The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-01-04

AAASaicSrPPA. MI. Lay Is as unusually
successful fruit-grower, and he lays
down q number Of pertinent facts in
connection with the industry in this
section. 1.-THE general belief exists
that apples do little or no good in the
south. This is true to certain ex-
tent, but not In its entirety. In the
search for causes why apples do not
do well in the section from which I
wribe. Central and South Mississippi,
It is generally found to be lack of
knowledge as to the varieties best
adapted to the climate and the dis
eases and insects that have to be COM
batted. The method of cultivation al
so has a great deal to do with the sue
cessful culture Of apples and there is
much to be learned along this line by
myself as well as others. There are
not a great number Of varieties adapt
ed to this section and some study
should be made of this fact before
buying trees and planting an orchard.
A large majority Of those that have
proven suitable are early, or summer
apples. might name the red Astra-
chan, Horse apple, yellow transpar-
emit, day apple, Rosebury Russell and
Buckingham, named in order Of ripen-
Ing. The best varieties in late apples
are the Arkansas black and Mammoth
black twig, but they. like all winter
apples here, prematurely ripen and
fad to keep as winter apple. We
need summer apples much more than
the winter varieties from the fact that
there are always to be had an abund-
ance Of apples in winter from the
Northern growers at a moderate price.
We cannot get the summer and early
fall apples ON the market, so it is abb
solutely necessary that we grow them
ourselves. To grow apples success
fully we should go at the business in
the same spirit and with the same
eagerness that is necessary to grow
q cotton crop. Secure the proper va
rieties, those best suited to our eli
mate and other conditions, plant prop
erly and cultivate as the needs de-
mand, spray to destroy insects, take
ordinary precautions and there is no
reason why satisfactory results should
not be obtained. We are yearly be-
ing brought face to face with new dis
eases and insects with fruits as well
as vegetables, so to be able to COM
bat them intelligently the grower must
keep himself posted and fight them
Systematically. The most prevalent
disease at present is the brown spot,
that comes ON the limb and looks like
little pieces Of leather, after time
spreading to the fruit and causing
spots and cracks. This can be pre-
vented by liberal spraying in the early
spring. Another disease is the leaf
rust, caused by powder from cedar
tree balls getting on the leaves. It is
almost useless to try to raise apples
on the same farm with cedar trees un-
less they are along ways apart. 9th
er diseases carry from the leaves to
the fruit but do the greatest damage
by depicting the trees of their foliage.
Then we have the louise that sucks
both the limb and root Of the tree
Spraying will do little good IN this
instance, but liberal application Of
kerosene oil diluted ten to one and
poured around the roots some two or
three feet from the tree will destroy
them effectively. Blight is small
insect in the bloom, carried from
bloom to bloom by bees and other in
sects, and does a vast amount of dam
age. By closely watching the first
blooms to appear and cutting off the
infected twigs and burning them, keep
ing up this For time, the blight can
be prevented. The same apples to
pears, and care should be taken after
the trees are four and more years old.
The coddling moth that lays eggs in
the blossom end Of little apples when
two or three weeks old can be destroy
ed by two or three sprinklers, one be-
fore and two after blooming, say two
or three days after blooming. There
is a great deal of land suited to APP
pie growing in this section. I have
1900 trees from two to five years and
am still setting. / also have one or
chard sixteen years old. set apples
from the fruit and not from pretty
picture. There is money in the ap-
pie business for those who have the
land adapted to their culture and use
common sense in handling the fruit. T"
The Newton Compress Co., reports
1859 bales of cotton compressed in
one day, and that too of export cot
ton requiring eight ties to the bale
It was a record run and it is now up
to some other aspiring compress point
to come forward and beat the showing