Arizona republican., 1891-04-22
A SEEMING PARADOX.
Pests Declared to Re the Fruit 0rowers' . ErlAuda-


 Friends.
 But are they? This may need to be proven to some. If it is not true what is to prevent the planting this whole coast in fruits and have all thrive and bear enormous crops like tho few trees did in the fifties? Then what would we do with all the fruitp The world could not consume all of it and it would be absolutely worthless. Fruit is of little value unless it can be sold at profit over the cost of production. If fruit could be as cheaply and surely grown as it was here in the fifties and as it was in the Middle States in the forties, there could be in the nature of things no profit in its culture.
 An all-wise Providence has so ar ranged things on this little earth that no profit comes without labor as gen. eral rule, and it is also the rule that he who labors diligently and rightly is the one who achieves success.
 We are fortunate that on this coast we have not one insect or disease injur- ious to our fruit trees and their fruits but what are preventable and easily de- stroyed by intelligent labor. And at small expense, wherever we may find fruit plants suited to the soil and cli- mate, we can succeed in growing them free from blemish and injury by proper diligence and labor. He who says he cannot grow the Winter Nellis pear or white winter Pearmain apple and gratis over his trees of these varieties because the fruit scabs is no fruit grower. The day is near when we can grow scarcely any good apples or pears without fight ing scab. He who loses his peach crop from curl of the leaf is also not good fruit grower, for this also is easily pre- vented. He who has his fruit trees de- spoiled by slugs, saw flies and caterpil- lars, and whose apples are all burrowed in and spoiled by the codling moth is to blame for it. He who plants fruit trees and then prunes them up five to sixteen feet high, and keeps constantly pruning up and thinning out the base of the heads of his trees; or cutting back with out thinning out the upper portions of their heads is constantly rendering it impossible to realize the best results. And lastly, he who rushes into fruit culture in ignorance of its first princi- ples and follows the old fogy mo- tions founded on the practice of other and totally different climates, and such as were in use on this coast thirty and forty years ago, and in full practice by many so-called fruit growers to-day will fail. The result will be to give the bet ter informed modern orchardist chance to make fortune. Such 8 man goes into the business with the full intention to leave nothing to chance. He plants with the expectation that he is to meet all the enemies of fruit culture and is prepared to fight and rout them. There are no ifs in his philosophy or action. If bugs or diseases invade his orchard they die. If the gophers invade his or chard and are gnawing away the roots of his trees he does not sit on the fence and whine at them, but starts in and kills them. In the beginning he had posted himself and planted such of the commercial fruits ss were adapted to his soil and climate. Tine result is he makes money and is happy. The more scale bugs, insects, scabs, apple worms, caterpillars, gophers, squirrels, etc., there are, the better for him. For he knows that the other fellow will al low himself to be eaten out of orchard, house and home by these things. While his fruits and trees escape simply be- cause he is there to care for them.
 Then if you are a fruit grower or feel sure you can make one of yourself there is money in it for you. If not sure on this point you had better embark in some other line of business.
 D. B. WEIR.