Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 106.—The same orchard as shown in Figure 105, after five yearstreatment. Therewere fifty-three trees in the orchard and it yielded as follows: 1908, 43 bbls.; 1909, 45 bbls.;1910, 205 bbls.; 1911, 50 bbls.; 1912, 175 bbls. the decline of these old orchards, two very thorough sprayingswill be necessary, one with oil in the autumn just after theleaves are off; and the other in the spring, with lime-sulfur, justbefore the buds swell. These two sprayings, with two forcodling moth, are generally all that are necessary. A th
Productive orcharding, modern methods of growing and marketing fruit . Fig. 106.—The same orchard as shown in Figure 105, after five yearstreatment. Therewere fifty-three trees in the orchard and it yielded as follows: 1908, 43 bbls.; 1909, 45 bbls.;1910, 205 bbls.; 1911, 50 bbls.; 1912, 175 bbls. the decline of these old orchards, two very thorough sprayingswill be necessary, one with oil in the autumn just after theleaves are off; and the other in the spring, with lime-sulfur, justbefore the buds swell. These two sprayings, with two forcodling moth, are generally all that are necessary. A thingwhich will interest and please the man who does the sprayingis to see how much easier the spraying becomes year by yearas the trees are gradually reduced in height by the successiveprunings. It is the tops of these tall trees that take the timeand the materials. 228 RENOVATING OLD ORCHARDS Renovation Practice.—As already suggested these theoriesof renovation have been tried out on many different history of one of these orchards may be worth stati
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