Fruit Tree Planting in Montana |
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30 feet acre foot adapted amount of water apple trees base line best results best varieties branches bulletin cause wood growth chemical elements clover cover crop cubic foot cut back dormant EDMUND BURKE Expenditure field foot per second frosts fruit buds fruit crop fruit growing fruit plants fruit spurs furrows grade green manure ground grower grown harrow heal heavy hole humus inches deep Income land laying out orchard leaf buds leaves limbs LINFIELD main stem McIntosh Red method moisture necessary northern exposure Northern Spy number of fruits oats open-centered tree orchard soils orchard tract pears peas phosphoric acid piece-root grafted trees placed plant growth plowing plums pounds of nitrogen pounds of phosphoric pounds of potash principles of pruning production of fruits prove pruning fruit trees removed roots season seed spring surface tape line thin the fruit three or four tree stake trees per acre trunk twigs valleys vigorous growth wounds
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Page 2 - Post Office, Express and Freight Station, Bozeman. All communications to the Experiment Station should be addressed to THE MONTANA EXPERIMENT STATION, Bozeman, Montana NOTICE.—The Bulletins of the Experiment Station will be mailed free to any citizen of Montana on request. Please state whether all publications are desired as issued or only those specified. Give name and address plainly.
Page 2 - McCo.NNELL ....... Helena OP CHISHOLM . . . . . . . Bozeman SD LARGENT ....... Great Falls GT PAUL .... .... Dillon EO BUSENBURG ....... Lewistown CHARLES R. KESSLER ....... Helena EXECUTIVE BOARD JAMES M. HAMILTON, President ..... Bozeman J H. BAKER, Vice-President ...... Bozeman WALTER S. HARTMAN, ...... Bozeman GEO. Cox, Secretary and Treasurer ..... Bozeman STATION STAFF F.
Page 13 - established along a fence or permanent road, running east and west and marked off at intervals at which the trees are to be planted. From the stakes thus established lines can be run across the field at an angle of 60
Page 14 - Fig. 2—Method of laying out orchard tract for planting in equilateral triangles distance either north or south and marked off at intervals of 30 feet, the same as the base line. One end of the tape line is then held in peg No. i, (see Figure 2), in line AB, and the other end of the tape is held at stake No.
Page 14 - angles is not available a steel tape or wire about 360 feet long should be provided. This tape should be marked off at intervals at which the trees are to be planted. If the trees
Page 13 - with a surveyor's transit or other instrument that will measure angles. These lines are then marked off at intervals at which the trees are to be planted. If an instrument for
Page 21 - phosphoric acid and 49 pounds of potash. From the analyses made by Prof. Burke of the Montana Agricultural College Experiment Station, as shown on page 4 of this bulletin, we see that there is 1947 pounds of nitrogen, 2137 pounds of phosphoric acid and 11220 pounds of potash in the top eight inches of Montana
Page 12 - and in certain locations, and on certain kinds of soil one or the other of these varieties will prove very profitable. Throughout the eastern portion of the state, in the fruit districts, the Mclntosh Red, Jonathan, Gano and Delicious have been grown successfully. Crab apples have been, in the past, and promise in the future
Page 21 - air. and they increase the water-holding capacity and make it much easier to conserve soil moisture. It frequently happens in orchards that are kept under a long continuous system of clean cultivation that the soil particles become exceedingly fine and eventually run together, thus causing a very hard and compact soil. The
Page 23 - rings of the sap wood crude plant food passes from the roots to the leaves. This crude plant food is then worked over or digested in the leaves, and is distributed to the different parts of the plant from the cambium layer, which is found between the bark and the outer