The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-07-01

and prolific bearer, but does not colol
to suit me. That is it's weak point
Where the old Winesap can be grown
large enough to pack four tier it viii
sell far better than this child born il
the Sunlower state. While the Stay
man will grow and bear well where
the Baldwin does it will not color as
well as the latter. l doubt very much
if the Stayman will prove to be &
valuable variety to raise west OF the
Cascade range. | am quite confident
it will not color we'll in the Puget
Sound region. | would recommend
friend Floss to try it on small scale
by top-working it on any vigorous
grower, and then he can see how il
behaves. 1t is a good rule to go by
in all new or untried varieties to fol
low the apostolic injunction, prove
all things; hold fast that which is
good"
A gentleman writes me from We
natchee, r. F. d. No. 1, whose name
[ make out to be BoleSlaw Jagla, "Ol
words to that affect" making inquiry
about certain location for fruit rails
ing. He says: 81 am a subscriber
to The Ranch and get lot of goot
information from it, but would like tt
find out through your paper what kline
of fruit would do well on rather dry
loan 1900 feet above Wenatchee ant
about 2200 feet above sea level on {
large hill sloping to the north ant
somewhat to the east. l have about
four feet of loan and then | strike
rocks of different sizes. | have NJ
water with which to irrigate but de
pend on rainfall, which is about fifteer
inches. Can | set out cherry, crab
apple, apricot, pear and possibly ap
pie trees and do we'll with them by
early blowing and constant cultiva
ton? | want to know what fruit trees
need a great deal of water and wha
varieties will grow and bear fruit with
here Would the English walnut dt
we'll here?"
cannot give this friend all the in
formation that he wants for the sim
pie reason that I do not know IL
some cases l do know, however, tina
very fine fruit is raised at a much
higher elevation than the one where
he is located. At Boise, Idaho, where
very fine apples are raised, the ele
walton is $500 feet and at Salt Lake i
is 1000 feet. In some sections of Colo
RADIO fruit is successfully raised at al
elevation of 5000 feet. Some of the
finest apples | ever saw were shown a
farmers institute that l once at
tended at Chelan, which is in the
same county in which our inquirer
resides. | was told that some of these
fine apples were raised on the hill
sides north of Lake Chelan and with
out irrigation. Whether any of then
were raised quite as high as this mans
place | do not know. [ would recon
mend him to visit some of the success
| full fruit growers in his own county
who are situated in similar localities
and they can instruct him better thai
| can. My opinion is that he can raise
| most, if not all, the fruits he name:
successfully on his hill. Since hi
cannot irrigate, he must practice thor
ough cultivation and pulveriZatiOn o
| the surface in order to conserve thu
| moisture that he has from rainfall
and perhaps seepage. Fifteen inches
| of water is ample to raise good crops
of fruit if it can only be preserved ant
not allowed to evaporate early in thu
season, thus causing the trees to suffe
from drought in the autumn.
X
| know of no material difference il
varieties of fruit as to the amount o
water needed to carry them through
the season. No tree of any kind live
on water. The function of water il
simply to prepare the food on which