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Orchard Notes 
Handy Orchard Ladders 
The three-legged stepladder shown in 
Fig. 642 is made by drawing two legs 
on the support side of an ordinary ladder 
together at the bottom. It is just as 
strong as an ordinary ladder, and with a 
man working on the top step it will not 
tip sideways any more easily. The three- 
legged ladder will stand firmly on uneven 
ground where a four-legged ladder would 
teeter back and forth, so that the man 
using it would be in danger of spilling 
his fruit, and possibly himself. Any 
picker can do much better work with a 
ladder that stands firmly wherever placed 
than he can with one that he has to even 
the ground for, or else it will wobble. 
The three-legged ladder can be secured 
in all regular sizes for stepladders. Some 
of the larger ones are made so the two 
sides can be straightened perpendicularly 
and secured there, making a 10 or 18- 
foot ladder with a pointed top. This 
ladder is also very handy for working 
around large trees. 
The Avheel ladder is one of the handiest 
ladders that could be found for picking 
pears and apples. It is made with a 
pair of wheels about 40 inches high, and 
with the standard tread. The eight-foot 
handles are two by fours and the ladder 
16 feet. The rear braces of 1x2 lath and 
nine feet long are plenty heavy enough. 
The inside braces are about six feet long, 
made from i^>x.‘l-inch stuff and crossed 
from one side of the frame to the opposite 
side of the ladder. They are also notched 
together where they cross, making a very 
strong brace. This ladder will support 
a heavy man at the top, and he can reach 
in any direction desired. It is light, 
easily moved and ready for use as soon 
as you set it down. If it is- not turned 
sideAvays it can be used on any ordinary 
side hill. Longer ladders can be made 
by enlarging the general specifications. 
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Barren Quinces; Light Apple Crop 
Could you tell me what the trouble 
can be with my quince bushes? They 
have been full of bloom two years in suc¬ 
cession, but bear no fruit;" in fact, no 
fruit sets at all. These quince bushes 
Avere treated Avith a coat of stable fer¬ 
tilizer last Fall. Avhich Avas spaded under 
last Spring, and they are standing Avhere 
other trees are thriving. p. s. 
Wai-Avick, N. Y. 
It is d'flicult to say definitely as to the 
cause of the failure of your quince bushes 
to set fruit. It is not at all uncommon 
for quince trees to fioAver the first or sec¬ 
ond year after planting, but they should 
not be expected to produce much fruit 
until they are at least four or five years 
old. If they have been groAving A'ery 
sloAvly they might fail to set much fruit 
until older than this. Occasionally quince 
trees are severely attacked by croAvn or 
root gall and remain small and Aveak in 
vigor. One can easily determine Avhether 
the trees are affected by this disease by 
removing the .soil to the depth of a feAV 
inches about the base of the bush or tree. 
If the bushes are young and groAving 
quite vigorously they will probably fruit 
Avithin the next year or tAA’O. Quince 
blooms are occasionally damaged by a 
late frost, so that this is a possible factor. 
Late Bearing Spy 
I have a fine Spy tree which bears nice, 
large apples, but does not bear A’ery many 
at any time since it came to bearing. The 
tree has borne fruit the last five years, 
but only a peck at the most. The tree is 
about 12 years old, big, fine and healthy. 
Lost Ci’eek, Pa. F. s. 
The Northern Spy apple Avhen grown 
upon a strong loam soil often continues 
to make so much Avood groAvth that it is 
late in coming into bearing. The same 
A'ariety commonly produces fruit earlier 
upon sandy or gravelly soils, Avhere the 
tree is not so much inclined to make 
heavy Avood groAvth. You do not state 
whether this tree is under cultivation or 
in sod. If under cultivation its groAvth 
could be checked and the tree brought 
into bearing by putting the land around 
it in sod for a year or tAvo, although it 
might not be a good practice to continue 
this after the tree had come into full 
bearing. If the tree is receiving large 
amounts of available nitrogen from being 
near a poultry or barnyard or the outlet 
of a seAver, this might tend to cause the 
tree to make an excessive groAvth at the 
expense of fruit production. As the tree 
is noAV 12 years old, it should produce 
good crops in the future unless it is re¬ 
ceiving an excessive amount of nitrogen. 
Enforcing the Fruit Laws 
Can anyone ansAA^er this conundrum? 
IToav does the Government help the farm¬ 
er? This is one Avay: lYe have a plufn 
orchard that had black knot in it years 
ago, Avhen it was prevalent in this section. 
A good neighbor of ours evidently keeps 
complaining to the Government that Ave 
have it there now, although this man 
hasn’t a decent plum or any other kind 
of tree on his place. lYhen Ave Avere so 
busy Ave didn’t knoAV which Avay to turn 
Three-legged Orchard Ladder. Fig. 642 
in the cherry and berry season a repre¬ 
sentative of the Department of Agricul¬ 
ture appeared and said the trees Avould 
have to be cut down. We told him it 
Avas impossible then, but we would at¬ 
tend to them Avhen we had time. Noav 
when we have 800 baskets of peaches to 
dispose of in a market where there is no 
sugar and consequently people will not 
buy peaches, 100 barrels of Kieffer pears 
and 100 barrels apples in the barn Avail¬ 
ing to be sorted and put up, between 200 
A Wheeled Orchard Ladder. Fig. 643 
and 800 barrels of apples to be picked, 
possibly 500 bushels of potatoes to dig, 
corn to husk, buckAVheat to get in and 
thrash, oats to thrash; and a good many 
more jobs Availing to be done, along 
comes the representative again and in.sists 
the trees must be cut doAvn or we Avill be 
fined. We have one man Avilling to Avork, 
besides myself, and one Avho sits doAvu 
Avhenever my back is turned. Now hoAV 
are those trees going to be cut down? 
Can anyone tell? 
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