SHAPING YOUNG TREES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 452, 30 March 1912, Page 6

SHAPING YOUNG TREES.

Too often trees are planted as they are received from the nursery and left unpruned with the erroneous idea of obtaining fruit earlier than when pruned, A very little thought should convince the planter that the trees must naturally receive a check in lifting, no matter how careful and skilful the person may be in the work, and at this time a certain amount of cutting back is not only necessary for shaping the tree, but is helpful. If planted carefully and well abundance of young growth wiil be made, so that a well furnished head will be formed the first season and the foundation laid for a productive tree. In pruning, the main thing to study is to have the branches evenly distributed not crowded, but at sufficient distances to form pemanent branches, so that in pruning the shoots should always be cut with that end in view, cutting back to a bud pointing in the direction the branch is wanted to grow.

A straw roof on the stable means cooler quarters, but when permanent stables are erected there is nothing so lasting as galvanised iron. A small plot of lucern well manured, will produce a succession of cutting for several years. An Irish farmer from the country of Kildare claims a record in prolific calving. He has an Irish mull (hornless) cow, six years old, and has had six calves in little over 24 months, viz., twins.v bulls, October 26th, 1909; twins, bull and heifer, November IKt.h, ioin : twtna. heifers