The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-09-28
finds DUST SPRAY
VERY SUCCESSFUL


st year, and f ON thee came to
my fruit ia m here, where have been
spending some time building AMI put
ting out new orcher here, mostly of
late peaches, so my time has been well
occupied. | ave now about 10000
trees growing, which probably you
will say is too mucr. If we're in an
irr gated county l would want to set
I'd of so much, but somehow here
whe it rains, we hold on to it as
wo-k is not so laborious. Yet for re-
suits | suppose the irrigated fields of
the far West will equal more than
three times the same space here. |
desire to say, however, that we do
have toe most beautiful colored and
havo ed fruit he g | have ever seen.
Some Maiden Blush apples which rip
ened here on my place in early July,
we're so ext emely b illiant in color
that | wondered where | could find
their match.
| was amused TIE other day at my
Youngest boy. We we're talking of
the best apples to eat, and of course
we all ag eed OH the g lines Golden,
that it could not be beat. The porch
covered up with baskets of apples just
brought in from the orchard. This
little fellow said: 81 will show you
which is my favorite apple to eat !;
you can put me down for that evely
) time" " So he went to the baskets and
looked them over and handed one to
me and said, "Here it is" said to
him: "Why, Bennie, that is Ben
, ttNNnll ~ hn uot1 tthot 10
the apple for me; that is the sweetest
apple in the orchard" 1t seemed to
me so strange that the apple every one
rejected should be the one the boys
want. always pass by the Ben Davis
Iart of the orchard as not much to
me. But thi remark of the boy led
me to investigate, and to my u'prise
the apples we're sweet and juicy and
good, Just as he said. TIL s account
TO, the feelings of attachment that
some have for old Ben But | found
ii was due wholly to where it is grown,
and when it is gathered from the tree.
If gathered early and grown in a
warm, sunny country, it will be weet
and juicy and good, but elsewhere it
useless for the tiller of the ground.
am glad to see so much interest
rising in better apples, The Jonathan
good enough for any table, and
here it is my first choice for the or
Chard. | have II acres now of them
almo ready to bear. They are SO
satisfactory every way in growth,
health and productiveness.
Our most profitable apples here are
the early apples. Some early apples
at various times have sold this eeason
in Kansas City and st. Louis for 81. 70
and 81. 90 a bushel; of course these
we're very fancy. But | can sell 80
carloads as easy as one of early apples.
/ have used the dust spray good
deal on my apple trees this season and
it sure is a benefit. We have so much
dew that we do not need to carry
around the water. We take the same
dry chemicals and ime in powdered
form, very fine, and after mixing, we
have a powder gun of great force and
capacity, and we just travel from tree
10 tree and cover as we go along with
cloud of dust, and it seems to do the
work very nicely. | believe it goes
into the interior of the tree more
effectively than the liquid spray.
do not suppose, though, that it at
atches itself so close to the apple as
the liquid spray, but from my otser-
walton, in blooming time for spray
ing the blooms and holding the spray
in the end of the blos' oms, it is as
good as any one could wish. We can
get over so much more ground in a
day than by the liquid spra 1t is
rare to find a worm able to penetrate
to the interior of the apple after
thorough spraying with the dust spray
in time of bloom, or of falling of the
bloom.
In dry countries where there is lit
tie dew this way of spraying could
not be satisfactory. 1t is certainly
wonderful no ~ much good it is to
spray if only for once in time of
bloom; it seems to save more than
half the crop, We have fungus trou-
bles here that are worse than else Uhere
because this is high pressure climate.
Great moisture and then great heat
following and the two make havoc
with the fruit, producing rot. | may
have to give up some plums, because
of this great trouble. But it may be
gain to me to do so, As | can plant in
the Delaware grape, which brings in
lrore money and is certainly more
pleasure 1t is wonder to see the
markets of the country going after
the grower, hunting him up and get
ting his products. The cities are
gro ing so fast and the people are
Tuning more aud more to fruit, and
the trade finds they cannot get enough
by consignmepts so with one consent
every good house is now sending out
It's representatives into the field every
where to get its SUPPLIES so as to have
enough and have them regular. To
give you an idea of how great the de-
mand is in specialties, an entire train
load of lettuce has been shi ped from
certain roints in Florida to New
York, besides the customary daily
ehipments. One dealer in New York
receives 32 cars of produce daily to
su Tly his trade. This is mostly
Southern vegetables. The trade is
building up into mammoth proper
tions everywhere for everything that
is eatable In the yards of one rail-
road, the Pennsylvania, at New York,
iIltTb dIt unlOouOu ONClJ NoJ wv ON' .
of produce for use in the city, and
for transference East. This may not
include general fruit from California !;
it is mostly Eastern produce. AS the
eople get into better circumstances,
the demand for better fruit comes
also, and no price now is an obstacle
if the fruit is worthy. Good peaches
viii bring 81. 90 bushel right on the
heels of half that money from some
sections not as good When Idaho
pears bring $500 a bushel in New
ork because so handsome, there Is a
chance for the Hood River grower to
see how near the mark be can come OF
making his apples or his cherries
come to their actual weight in money.
] have never heard criticism of Hood
River except one. One man said it,
aud | guess he was jealous, "they are
tuch terrible advertisers.
We have blackberres here and fine.
They bring 81. 30 a crate of "A quarts.
The most popular crop on the farm is
peanuts. Every crew in the country
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