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tions have also tested the method with
satisfactory results.
The method was tested at the In
diana Station. The season was con
sidered exceptionally favorable. "The
i € suit of this experiment showed that
the peach tree was capable, after be
in*, deprived of all its roots and
branches, of producing a magnificent
root system and a top to correspond.
The dwarf pear, standard pear, Ger
man prune, and Early Richmond cher
ry came next in order, the latter mak
in? very little root development on
the prune trees."
Not all tests, however, have result
ed favorably. Of 25 apple trees plant
ed at the Nebraska Station in the
spring of 1896, only 10 were living at
the end of September in the same
j-ear, and very few of these showed
any satisfactory growth or vigor. Of
the check trees, some having the roots
cut back only about one-half and oth
ers untrimmed, not one died. From
tests made at the Missouri Station
with the apple, it was concluded that
"the injury caused by too close root
I>] lining is one that trees do not out
grow if they do not die outright.
The heroic pruning advised
by our Southern neighbor seems to
be unadapted to our conditions. The
mortality among our trees is too
great."
F rom the results of all the trials
thus far reported, it is evident that
this practice of close root pruning nei
ther merits unqualified approval nor
deserves sweeping condemnation. As
might have been expected, species
vary greatly in their ability to endure
severe root pruning. Among cultiva
ted trees, probably those which ex
perience the least ill effects are the
peach and pear. On the other hand,
the persimmon is a tree to which this
method probably would not be appli
cable, as it is liable to die if very
much of its long taproot is cut off.
The critics of this method have at
uibuted much of its success to con
ditions of soil and climate. On this
point the evidence is very unsatisfac
tory. Stringfellow, the most ardent
advocate of the method, working at
Galveston with the favoring conditions
ol' a warm, porous soil and high annual
rainfall, has obtained remarkable re
sults from close root pruning; but the
Georgia and Alabama stations have
also obtained satisfactory results un
der the adverse conditions of drouth
and poor, hard soil. These results
certainly contradict the statements of
certain critics, that the method is
successful only under favorable soil
and meteorological conditions. Again,
nearly all of these successes were
achieved in the Middle and Southern
states. The outcome under equally
unfavorable conditions in the North
might be different; in fact at present
tin evidence points in that direction.
Much field work is still necessary to
determine the limits of applicability
of this method. — (Farmers' Bulletin
No. 103).
The Vermont Farm Machine Co. of
Bellows Falls, Vt, manufacturers of
the Improved United States Cream
Separator, have shipped two furniture
cars loaded with United States Sepa
rators already this year for the West
ern Washington trade. They hold as
much as four ordinary cars, and they
expect to ship another car in sixty
days.
Every failure teaches a man some
thing, if he will learn.—Little Dorrit.
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THE GROWTH OF AN IDEA.
The best inventions are not the re
sult of accident. Those that do their
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patient experiment. Ideas in inven
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Is there a suggestion that a better
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a wagon that would save the farmer's
strength and his horses; save his time,
the expense of extra help; save his
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Keeping in mind that the farm wagon
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No reason was apparent why it should
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When the Electric people took up
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From the very commencement of their
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