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l'HE RURAL N ED W-YORKER 
October 9, 1915. 
Farm and Garden Topics 
Fall Buying of Nursery Stock. 
Reasons for the Practice. —Most 
growers prefer Spring planting for fruit 
trees, and they give good reasons for their 
choice. Others, a lively minority, prefer 
to plant apple trees in the Fall. Then 
others who follow Spring planting prefer 
to buy their trees in the Fall. They 
think they can buy to better advantage at 
that time, and they run a better chance of 
avoiding misfits than they do when the 
trees are dug, put into storage and sorted 
out again in the Spring. Another argu¬ 
ment advanced for Fall buying is the fact 
that at that time they are more likely 
to obtain trees that are actually grown by 
the nurseryman- They figure that during 
the Winter he may have so many orders 
for certain varieties that he cannot fill 
them all, and so he buys from outsiders. 
In such cases many shrewd buyers be¬ 
lieve they would be more likely to obtain 
misfits in the trees which are purchased 
in this way, so there will always be a 
goodly proportion of fruit growers who 
want their trees delivered in the Fall. 
IIow to Unpack. —The picture on our 
first page shows a fruit grower and the 
hired man unpacking a case of trees just 
as it came from the nurseryman. Thev 
are leaving these tree roots exposed more 
than we would, especially on a windy day. 
We should not open that case until we 
had the trench or furrow all cleared out 
ready to receive those trees. It may be 
that no great harm would be done by 
leaving the roots exposed for a while to 
the wind, but we have found that it pays 
to be a little careful or even cranky in 
matters of this kind. It pays to have the 
helpers trained to the idea that the only 
place for a tree root is in the soil or un¬ 
der cover. They will be careful in hand¬ 
ling the tree if brought up in this way. 
Heeling In. —Our plan is, when buy¬ 
ing in the Fall, to plow out a deep furrow 
on some piece of well-drained and pro¬ 
tected soil. We notice that some farmers 
make a mistake of wintering such trees 
on a low piece of garden ground near the 
buildings, where water frequently stands, 
and where the trees are unprotected from 
the wind. We think this is a mistake, 
and we select a piece of medium ground 
on the south side, of a little slope, which 
protects it from the prevailing winds. By 
going over two or three times with the 
plow a deep, wide furrow is made, and 
this is cleared out somewhat with spade 
and hoe. When the box is opened we 
dash several buckets of water over the 
tree roots, then the bundles are taken out 
one at a time and carefully examined. 
We look first for scale, especially on the 
trunk and in the joint of the young 
shoots. Then the roots are examined for 
crown gall and borers. We know growers 
who prefer to use a lime-sulphur mixture 
and dip the tops of the tree into it after 
examination and before they are heeled in 
for Winter- In this way many scale and 
other insects are destroyed, and there is 
a general belief that a light colored tree 
will stand the Winter Potter than one in 
its natural dark color. 
Reject Poor Stock. —If we found on 
opening the case that any large number 
of these trees were afflicted with scale or 
crown gall, we should promptly reject 
them. They would be heeled in carefully 
by themselves, and we should write at 
once to the nurseryman, giving their con¬ 
dition exactly, and if we were within rea¬ 
sonable distance of the experiment station 
and the order was a large one, we would 
get someone from that station to come 
and certify that the trees were as repre¬ 
sented. The county agent would prob¬ 
ably do this if requested. There is no 
reason why any grower should accept af¬ 
flicted trees of this sort, and if there is 
anything wrong with the trees, the time 
to make the complaint about it is when 
they are taken out of the case and exam_ 
ined. This is another argument for buy¬ 
ing trees in the Fall, for they can be care¬ 
fully examined at your leisure, whereas 
in the Spring, in the rush of planting, it 
is frequently impossible to give them a 
thorough examination or to return them 
in case they are not satisfactory. When 
a man pays a first-class price for a No. 
1 tree he should not under any circum¬ 
stances, permit himself to accept any¬ 
thing else, and a thorough examination at 
the time when they arrive is the best way 
to find out whether he is getting what he 
ordered or not. 
Keep The Labels. —A grower should 
also examine the labels on every package. 
In some eases this label is merely at¬ 
tached to one tree, and not to the entire 
bundle of trees, as it ought to be. If by 
accident the wire or rope that ties up the 
entire bundle should be broken, it would 
be very difficult to identify the trees in 
that bundle later on. In such cases we 
make another large label and tie it on to 
the entire package, so as to be entirely 
sure that they can be identified. A grower 
should keep the labels which come on 
these trees, just as he would keep express 
receipts or cancelled checks, because later 
on, in case he finds these trees are misfits, 
he will be obliged to prove the identity of 
the trees, and if he keeps the label and 
makes a note of just where these trees 
were planted his task will be an easier 
one. 
Winter Protection. —If the trees 
prove satisfactory they should go bundle 
by bundle as fast as they are examined 
right into the furrow, the heads pointed 
away from the wind. We leave them at 
an angle of about 45 degrees- The roots 
should be covered about six inches deep 
of the damp soil and then stamped down 
tight, so as to fill the entire furrow, and 
to cover the trees to about four inches up 
from the roots. At one time we used a 
mulch of straw or coarse hay on top of 
this soil, or even a coating of manure. In 
such cases, however, the mice worked in 
under this mulch, and gave us great 
trouble. A little manure may be placed 
over the roots and away from the trunk, 
but generally speaking a thorough cover¬ 
ing with soil well stamped down over the 
roots will keep the trees through the Win¬ 
ter in good condition. In our own case 
we do not prune the trees until the 
Spring, although we find that some farm¬ 
ers cut them partly back as the trees are 
taken out of the box. We would rather 
winter them as they come from the nur¬ 
sery, so that if the tops are injured at all 
by cold weather during the Winter there 
will be only one pruning. If they are 
badly cut in the Fall and then affected by 
cold weather, it will be necessary to cut 
them once more. In any event a man 
should handle a tree pretty much as lie 
would a child. Buy a good tree and pay 
a fair price for it, then take proper care 
of it from the moment it comes on your 
farm. 
Advice About California 
My advice to the Eastern farmer who 
is thinking about coming to California to 
farm is not to come unless he has fully 
$10,000, but if he has that much money 
what is the use of trying new fields? He 
ought to make enough money there to 
take a trip out here every Winter. You 
can’t buy an improved farm here for 
what the buildings are worth, like you 
can back East. A man may know a lot 
about farming, but if he has never 
bought a piece of raw land, put up build¬ 
ings, bought tools and stock, spent a 
year or two leveling and checking the 
land for irrigation, he would better figure 
very carefully and then double the 
amount. 
A man buying land here should beware 
of the real estate agent that is splitting a 
large acreage into small tracts. Nine 
out of ten times they have purchased 
the poorest kind of land at almost noth¬ 
ing, and are offering it at a much larger 
price than is asked for better land near 
by. Almost all the land in California, es¬ 
pecially the large tracts, are grain- 
farmed to death, and although you may 
be a good judge of soil in the East you 
can be easily fooled here in California. 
Soil here is very streaked; while one acre 
of land might grow 50 bushels of grain, 
another acre within a hundred feet might 
not produce one-tenth as much. 
A mistake that many easterners make 
is to buy too much land. They should 
realize that good land here that can be 
irrigated will raise two to four times as 
much Alfalfa as Eastern land. And they 
must realize that even Alfalfa takes two 
years to be on a paying basis, and in the 
meantime they must pay water taxes and 
live besides. And if you Eastern farmers 
do come west don’t stop your subscrip¬ 
tion to Tiie R. N.-Y., because even in 
far California you will find that it will 
be of more help to you than any west¬ 
ern farm paper that I have seen. 
California. E. J. wilson. 
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A cious berries next season from June till November. Doubters can 
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Cherry Trees and General Line of other 
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For Sale-The Hemingway Farms 
offer their surplus German cattle beets—$0 per ton, 
F. O. B. Less than car loads at $7 per ton; pur¬ 
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buyers. T. E. BARLOW, Supt., Auburn, N. Y. 
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55 varieties, including the FALL BEARING 
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HARDY FRUIT TREES 
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