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personally can bear witness to the fact 

 that in blasted ground there is every 

 reason to expect superiority. In only a 

 half dozen instances out of a hundred 

 that I have seen have the trees failed 

 to make huskier, bigger tops in blasted 

 ground. It is the rule rather than the 

 exception to see ^vhole blocks of one 

 thousand or ten thousand trees so 

 planted show an average growth of 

 eighteen or twenty or twenty-four 

 inches in a season, and alongside of 

 this I reflect that on similar soils I have 

 seen many orchards planted with in- 

 ferior tillage that would average only 

 seven or eight or ten inches in twig 

 growth in a season. It is only fair to 

 say that I have seen a few orchards 

 in light sandy soil, and in very heavy 

 soil, where blasting apparently did no 

 good, or even did harm. The sandy 

 soil seemed to loose in moisture-holding 

 capacity by the blasting. The clay 

 seemed to hold water around the trees 

 too long. 



There may be some question about 

 the value of blasting an open, fertile 

 soil, but there can be no question at 

 all when theie is the least indication 

 of plow sole, or liardpan, or a layer 

 of clay. Blasting is intensive tillage. 

 If you believe in tillage you auto- 

 matically believe in the use of explo- 

 sives to secure it, because there is no 

 other method so effective, and none that 

 you can use to get the same results, or 

 to get results of a similar nature for 

 so little money. 



Care of Winter-Injured Trees 



"Your trees showing abnormal fruit 

 drop, lack of foliage and growth 

 should be given the best of care with 

 good soil treatment and by no means 

 torn out," say the horticultural authori- 

 ties in reply to the flood of inquiries 

 reaching them from men who are 

 seriously concerned over the unfavor- 

 able condition of their orchard trees in 

 many parts of the state. 



The most serious tree injury appears 

 in young trees from one to eight years 

 of age. These trees also show the 

 characteristic abnormal fruit drop. Of 

 the older trees the difTiculty seems to be 

 confined chiefly to the altogether too 

 heavy drop of fruit. "There are thou- 

 sands of trees that show a condition 

 ranging from a sickly condition to that 

 of seemingly dead," says Professor 

 C. I. Lewis, head of the department. 

 "There are hundreds of thousands of 

 trees that show lack of foliage and 

 proper growth. Indications now are 

 that a large percentage of the pear and 

 prune trees shed their fruit so badly 

 that there cannot be expected a com- 

 mercial crop. In some cases the drop 

 is so severe that no crop at all is ex- 

 pected. The cherry drop is adbnormal 

 in some sections of the state. The 

 apple drop will come later, but it is not 

 yet known whether it will be abnor- 

 mally severe. Some think this abnor- 

 mal drop is due to abnormal weather 

 during the blooming i)eriod. Experts 

 of the Experiment Station, however, 

 think that the late bad weather had 

 nothing to do with it. The drop was 

 already well under way before the cold 



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