346 WORK BY SEASONS 



Just after the ground freezes, put a top dressing of "short" 

 manure over all the lawn grass. If it is allowed to remain all winter 

 the result will be gratifying next year. 



EXERCISES, PROJECTS AND FIELD STUDIES 



1. Pruning is good practice work for students. Prune fruit trees of as 

 many types as possible. Also prune ornamental shrubs and vines. 



2. Trips to neighboring orchards should be made from time to time, to 

 study the bush fruit and orchard practices of different growers. Study the 

 methods of spraying, pruning, cultivation, and f ertilizing in use by each grower. 

 Afterwards write up the plans and emphasize the good and bad points in the 

 practices. 



3. Projects in the care and management of an orchard of any type, car- 

 ried on for a year or more, may require special attention to trials in different 

 ways of cultivation, different amounts or kinds of fertilizer, methods of fight- 

 ing borers, etc. The special problems assigned with the project should be in 

 harmony with the particular needs of the orchard to be used. For example, if 

 codling moth has been extremely bad, use all the known remedies and compare 

 the results. 



QUESTIONS 



1. Give an outline of the year's work in the apple orchard. 



2. Same in the peach or plum orchard. 



3. Give a good plan for the year's cultivation of orchards. 



4. Give a number of points regarding the pruning of apple trees; of peach 



trees. 



5. Describe the spraying campaign in the apple orchard. 



6. Give the spraying campaign for stone fruits. 



7. Give some suggestions for work in the orchard, berry patches, and lawns, 



for your region, by seasons: a, winter work; 6, spring work; c, summer 

 work; d, autumn work. 



References.— U. S. Farmers' Bulletins: 181, Pruning; 440, Spraying 

 Peaches for Brown Rot, Scab, and Curculio; 494, Lawns and Lawn Soils; 887, 

 Raspberry Culture. 



Productive Orcharding, Sears, J. B. Lippincott Company; Productive 

 Small Fruit Culture, Sears, J. B. Lippincott Company; Beginners Guide to 

 Fruit Growing, Waugh, Orange Judd Co. 



