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My old ntump land now 

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... the eround, and 



average about one and a 

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 the top, but the LITTLE 

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 Waakbum, Wis. 



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tion in the pruning of bearing trees, 

 avoid excessive heading back or ex- 

 cessive tliinning, but practice more the 

 moderate heading and moderate thin- 

 ning. Excessive pruning of any kind 

 leads to unstability and generally an 

 unsatisfactory relation between the 

 nitrates and carbohydrates. Moderate 

 pruning practiced regularly for our 

 bearing trees should be a good rule. 

 We should also attempt to distribute 

 this pruning quite generally through- 

 out the tree. If the trees are allowed 

 to go untouched, they will soon reach a 

 condition of equilibrium, but it is a con- 

 dition of equilibrium which means 

 little vegetative growth and little fruit 

 production, and affects our pocket-book, 

 so that it soon reaches likewise an 

 equilibrium, but one that is always 

 below cost of production. 



Planting Trees Over Hardpan 



By Otho Strayer. Alabama 



Six years ago F. S. Vaughn, of Axis, 

 Mobile County, Alabama, set out two 

 hundred Satsuma orange trees. The 

 top soil of the orhard site was about six 

 to eight inches in depth; then followed 

 a very hard clay, and below that a softer 

 and more plastic clay. It was a cut-over 

 timber tract and along one side of it, 

 paralleling a railroad, was a strip that 

 had been originally an old log road. 

 The ground along this strip was packed 

 extremely hard. 



Mr. Vaughn was doubtful of the suc- 

 cess of an orchard planted in such soil, 

 but having heard that dynamite used to 

 loosen the soil would give the trees a 

 better change for life, he decided to try 

 it. When I saw him a few weeks ago 

 he was very much pleased with the 

 experiment. He told me that when the 

 trees were three years old they were 

 the finest trees in Mobile County for 

 their age. They were larger than any 

 other trees in the vicinity and presented 

 a better appearance in every way. In 

 fact, he said that they were as large as 

 the average five-year-old trees in ad- 

 joining orchards. They were six years 

 old when I saw them and then com- 

 pared in size with other trees two years 

 older. 



In the fall of 1916 Mr. Vaughn set out 

 his pecan grove by the same method. 

 He used one-third of a cartridge of 40% 

 dynamite in each hold, and in all set out 

 three hundred trees. 



He expects this experiment to be even 

 more successful than his former one, 

 because owing to the long taproot of 

 the pecan tree it is desirable to have a 

 deeper and better broken up bed upon 

 which to set it than is necessary for the 

 Satsuma orange. 



No-Man's Land Soon to Grow Crops 



The French government has already 

 made arrangements for bringing back 

 into cultivation the desolated and war- 

 torn areas from which the enemy has 

 been driven. The dense population of 

 France makes prompt agricultural 

 restoration necessary to relieve the 

 food situation. Preference will be 

 given to farmers who originally lived 

 in the invaded regions. 



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