A review of the work of the Experimental Farms . They arc also grown with theview of utilizing any plant food not taken up by the fruit trees, thuspreventing its leaching. This plant food is returned to the soil the-following spring and may be readily used by the fruit that cover crop also takes up and transpires a large amount of water. 54 The removal of this from the soil lessens the amount available for thetrees, which ripen their wood earlier on this account, ensuring greatersafety from winter injury. The seed for cover crops should be sowrnfrom the middle of June to the middle
A review of the work of the Experimental Farms . They arc also grown with theview of utilizing any plant food not taken up by the fruit trees, thuspreventing its leaching. This plant food is returned to the soil the-following spring and may be readily used by the fruit that cover crop also takes up and transpires a large amount of water. 54 The removal of this from the soil lessens the amount available for thetrees, which ripen their wood earlier on this account, ensuring greatersafety from winter injury. The seed for cover crops should be sowrnfrom the middle of June to the middle of July. Where ripening ofwood is more important than conservation of moisture, the early seed-ing is preferable. Many kinds of cover crops have been grown atOttawa. Among the best are Red Clover, Summer Vetch, HairyVetch, Rape, and Crimson Clover. Ninety varieties of apples, mainly of the more tender sorts, weretop-grafted to learn if this would make them sufficiently hardy towithstand very cold winters, but it was found that it did not do Melon experiment at the Central Farm. Top-grafting on bearing trees will bring varieties into bearing earlier,however, than if they are grown as standard trees. The frequent ravages of mice in orchards are easily preventedand measures to this end should not be neglected. The best way is towrap the trunks of the trees with ordinary white building paper,putting a little soil about the bottom so that the mice will not get atthe trunk of the tree near the ground. If this has been forgottenuntil after snow falls, tramping the snow about the trees will protectthem. OTHER FRUITS. Much work has been done with other fruits as plums, peai>,cherries, grapes, etc., with a view to discovering by tests the superiorkinds suitable for conditions in various parts of Canada. Fromyear to year there are published in the Annual Report varietiesof these fruits recommended for the colder sections where it is at allpossible to grow these fruits. Nearly thre
Size: 1884px × 1326px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidreviewofwork, bookyear1913
