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

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Winesaps are fine profitable apples,
a little better in quality than Missouri
Pippins. They are likely to overoear
and some years should be thinned.
Jonathans are a better apple than
! either the Missouri Pippin or Wine
sap. They mature very early in This
country, there is always a sharp de-
mand for them, and they bring a high
price. The only trouble about rails
ing them here is that they bloom early
and are more liable to be caught by
frost than some othe-geod varieties.
Notwithstanding this risk if 1 were
plant another orchard 1 would plant
a fair proportion of Jonathan's.
York Imperials are good apples, and
sell well. They are apt to crack open
in a wet season, but on the hole we
have had good success with them.
They DO not keep very well, and are
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large and fill the box quickly.
The Arkansas Black is probably the
highest priced apple we have raise1-
The trees grow large and very thrifty
do not o~verbear, and are fairly sure
to produce a crop.
The Black Twig is almost the king
of apples raised here. 1t keeps bet
ter than any other in or out Of cold
storage, but is a "shy bearer" and
very hard to raise. The greatest trou-
BILE is it's liability to drop just before
maturity. I would not plant many
Black Twigs here.
The Akin we have found profitable
er excepting the Missouri Pippin. 1t
is large enough, has a beautiful red
color and sells all right.
The Ben Davis apple is known to
everybody. 1t is much abused, but it
is very easy to raise, stays on the
trees well, does not bloom very carly,
is bright red in color, and sells well,
We have more of them han any 9TH
err variety. This year we are getting
$500 a barrel for hem F. o. B.. Ros-
well, and we could easily sell in Tex
no Gro ffDon1 DC rnonu q @ VIC have
There are millions Of Gel Davis trees
west Of the Missouri river, and ma
ny more are being planted. I would
plant some Of them in a new orchard
but not a large proportion.
1 believe the Willow Twig to be an
excellent apple to raise here. The
trees grow very large and thrifty.
and the fruit is high colored, large
and good in e way. We ave a
block Of them not yet old enough to
bear, but 1 have seer beautiful speci-
mems from the older orchards. They
bloom very late n are about sure
to escape frost.
Spraying.
We used to f1atter ourselves that
we would nave no coddling moth here
but we have got over the delusion.
Sooner or later it goes everywhere
where apples are raised, and it must
be fought persistently, faithfully and
by the very best methods, or it will
utterly destroy the apple business
here, as it has done in every other
place where it has beef allowed to
have it's way. We have sprayed some
than ever this year. But many Of
our trees are so close together that it
cannot be done successfully. One
for cutting out half of the
trees is to facilitate proper spraying.
We have about fifteen hundred Mis-
souri, Pippin trees in D block, plant
ed % e apart each a 1t was
easy to get at these to spray them,
and the result was no worms, although
the trees were laden to the full. We
have two sixteen nozzle machines
driven by gasolene engines and we
will get one or two more for next year