The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-14

| mere Is another feature IN connection
! WITH the treatment OF orchards for cod
/ the care Of ground. The ground should be
! Vel cultivated and watered especially
I Nhen sne branches are loaded with fruit;
ana II IS advisable to keen the earth moist
around the trunks The worms frequently
( travel BY their web or thread from the
outside branches to the ground. They
clsilke cool moist. sell 20 breed and
/ shelter IN. and ii they find It thus they
/ Try TO reach the tree again and are caught
! IN The bands on their upward trip. But
( II the ground is dry and hard at this sea-
son most of the worms that leave the
fruit and reach the ground win stay there
/ ana cunie out the following sprin,s TO at
/ tack the crop sgain.
/ As 20 pruning there is nothing to be
added beside the points above mentioned
/ The tree viii grow according to the rich
/ ness Of the soil the location and the sup
/ plv OF water with cultivation. and one
/ must use judgment according to circum-
stances II the trees are studied, as they
/ ought to be. the requirements Of pruning
/ tons as developed.
Now the question will be asked: Does
! II nay TO raise fruit2 Fhe answer is
pain If taken care or yes. II not. no.
The results viii pay for all your care if
you start right ard keep "syeriastiDgly at
II, but no one need expect satisfactory
returns. especially profitable returns II
they sit idly by and leave the orchard to
struggle along without care or cultivation.
Personal Experience.
Perhaps cannot better illustrate what
an apple orchard VIII DO than BY giving
a little history Of a part of my own
trees. In 1898 ] planted so apple and pear
I trees,t mostly apple. In 1899. the sixth
year, fifty Ben Davis and. jonathan apple
trees were counted ard the fruit from
thess measured ana sold The result was
lVl bushels Of marketable apples which
srouEht 81 busheL No account was
taken OF the W0rTny or unsalea bic 2plsfeg.
This is at the rate of two bushels TO the
tree. and the price was a nominal one for
first-elass apples At S1.59 a busheI, which
was the price in 1902, the yield would be
- tree. j VIII state ii another way:
The trees were planted in 1884. in 1883
the fifth year, the yield vas about d half
0ushel to the tree Of good apples. In
1900 the fifty trees were measured to
get an average with the results men
toned in 1901 there came an unusually
late frost and no crop was estimated In
19e2 the yield averaged eight bushels to-
the tree and the price was Sl.25 i buShel,
lA5 was an off year. sitter the pre-
vious heavy yield, and the yield was four
bushels TO the tree and the price greater
by reason OF the crop shortage) was $50.
The. present year the yield promises TO be
considerably ahead Of two years ago.
The trees are loaded to the ground and
the fruit viii run 80 per cent from worms
and perhaps - pei. cent. The varieties
mentioned as measured in the eth year
were of the earlier bearing kinds, but
averages. These trees viii continue as
believe to increase their Yields. subject
to usual seBsOnable differences. for many
years How long sood apple tree VIII
bear, If well cared Tor. I do not know. and
doubt II anyone here can set he limit.
have three trees, two or them Rhode
Island greetings and one a seeding They
are twenty-five or tWenty-Six years old
Two years ago they bore together sixty
five bushels Of apples. Taking out FIVE
bushels for poor fruit and they netted
at least sixty bushels worth az least y
a bushcL This year OF 1873. from all ap-
pe6rances- these three trees viii yield
seTenty-fiTe bushels Of fruit IN fiTst-class
condition From these statements one
can draw his own conclusions whether
truit growing pays.
As to Pears.-In- planting a pear or
chard the same care should be taken in
selecting land free from weeds, grass
and luCeTn at the outset. The trees
should be planted q, rod apart, making 160
to the acre. Three varieties are all that
IS necessary, the Bartlett. Buerre Dan
9Ou and p. Barry. a pear orchard
should be well cultivated from the be-
ginning. but should not be cropped as in
the case with apples, as the trees are
closer and but l..tle ground is lost while
tncy are growing 10 bearing size The
treatment in spraying is substantially
the same as directed for apples and the
codiing moth is fought in about the
same way. And right here / will say
that in my opinion the cooling moth is
the worst pest with which the hOrti-
eulturist has to contend. for il is only
by fighting them constantly and on every
line that they can be controlled.
Pears are peculiarly subject to
blight" The treatment is to watch
closely and cut out every affected twig
as soon as blight appears. One should
thoroughly acquaint himself with the ap-
pearanCe Of the trees when the first
stages Of the disease show. in Order to
control it. The sap VIII ooze from dis
eased limb and thousands Of insects and
even birds flying about will carry the
germs, should they light upon the af-
fected places. and thus the infection is
spread 20 other parts of the tree and to
other trees It Particularly catches upon
the tender new growth twigs ard upon
the blossoms The experienced horticUl-
turiSt viii recognize the disease by the
first indication Of a slight discoIOration
of the bark. At this time the part
should be removed at once and if pos
sibie cut off two feet below the dis
eaSed portion If DELAYED at this stage.
the OOze mentioned will come out and
the contagion Immediately spread. There
should be provided a small can of kero-
of white lead in oil with a small paint
brush The operator after cutting out
the diseased part should thoroughly sat
urate the wound with OIL. using the swab,
and then cover il with the paint. Taken
promptly IN early spring one man should
he able to attend to five acres with ais
treatment. and after the first two
months the same man should have time
to treat for the blight and also spend
most OF his time CultiVatiuG besides. 7
Rave had the pear blight in my orchard
for wears, and find il easy 10 control
having lost but one tree TO date.
With good cultivation. care md water
ing. I regard pear growing as q profit
. bic industry but these conditions must
be met or the business would better not
be undcTta ken From 500 70 $500 to the
acre may he realized from a pear orch
ard after IT comes TO bearing. As high
as eight bushels 70 the tree may be grown
from trees 10 TO y years old I believe
it TO be impossible to Elut the market
with good pears There has always been
a good market here. and the east is able
to absorb large shipments.
] may repeat here that in al my esti-
mates Of fruit yields and sales only
fiTSt-class fruit is in mind All inferior
and woTmy fruit goes to the hogs or is
otherwise destroyed and such inferior
fruit is removed from the orchard soon
after II falls to the ground all the season
till the ripencd crop is harvested and
fore boxing for the consumer 7 guar
antee my fruit and make good ali ma
terial deficiencies by reason OF woFmy
goods. we thus open Ourselves 10 criti-
cism and loss II VIC fail 10 keen UP the
standard. / think ] may be allowed to
say that If all growers would take this
responsibility we should soon have a
market standard that would not only
keep out the inferior stock. but the pests
themselves would soon be completely rn-
Ger control and the community DO bene-
fitted 10 a great degree.
IN closing. let me say that I have fol-
lowed With some experience several kinds
g business. including livestock and mer-