Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-03-08
Farm Notes.
THE PROSPECT OF THE FUTURE
FRUIT GROWER.
A Bright Outlook for ANY Ono Who VIII
Take up the Business with Industry In
telligep ce and Proper Facilities.

tions involving a look into the future
is not to be answered with absolute
certainty of being correct.
| have no doubt whatever but that
the consumption of fruit is to be
greatly increased in the future as it
has been within the memory of most
readers. As this country becomes
more densely populated the cost of
animal food must advance while fruit
and vegetables will be used in in
creased proportion. The old preju-
dices against fruit are fast passing
away and now thousands use it freely
who formerly feared to do SO. As
fruit becomes necessity rather than
a luxury more attention will be given
to its production and it will take its
place among the staple products like
beef, pork and flour. But as the
production of fruit increases
THE ENEMIES TO IT'S CULTURE
in the way of insects and diseases
must also increase.
In new sections where fruit is not
grown predatory insects are rare till
they are in some way introduced and
given, as it were, good pasturage
The same is also true of many of the
diseases caused by fungi remem-
Der when western apples were free
from worms, and eastern fruit gen
orally so little affected by scab and
blights that these diseases were sci
dom mentioned. But with a genera
tion of abundant planting and care
less cultivation these troubles are
threatening the entire industry by
discouraging all but the most intelli-
gent and persistent workers So
that fruit growing in the future must
naturally drift into the hands of
those who will learn the business
thoroughly and give it their very
best attention. What proportion of
the people will become skillful fruit
growers it is impossible to predict,
but of this we may all rest assured,
that
THOSE WHO ARE MOST sKILFUL
will always lead in the market.
The successful fruit grower of the
future will learn to profit from the
experience of others and especially
of those who have failed in the past.
Small success can be attained in al
most any department of industry by
moderate effort, but notable results
can only follow a high degree of in
telligence coupled with large ambi-
ton. With ambition, intelligence
and persistence one can accomplish
almost anything he undertakes. l
have been bothered by apple insects
but not enough to discourage me
from trying to raise my own apples.
| have had some losses, but on the
whole | had rather have my trees
than be without them. I have not
at present great ambition to accu-
mulate fortune from a large apple
orchard, but | am sure that any one
who is intelligent enough to raise
apples successfully in small garden
year after year could with CORES
ponding attention manage a large
orchard successfully Were | going
into
APPLES ON A LARGE SCALE
| should seek out the locality where
the trees are known to do well. |
would prepare the land so as to OBJ
tain healthy vigorous growth from
the start | would select first-class
trees from the nursery not over two
or three years old from the graft
would plant very few varieties and
those such as were known to succeed
in the locality chosen and for which
there is a constant demand for dis
tant markets. In years of scarcity
home market is good enough, but
when the crop is over abundant in
all the surrounding country the pay
ing crop must be marketed by the
aid of transportation facilities. l
would never think of growing a large
orchard without providing a store
house for the fruit in which | could
keep it cold enough to delay the rip
ening process till the best market
season. | would wish to secure "a set
of hel lpers who could be depended
. upon to learn to handle the trees
and fruit properly and who would
become parmanent residents | would