Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-07-17
m AND ORCHARD
10 MAKE THE MARKETING
In FRUIT SUCCESSFUL.
4 Thinning Given to Ca1ifOr-
Chinam en-EXperime in
Columbia County.

III t6e course of remarks on the
s h<<1 subject at the Michigan State
f[6ft Natural Society H. E. Van De-
Il 81 lite United States pomologist,
I 3nese words: ''If you will do as
I'D doing-Mr. Hale, for instance
I&4te thoroughly, thin severely
a1d f&ftilize abundantly, you will come
Out nII hight"
<f Morrill uses 100 bushels of I'M
{oach64 ashes to the acre. Mr.. Hale
uses Iii his orchard in Connecticut
So. 600 north of muriate of potash
year. I'll takes nerve to do that, even
" you have the money.
There are a great many people who
crow peach seeds. They will let four
of 1Ixe beaches grow on little twig
That ought to bear but one.
Six little peaches will weigh less than
one good one. Overcome this big drain
-seed perfectng-by thinning. 1t is
IcheHner to pick while green than when
ripe n California the rule given the
ChinarI1en who do the thinning is to
1ea&e on just peaches enough so you
can but your hand between each two.
That's The kind of commercial orchard
ing that pays.
Apples and pears should be treated
tho same way.
one of the effects of spraying trees
or plants is to make better and larger
The oommercial orchardist of the fu-
fufe Will more generally wrap his
fruit. IT pays to wrap fruit. A grow
er of bears wrapped his fruit and
cleared one dollar barrel on identically
the same fruit. Wrapping pears helps
To retain their fine flavor. The longer
q pear smells good the poorer it is get
ting.
& Secretary Dunlap of the Illinois State
H0Tficultural Society said: There will
biz failures in Commercial fruit grow
ing ais IN the past. One failure that
should be avoided is the failure of be-
ing posted in the market. Last fall
many orchardists sold their crop of
NO apples for so to 60 cents per bar
rel<-the bulk of them sold for Is cents.
These We're held by the buyers till
winter and sold at a good advance.
The orchardist could as well have had
that adVance had he known the state
Of the market as regarded the supply
for Ii. Marketing, as we'll as growing
the crop has much to do with the sue
cess OF Orcharding in the future.
Mr.. Iindley of North Carolina, eX-
president of the American Nursery
mem association, said that in their
section they had made a reputation for
their peaches by the manner in which
they packed them.
They used six baskets to the crate,
which when full weighed 40 pounds.
The peaches were packed in two rows,
each as good as the other. Before put
ting in the peaches a sheet of paper
was placed on the inside of the basket.
After the second layer was in a few
spriss Of peach leaves were laid nicely
ON top and the edges of the paper fold
ed over HEM. This was done at all eX-
pense eli not to exceed ten cents per
crate. and they were sold at So to Is
cents above the same quality of peach
es from the same section that were not
SO uniformly and tastily packed. Be
sides being honestly packed the name
Of the variety was stenciled upon each
basket
We havema de a demand for our
goods that as yet we have been unable
to meet. This is one way to make COM
mercial orcharding of the future sue
cessfuI Raise good fruit, pack it hon
estly and Hastily.