. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page /I WEIL, TURNBULL & GO. DETROIT, MICHIGAN NINTH LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES Will sell your goods at auction or at private sale. We have a large interest in the United Fruit Auction Com- pany here and will guarantee best possible results and prompt remittance. Correspond with us if you contem- plate doing business in Detroit. We will furnish references that will justify you in making us your Detroit connection. LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE HOYT'8 TREE SUPPORT Tlie Propless Prop tliat requires no attention after once being set in No Poles
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page /I WEIL, TURNBULL & GO. DETROIT, MICHIGAN NINTH LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES Will sell your goods at auction or at private sale. We have a large interest in the United Fruit Auction Com- pany here and will guarantee best possible results and prompt remittance. Correspond with us if you contem- plate doing business in Detroit. We will furnish references that will justify you in making us your Detroit connection. LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE HOYT'8 TREE SUPPORT Tlie Propless Prop tliat requires no attention after once being set in No Poles Required. For All Orchards, Trees and Vines Over three million in use in California. Better than poles, and far cheaper SPECIAL TRIAL ORDER Send for IS of our 2-inch size, postage prepaid, for Try them and you will see how badly you have needed them Prices F. 0. B. Ashland 50 for §: 100 for : 1000 for Cash with Order 100 for : 1000 for G. W. BA8SETT, Ashland, Ore. The Charpitting Method of Destroying Stumps By W. H. Lawrence, Expert Hood River Apple Growers' Fellowship Association CHARPITTING method of destroy- ing stumps is one of the oldest. It has not come into general use, since conditions under which charpitting will take place are seldom ideal, and since the variable physical condition of the soils and stumpage is such as could not be desired for the best suc- cess. The method works well in most soils having a good percentage of clay, but where the soil will cave in when the wood is consumed, as is the case in nearly all sandy soils, far less satis- factory results are secured. Briefly, charpitting consists in piling a ring of kindling around the base of a stump, covering the same to a depth of about six inches with sod, except an open- ing, preferably on the windward side, where the fire will be started. Later this opening or vent is closed. This should not be done, however, until the kindling is all burning. After the fire is comple
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