Productive farming . pe vines, will bleed or lose much sapif pruned too late in the spring. ExEECisE.—Fruit Bvds.—Twigs bearing both fruit budsand leaf buds may be selected from the different kinds offruit trees in the neighborhood. Compare these and learnto recognize fruit buds on trees in winter (Fig. 113). Exercise.—Pruning.—A small tree or upright branchfrom the wood-lot may be cut and brought to school. Letpupils first mark with chalk what hmbs and twigs shouldbe taken off. Then have the pruning done in accordancewith the lesson taught in Fig. 109. Either sharp knives orspecial pruning sh
Productive farming . pe vines, will bleed or lose much sapif pruned too late in the spring. ExEECisE.—Fruit Bvds.—Twigs bearing both fruit budsand leaf buds may be selected from the different kinds offruit trees in the neighborhood. Compare these and learnto recognize fruit buds on trees in winter (Fig. 113). Exercise.—Pruning.—A small tree or upright branchfrom the wood-lot may be cut and brought to school. Letpupils first mark with chalk what hmbs and twigs shouldbe taken off. Then have the pruning done in accordancewith the lesson taught in Fig. 109. Either sharp knives orspecial pruning shears (Fig. 114) may be used in this exercise. FRUIT PRODUCTION 193 Culture.—The young orchard should be-kept growingrapidly. Considerable organic matter and nitrogen in thesoil will help produce this early gro-nih. To obtain thesematerials the best fruit growers sow cover crops in the orchardeach year, to be plowed under in the spring. If these cropsare composed partly of legumes, such as crimson clover and. Fig. 112.—Young peach tree, summer pruned by pinching off small shoots. winter vetch, they will gather the nitrogen for the youngtrees to use. After the cover crop or green manure is plowedunder in spring the ground is kept well harrowed until inid-svunmer (Fig. 115); then the cover crop is again sown. Oneinfluence of the fall cover crop is to check late fall groWth,especially in peach trees, and cause the seasons growth toharden up for 194 PRODUCTIVE FARMING The first year or two some orchardists grow a crop formarket between the trees. In such cases this crop shouldhave clean culture until July or August. Fall cultivationis not desirable, as the young shoots are more apt to winter-
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