The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-02-28
The Annie Growers, Meetlng.

was the largest gathering OF represent
atiye fruit men ever held in Hood River.
1t was an instructive meeting, and 1t is
hoped more meetings Of the same kind
will follow. Every one In attendance
felt that he had learned something.
The exchange Of ideas by practical men
who had given years TO the study OF
fruit culture, and the questions by the
new beginners, bringing answers and
discussions Of interest TO all, will be OF
lasting benefit. Hon. Z. l.. Smith,
chairman Of the meeting, readily an
swered many Of the questions. g. J.
Gessling acted as secretary. The Gla-
cier is indebted TO III. W. Huxley, who
took notes in short hand, for the follow
ing report Of the meeting:
Setting out an orchard, by A. /. Ma
eon.--I think some one has stolen q
march on me, for / do not know any
thing on this subject at present. OF
course, we all have our own views about
setting out an orchard, and my exper-
fence as an apple grower has not been
very extensive although quite expensive.
To my mind there is only one way to set
out an orchard, and that is what is called
the hexagonal system. This system
affords means OF cultivating the trees
six different ways, or in six different di-
rections, giving at the same time 10 per
cent more trees To the acre than on the
old anuora mathod
Season to- Plant, by p. Mohr.-From
nv experience believe fall planting is
the best, and yearling trees the best 70
plant. think the best distance Is 29
feet each way from limb to limb; plant
ed some young trees 80 feet apart.
H.C. Bateham stated that growers up
towards Mt. Hood prefer two-year-old
trees, planting in the spring. In the
lower part OF the valley there are more
calls for yearlings and more trees plant
ed in the fall. Almost all small fruits
are planted in the spring.
Spraying, by VIM. Kennedy.-Spray-
ing, without doubt, Is very essential in
growing fruit in this valley. In regard
to winter spray, salt, sulphur and lime is
the proper ingredients, and the proper
time is any time after the middle Of Feb
ruary before the buds are too large in
the spring. Formula is same as L. j..
Smiths. Salt, sulphur and lime is the
proper thing for scale, but anybody
who doesn't care to admit that they
have scale will find this very good
spray to clean the trees up, and good
preventive for scale. The Bordeaux mix
ture should be applied for fungus, es-
peciaIiy before the buds burst in the
spring. 1t will stop fungus from form
ing, but doesn't take off that already
formed. Some use this mixture and
follow with salt, sulphur and lime spray.
tried paris green for Goblin moth, but
it didn't work. Tried arsenic and got
pretty clean fruit. This is very easily
applied; sprayed seven TO nine times
during the season. Made the first
application about the time the bios
SONS were two-thirds gone, and
another application before the blossom
end of the apple closed up. One tree
had seven boxes of apples on 1t, and
about two weeks before they ripen.
ed there was hardly sound apple on
the tree; the worms seemed to mature
and come out Of the apple about the
tine the apple ripened. The apples
did not show up any worms until about
two weeks before ripening. 1t seemed
as though the worms were in the apple
during the whole season and naturally
came out when the apple ripened. II il
best TO be little careful about putting
on the whole strength, which is one full
quart OF arsenic 10 every 80 gallons Oi
water and two quarts of unslaked lime
The pump forces everything through
so do not strain the mixture. Th'
earlier pumps were very hard to clean
but the Pomona pump is easily cleaned
and does its work in splendid manner
After the first application tried to ge
through my orchard every two week
up to picking time. Along about pick
ing time noticed that the redder the
apple and the brighter the apple thu
more the Goblin moth would sting them
They didn't seem to get into the apple
but sting it and hurt it in that way.
will be glad to write out the formulas
for all the sprays use, or you can ge
them through the horticultural report
A. P. Bateham remarked thatthe hor
ticultural report fails to mention how Il
cook the lime, sulphur and salt spray
and asked what kind of machine to use
Mr.. Kennedy--I started with an opeI
kettle, and Emile Schanno' instruction.
never add cold water to it. / find thu
use Of steam much the best way to cool
any OF the sprays. Add no water at al
until you get through. After you get ]
thoroughly dissolved with the steam yol
can bring it down by diluting with warn
water. The neighbors seem to think
mix it up all right. If you have N
steam use an ordinary galvanized irol
kettle.
GU. Gessling.-- Should we use no
sprayH
Kennedy.--Use it warm. The idea j
TO get it through the pump; it is tn
spray that condenses.I tried putting 1t II
cold but unsuccessfully.
b. r. Tucker--Concerning sprayin
business, used, presume the same a
most of you do, arsenite of soda, ais
blue vitriol, the entire season and foun
them so effective that / did not find t
exceed two boxes of wormy apples whe
we gathered our crop, about lao boxes
We commenced spraying the 18th G
May. / think the most OF us commenc
spraying too late. l found millers o
the trees, 30 / commenced sprayin
then, and for the first spray | use
double the proportion that Oh
formula gives, both OF the arsenite G
soda and blue vitriol. sprayed ever
Is to 20 days, five sprayings, our las
spraying being somewhere about Aug
goth. Each spraying that we gave froT
the first was about 81 times the formu
Ia; the last spraying We made it tripl
strength. Perhaps you may think thi
Is too strong, but we tested that to on
satisfaction what we put on would no
affect the foliage. The spray should b
put on with care, and where the apple
are, thoroughly saturating them. Afte
the apples commenced to get any siz
in my orchard discovered that the
we're badly covered with fungus.
looked like it was going to ruin then
We used blue vitriol TO kill the fungui
using it Of double strength at the star
and Increased it to treble the formul
on the last spraying. After the secon
spraying the fungus stopped CROWN
and remained there, and the apples gre
but the fungus did not grow any NOR,
and at the maturity OF the apple "
could see that it was there, but that ws
about all. The fungus showed onl
slightly on the apple at maturity. q
is perhaps all right to double tn
strength OF the formula in protracte
cool, moist or wet weather, but to pu
on OF double strength in the brigf
warm sunshine would most certainl
destroy the foliage and triple strengt
even endsnger the life Of the tree. Ed
Varieties Tor Profit, by H.F.DavidsoI
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