HOW TO GROW AND MARKET FRUIT 



(usually twelve to twenty inches from the ground.) This can 

 be done best a week or a month after the trees are set. The 

 branches should be shortened at the same time. 



Dip the roots into thin mud, spread them in carefully pre- 

 pared holes (dynamited if possible) that are wide enough and 

 deep enough to hold the roots without cramping. Work good, 

 fine dirt in among the roots thoroughly. Ram it in with a 

 stick. Move the tree up and down repeatedly. Pack the dirt 

 well. You cannot get it too solid about roots, except two inches 

 on the surface, which should be loose. Use your whole weight, 

 or better, pack with a heavy maul. Leave no air-spaces. 



Do not let the roots lie exposed to sun or wind. Never let 

 them dry. Cover the roots with a wet blanket, pack them in 

 a tight wagon-box and cover with dirt or wet straw, or load 

 the trees into a barrel filled with water, and, as planted, pour 

 a little of the water about each one. Trees should go just a 

 little deeper than they were in the nursery. Watch the dark 

 line of bark at the base, and put this an inch below the surface. 

 It often is a good plan to use water in planting. The 

 surface of the newly dag earth, for a couple of feet about the 

 little trees, should be covered with a six-inch mulch of straw 

 or leaves, to retain the moisture. Trees will need no fertilizing 

 till the second summer, when a little nitrate of soda or horse 

 manure will do good work. 



SUMMARY 



Get trees that you know are right the importance of this 

 cannot be over emphasized. 



To be sure of reliable trees you must buy them from a firm 

 that is responsible that knows how to propagate trees, works 

 by a system that prevents the possibility of mistakes, and backs 

 up their stock till it bears. 



Good trees are true to name, and are propagated from parents 

 that bear heavy crops of flawless fruit. See the parent trees 

 whenever possible. 



Always visit the nursery and select your trees yourself when 

 it is possible. It pays. 



Buy the most vigorous, cleanest, healthiest, best ripened, 

 biggest rooted trees you can find anywhere the best will cost 

 only a few dollars per hundred more than poor ones. 



Select and place your trees with regard to cross pollination. 

 Lack of pollination is a frequent cause of small and poor crops. 



When you plant, consider air, drainage, soil, etc. Always 

 arrange trees by a handy system, and put them far enough 

 apart. 



Use fillers and cut them out in time. 



Trees must be planted just at the right time. A dollar's 

 worth of care in planting will save many dollars' worth of trees. 

 Follow the suggestions given here. 



Don't forget to mulch newly set trees. 



We plant standard apple trees 20 by 20 feet, and cut out 

 fillers when 12 to 20 years of age. 



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