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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



March, 1906 



THE GARDEN 

 MAGAZIME 



COWRY LIFE 

 W AMERICA 



THE WORLDS 

 WORK 



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A NEW kind of maga- 

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WHY YOU NEED "FARMING" 



(1) It lays special emphasis on the farm 

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 and happiness from farm life. 



(2) It is especially strong on domestic animals : 

 horses, sheep, swine, poultry, and so on. 



(3) It describes men in every section who have 

 succeeded, and shows just how they did it. 



(4) Farming as practised throughout the States 

 treated regularly. 



(5) While thoroughly up-to-date in theory, 

 and using to the full the knowledge gained by the 

 scientists, it is eminently practical. 



(6) Schools, roads, irrigation, systems of storing 

 and marketing, telephones, etc., are covered 

 elaborately. 



(7) In a word, with the broadest field and the 

 most inspiring subject there is in America, 

 FARMING combines beauty and practical help- 

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The Garden magazine. 



FARMING 



An Illustrated Home Magazine Devoted to the 

 Living and Growing Things on the Farm 



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E. S. AKIN, Auburn, N. Y. 



Eight Varieties of Apples on 

 One Tree 



MY apple trees were about fifteen ye ars 

 old. Two of them were quite useless 

 because they bore no fruit and the third bore 

 quantities of small crab-apples of little value. 

 This latter tree I arranged to serve a double 

 purpose. The lower limbs drooped, form- 

 ing a canopy which the children used for a 

 play-house, and into the upper branches 

 I grafted scions of good winter varieties, in- 

 serting a few each year to avoid giving the 

 tree a shock. I have done away with all the 

 old bearing wood of the original trees. 



I have eight varieties on the tree shown in 

 the photograph : Golden Sweet, Fall Pippin, 

 Winter Pippin, Baldwin, King, Mcintosh, 

 Wealthy and Hubbardston. 



From the three trees I gathered two bar- 



The tree which bore useless apples now yields 

 eight good varieties by grafting. A saw and a 

 heavy jack-knife are (he necessary tools 



rels of fruit last season, where a couple of 

 years before there was none. 



Most of my grafts came into bearing the 

 third year and I can see no difference in the 

 growth or bearing between the sweet and 

 sour varieties on the same trees. 



I spray my trees three times during the 

 season, once before the leaves appear and 

 twice during the growth of the fruit. 



My methods are simple. I take care to 

 choose healthy, stocky growth, rather short 

 than otherwise. For a stump I choose a 

 healthy branch an inch and a half to two 

 inches in diameter, and set one scion at each j 

 end of the cleft, so that it sets flush with 

 the outer bark. Then cover the wound and 1 

 stump-end evenly with wax and occasionally - 

 look at it to see that it does not split or scale 

 off, thus admitting moisture. 



When the shoots are far enough advanced I 

 to make a choice, cut out the weaker one, to! 

 allow all the nutriment to go into the most! 

 promising scion. 



Connecticut F. H. Pond 



