BALLED AND BURLAPPED 
Handle Balled plants with ball and not by holding tops. Plant balls without re¬ 
moving the. burlap, so that the sack is below the ground. Do not break or crush the 
balls. 
PROTECT FROM FROST 
If orchard soil is kept fertile and cultivated thoroughly with shallow tillage through 
the spring, summer and fall season, the trees will remain dormant latey in the spring 
and escape late frosts. Watering trees or evergreens in vards will help prevent injury 
from cold, 
COVER CROPS 
Oats or other small grain drilled in the fall with hairy vetch makes an ideal cover 
crop to protect the soil from wind and water erosion. This cover crop may be disced 
into the soil about May 1st which will enrich the soil. Clean, cultivate in the summer. 
YELLOW LEAVES AND ROSETTE 
Use copper in soil, 4 tablespoonfuls for shrubs, rose bushes or grapes and corres¬ 
ponding amounts for larger trees. One pound of Zinc Sulphate to 50 gallons of water 
will control Rosette on pecan if sprayed on the trees when leaves are half grown. Re¬ 
peat the same spray 2 weeks later. 
ROOT ROT 
There is no cure for root rot. It occurs in spots mostly in lime sioils. Pecan, wal¬ 
nut and live oak are largely immune to this disease. 
RABBIT CONTROL—To help keep off Rabbits 
2 lbs. Sulphur, 2 lbs. Yellow Ochre, 1 gill Turpentine, 1 gill Linseed Oil, pint 
flour. Make into a paste with sweet milk. Apply with brush in fall or as soon as trees 
are put out. 
SUNSCALD 
In addition to pruning too low-headed trees, it is advisable to wrap trunks with 
paper or burlap or whitewash them. This will prevent sunscald. 
I make my own whitewash to protect trunks of newly set walnut and pecan trees. 
This same whitewash may be used on other trees also. 
Quicklime _.... 30 lb Tallo .... 4 lb Salt -.-. 5 lb 
(Add water to make a thin paste) 
FERTILIZER 
Moderate amounts of manure (applied in winter) or commercial fertilizer will help 
growth, color and production of flowers and fruit. Apply evenly in the soil in area twice 
the spread or height of tree or plant to be fed. 
TO MAKE ACID SOIL 
Add peat moss and good leaf mold to the soil. 
POLLINATION 
Bees and insects do this for you. Always put some, early and some late pollen shed- 
ders in pecans. Almost any other peach or apple will pollinate, Hale Peach or Delicious 
Apple. 
DISEASES 
You can get a complete spray schedule for controlling wormy peaches, coddling 
moth in apple or pear, black rot on grapes, case bearer in pecans, leaf spot on roses, 
flies on arbor vitaes, bagworms, borers, brown rot and other diseases and insect pests 
by consulting your County Agent or Home Demonstration Agent or write The Ex¬ 
tension Dept. A & M College. If you fail to get this help from' them, write us. We 
want your planting to be a success. 
AGES OF BEARING, AFTER PLANTING 
Peach, Plum, Nectarine, 2 to 3 years; Pear and Apricot, 3 to 5 years; Apple, 3 to 
4 years; Pecan, 3 to 4 years; Blackberry and De.w Berry, second spring; Boysenberry, 
second spring; Strawberry, first spring; Grape, 2 years; Figs, first year; Walnut. 2 to 
3 years. 
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