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cannot injure the tree. No matter how dry it be, thorough 

 irrigation late in the fall will save the trees and keep them 

 ready for a vigorous start in the spring. 



G. W. WEBSTER: The cause of winter killing is drouth. 

 The more water given in the fall the better. I once had my 

 whole orchard under ice one entire winter and did not lose 

 a single tree. 



J. S. PERKEY : Before freezing weather sets in the or- 

 chard should be thoroughly irrigated, that the ground may 

 retain its moisture through the winter. 



PERRY WHITE : Give trees lots of water in the fall for 

 winter safety. My plan is as follows : When the leaves be- 

 gin to fall, soak the orchard in water, giving the ground as 

 much as it will hold. Then the tree is always plump and 

 does not shrivel up. 



In Utah, according to a correspondent of the Utah 

 Farmer, where orchards are watered early in the season and 

 the ground saturated while the leaves are young and tender, 

 the trees are liable to be injured, for the reason that the 

 feeders are in active operation, and too much moisture forced 

 into the young and tender leaf bursts its vessels and renders 

 it of little use. If this excessive watering is kept up the 

 whole of the growing season, the tree becomes sickly and 

 will show a discolored leaf the following spring. 



WIND BREAKS. 



Opinions differ as to the advisability of wind-breaks. 

 The largest orchard in the State, that of Mr. Jesse Frazier,. 

 at Florence, Fremont County, has no wind-break whatever,, 

 and he declared to the writer of this that the outside rows 

 of trees in his orchard, most exposed to storms, always 

 yielded the best. 



J. W. Cook, of Arvada, who, however, is better author- 

 ity on grapes than on apples, says : In setting out an orchard 

 the wind-break should be set on the west and north sides 

 to protect the trees from the sharp, drying winds of winter 



