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Domestic News
December 27, 1905
Decorah Public Opinion
Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa
What is this article about?
Difficult to grow young fruit trees in established orchards with eight-year-old trees; older trees monopolize soil, starving young ones. Only 5% of 100 planted over four years survived, with poor vigor.
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Our experience has been that it is very difficult to make a young fruit tree grow where it is planted in an orchard already partially occupied with aged fruit trees, these seeming to have so monopolized the soil that no matter how well the young tree may be cared for it is simply starved out. Of a hundred such young trees which we have planted during the past four years among trees eight years old we do not believe 5 per cent have made a live of it, and those which have lived give no promise of ever making healthy, vigorous trees.
What sub-type of article is it?
Agriculture
What keywords are associated?
Fruit Trees
Orchard Planting
Tree Growth
Soil Monopolization
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of a hundred young trees planted during the past four years among eight-year-old trees, only about 5% have survived, and those survivors show no promise of becoming healthy, vigorous trees.
Event Details
It is very difficult to make a young fruit tree grow where planted in an orchard already partially occupied with aged fruit trees, as the older trees monopolize the soil, starving out the young ones despite good care.