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were beginning to show the effects of insufficient moisture, yet the trees 

 which were planted on the contour were continuing to make new grovrth and 

 showed no signs of lacking v/ater. Soil conservation in this section of 

 the South has taken hold in a big vvay, but it is a case of taking care of 

 the soil or having no soil at all. 



Some of the finest trees vihichwo sav/ were grovm on land which 

 had been hoavily manured. It is a common practice for many nurserymen, both 

 in the South and the North, to raise beef cattle, not for the beef but pri- 

 marily for the manure which is put on their nursery land. The most vigorous 

 and healthy nursery stock is almost always found in the nurseries which 

 raise boef cattle, A plentiful supply of orgsnic matter appears to be a 

 big factor in growing good nursery stock. If this is what it takes to grow 

 a young tree in the nursery why not give the tree you set in your orchard 

 the same chance it had before it left its happy home? 



W. D. Weeks 



AN OBSERVATION OF PLANT NUTRITION 



In an orchard in Bristol County there is a Mcintosh tree which 

 gives an excellent demonstration of one of the principles of plant physiology 

 that there is no cross transfer of mineral nutrients in a tree. This tree 

 is growing near a fence. Across the fence on a neighbor's property, 15 or 

 20 feet from the trees, is a pile of poultrj'' manure. On the side of the 

 tree tov/ard the manure pile the leaves were dark green ,tenninal growth 

 was excollont, and the crop v;as good. On the side liway from the manure pile 

 the leaves v.'ere lighter green, terminal growth was shorter, and the crop 

 light. In late August, when this tree v;-as soon, there was no visible evi- 

 dence of any reduction in color on the high nitrogen side of the tree. 

 This observation suggests also that fertilizer applied beyond the spread 

 of the branches may not all be lost because the roots will grew to consider- 

 able distances to obtain the nutrients the tree needs, 



J. S. Bailey 



THEN AND NOT IN T^ FRUIT BUSINESS 



The long time nature of most fruit enterprises suggests a perma- 

 nence not found in certain other enterprises including vegeto.bles or poultry. 

 An apple treo or a grape vino may continue to bear fruit over a period of 

 100 years. In fact they are so long lived that some gr-jv;ers think of a 

 fruit planting as an unchojiging thing Vifhich may be handed djwn from father 



