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March 2, 1871
The Du Quoin Tribune
Du Quoin, Perry County, Illinois
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Article advises that fruit trees like pears and apples deplete soil nutrients after producing large crops (10-16 bushels annually or more), leading to failure misattributed to weather. Recommends feeding roots with lime, wood ashes, gypsum, chip dirt, bones, and other soil renovators to restore productivity.
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Feed The Fruit Trees.-It must be apparent to every reflecting person that the material round about a fruit tree, which renders important aid in the production of fine fruit of any kind, must necessarily be more or less exhausted after a vine, bush or tree has produced abundant crops for successive seasons.
For example, a large pear tree or apple tree will frequently yield from ten to sixteen bushels of pears annually. Many trees have produced twice these quantities at one crop.
After a few seasons, the material that the roots must be supplied with in order to develop the fruit, must be more or less exhausted. For this reason, fruit begins to fail, and the failure is often attributed to an east wind, or some mysterious influence when in reality the sole cause is starvation, arising from impoverished soil.
The remedy is to feed the roots of all kinds of trees with lime, wood ashes, gypsum, chip dirt, bones, ashes and anything that will renovate an impoverished soil. It is evident that fruit trees cannot produce fine fruit out of such material as may be desirable for some other purposes.
For example, a large pear tree or apple tree will frequently yield from ten to sixteen bushels of pears annually. Many trees have produced twice these quantities at one crop.
After a few seasons, the material that the roots must be supplied with in order to develop the fruit, must be more or less exhausted. For this reason, fruit begins to fail, and the failure is often attributed to an east wind, or some mysterious influence when in reality the sole cause is starvation, arising from impoverished soil.
The remedy is to feed the roots of all kinds of trees with lime, wood ashes, gypsum, chip dirt, bones, ashes and anything that will renovate an impoverished soil. It is evident that fruit trees cannot produce fine fruit out of such material as may be desirable for some other purposes.
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Agriculture
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Fruit Trees
Soil Exhaustion
Tree Feeding
Agricultural Advice
Crop Failure
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Event Details
Fruit trees exhaust surrounding soil after producing abundant crops like 10-16 bushels of pears or apples annually, leading to failure due to nutrient starvation. Remedy involves feeding roots with lime, wood ashes, gypsum, chip dirt, bones, and other soil renovators.