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“ADJUSTO” 
Plant Support 
Patent Applied For 
There have been many plant supports 
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Repairing Damages in the Orchard 
Part I. 
I*REVEXTiVR Measures. —When n man 
|)lants an applo orchard enthusiasm is the 
dominant noLc. and he goes to much 
trouble to do the job well. The dream 
picture of beautiful fruit and fine jtrofits 
ill coining days is enchanting. Will the.se 
fine thing.s be realized? There* is certainly 
a jiromise if the enthu.siasm continues, 
and the will to overcome and to conquer. 
'rh(>re are stumbling blocks, and it is a 
far cry from the jilanting of a tree to its 
full maturity, for it is subject to innu¬ 
merable accidents and vicissitudes which 
either si»(*<‘dily destroy it or imjiair its 
•us(*fulness ami value as a busiiu'ss prop¬ 
osition. It is to deal brielly with a few 
of the conunfui ills which are bound to 
occur under the most favorable «‘ircum- 
stances that this article is preiiared. Pre¬ 
eminently the young orchard is a place 
where “an ounce of pi-evention is worth a 
pound of cure.” So I shall speak of pre¬ 
ventive immsures. tlu'ii give some ideas of 
what is good treatment if things happen. 
Ben Davis Tree Jan. 27, 1918. See page 328 
First, if a tree is worth .buying and jdant- 
ing, it is surely good business to invest a 
few cents more to protect it while young, 
as far as mechanical means will allow, 
from the depredations of mice, wood¬ 
chucks and rabbits, and to some extent 
borers and damage from jilow and culti¬ 
vator. Therefore, get line Avoven galvan¬ 
ized wire netting and cut it into jiii'ci's :it 
least ‘24 inches long by PJ wide. Wrap 
('ach OIK* tightly •iroiind ii broom stick or 
j fork handle into cylinder form, which 
shaite it will retain, and it may then be 
[ (jiiickly sprung around a small tree and 
will alTord sjileudid protection for sevi*ral 
years, until the ilanger point is ims.sed. 
This, to be -sure, entails extra work and 
extra expi'iise. but it is worth many times 
its cost, and lazy and cheap metjiods will 
nev(>r win out in the making of a succe.ss- 
fiil orchard. 
P.ARK l-X.ifRY. — .\bout the first thing 
to happen, some nice, tree will get a bad 
siamidiig during tailtural jirocesses. At¬ 
tend to this at once, while the sore is 
moist and new; trim off all ragged bark 
and apidy a jilaster of fresh cow manure 
an inch thick, wrappi'd well with idd bag¬ 
ging. or cover the wound with grafting 
wax. If tin* tree is in good growing con¬ 
dition it will orobably conn* out all right 
in a yi'ar or so. Healing will not be so 
rapid if the wound gets dried out before 
the renu'dy is .“iiiilied. This is good treat¬ 
ment for bark injuries for trei's of any 
age. Accidi'iits of this nature happening 
during July and August will to soim* ex¬ 
tent heal themselv(*s, though they should 
not be neglected. A’ew growth and bark 
is rapidly formed over a wound made at 
this time of year. 
The llo.s'iTEE Woodchtck.—I f the 
tre«‘S are not prot<‘ct«‘d by scri'ens or 
othi'i'wise, and there are woodchucks near, 
the orchardist will some day make the 
discovery that a dozen or more of his 
‘ choicest are mutilated almost to the jioint 
of destruction. Just what these animals 
gain by clawing uj) the bark of an apple 
tree we do not know, but it is a favorite 
ga'me of the woodchucks when they can 
get at it. If there is a wodchuck hole in 
the orchard you are bound to have life¬ 
long ti'ouble from this source. No matter 
how ofti'u you seek to destroy it or its 
inhabitants, I never knew one to bo aban¬ 
doned more than temporarily. It is pos¬ 
sible that cyanide will destroy them alto¬ 
gether; it is worth trying. For the hurt 
trees, clean off roughenc'd bark and wrap 
thick with cow manure, or use grafting 
wax; they may come out in fair shape. 
Kill your woodchuck if you can; others 
will return. Protect the trees; if j*ou 
have no screens, wrap with .sticks, lath, 
cornstalks, bushes, and part of your wor¬ 
ry M'ill be removed. 
Damage from Mice. —Next be pre¬ 
pared against our orchard enemies for 
disturbaiures incident to the Winter sea¬ 
son—mi<‘e; they start working early, 
fiften in October. In the early Fall clear 
away gra.ss, weeds, sods and litter from 
the base of the trees for a space of two or 
three feet, and put up a little mound of 
soil around the trunks, unless the tree i.s 
screened. It is pretty dispiriting to make 
a visit to the orchard from which we are 
hoping so much to discover that trei's here 
and there have been girdled—verily de- 
stroyi'd. before we know what is going on. 
It is a calamity that might have been pre¬ 
vented. A tree entirely girdled is worth¬ 
less and would better be replaced at once 
by a new tree. It is true there is a pos¬ 
sibility of saving -it by bridge-grafting, 
but it will scarcely i>ay. In the case of a 
tree partialy girdled, however, I would 
seek to restore it by bridge-grafting, 
though this is .a job requiring some skill 
in horticiilf oral jiractiia's to ('iisure its 
succi'ss. One or more scions making a 
sa|> connection over the injured surface 
will help bring a thrifty tree out in pretty 
good shape. The denuded wood should be 
painled or waxed or given a <-ow-manure 
plaster. 
ItAuiiiTS .\.\i) Rohehs.— Rabbits work 
during tin* Winter, biting and tearing out 
strips of bark, doing IIk* same .sort of 
damage that a woodidiiick does. The 
remedial treatment is flu* .same. It pays 
where young orchard trees are not 
screened or cribbed to make freciuent ex¬ 
aminations in Winter, and correct dam¬ 
ages at once. In localities where borers 
are troublesome, eti'rnal vigilance is the 
price we must pay for tin* iireservation of 
tin* orchard inta.ct. 'riie varioii.s washes 
recomiiH'uded are not entirely successful; 
wrapjiing with paper about the base of 
the tri'e may ki'cp them out. but I do not 
think it is a good idea to keep close wrap¬ 
ping like jiajier around a tree continu¬ 
ously. If they have efi’ected an entrance, 
till* only thing t< do is to get them out by 
lu'roic cutting, and if the tree is not too 
far gone, cover the mit surface with wax 
:ind try bridge-grafting. 
Winter I.nmuuie.s are of various kinds 
and in this part of the country are fre¬ 
quently of much consequence. Very little 
may be done in guarding against these 
things. Oftentimes trouble is not noted 
until Summer is advancing, when certain 
trees, several of them it may be, are seen 
to be .sickly and failing, with symptoms so 
obscure that diagnosis is difficult. These 
conditions may be generally charged up 
against some unfavorable influence of the 
jirevious Winter. Such trees generally die. 
There is not much that can be done. 
Sometimes Winter damage of this nature 
only affects a portion of a tree, and dying 
limbs are noted in the Spring; amputa¬ 
tion is the only remedy. 
Collar Rot. —This is primarily a Win- 
t(*r injury, and when discovered all dam¬ 
aged bark should ' be removed and cut 
smoothly back to healthy bark, if any 
n>maius, the eximsed wood painted or 
waxed and the damaged area bridge- 
grafted as in the ca.se of girdled trees. If 
the hurt is not too .serious, this treatment, 
with good cultur.il stimulation, may bring 
a tree back into comiiarative health. 
Where all the bark is gone the tree will 
not survive. tv. .s. teator. 
BOY wanted a dog, and the rich 
uncle said: “Well, Eddie, suppose I 
save you two hundred dollars for a dog, 
would you siiend that whole sum in one 
dog, or would you buy a pretty good 
dog and put the rest of the money in 
the savings bank?” “Well, uncle,” re¬ 
plied Eddie, “if you leave it to me, I 
would buy two hundred one-dollar dogs.” 
■—(b-edit Lost. 
