Rock Island Argus

How To Raise Peaches.-Many fruit growers claim that, for various reasons peaches cannot be grown successfully in this section of the States, but a correspondent of the Western Pomologist, who writes from Buchanan county, Iowa, states that he never fails to have a good crop of peaches every year by a simple process of protection which he employs. He cuts off the young trees sixteen inches from the ground, and allows the limbs to shoot out on each side below, like the rods of an umbrella. By weights or stakes he keeps them down in a horizontal position, so that the stump is like a hub, and the limbs like the spokes of a wagon wheel lying upon the ground. About the middle of August he cuts back one-third, or one half of the new wood with a pair of pruning shears, and late in the fall covers the whole with corn stalks. In this way the buds are saved.