. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . heep and 40 swine destroy all the codling worms that fall, and very fewof these insects are found in the fruit. Sheep have proved more efficientthan swine in the greater vigilance with which they seize every droppingapple. To prevent the sheep from eating the bark of the trees he washesthe trunks with a mixture of lime-wash, common and whale oil soap andsheep dung. These animals are kept in the orchard till eat the fruit and branches within their reach, and in some years havethus devoured
. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . heep and 40 swine destroy all the codling worms that fall, and very fewof these insects are found in the fruit. Sheep have proved more efficientthan swine in the greater vigilance with which they seize every droppingapple. To prevent the sheep from eating the bark of the trees he washesthe trunks with a mixture of lime-wash, common and whale oil soap andsheep dung. These animals are kept in the orchard till eat the fruit and branches within their reach, and in some years havethus devoured 200 or 300 bushels, but the benefit resulting from keepingthem so late overbalances any loss. In all cases the sheep must be wellfed in troughs with grain, in addition to the grass and fallen fruit. He OF RURAL AFFAIRS. 323 thinks the hogs cleared out all the eanker worms at the commencementof the entrance of these insects into the orchard. The trees are mostlyBaldwins, with Rhode-Island Greening and Roxbury Russet. In 1879the crop amounted to 2,600 barrels, which sold for over $5, Fig. 377.—Iil>. IVoodivarcVs OrcJiard of Diichesse Pears. A young orchard of dwarf Duchesse pears (fig. 377) is one of the finestwe have met with. It consists of 2,000 trees, 12 feet apart, and occupyingfour or five acres. The ground is kept perfectly clean by trees were set out in 1876. In 1879 it bore 75 barrels of fruit, which,at $ per barrel, sold for tll]. In 1880 the crop on the trees wasestimated at 200 barrels. Mr. Woodwards magnificent peach orchard of 20 acres was estimatedin 1880 as good for 10,000 baskets of fruit. It is mostly Early Crawford,and the trees were loaded with showy peaches, but most of them wereruined with the yellows. On its first approach the diseased trees wereremoved, but since then it appears to have come down alike on the wholeorchard. Mr. W. remarked that the glory of the peach orchards of thecounty has become a thing of the past. Young
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