SETTING OUT AN ORCHARD. 2C3 



leaving the trees without a laboratory in which to complete the fruit which 

 they had begun to manufacture. 



The following winter we cut out the water sprouts, and in the spring 

 we sowed floats at the rate of four hundred pounds to the acre, turned un- 

 der the crimson clover and sowed to cowpeas, and bought a sprayer which 

 would throw a mist or spray, a regular fog, for we had determined to give 

 the old trees a chance regardless of the fact that people said they coald 

 never amount to anything. 



We turned pigs in to harvest the cowpeas and drop apples, and if any 

 man has gathered a crop of smoother larger apples of the varieties than 

 we did this fall, I have not seen them; understand, it was not a full crop, 

 neither did all the trees bear fruit, but the leaves are still on the trees, 

 and cider apples are a scarce article with us, though some of the trees 

 were loaded to the breaking point. 



Now, a word as to spraying; We bought the commercial lime-sulphur, 

 sprayed with a 1-10 solution early in the spring before the buds started; 

 when the petals began to fall, we sprayed with a 1-40 solution to which 

 we added Paris green at the rate of two ounces to 50 gallons, mixing it 

 first carefully with a small quantity of water and keeping the whole thor- 

 oughly agitated, and we put that mist to those trees over, under and 

 through until they were as wet as though in a heavy fog. 



Three weeks later, we sprayed again with the same mixture, and I 

 might say in explanation, that our reason for using the Paris green was 

 that we could not get arsenate of lead when we wanted it, and had the 

 other on hand. 



All last winter we were contemplating the removal of the trees, for 

 they occupy land which we wanted for raising swine, but it looks to us 

 now, having completed the harvest of that fine crop, like we can grow 

 forage crops for the hogs on this orchard, at the same time improve the 

 land, and raise more and better apples with which to buy tankage and 

 other food for the hogs, thus producing double the amount of food, for with 

 us, the breeding of pure swine is pre-eminent, and if we can raise one crop 

 on the ground, and at the same time another above it, we ought to b^ sat- 

 isfied. 



— W. W. Shay, in Fruit Grower. 



North Carolina. 



THINK OF RAISING FRUIT? 



SOME VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE BEGINNER IN SETTING 

 OUT AND CARING FOR AN ORCHARD. 



Chas. A. Cole in Fruit Grower. 



Without doubt a very large percentage of the beginners in the orchard 

 business come from the city and non-fruit growing sections. These per- 

 sons, as well as others, are confronted with the problem of choosing a local- 

 ity or section in which to begin their chosen profession. I say "begin" ad- 

 visedly, as this profession is like unto the saying of the Master Builder, 



