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BETTER FRUIT 



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stood, and went through the rows, but 

 to no avail, as the soil beneath each 

 plant was caked and hard; my horses 

 had done this while I was preparing 

 the surface — I was spoiling the lower 

 soil. This was about twenty years ago. 

 I have since seen a great deal of soil 

 packing by other farmers who thought 

 it was necessary to hold moisture, but 

 in reality it proved a sad mistake. 



The continual working of soil to 

 make it fine in order to hold moisture 

 is sure to cause it to run together and 

 be slower to loosen up the following 

 year. It is inclined to grow steadily 

 worse year by year as truck crops are 

 grown, and how to avoid this condition 

 or overcome it as far as possible is one 

 of the greatest problems of the garden- 

 truck farmer. 



In the production of broccoli you 

 cannot avoid going upon the land to 

 harvest your crop; but step as lightly 

 as you can, or, in plain words, don't 

 take a heavy wagon and two big horses 

 out astride the row and haul the broc- 

 coli out, when you can make a hopper 

 rig out of an old eight-foot hay rake 

 and put one horse to it and go astride 

 two four-foot rows cutting at least four 

 rows at a swath. Two men can follow 

 behind, cutting two rows each or three 

 rows each as desired, allowing the 

 muzzled horse to go and stop at call. 

 The advantage is a light rig, a high rig 

 and the cutters walking so as to look 

 right into the heads without unneces- 

 sary movements. The heads can be 

 laid info the hopper without damage 

 by bruising, which should be large 

 enough to hold ten dozen. There is no 

 better or easier way. 



When the crop is off take a disc har- 

 row and go astride each row. The two 

 center discs will split or cut the stalks 

 up so that they can be plowed under; 

 but don't work too wet. Then take an 

 18-inch plow with a good substantial 

 jointer on it and plow deep and keep 

 straight with the rows, managing to 

 plow right up to each row as you come 

 to it, so when the next furrow is plowed 

 the jointer will run just to the left of 

 the broccoli stalks. This will give them 

 a complete turn-over and cover. You 

 cannot cross back and forth through 

 the broccoli row with your jointer and 

 make a job of it. The rows must neces- 

 sarily be straight. By covering the 

 leaves and stalks well under they will 

 soon rot, except just a small woody 

 portion of the stalks. Keep off this 

 field now — if not too many weeds come 

 up — until after the June rains have 

 slacked the surface. Let it first get dry, 

 and by being rough few weeds will 

 grow. If, however, they appear run 

 over when they first germinate with a 

 drag harrow with the teeth well 

 slanted back so as to prevent jerking 

 out the broccoli stalks. About .lune 25 

 or July 1, run over with a drag harrow 

 and heavy clod-masher, then follow 

 with a disc, and you will be surprised 

 how few "clubs" you will find; but be 

 sure to mash all the clods before disc- 

 ing, as afterwards they will sink into 

 the loose soil and not mash. 



No clod-masher is heavy enough to 

 pack soil, and by discing the dry sur- 



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COST TABLE 



LIME-SULPHUR SPRAY FOR SAN JOSE SCALE. 

 Cost of Concentrate 



Per gallon 10c 



lie 



12c 



13c 



14c 



15c 



16c 



17c 



Dilution 

 Gal. Cone, to Gal. Water 



COST OF DILUTED SPRAY, IN CENTS PER GALLON. 



to 5 

 to 6 

 to 7 

 to 8 

 to 9 



2 



1.66 

 1.43 

 1.25 

 1.11 



to 10 1 



to 11 9 



to 12 83 



to 13 77 



to 14 71 



2.2 

 1.83 

 1.57 

 •1.37 

 1.22 

 1.1 

 1 

 .91 

 .85 

 .78 



2.4 



2 



1.71 



1.5 



1.33 



1.2 



1.09 



1 

 .92 

 .86 



2.6 

 2.17 

 1.86 

 1.62 

 1.44 

 1.3 

 1.18 

 1.08 

 1 

 .93 



e 

 28 

 2.33 

 2 



1.75 

 1.55 

 1.4 

 1.27 

 1.16 

 1.07 

 1 



3 



2.5 



2.14 



1.87 



1.67 



1.5 



1.36 



1.25 



1.15 



1.07 



.2 



.67 

 .28 



78 



6 



45 

 .33 



23 

 .14 



3.4 



2.84 



2.43 



2.12 



1.89 



1.7 



1.54 



1.41 



1.3 



1.21 



18c 



3.6 



3 



2.57 



2.25 



2 



1.8 



1.63 



1.5 



1.39 



1.28 



19c 



3.8 



3.17 



2.71 



2.37 



2.11 



1.9 



1.72 



1.58 



1.46 



1.36 



20c 



4 



3.33 



2.85 



2.5 



2.22 



2 



1.81 



1.66 



1.54 



1.43 



ESTIMATED AMOUNT DILUTED SPRAY PER TREE. 



Age of trees, years 3 to 6 7 to 10 11 to 14 



Approximate amount, gallons 2 4 8 



•Examples 100 trees 13 years old, 8 gallons to tree, equals 800 gallons. 



Using 1 to 12 dilution (sprav costing 16 cents a gallon) 800 X .0133 =r .$10.64. 



Using 1 to 8 dilution (sprav costing 11 cents a gallon) 800 X .0137 ^ $10.96. 



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face under and exposing fresh soil, 

 which can be easily handled before 

 getting too dry, you will be in no dan- 

 ger of packing the soil. You have no 

 business in the field with a disc harrow 

 after June 1 if you need cleaners. In 

 fact, a cloud of (lust should follow your 

 clod-masher. You may imagine your 

 soil is so dry that no moisture will ever 

 come back, but just get two or three 

 inches of dust mulch as fine as flour on 

 the surface and in two or three weeks 

 you will be surprised how the old 

 earth can sweat under such torture. 

 This moisture that steams up during the 

 hot days and is condensed under the 

 blanket of dust by the cool nights is 

 incomparably better than rain water, 

 as it brings fertility up from the sub- 

 soil with it which has been washed 

 down during tl>e wet periods. In this 

 manner you may take a field of dry 

 ground, and the longer it has been dry 

 the better, because you must know that 

 colds have to go through a slacking 

 process which can only be accom- 

 plished by having them perfectly dry to 

 the heart; let them get so dry and com- 



pact that, literally speaking, they are 

 in great agony. This condition fits 

 them for decomposition. Too much 

 harrowing prevents you from getting 

 much of the surface dry. Now they are 

 ready for turning into dust, and dust 

 you must have. Harrow and slide them 

 down, and if possible to get a light rain 

 on the surface which does not pene- 

 trate more than two or three inches 

 they will retain some of this moisture 

 long enough for you to give them an- 

 other going over, and this time they 

 will be both air slacked and water 

 slacked. Bear in mind you cannot 

 slack clods with water only; if you do, 

 the particles will not be fine like dust 

 and later your moisture will escape 

 which you thought you were con- 

 serving. 



To accomplish the best results, much 

 depends on how good a manager you 

 are and how the season favors you. 

 There are times when one-half day's 

 work, if put in when conditions are 

 right, will accomplish more than two 

 or three days of hard clod grinding 

 under improper conditions. Of course. 



