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Garden and Farm Notes 
Trees from the Nursery 
Many readers want to know what they 
shall do with nursery trees when they 
arrive by freight or express. Many 
trees are destroyed or greatly weakened 
by wrong handling at this time. We ad¬ 
vise taking them out of the package just 
as soon as possible after they get to the 
farm and do not leave the roots exposed 
a moment longer than necessary. Heel 
the trees in as promptly as pos.sible. The 
picture given below, taken from Bulle¬ 
tin 269 of the Wisconsin Station, shows 
bow the trees .should be handled. We 
dig a trench, or if the shipment is heavy. 
Trees Heeled In 
])lo\\ a furrow on some well-drained open 
piece of ground. The roots are put down 
into this furrow at about the angle 
shown in the picture. Then the soil is 
l)lowed, packed over the roots or put 
hack with a spade—soil being stamped 
down over the roots. The object of this 
is to keep the dry air aw.-iy from the 
roots and give them a reasonable amount 
of moisture. If handled in this way they 
will keep fresh and bright. They 
should not be taken out of the ground 
until the field is all ready for their plant¬ 
ing. 
Making Bordeaux Mixture 
The picture given below is taken from 
it bulletin on “Managing the Oichard” 
by ,1. G. Moore, issued by the Wiscon¬ 
sin Experiment Station. Every year 
we have a large number of imiuiries ask¬ 
ing how to prepare the Bordeaux mix¬ 
ture. In this bulletin Brof. Moore gives 
the following instructions. The ingre¬ 
dients are eight pounds each of lime and 
sul|)hate of copper and 1(X) gallons of 
water. lie takes eight pound.s of blue 
Mixing the Lime and Copper 
vitriol or sulphate of copper and dis¬ 
solves it in water. When dissolved the 
solution is diluted to 50 gallons. A good 
way to dissolve the vitriol is to put it 
in a bag and hang the bag in a barrel 
of water. The eight pounds of lime must 
he thoroughly slaked and then put in 50 
gallons of water or the same quantity 
as the vitriol. Then dip from the two 
barrels and strain through a sack or 
metal strainer into the tank or barrel, 
as the men in the picture are doing. The 
amount of vitriol and lime mentioned 
above should be put in this way into 
100 gallons of water. In some cases the 
amount of lime and vitriol are reduced 
to six pounds each. In case there is a 
large amount of .spraying to be done 
“stock solutions,” so-called, are prepared. 
To make this solution of the vitriol put 40 
pounds of it into a burlap sack and hang 
it in a barrel containing 40 gallons of 
water. In about five hours the vitriol will 
be dissolved. One gallon of this solution 
represents one pound of the vitriol, and in 
making the Bordeaiix the worker figures 
on this basis. This solution should not 
stand in tin or iron packages; better use 
wooden ve.ssels entirely, and keep the 
barrel tightly covered to avoid loss of 
evaporation. hen the barrel is to stand 
unused for several days it is better to 
mark on the side of the barrel the 
height of the liquid, then if evaporation 
takes place add enough water to bring it 
up to this mark. The stock solution of 
lime is made by shaking 40 pounds of 
the lime, add more water slowly as the 
lime is slaking and stir thoroughly. Then 
add water enough to make 40 g.allons. 
Then when stirred up frequently one 
gallon of this lime water will represent 
one pound of lime and when the two 
liquids are jjoured together we get the 
true proportions in the Borde.aux. 
A test to show that the Bordeaux is 
of the proper strength is to drop into a 
sample of it a solution containing a few 
crystals of potassium ferro-cyanide in a 
small amount of water. If when this 
chemical is poured in a brown color 
shows, more lime should be added. 
Harvesting New Jersey Appies 
The picture on first page shows W. F. 
Ely picking Northwestern Greening ap¬ 
ples in his Morris County, N. .1., or¬ 
chard. These 500 trees were originally 
of the Campfield variety, set in 1878, 40 
feet apart each way. About 17 years 
later they were top-worked with choice 
market varieties, the scions being se¬ 
lected from the best individual trees 
found in various sections of AVisconsin. 
I’ennsylvania, A'irginia' and New .Jersey, 
The late Prof. E. 8. Goff, of Wisconsin, 
was t>f material assistance in getting 
these .scions, particularly AVolf River 
and Northwestern Greening varieties. 
The fruit has been marketed chiefly in 
the Oranges and Newark, N. ,1., which 
are within convenient wagon haul of the 
orchard. It was not peddled, but left 
at the large stores and commission 
homses, and brought the top market price, 
ranging from .$1.50 to $2 per bu.shel, ac¬ 
cording to variety and sea.son. One year 
the best Newtowns brought $4 i)er 
bushel. A few figures from Mr. Ely’s 
diary in 1900 are given, covering the av¬ 
erage price of picked and dropped aj)- 
ples of .several varieties: Baldwin, bu., 90 
cents; Pewaukee, $1.02; McMahon, 
.$1.05; AAolf River, ,$1.13; Rhode Island 
Greening, $1.05; Northwestern Greening, 
$1.25. In December of that year, 40 
bushels of Northwestern Greening were 
sold for $60, the buyer storing them 
for late Spring use. To avoid overload¬ 
ing the market at any one time, Mr. Ely 
built a cold cellar under a portion of 
his barn, where the fruit kept in good 
condition for the entire season, and for 
10 years he marketed apples every month 
—120 consecutive months. 
In the picture on first page the ladder 
was fastened to the limb by a hame 
strap around a rung. This was Mr. 
Ely’s usual practice. Only a moment 
was needed to adjust the strap, and he 
was then free to use both hands and 
reach as far as possible without danger 
of the ladder sliding. One year at pick¬ 
ing time he had a baseball player as tem¬ 
porary helper. When picking Wolf 
River, the enoi-mous sized apples filled 
the basket so rapidly that frequent trips 
to the ground were necessary, so where 
the fruit was thick they made a plan 
for dropping and catching the apples that 
worked well. Mr. Ely first picked three 
apples, holding one under the left arm 
and one in each hand. Then the base¬ 
ball man caught them in the .same way, 
and put them in the packing box, while 
the picker was getting another three 
ready. In this way they handled three 
bushels in the same time required to 
pick two as ordinarily done, and the fruit 
went directly into the market box. Of 
course big apples and a good catcher 
were necessary to make this plan a suc¬ 
cess.^ 
lilTTLE Hattie, determined to give her 
hero full credit for his achievements, 
wrot; in a history examination: “Abra¬ 
ham Dincoln was born February 12, 
1809, in a log cabin he built himself.”— 
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