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Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (Volume 1920)

Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (Volume 1920)

Society, Wisconsin State Horticultural

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ISBN10: 1150640154
ISBN13: 9781150640155
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... and the strip between the rows kept clean. Such lands tend to become terraced, but the terracing is the lesser of two evils so we should be perfectly willing to follow it. On very steep land every other strip is kept in sod and the others cultivated, alternating every year or so. These different methods allow as much cultivation as conditions permit and under their respective conditions would constitute the best method of orchard soil management. For doing this cultivating the tractor holds a very prominent place, especially on large tracts. Heat and strikes do not affect it, if the tractor is suitable and the operator efficient. It handles heavier and larger tools, enabling you to cover a larger acreage each day, which means that your work will be done on time. In stumpy land, however, or on land too 'sidling' for a tractor, horses or mules are the best bet yet. SPRAYING THE FARM ORCHARD Mr. Peter E. Swartz, Waukesha. (Prom Reporter's Transcript) Some years ago I-attended a farmers' institute at Madison and when I got home I was asked, Did you learn anything up there V I said, ' Yes, I have learned a lot of things, ' and then I was asked what I thought was the most important thing that I learned that we could put in operation on our farm and I told them that I heard a talk on spraying apple trees. Well, that at once opened up an argument. One of my brothers said, Spray apple trees? Why we can hardly do all the work now on our farm, how can we spray apple trees? Well, according to that talk, all we need to do is to spray the apple trees and we are going to have clean apples, and we should try it. The trees were growing well, but we lacked the spraying outfit, and in talking this over, we thought that the largest sprayer we could get would be the best. W...

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