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THE BEAUFORT NEWS THURSDAY SEPT. 10 1925 PAGE TWO QMARD QUANING5 THINNING IMPROVES QUALITY OF PEACHES When the set of fruit Is heavy and excessive n proper thinning directly after the "June drop" Is an Important factor In Rood orchard practice, and directly affects the grade and quantity of fruit shipped. The grower's aim, however, Is for the tree to produce the largest possible amount of fruit that can attain the highest commercial standurd. The development of a great number of seeds Is a tree-exhausting process. This Is opposed to the development of large fruits. To meet this end, the grower must thin the fruit, says A. E. Schllletter, extension horticulturist at Clemson college. Perhaps no operation In the produc tion of peaches requires keener Judg ment than thinning the fruit. A com mon practice very generally appli cable, Is to thlo so that the fruits will not be nearer together than three to : four Inches after thinning. But the ' strength of the tree, the fertility of j th soil, and especially the soil mots- j ture, together with the size of the crop (or, In other words, the number j of fruits allowed to deelop on the J tree), govern very largely the size and j perfection of the Individual fruits, j UDVlousty, a vigorous iree growing under favorable conditions as to mols- j g rare, plant looa, etc., can aeveiop a larger number of fruits to good size than can a weak tree, or even the tame tree when there la a marked de ficiency either in the supply of mois ture cr of plant food. While thinning may cost a relatively large amount per tree, actually more high-grade fruit la produced, as a rule, on a tree which bears only a moderate cixp than on one which Is heavily overloaded, and the average fruit on the tree with a moderate crop Is of better grade than the best fruit of an overloaded tree. As the development of the pits 1 an exhaustive process, limiting the number of fruits tends to conserve the vitality of the tree. A large percent age of the flesh of the peach is water; hence, If the soil Is well supplied with moisture the development of the edi ble portion of the fruit makes a rela tively light demand on the strength of the tree. Control of Strawberry Pests Is Not Difficult The strawberry Is so universally j grown that It Is only nutural to ex- pect that there would be quite a nutu foer of Important insects and diseases ; attacking this crop. However, tht-y are not so serious but that they re spond to a little commonsense treut- i ment. A few precautions go much further than a large amount of cure In the case of the str;i wherry pests. The .flrst thing to always remember Is to get good plants. These should be ! strong plants, with good vigor, and , disease and Insect free. A good price puld for such plants Is money well in vesied. Many growers make the mis take of going to old worn-out beds that . are badly infested with Insects and j diseases, and take from them weak, , 'devitalized plants and they hope to j start in the strawberry business with ; such a stock. It cannot be done. It ! Is only with a vigorous, strong plant J which will pass inspection that oue can j hope to t;et a reasonable start. , Tlie second stPi which will go a u long ways In controlling the pests of the strawberry Is to choose the land upon which they are to be planted with care. In the first place, the strawberry is a crop which should al ways be rotated. Ntfver plant new plnts where un old bed has been growing but grow some other crops for lluve or four years and plant your Btrn wherries somewhere else. Neither Is it wise to plant strawberries 1m ni.dlMtel.v following the plowing up of a because the ground Is tilled wltli Insects which will attuck the it;:; wherry plants and will destroy them. It would he better to grow some hoed crop, like potatoes or corn, for a year before planting the Straw berry. Horticulture Hints Pruning should be doue before the sup rises. Some spray plums In late July or early August, using four quarts of lime-sulphur to fifty gallons of water. Put on the first application of bor deaux on grapes as soon as the leaves are out. Prepare stock solutions of blue- stone and stone lime for bordeaux spraya It saves time. The first step Is making a profitable orchard Is the proper care In planting and the right spacing of the trees. Too maty trees crowded Into a small space Is net a saving because they will not do well. It will prove all right to ptc a small amount of nitrogen fertilize on young trees as late as tbe middle of June. Lock out for cutworms In the tar den; paper slips or poison bait will stop Injury. . . , , Protection of California fruit or- as coast, during 24 hours after giving chards against frost has become al- warning of an approaching hurrj most an exact science because of the Cane, made more than 100,000 con accurate temperature predictions by rtections for weather information, the weather bureau. j Goats are sometinies driven over the plowed fields in the Nile Valley A telephone company on the Tex- to hep break tne ci0as. OLD But True Big Oaks From Little Acorns Grow The old saying that "Big Oaks From Little Acorns Grow" applies with ex ceptional triteness to the accumulation of a Savings Account. As small an a mount as one dollar may be used as the acorn from which seed you may grow your own oak tree of sav ings. 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