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Hardie Orchard Gun Hl^ 



Here it is, the new Hardie Spray Gun that is 

 revolutionizing spraying methods. Does the work 

 quicker and easier than ever before. This device 

 shoots an enveloping spray, carrying the spray to 

 the tree tops. Takes the place of the cumber- 

 some spray rods and tower. With the Hardie 

 Orchard Gun you can spray all day and hardly 

 notice it. Spray easily regulated. No complicated 

 parts to get out of order. Lasts for years. Made 

 by Hardie Manufacturing Company, manufactur- 

 ers of Hardie hand and power sprayers and spray- 

 ing devices for over 18 years. See one at your 

 dealer's or send direct to us. Guaranteed satis- 

 factory or money back. 



Hardie Spray Pump 



Without question the simplest pump ever put on a 

 sprayer; gives high pressure and big capacity — smooth- 

 est working, saves gasoline. Many growlers are increas- 

 ing the capacity of their sprayers by putting on Hardie 

 spray pumps. Easy to Install and made in sizes to fit 

 your needs. Same design pump as used on the famous 

 line of Hardie Power Sprayers. Contains all Hardie fea- 

 tures such as Manganese steel crankshaft, phosphor 

 bronze bearings, threadless valve cages and pressure 

 regulator — an integral part of the pump. Tl.e one pump 

 that has made good everywhere. 



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THE HARDIE MANUFACTURING CO. 



Hudson, Mich. 



Branches in Portland, Ore.; Kaasai City, Mo.; Hacentown, Md.; 



Brockport, N. Y. 



fruit. Bear in mind that an attractive 

 piece of fruit cannot be grown in the 

 shade; air and light are absolutely 

 essential. Bear also in mind that fruit 

 buds and fruit spurs will not develop 

 in the shade. 



If the brush is well trimmed off the 

 main limbs, they will soon be thickly 

 covered with short fruit spurs, which 

 will be bear great crops of fruit just 

 where the tree has the greatest strength 

 with which to support and develop it, 

 and where it is most easily reached at 

 harvest time, and where the storms and 

 wind will harm it least. 



Trees of the sort described can be 

 secured in case of new orchards by 

 planting one-year-old trees and cutting 

 them off fifteen inches from the ground 

 and at the end of the first year cutting 

 out all but the five or six limbs that are 

 the most evenly distributed about the 

 tree and will give it the best spread; 

 these limbs should all be cut back to 

 from twelve to eighteen inches in 

 length and cut to terminal buds that 

 point out, excepting on the lee side of 

 the tree, where they should be cut to 

 terminal buds that point in, in order to 

 brace the tree against the wind. Each 

 following year these five or six main 



when there is no branch to cut to, will 

 be that a large additional number of 

 new branches will be thrown out that 

 will have to be cut off the following 

 year. 



Trees pruned as I have suggested will 

 continue to grow thriftily for an in- 

 definite length of time. I have orchards 

 that in their twenty-fifth year made as 

 much and as vigorous growth as they 

 have ever made since they were planted, 

 and they have always made the same 

 vigorous growth and have produced 

 very large crops of the finest quality of 

 pears regularly for eighteen years. A 

 paper entitled "Thinning Out versus 

 Cutting Back" was read at the State 

 Horticultural Association meeting a 

 couple of years ago. It seems to me 

 that it would be just as pertinent to 

 say "Horse versus Wagon," because one 

 of the things, especially in case of Bart- 

 Ictt pears, is just as necessary as the 

 other. 



It will not strengthen the limbs to 

 any great extent to thin out the brush 

 and no great good will be accomplished 

 by cutting the big limbs back properly 

 if the tree is left so full of brush that 

 no good fruit can be grown anywhere 

 except upon the end of the branches or 

 outside of the tree. To secure the best 

 results the trees must be kept open and 

 the limbs must be kept shortened back 

 as I have described. 



limbs should be cut back in very much 

 the same way as the first year, and the 

 brush kept well thinned out. By using 

 this method of pruning a fine wide- 

 spreading tree that will have strength 

 to carry any kind of a load without 

 breaking can be produced. In case of 

 an orchard that has been badly pruned 

 or not pruned at all, and the trees have 

 grown way up into the air and are full 

 of long slim limbs and thick brush, the 

 trees can be brought into fine and 

 nearly perfect shape by going at them 

 without mercy and cutting limbs back 

 to proper lengths, no matter if ten feet 

 has to be cut off to do it, and cut the 

 tops off enough to give the trees proper 

 height, no matter how many feet have 

 to come off to do that. Then thin the 

 brush out, as I have described, and the 

 trees can in a few years be brought into 

 perfect shape. 



In shortening any limb so much that 

 it is necessary to cut into wood older 

 than one year, I would, as far as pos- 

 sible, cut to a branch that can be made 

 a terminal to the limb cut off, but if 

 there is no branch near the point where 

 the limb should be cut, cut the limb 

 anyway where the proper length will 

 be obtained. The only difference. 



AN APPLE TREE 



(By Edgar A. Guest.) 



An apple tree beside the way. 



Drinking the sunshine day by day. 



According to the Master's plan 



Had been a faithful friend to man. 



It has been kind to all who came 



Nor asked the traveler's race or name. 



But with peasant boy or king 



Had shared its blossoms in the spring. 



And from the summer's dreary heat 



To all had offered sweet retreat. 



When autumn brought the harvest time. 

 Its branches all who wished might climb 

 And take from many a tender shoot 

 Its rosy-cheeked, delicious fruit. 

 Good men, by careless speech or deed. 

 Have caused a neighbor's heart to bleed. 

 Wrong has been done by high intent. 

 Hate has been born where love was meant. 

 Yet apple trees of field or farm 

 Have never done one mortal harm. 



Then came the Germans into France 

 And found this apple tree by chance. 

 They shared its blossoms in the spring. 

 They heard the songs the thrushes sing. 

 They rested in the cooling shade 

 Its old and friendly branches made. 

 And in the fall its fruit they ate. 

 And then they turned on it in hate. 

 Like beasts, on blood and passion drunk. 

 They hewed great gashes in its trunk. 



Beneath its roots, with hell's delight, 

 They placed destruction's dynamite 

 And blew to death with impish glee 

 A gentle, friendly apple tree. 

 Men may rebuild their homes in time. 

 Swiftly cathedral towers may climb 

 And hearts forget their weight of woe 

 As over them life's currents flow. 

 But this their lasting shame shall be: 

 They put to death an apple tree! 



Wanted 



to hear from owner of 

 good farm for sale. 

 State cash price, full particulars. 



D. F. BUSH, 

 Minneapolis, Minnesota 



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