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 early November of that season we would it do to dig holes for the trees, THE -
had a severe wind and sand storm. say four feet in diameter, down to this
 1.lanyof the trees on the side toward muck (not hard-pan), then sink some
 the storm were partly denuded of foliage three or four six.inch holes throughit s. B. HUBBARD COMPANY
 then it' occurred to me that it to the sand .and drive into them ,
 was a good ime to complete the shap split lightwood stakes, then fill up JACKSONVILLE
ing process in the way of pruning.All and plant the trees? My idea is thatit FLA.
 trees at this time were carefully would very greatly help in times of HARDWARE AND STOVES
gone over a second time and rounded drought. U you think this would ,
in, many wagon loads of trimmingswere would it aid
 answer not many a fiat- DOORS
 consigned to the brush heap. woods grower?. I think it would SASH, BLINDS, PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISH.
The following season the trees grew afford under-draining and also bring i M4 ,"v111,1'4' : MUI.JI.-.Lll.
beautifully, forming fine compact py water in dry times by capilary at Agents We are StateD] ;We Have
ramidal masses; the blossoming and traction. Your valuable paper I look One an dTwoeHorse HOUSE IIAY RAKES
set of fruit was comparatively light, for each week and always enjoy it.
except on the small branches andspurs FRANCIS K. ADAMS. BUCKEYEMOWERS In stock.
 on the inside of the trees; the DeSoto county. .V and G ffft tread.
trees for the season possibly did not Whether you call it hardpan or not, i The 6 foot Is suit
average: more than a box apiece, butit this "brownish, mucky-looking soil" i r' t able for use In
 was all first-class fruit. Pruning probably contains iron and is the A contptrt Jfoirrr tork and; of ORANGE GROVES.
from that time has been followed up cause of all your trouble. Probablyyou Ilrnaln on hand at.Factory
continuously but necessarily much would find that if spread around 1'rtcf*. Write for Prices.

lighter, confined to struggling branches strawberry plants, it would kill them.In WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF THE FAMOUS
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and those of too rampant growth. a grove of our acquaintance having 'X' XAS RANGE PLO"VS,"
 Now, what is the result? The fruit this kind of subsoil in spots the die- A Full Hn of JtrjMtlra for ""mr..
gathered from these trees is uniform back trees were pulled out, holes were Acme Orange Grove and Two-Horse Pulverizing: Harrows, the Boy
in shape and size, smooth skinned dug five or six feet in diameter and Dixie Cast Plows, and a full line of Farm and Agricultural Implement ,
and seedless. We are not bothered four feet deep, quite down throughthis of all descriptions. Agents for the Planet Jr. Horse and Hand Tools, sold
with rough, irregular specimens or poisonous soil. The holes were at factory prices. Send for catalogues.
with fruit ripening up before the proper filled: with wholesome surface soil .
 market sizes arc attained. The hauled from a distance and healthy 1 p 1
heavy wood is kept largely on the inside trees planted. This was seven years .
 of the tree out of the sun as much ago and most of the trees are now do
with Eureka as with the Lisbon. We ing well and beginning to bear. In r xr
have none of the small yellow (fruit t to. the case of a few, when their roots
speak of that requires picking beforeit grew$ out of the "made earth" and
 reaches the market size, and thereare struck into the snufl-colored stratum,
 comparatively speaking, no cullsor they began to show dieback a little ,.
 waste as there always will be where again. But it has been found that by
trees are allowed to grow at will. Asa treating them with liberal surface applications 
 proof of what I say as to the fruit of hardwood ashes or sul
produced under this rigid system of r phate of potash and using mulching r ...
pruning, the fruit from this orchardwas cultivating very little, if any, espec- -
 shown at the Los Angeles citrus ially during the rainy season-the die- M j !A
fair in and took back be almost T
 1892 first price on can wholly overcome. :
best box of Lisbon and best box of r One tree in particular was in the ..._-J\ {. :. ..uw ,;. f -1 I1Il_' : :
Villa Franca, and second prize on .most wretched condition imaginable,
best box of Genoa. Again, at the having only a thin pancake of laterals, PLANKT an.. nOME HOE wren LEVER AND LEVER, WIIBXL.
Southern California State fair held at no rootlets or (feeders whatever. From -

Colton, just past, fruit from the same mere curiosity it was taken up and the IRRIGATING MACHINERYBOTH
orchard shown by J. W. Freeman, roots washed clean of soil; a capacious
took first prize for the best display of f hole was dug and filled with sods and STEAM, HORSE AND HAND POWER.
lemons, also first prize (for best 30 rich earth, muck, ditch scraping, etc.
lemons. The trees picked the past It is today as vigorous and healthy as Carry a stock of Steam Pumps, Boilers*
season have averaged about five boxes any tree in the grove, with a dark, Wrought and Galvanized Pipe, Valves.
each and are at this time a mass of rich green color and a dense head Fittings,Hose, Etc. Estimatos furnished
)young fruit and (flowers.-Rural Cal without a sign of dieback. It has for Plants put in complete and guar-
ifornian. grown so fast, however, that it has
 .. only two oranges on it, but it will anteed satisfactory. Hand Spraying
 Hardpan. doubtless bear in its own good time. H-iBI Pumps of every description. Send for
HtI+MI' Partner and I'ruit Grower: We think the trouble with your Catalogue of How and When to Spray.

 My land is flatwoods and averages trees arises, not from an excess of f Nozzles, Pipe, etc., made to order in our .
about sixty large pine trees to the water, but from this corrosive acid -
acre. The grove is in twenty-foot probably ferric acid. If you want to machine shop.
lands with a deep dead furrow between. keep your grove on this kind of soil i
There is a fall of eight fen to the half you must cultivate shallow or not at t .,
mile due west. I have all sweet seedlings all, thus not (forcing the roots to rundown
 that are eight to ten years old. into this poisonous subsoil. I It 6
Now, during the rainy season they will be a hard matter to make a good
make a good growth, but as soon as paying grove in such a situation at
the dry season comes in they die back best. h
and no amount of fertilizer seems to c itt
aid them. Underlying the whole The 1\iineFertilizer'o.'aollleentJuc -
tract at from eighteen inches to four gonrille, at the *Hyjjetion! of their AitrYork
feet below the surface is a compact office and their AVi York uyentt, ..1.1k ,
 trill inanynnttc" (tyttem, of cut rates on
bed of brownish, mucky-looking soil 1 allayricultitral chemicals: after Decemlxr15th. a ;
that is about eighteen inches thick. ; ThM will te purely an ejcjwriment.
It seems to hold the water, althoughif Yon, hid 'utter take adiwitayeof whit a .
 brought to the air it crumbles to I it latt See ad. on IH'ye 44?.
dust. Under it is fine white sand I, AGENTS FOR
mixed with shell and phosphate ; under I- I. Hatch Chickens by Steam. I VO"YL S' STE A.M PUMMPS.
 that heavy shell.I I I IMPROVED; EXCELSIOR INCUBATOR All IAUennlweretl the Day they are Received.
 have 'a fourteen-foot driven well \'i f : 8i.1 It.eta..t'.y.A..dF.vtt.. motel CJPC THE S.
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and the water is the same as artesian, I nuthAn 1MDt.an. !
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but of iron. I
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