CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1901-04-04
Advice to Fruit Growers.

1HOl. Daily, Oh OOLnei university,
puts the whole matter Of spraying in
. nutshell when be says "spraying is
an insurance Many persons do not
spray early because they are. not
aware of its need. At the same time
we insure our bouses although we do
not know that they are going to
burn, but We have learned that it is
business to insure against loss by fire.
In the course of time perhaps men
will learn to insure against the great
loss to our fruit industry by spray
ing to destroy insects and fungi. |
am not surprised at some people
making the howl that there is
nothing to be made in raising fruit
around Canon City" If some of our
farmers would follow the example of
these same howlers they would soon
give up tilling the soil altogether.
Imagine farmer planting his crop
and then doing nothing more. Can
he expect crop by this method?
Certainly not, he must contend with
weeds and many Entrances. He has
to thoroughly cultivate, irrigate and
so on The fruit growers must con-
tend with many obstacles to grow
fruit successfully. He must care for
his trees properly by proper cultivat-
ing, irrigating and pruning, and in
addition to these things mentioned
he mas fight on his hands against
the insects that prey upon trees,
vines aud fruit. My experience has
proven to me conclusiyely that spray
ing trees properly, to get rid of
many of the insects injurious to plant
life and fruit, is entirely satisfactory
and MUST BE DONE in order to secure
marketable fruit.
found last fall, that these persons
who sprayed their trees most thor
oughly, marketed the best fruit.
These same parties are going to
spray again this year. They have
found that it pays to spray, and they
expect to follow it from year to year.
/ also discovered that those who
sprayed carelessly Tor not at alb had
very inferior fruit and had a hard
time selling what little fruit they did
grow.
In 1897, | think. Mr.. B. F. Rock.
afellow harvested nearly 10000 bar
rels of apples. The crop was thor
oughly sprayed using the first spraying
of Bordeux Mixture and adding one
pound paris green to l60 gallons of
water. Last year Mr.. Broughton
and Mr.. Snow on Lincoln Park used
the same formulas on their fruit
trees. The trees we're heavily laden
with fine fruit. | believe from ex-
perience, reading and observation
that Bordeux Mixture is the formula
to use for the following reasons, viz:
1t is fungicide used for all fungus
diseases, such as blight, apple scab,
black rot and many other diseases.
1t is preventive rather than cure
In my opinion the apples will be
larger. better colored, and will hang
on trees better by the use of this
mixture. 1t will stay on trees longer
and when used with paris green will
hold the poison better on apple and
foliage. Just try it once and you
will be convinced. For small orchards
it can be made as follows: dissolve A
pounds sulphate copper Tor blue stone)
in ? gallons of hot water, slake 8
pounds best quick lime in 2 gallon of
water, (adding more water to lime if
necessary so that it can be poured
through coarse cloth.) Pour these
two mixtures together slowly into
some wooden vessel, letting them
come in contact with each other in
the act of pouring, then strain into
vessel used as a sprayer adding to
this quantity 40 gallons of water.
when material is ready for use, if