Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-09-07

imaginary trees with imaginary shears.
Unless you are very careful your sole
topic of conversation will be upon the
subject of how and when to prune tree.
OF course believe 10 pruning, but my
way in accomplishing certain results may
not be yours, and the orchardists will go
on and on quarreling over this subject
to the end OF time. As for my part, L
would just as soon think of growing q
perfect hog by removing his lungs as
prune trees as have seen them pruned
by some scientific tree carvers. The
truth is, mankind is the same since the
days of Adam. Created in the image of
his maker, he thinks the Lord didn't
know much about it anyhow and goes on
fixing himself up to suit his own sweet
taste or according to the latest approved
plans of some alleged scientific society.
So it is with the orehardist. Nature
isn't good enough for him. He must cUt
and lop and experiment and trim until
the tree is hardly recognizable as such.
The desired end is stout, stocky trunk
capable of sustaining crop without
the breaking off of limbs. The exercise
of a N odicum of common sense and the
use of good eye and few ideas will ac-
complish wonders in the way of prun-
Ing.
Above all things don't allow anyone to
prune tree for you who is not reliable
and who does not know how you want it
done. Some alleged tree primers of my
acquaintance believe that tree is only
pruned when two-thirds of the tree is
Topped off. Give such man q wide
berth. He has a grudge either against
you or your orchard, or possibly him.
self.
After the second or third year you will
begin to hear about the Goblin moth,
Carpocdpsa pomonella the woody aphis
and other aphides; the San Jose and other
scales; the CerOplastis the Aspidiotus
duratH, the Rhtzzicocus and other
cocuses, the dndrsid inedtella, the
agrOtis dtOmdriS and all sorts of bugs and
insects which are coming IN swarms and
droves to eat up and destroy your or
chard. Don't be alarmed; the congress
of the United States and the great terri
tory of New Mexico has es-
tablished in our midst an Agricultural
college and experiment stations galore,
run by lawyers, statemen and politicians,
devoted to the destruction of these hos
tile myriads. As sure as there is paper
left sufficient to get out bulletins every
once in two or three years, and no news
papers are fighting for the printing there
of, and the appropriation holds out, by
dilgent search and inquiry, and the use
of an assistant professor in Latin, you
will doubtless be able to ascertain just
what particular bug, destructive pest or
disease is in your orchard or the i'm
mediate vicinity. Then don your war
paint (pigmentum beW: J sally forth and
capture the duldcdspis cocherelH, dig up
the monster cerO-spOTd circunlsciSSd, box
up the dermdtchOr0 necdtriT and ship
them post haste to Las Cruces and in the
course of two or three months, when the
various professors have finally made up
their minds that no hostile politician
| pOHticus HOstiLs) is about to exert his
political pull (pullus politicii) and have
them removed you will probably receive
an answer to your communication and a
complete description in Latin of the par
ticular bug which is your chief source of
annoyance.
But there are other remedies upon
which reliance can be placed. All that is
necessary is to apply them and your or
chard will grow and bear good fruit.
You will have to spray your orchard and
when this becomes necessary don't pur-
chase any patent bug and moth exter-
.minators. Take the formula given by
the pomologioal branch of the depart
ment of agriculture and purchase from a
good drug store what is needed; mix it
yourself, use it and the moth and other
insects will soon have gone to that bourne
from which no cdrpOcapsa pomOneWd
ever gets back.
After three or four years you will be
gin to receive some small returns for
your money and your labors. That is, if
you are lucky and the late frosts or the
hail or some other calamity does not in
terfere. In couple of years more you
will have fruit to sell or give away de-
pending upon your ability and agility in
finding a market.
When your fruit begins to form re-
member that size and quality are what
the people want. Remember that
peach which weighs four to the pound 10
worth ten times as much as two peaches
which weigh eight to the pound. The
peach weighing one-quarter of pound,
properly packed, will sell itself IN any
market, while the other kind won't sell at
any price, except in the Klondike.
And how are You to get one-quarter
pound peachesS What must you do to
obtain so desirable result? Again the
voice of experience is heard in the land
proclaiming with accents not to be mis-
understood, "Thin them out" You will
get not only a better class of fruit but
you will prolong the life of the tree. Ex-
perience has taught me, as it has every
one else, that it pays to thin the peaches
out so that the fruit will be not less than
six inches apart on the twig or limb. By
this means you secure product which
you will find no difficulty in disposing of;
in fact, people will cry aloud for your
fruit aid your fortune is assured to de-
gree.
Remember that appetite is the greatest
paralyzer of the American dollar yet
known to mankind, and when you have
created public appetite for your fruit,
the people will have it no matter what the
cost.
But how will you create this public ap.
petite? What must you do to incite that
public craving for your fruit which means
so much for you and your financial sue
cess?
You must know how to pack and ship
your product. If your fruit ia of the fl ret
quality, you must not spoil its sale by
sending it to market in unsightly pack
ages. Even if of slightly inferior grade,
if your fruit ia put up for shipment in
clean, bright and carefully constructed
packages. presenting to buyers and deal
ers an attractive appearance, it is very
apt to command better price than su-
perior fruit in less inviting packages.
Prime quality, together with a clean,
bright box, basket or crate, will be GER
tain, under almost all conditions, to bring
most gratifying returns. The best price