Arizona republican., 1907-01-11


 chard like the mosquito, eating into and destroying much fruit. On the sug- gestion of Prof. Forbes of the Univer- sity of Arizona, he tried the sour milk" cure and found it very effectual This consists in placing a pan or sim liar vessel in each peach tree, or at least at frequent intervals in the or chard and filling it with sour milk. The bugs revel in 1t an dits odor att tracts them considerable distance. Last season the Halls gathered an immense crop of June bugs this way and did much in protection of their peach crop.
 Or apples they are raising the Black Ben Davis, Early Harvest. Yellow Transparent, Red June, Yellow Belle flower. Winter Pearmain and Delicious. All of them do well with them and they are experimenting with other va rieties.
 They are growing ten varieties of plums but their favorites after ex- perience are the Gold. Climax, and Shiro. The plum trees are now as full of fruit buds as can be imagined and 1t is always necessary to shake off lots of the fruit to give the rest of it a chance without breaking down the trees. In fact all the fruit trees are laden with buds, more than half of which it would not be desirable to ma ture because of their abundance. The only quince trees now being grown are the Van Dieman variety and speaking of this tree and of plums and prunes. Mir. Hall said that Stark Bros. a few years ago bought of Luther Bur bank one Van Dieman quince tree, one ! Gold plum tree and one variety of prune tree, paying him a thousand dollars each for them when they were small The 5000 in gold paid for the trees, when put on the scale weighed more than the three trees. The Starks pro- | tected their right to sell this tree by law, after the manner of the copyright 1 or patent and have a monopoly of it. They are now grown by the thousand and though at first a very expensive tree are now sold at prices within the reach of all planters. Mir. Hall sent some of his Gid plum fruit to the Port land exposition and Mir. Benham re- ported it in fine condition after it had been on display for three weeks. About thirty cherry trees are grow ing on the farm and will be bearing this year. The trees are of two va rieties and seem to be doing as well as cherries in any country. They are experimenting with other varieties.
 The crab apple is another fruit that little effort has been made to grow here. They have a lot of the Florence variety that are doing all that could be wished of them and are experimenting
 with four other kinds
 The apricot orchard contains 15O trees of the standard varieties and little need be said concerning it for that fruit has received more attention than almost any other in this valley. In lclosing though special mention should
 be made Of the blackberry vines, for vines they are in reality. They grow so politically they can hardly be kept | trimmed back. There are a few rows of them growing that will bear this year and it is the purpose of the own CTS to plant a considerable acreage of them this year. There are a number of standard varieties and they are testing
 others or soon will. This is a part of the plan mentioned above to give more attention to the small fruits and ber-
 ries. for if it were done this valley could easily export a large tonnage annually instead of bringing those same fruits into the local market from Cali i fornia.