.... . , sh^agbark hickories 
dickens 6 to propiga™. 1 1S S ° C f [ ' The tree is beautiful but I find it J s the very 
I have only a small st<M of these trees * 
varieties. Many of them art 3 on the rare treo He* °f a ««inber of 
sheet). You state the size y<F want to — -- Ilst - (Sg& otlxer 
on fitting- the variety to you r localR 
GET 
As company for my o 
or Shag-barks and hickory 
have about 70 varieties, 
get busy, they 
le^fiidge mountainside. I now 
ip*- --b company. My human friends 
go to the great beyond. The trees keep 
as the years roll by—very- interesting 
Association has 
company. 
During the last 25 years the Northe^n ivu/. Grower 
been advertising and offering prizes for tne nuts. Nearly a 
hundred varieties have been tliorvv e , nou ^ to name and give a trial 
Mr. Willard Bixby, of > nf ^ most of these as some of his 
?r ral JSte was . tWs ^ 
ift. -age collecuonarid to test out for the benefit th ?,, Hleko ™s for my 
A TtfEEOR TWO OR THREE OP SOME THIRTY'ORTORTY vIriItIII 
agai7Son S ^ i te^^^^fS® nterS that 1? "° l likely to h ™n 
HOW TO FERTILIZE NUT TREES 
At a recent meeting of the North¬ 
ern Nut Growers Association. Profes¬ 
sor Van Metre, Horticulturist at the 
Massachusetts Agricultural College 
Amherst, Massachti^^ ’ 
very important instruy 
to fertilize nut treotf. ~ 
His fundamental pointy that the 
tree must mature its growth . c riy, 
and by no means be in active growth 
lumn 
gave 
It is a fact that liberal use of 
manure, especially hen manure, and 
bone meal, or other organic fertiliz¬ 
ers, is liable to be releasing fertility 
late in the season and cause late 
growth. 
Late cultivation is equally danger¬ 
ous. 
I recall that a iiumber of years ago, 
a lazy teamster interpreted my orders 
to clean out the horse stable once a 
week and put the' manure around 
apple trees as follows: He put it on 
the trees nearest the house and he 
put it on several times. That Septem- 
it rained eleven inches and Oc- 
□ber was not dry. My Stayman Wine- 
sap apple trees made grand growth 
in October and November, and a num¬ 
ber of them burst open with a mod 
erate December freeze. And this in 
climate (Round Hill, Virginia on 
severe’ rS only a little more 
The 
apple trees that hapi-V,! i^£^ot ner 
standing near the road where ah 
drain had washed out a foot or two 
soakhg w, f^ mater ial and kept it 
A poultryman~^trfe«4L of mine 
thought he would really make . an 
English walnut tree grow. He gaw 
it a peck or two of hen manure. The 
result was beautiful to behold in the 
first year. He got twigs five feet 
long and thick as a walking stick. 
The tree looked like the “green bay 
tree” of Scriptures, plus. It almost 
co^mDletely winter killed the follow- 
ing-^kjnter. The companion tree on 
lawn was okay. 
trouble sea s°ns I have gone to the 
lish walnVl^ially pRer^g Bn f" 
get them to usdW" * h ® ta 
growth. and bardaS®®: fertilizer, get 
wood early. 
Manure is good if you can e-et 
away with it. I use it frequenllv in 
Wack hl wa < i elP t hia c,imate on hickories, 
some useff it!?! ” ’ aad . pecans. I have 
some used it, once or twice, on chestnuts 
S^ood results. But on them north 
^WMfi^lany.nut tree • . , 
is talmu WSm' 
taboo on Chinese^cjm!I^SBiS®fiiiif^"* 
New York City, Harrisburg and 
burgh, Pennsylvania, amp the umu 
River. 
TO PLAY SAFE, FERTILIZE NUT 
TREES AS FOLLOWS: 
Fertilize^them in the spring only. 
Use quick dissolving nitrates, name¬ 
ly—nitrate of soda, sulphate of am¬ 
monia, for acid-loving chestnuts. Use 
cyanamid for alkali-loving walnuts 
and hickories. 
Use superphosphate for phosphor¬ 
ous. Use muriate of potash for pot¬ 
assium, and don’t be stingy with any 
of them. Bear down especially on 
phosphorous and potash. Excess will 
do no harm. 
By this system the nitrates will 
push rapid spring growth and then, 
especially if you let weeds and grass 
grow aft^r August 15 th, the twigs 
will harden up nicely and greatly im¬ 
prove the tree’s chances of coming 
through winter. Potash makes wood 
uti<t****. disease. 
I cannot ,, . . ' 
ment, but pending li lll'l'idhi i , 
+hat the above method of feeding, 
aoaitmrP to letting trees go into sod 
as soon a^ you can, will let almost 
any tree extend its area of successful 
growth one hundred, or even two 
hundred miles farther to the north. 
• i.sS xan } ple ’ they get into trouble 
m California with a thing as hardy 
as pecan because late irrigation puts 
it into late growth and a moderate 
early frost kills a tree that survives 
thirty degrees below zero in Iowa 
without dropping a bud scale. 
Liberal nitrogenous fertilizer is es¬ 
sential for good growth of trees in 
sod. One cultivation in early spring 
will give the tree an inside track at 
the nitrogen. 
Do not fertilize the year you plant 
unless the tree is moved with a ball 
of earth. 
and harden tn^, 
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