Rocky Ford enterprise., 1900-11-30

Horticultural S0ciriy ana the Reekccp-
ers' organization w.r. held In the stat.
capitol buiiiin. at Denver. November
.ist. :.s2.nl AMI :siri.
| t:oycruor Thomas was on the pro-
gram 1. address III. conventions, and
Icy request Ill. bs"k..p.rs look their
place In the horiicultutt~is' room at the
| ppsuius sr~-ion.
The session wis opened 10y prayer
Icy Rev. ". \. RAIDER Of Grace ". T..
chnrvt.
| u congratulate YOU" said Governor
| Thomas. ''on the advance naic by the
fruit sruw-rs III ih. state during the
past few years. and especially an Ill.
s.b.i reports comm. In Of th. work oI
the last year. Fruit culture s~ one of
the great Industries Of the state. With
the one exception OF mining. fruit
growing IL destined tn bring Int" Colo
ra,io mor- money than any other one
| r,.-our,- we have. Aud To my friends.
the busy carctakcr- OF the busy bee.
can say that the honey from this state,
notably alfalfa honey. stands high In
the markets Of the East as well ns the
markets of the West and the middle
| West
President ". \. Coburn Of the Fruit
Growers Board rad u paper on the
work OF the past year. He dwcit large.
iy on the insects which inJurc fruit and
fruit trees. The collin. moth was the
subject of u long discussion.
Secretary ". u. Osborn then made
his annual report. which stated that
there ind been no horticultural fair
this year because he did not feel able
io get one up without the aid of the
Festival OF Mouptnin and Plain COM
miitcc. Mr.. Osborn said That the great
achievement Of his term Of Office was
Z. invent u new fluid for the prcscr-
walton Of fruit. hut he refused I" tell
what the iuid consisted OF.
Itcv. II. q. Aylc~worih made u short
address and the bcckccpcrs left the
joint meeting To attend io their own
business. !. u. White Of Arvada said
1T IL a ground hog case and We fruit
growers. considering how Few we arr.
must go with the bcrkccpcrs if We
want TO have any sessions today.
'rhi. was at the opening OF the after
noon session when there were nine
present. Anon. those at the afternoon
meeting was Mrs. Martha A. Shutc.
who was secretary OF the state boari
during Its pnlmy days. The fruit grow.
crs decided to accept u suggestion
made a year ago and hold u Joint scs-
sion. They He'd up stairs and an
nounccd to the bcdSccpcrs that they
were the assembled convention Of Hor-
ticulturists.
The bcckccpcrs received the fruit
growers and listened to DIR. A. j. clark
Of Lovciand. who read an excellent pa
per on ''Somc Thoughts on the Cultiya-
iion OF Fruit" The article discussed
the difference In size of apples and
other fruit raised on cultivated land
and fruit allowed to grow as best 1t
can.
Rev. Il. II. Rhoads demonstrated how
man could he a successful minister
and at the same time u successful bee
keeper. Mrs. NJ. A. Booth read an IN
tcrcsting paper on "Beckccping as an
Occupation for Women There were
thirteen women present. and many n
them handle bees on large scale. The
rest of the afternoon was occupied by
an address by President X. G. Aiken
and discussion of black brood.
Black brood seems to he the present
danger Of Colorado beekcepcrs and II
was announced that this dread disease
from the north had swooped down upon
Colorado bees and was In many cases
destroying twenty-five per cent. of
them. The sound bees flee from this
disease and forsakc their hives In
many cases.
| tuHtSuiN hISHt NJ y.
Aiken told of his experiences ut the
national convention and there was
/ general social. The fruit growers lis
tened to n few short addresses by men,
bers Of the State Board on general top
les OF II technical nature and a commit
tee reported IN favor Of having joint
sessions of the two conventions. This
committee consisted of Mrs. Martha a.
Shutc. W. n. Bycrs and Lutte Wilcox
for the fruit growers and X. II. Raucl-
fuss r. II. Rhoads and ]. V. Harris
for the beckcepers.
On the second day the meetings We're
mostly held together. as previously.
there not being enough fruit-growrrs
present To hold II convention separately.
In the afternoon. however. the two or
gnnizations met separately for few
| hours, so as to facilitate business.
C. II. Evans talked about cherries
and A. C. Hertzcll compared fruit
growing in Colorado and New Mexico.
l.. c. Taylor read Il technical paper on
the marketing of fruit. plant Dis
eases" was the subject of II. II. Grif-
lin of the Agricultural college.
The bcckecpcrs contributed to the
general program by papers by W. l..
Hawlcy, j. b. Dodds. l.. Brock, j. U.
Harris. w. w. Whipple and +. Mile
sou. One of the most discussed papers
of the day was Spraying Fruit Trees"
by Professor G. p. Gillette of the Agri-
| cultural college. He said that spraying
should be done as late as possible and
still have the calyX open. He present
cd statistics on spraying. and said that
out of Ais apples from sprayed trees
only forty-ninc We're wormy. while in
| 5.26S apples from unsprayed trees
LOGS were wormy. In apples counted
from unspraycd trees at random over
| fifty per cent. were wormy.
Aside from the regulation papers the
only business was the selection of n
iont committee on legislation.
w. G. NJ. Stone of Denver read before
III, horticultural Society n Daper of