14 State Horticultural Society. 



We use a great deal of salt and lime around under the trees through 

 the summer if any tree should be inclined to have bitter rot. 



We use for spraying altogether two or three of the cyclone dust 

 sprayers. We find this means of spraying a great success. We can 

 spray in windy weather, before or after a rain, never have to stop for 

 land being too muddy in orchards, but can go right along at 'any time 

 without any hindrances. 



' Allow me, if you please, to go back where we spoke of blowing out 

 dead trees. You will find this to be a great success. There is no 

 trouble in keeping these spaces all filled in with growing trees. When 

 we adopt this method, when we set the spaces, we mulch these trees for 

 three or four years. I have five acres of an old family orchard that we 

 do not -connect \^■ith our commercial orchard, that has been filled in with 

 young trees and kept up by the rules mentioned. I have some winesap 

 trees in this orchard from which I gathered last year from five to six 

 barrels of good apples per tree. They are 42 years old and full of apples 

 this year. In this line of work I flatter myself knowing I have made 

 my orchard pay. 



I have apple trees from five to forty-three years old. They have 

 apples on them and are looking well. I have a good crop on this orchard 

 and they have all been handled in the wav I mentioned. 



HOW TO HAVE A GOOD OLD ORCHARD. 



(W. H. Benedict, Richards, Mo.) 



To have a good old orchard one should have a good young orchard. 

 If good trees not over two years old have been well planted in good 

 productive soil, and well cared for for 8 or 10 years you have laid the 

 foundation for a good old orchard. Up to this time the orchardist has 

 lived mainly on hope and southwest wind as far as the orchard is con- 

 cerned, and returns have not been just exactly what he had a right to 

 expect. Our own orchards at this age met with several reverses. For 

 two or three years in succession we had continuous cold rains, at and 

 after blooming time, that so affected the crop that our income from the 

 orchard in three years was practically nothing. These wet springs 

 were followed by dry hot summers and then late fall rains and most 

 orchardists realize what destruction and trouble it wrought. To add to 

 our troubles, about this time our trees were attacked by bag worms and 

 canker worms. We sprayed about the first of June for bag worms, which 

 were much the worst, and so missed the canker worms. For the past 



