. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 2G The Bulletin. good thrifty trees, nurserymen take pains to fertilize and cultivate so as to make good soil. A pecan tree leaving such a soil and sud- denly finding itself thrust into an impoverished one with an impen- etrable wall of clay all about it generally dies from the shock. I believe it pays to make some previous preparation in the orchard prior to setting out pecan trees. After the land is staked off, deep and wide holes should be dug. This gives the roots of the young trees a wider root
. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 2G The Bulletin. good thrifty trees, nurserymen take pains to fertilize and cultivate so as to make good soil. A pecan tree leaving such a soil and sud- denly finding itself thrust into an impoverished one with an impen- etrable wall of clay all about it generally dies from the shock. I believe it pays to make some previous preparation in the orchard prior to setting out pecan trees. After the land is staked off, deep and wide holes should be dug. This gives the roots of the young trees a wider root range in which to become established. For this purpose it is a good practice in planting pecan trees to ''shoot" the holes with dynamite before the trees are planted, so that the roots can get down through the impervious layer. It has recently been found that this is the cheapest and most effective way of preparing holes for pecan trees. I have found from experience that 10 cents worth of dynamito. in m dunamited hole hoie\ 'â â â ;â . â â '.â â â J^-^i uSubsoilbroken UDbijblast % , -M. ^; waking eas0 iSsIMM i'- ''^^\'-:'^r''-^^^^kf'^') ^obstructing^. spread of0M roots W'^^m Fig. 10. By courtesy of DuPont Powder Company. blasting stumps or digging holes, will do more execution than 50 cents worth of labor. By using from one-half to a whole stick of 40 per cent dynamite, placed about 4 feet deep, an impervious subsoil or hard pan can bo cracked up and loosened for several feet around. 'Jlic dirt is not blown out of the hole, as might be expected, but is raised at the surface and a large cavity made in the ground below. It will be found by testing with a crowbar or sharp-pointed stake that it can easily be pushed down into the loosened soil for several feet. When it is desired to plant the tree the topsoil over the opened cavity below can be easily dug away with a spade. Fig. 9 shows a tree hole made by dynamite. The best way to make the hole for dynamite is by the
Size: 2372px × 1053px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcollectionbiodiversity, bookcollectionnybotani, bookyear1907
