FRUIT 

 (Chapter 21) 



1. Visit a fruit grower if possible and ask him to show 

 you how to graft a scion of one tree to the stock of an- 

 other. Learn also how to remove a bud from a branch 

 and attach it to the branch of another tree. 



2. Bend to the ground a branch of a grape vine or of a 

 black raspberry vine. Cover part of it with several 

 inches of soil, but leave several inches of the end of the 

 branch above ground. After a few weeks see if the 

 buried branch has taken root. If so, separate it from the 

 old plant by cutting. 



3. Weigh two apples of about the same size separately. 

 Peel one and leave the other unpeeled. Weigh each apple 

 the next day. Which has lost more in weight, and why ? 



4. Have an apple paring and an apple coring contest 

 among the pupils, weighing the apples before and after. 



5. Try at home to can windfall apples as follows : 

 ''Peel, core, and slice; scald 1 minute in boiling water; 



plunge in cold water. Pack in glass or tin and add about 

 one teacup full of hot thin syrup to each. Put on rubber 

 and top and partially tighten. Sterilize 16 minutes in 

 hot water. Remove, tighten covers, and invert to cool. ' ' 



6. What will it cost to set out a young apple orchard 

 of 10 acres square, with trees costing 25 cents each, if 

 the trees are planted in squares 36 feet apart? 



Write to the Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 D. C, for the following farmers' bulletins: No. 33, No. 

 113, No. 154. 



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