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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
339 
Collar-Rot of Apple Trees. 
M ANY orchards are slowly but surely 
being killed by collar-rot; a disease 
that starts at the base of the tree and 
gradually extends up the trunk, down 
the roots and around the tree, causing a 
gradual decline of fruit and foliage and 
finally the death of the tree. No man 
should neglect the upkeep of a permanent 
improvement, such as an apple orchard 
is, any more than he would neglect the 
upkeep of his buildings. With collar- 
rot destroying the base of a tree our 
work on the top is almost wasted, and 
tin 1 fruit grower should always look to 
the health of the trunk and roots before 
lege, has published a very valuable book 
on “Productive Orcharding.” Unless old 
trees have very much of life still left in 
them it is time and money wasted to try 
to do much with them from the com¬ 
mercial standpoint. A. T. s. 
A Strawberry Barrel. 
C AN you advise me of the proper way 
to make a “strawberry barrel.” 
which is, I understand, filled with 
manure and the strawberries planted 
through holes bored all about the sides 
of the barrel? x. s. 
Virginia. 
Secure a good-sized barrel and bore 
several rows of holes around it. Have 
Fig. 2 
OF COLLAR ROT 
FORMS 
spending time and money on the top of a 
tree. 
Fig. 1 shows the base of a tree in¬ 
jured by a harrow. Collar-rot set in 
and extended the exposed area, but the 
tree made an effort to close the wound 
and a callus had begun to form when the 
disease renewed its activity, and almost 
girdled the tree. This was a case where 
cleaning and painting the wound prompt¬ 
ly would have saved the tree. 
Fig. 2 is an illustration of another 
common form of injury and collar-rot. 
The area marked (a) is the typical in¬ 
jury caused by the apple tree-borer and 
the infection taking place either at the 
time of the borer’s entry or later ex¬ 
tended the injured area as a canker from 
there to the point marked (b) and al¬ 
most girdled the tree. Clean cultivation 
and painting the trunk with lime-sulphur 
would probably have kept the borer out, 
and frequent inspection and proper treat¬ 
ment would have saved the tree. Figs, 
o and 4 show a tree before and after 
cutting out a collar-rot canker. In this 
case Winter injury or some small wound 
went uncared for till the diseased area 
was too large for successful treatment. 
A tree affected with collar-rot will be 
late in starting in the Spring. The 
leaves will be small and lack color, the 
blossom will usually be heavy and the 
fruit, if any sets, is small. W bother 
the point of entry is a wound or bark 
injured by cold weather, whether the or¬ 
ganism is a bacterium or a fungus, the 
prevention and treatment is the same. 
Keep the trees clean cultivated, or at 
least keep a few feet of ground around 
the trunk bare, and paint trees under 15 
years of age with strong lime-sulphur to 
repel borers. Be careful not to injure 
trees when cultivating. Inspect the 
trunks at the ground level or just below 
the surface every year, and wherever dis¬ 
eased bark or a wound is discovered cut 
back to healthy bark and paint the wound 
with gas tar. Remember that no chain is 
stronger than its weakest link, and no 
tree is better than its base. 
E. W. MITCHELL. 
Fig. 3 
ON APPLE 
Fig. 
TREES. 
Scraping Old Trees. 
I HAVE just taken a place with an old 
apple orchard on it and have started 
to scrape the trees. In some places 
the bark has come off entirely. Should 
these bare spots be coated with tar or 
anything to protect them? Is there a 
book published that tells how to redeem 
an old orchard? ii. w. ii. 
Brookline, Mass. 
The chief value lies in destruction of 
hibernating insects, and the possible de¬ 
struction of some resting spores of 
various fungi. I would not scrape 
deep enough, however, to get through 
the bark. If the bark is badly 
broken I should paint over with pure 
linseed oil and white lead. If only a few 
places are in this condition, fresh cow 
manure could be bound over it and thus 
protect these places. Several of the ex¬ 
periment stations have published bul¬ 
letins on the renewal of old orchards. 
Among these are Connecticut (Storrs) 
Bulletin No. Gl, and Ohio (Wooster) 
Bulletin No. ISO. Prof. Sears of Am¬ 
herst, Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 
the holes at least six inches apart; a 
greater distance would be better. Take 
rich garden soil that has had some short 
manure mixed through it and fill up to 
the first row of holes. Then place plants 
in the holes with crowns opposite the 
openings, and roots spread out fan shape 
on top of the layer of soil just put in. 
Add more soil, packing it down well on 
the roots of the plants in the first row 
of holes, until the second row of holes 
is reached. Set more plants as before. 
Repeat until the entire barrel is filled. 
Plants can then be set in the top soil of 
the barrel. After this it is simply a 
question of supplying mois ure; and an 
occasional turning of the barrel to pro¬ 
vide a uniform supply of sunlight to 
plants on both sides of the barrel. 
TRUCKER, JR. 
A Thousand Dollars 
From Strawberries 
Inthe Springof 1913 
one of our custom¬ 
ers bought $18.75 
worth of plants, 
setting them on one 
acre of land. No 
special attention 
was given the plants, 
but in the season of 
1914 the first crop of berries sold for 
$975 in the Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,market. 
^ Jones’ 
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