Some Typical High Schools Teaching Agriculture 67 



the work done in horticulture this year?" Some of the more 

 pretentious answers are here given. 



" I have pruned several peach trees and shade trees, and 

 have shown the hired men how to cut the limbs on the big 

 orchard trees, which were too much for me to do alone. A 

 one year peach tree, which I pruned to a whip, is one mass 

 of leaves and twigs. The wounds are all healing nicely." 



" I have pruned one peach tree and have watched the marked 

 growth of a young soft maple that was headed in severely. It 

 has very thick foliage, and some of the growths are from g 

 to 12 inches long. These growths were all made since the middle 

 of March." 



" The young orchard now has a cover crop upon it. I have 

 also helped make the grafting wax used in budding and grafting ; 

 from which good results have been had so far." 



Another reported doing some grafting on his uncle's orchards. 

 All four scions on one of two apple trees grafted were doing 

 well. After thinning and pruning another small tree that was 

 shrubby and worthless, he grafted eight scions of a different 

 variety, all of which were growing well. 



One student pruned grapevines, apple, peach, pear, plum, and 

 cherry trees at home, and did some spraying. 



One student reported that he gave the grapevines more prun- 

 ing than they had before, pruned nearly all the orchard, used a 

 spraying machine bought this spring, and " burnt the cut-off 

 limbs instead of leaving them in a pile for a breeding place 

 for fungus and insects." Bailey's " Principles of Fruit Grow- 

 ing " and his " Pruning Book " are the books most used. 



The following references were read as a part of the regular 

 work of the class in agronomy : 



Shaw's " Weeds and How to Eradicate Them." 



Farmers' Bulletin 97, Alfalfa Hay for Hogs. 



Farmers' Bulletin 194, Alfalfa Seed. 



Farmers' Bulletin 260, Seed of Red Clover and its Impurities. 



Farmers' Bulletin y7„ Kafir Corn. 



Farmers' Bulletin 92, Planting and Replanting Corn. 



Farmers' Bulletin 225, Testing of Seed Oats. 



Farmers' Bulletin 97, The Soy Bean as a Feeding Stuff, 



