remedy he applies is
flowers.
It is better to uso good taste in se­ the best that can be used for tho pur­ Lewis A udible Speed Indicator
lecting a few standard varieties than to pose. Professor Gillette recommends
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experiment with the rarer but less lime and sulphur as a dormant spray
t h a t attaches to
especially
good
for
the
destruction
of
liardy plants. For the May flower bed
any make of cream
or border, the coleus is indispensable. brown mites, red spiders, San Jose scale
separator. Rings a
It has no flower, its chief claim to and other scale. Professor Gillette also
bell until the right
beauty lying in tho dark reddish, or states that lime and sulphur is not of
speed is reached,
vari-colored leaves.
The so ealled much value in controlling plant lice and
then audibly clicks
of
no
service
in
controlling
eodling
“ Joseph’s Coat’’ is another good
—and at overspeed
foliage to uso in massed beds. Among moth. While all fruit growers probably
Is silent. By mail,
hardy bloomers is the eanna, with know that lime and sulphur is of no
postpaid, $3.25. De«
way, plants in the spring sell all the broad, graceful leaf and crimson bios valui in controlling codling moth, there
scriptive circular
way from »3 to $10 a thousand, ac soin. The canna bnlb may be set out are some who are inclined to believe it
On request.
cording to supply and demand.
as soon as the frost has left the ground will kill plant lice. Professor Gillette
Early in September bury the ends in
has
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In combination with violets, the vel­
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the ground about two inches. A trowel vety pansy presents a scheme of deep in reference to eontroiing of plant lice,
makes a good tool for this purpose.
In tho spring sever the young set,
where it is four or six inches high, from
the mother plant Trim all the other
ends on the old plant as far back as
they are dead.
Culti' ate frequently as long as it can
be done without injuring the ripening
fru it perhaps until two or three weeks
before picking time.
skim closer (warm or cold milk) than any
During the time that the crop is be
other cream separator in the world.
bing gathered the canes for next year's
harvest will be getting tall. The patch
T h a t’s a strong guarantee, but it is made only after the Ipwa
will need to be gone over several times
during July and August and the ends
has dem onstrated its superiority as a close and thor­
of the canes snipped off to about three
ough skim m er in com petitive tests all oyer the
feet high, in order that new shoots may
country.
In te st after test the IOWA has
eome out to make larger, healthier
carried off the honors not by accident or by luck
bushes.
b ut because it proved itself to be the best
After the crop is harvested, take out
machine over all others. The Iowa is get­
the old bushes with a long handled,
ting all the cream for thousands and
abort bladed knife, made for the pur
thousands of farm ers, many of them
poee, being careful not to harm the
in the Northwest. These users like
young canes. However, if there are too
the Iowa and those who have
many young canes in a hill, reduce the
had experience with other
Bowl
number to four or five. If well eared
The P a ten ted Curved Dise IOWA
makes say the Iowa is far
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to
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for a patch will last six years.
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T1IDE to many it will seem a waste
to pick a part of the fruit frem
the trees and d isced it, yet, with
few exceptions, that is what ahould be
done. Of course, where the tree is bear­
ing only a light crop, little or ao thin
Bing of the fruit is necess ry, but most
trees bear too much rather than too
bttle fruit, to firm a crop of the proper
quantity and quality. The idea in thin
aiag is that it is better to have a
tree bear two large, healthy, well
flavored pieces of fruit tian three
knotty, diacAted, ill flavored onea. When
tkinnii.g ont the fruit we ntilia* the
•nils for feeding hogs and poultry, so
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The town bowl Is a positive guarantee of all the cream
unJer any”and all conditions. It is the result of years of
experience In building cream separators and is fully P™*.e®, * dtn .
by patents. In all other particulars the Iowa is nght up to
standard. I t has a low non-splash supply can
It is easily cleaned
and free running. Its g earin g « entirely enclosed in the “ «J*1
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that is dust and water proof. These gears are so perfectly made and the''
oiling is so thorough that they are practically wear proof.
cream separators
, dairy farm er
can make.
Low Prices Bigr Inducement.
The low# prices are extremely reason ab e and the Jow# guarantee is so
broad tfiiT H o dairy farmer should hesitate to
provide himself with an low#, get all the cream
and save the constant loss caused by poor sepa­
rators.
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