The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-10-07

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the benefits. 1t makes us rather tir-
ed to try to kill all the worms of cur
own production, and those raised by
our neighbors who do not spray any.
I am glad to know that the Roswell
Commercial Club is awake to the i'm
portance of this subject, and hope it
will do all it can to get h present
law in regard to spraying enforced.
I think the best way or the first thing
to do is to get all information obtain
able as to the best machines to use,
the best mixture to kill moth without
injuring the trees, the proper time
to spray etc etc, and to give his in
formation to every owner of an apple
orchard.
| think a community where there
are many small orchards should club
together and buy a big power machine
and have a man to run it who knows
how to do it. The little hand ma
chimes which can only throw a fzzIe
of spray a little higher than a mans
head are of no practical use. But
there are spraying machines which
do effective work in a small a and
which are much less expensive than
those We use.
Professor l.. H. Bailey and Geo.
w. Cavanaugh, of Cornell University
Agricultural Experiment Station, in
Ithaca, New York, have probably in
vestigated the coddling moth and
to kill it more thoroughly than
any other known to me. Their Dulle-
tins on the subject can probably be
by asking for them. That is
the way we got them.
There is no end of adulteration of
Paris Green by druggists, and care
should be taken to buy it from reIia-
BILE firms. Other poisons than Paris
Green are being used. it is claimed,
with great success and we are inves-
tigating them.
To raise apples successfully requir-
es a lot of hard work and carefulness;
the kind of care which is unknown
to the horseback farming first gen.
orally introduced in this valley. 1t
works worse On apples than on most
anything. The closest kind OF super
vision OF details should begin when
the trees, the location, the soil and
the water supply are selected, and
must continue through every step up
to packing and selling.
Much harm has been lone to the
of Roswell apples by bad
selecting and bad packing. Much of
it is Tue to want of knowledge of
the market requires, some of it
to the ignorance of people who never
before packed apples for large mark
cts, and much to the greediness of
dealers who buy apples on the trees
and then pack imperfect fruit so as
get all the bushels possible.
understand that most of the farm
ers Of the Hagerman-Felix district
sold their fine apples this year to
at Is cents per box F. o. B.
cars. They might easily have had
vice that if there had been some re-
liable source of information to advise
hem in time of the condition of the
outside apple market, and what price
t was reasonable for them to expect.
Most owners of small orchards have
10 NEAR of informing themselves.
The Roswell Commercial Club now
a paid secretary who makes that
MS sole business. 1t seems to me
hat the Club ought to be the center
If reliable information to the farm
ers, not only about the markets,
many other subjects. Too much
is paid to getting people
lere, and not enough to helping them
make a living after they get here.
But I am wandering from my text,
must stop. Sometime I may
preach from this text, "The Man With
he Hoe in the Pecos Valley" He
S the bed rock on which permanent