. Eastern fruit . f^M^^s'"- •k'cMi.'S^ ^r~~: F About this time of the year people jsually begin to inquire about some sure method of preventing mice from vorking round young peach trees. From several years' experience we have found what we believe to be a at her sure method of warding off this evil. About the latter part of Oc- tober or the beginning of >3"ovemt)er We take all the trash and weeds from round the trees we are protecting and throw six or seven shovelfuls of dirt—that is, real dirt, no grass in it —round the bottom of each tree. This earth must be tramped well and sho
. Eastern fruit . f^M^^s'"- •k'cMi.'S^ ^r~~: F About this time of the year people jsually begin to inquire about some sure method of preventing mice from vorking round young peach trees. From several years' experience we have found what we believe to be a at her sure method of warding off this evil. About the latter part of Oc- tober or the beginning of >3"ovemt)er We take all the trash and weeds from round the trees we are protecting and throw six or seven shovelfuls of dirt—that is, real dirt, no grass in it —round the bottom of each tree. This earth must be tramped well and shotild form a mound five or six 'nches high right against the trunk. Unless the ground is in a very weedy '. ""ondition the whole operation does not take over two minutes. At this rate an orchard of several acres can be cared for in a few hours' spare time. Some four years ago we had be- tween three and four acres of peach [trees that were two and three years ; old. Some of the trees had been bo badly girdled that they died and many of the others were stunted so that it took them a whole year to make up the lost growth. We plowed a furrow about a foot away from the base of the tree on each side of It. taking care not to go close enough ' or deep enough to injure the roots "' ' seriously. The work was done with a -^ one-horse plow such as is used for imade their way, and this is especially If has been found by careful ob- <-lose working in the orchard. By 'true of a young tree. servers that many varieties of fruit doing it this way much time Is saved | There is no need of taking down «ire sterile to their own pollen; that ARM JOURNAL is a iijrtfonal agricultural and home magazine, published monthly in Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. In circu- lation and influence it is unquestionably \\\e foiemost farm paper in the ivorld. It goes each month into six hundred thousand homes in the United States. Canada, Mexico, and foreign countries, and is regularly read by th
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