CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-02-07
Many Interested People Attend the lnstitue and Get
Pointers On Their Busness Of Ffufl Growins-Many
Clever Talks Have Been Made.

have one of these short courses held
in Canon City, and at the close Of
Prof. Paddock's address motion was
adopted to proceed with the work Of
raising money and enlisting students
for that purpose.
The Lessons of the Past Season"
was the subject of an able paper read
before the institute by Capt B. F.
Rockafellow Wednesday afternoon.
Among other things he said:
I'm ornamentation improvement the
lesson presented about our Canon Or
chard homes is most impressive. In
particular Is the contrast noticeable
in visiting other orchard districts. 1t
pays, not only in comfort. but in dol
lars. / know a three acre place with
Ia house and barn, that cost about
$500, located two and half miles out
from town, that sold for $4,000 last
week. This place without Its lawn,
roses and shrubbery and forest trees
would not have brought $4,000. or Sc
cured a buyer at all. l want to give
our young pomoligists a formula that
will cure them from all discomfort and
ills of life. 1t is-wife, babies, fow-
ers. poultry and pets. Then you'll
have a Paradise.
Considering the rapid changes from
barrenness to the very choicest fruit
full orchards, set out to millions upon
millions of trees, vines and berry
bushes, within the memory of our
boys, IL is marvellous indeed. that each
advancing year should show greater
conQuests. and that the heighth OF this
development is far from being reach
ed. either in the material or mental
field. of this fascinating industry. Yet
we have had some sad experience. A
tourist lady said to me, October goth.
gave us shivering cold, and sixteen to
twenty inches of snow. that the San
Francisco earthquake had surely cha
nged our climate to four hundred miles
northward." II was an accident" OF
nature that is not likely to occur
again in the region east of the main
range. for a bright sun came out the
morning after the storm. dropping the
snow suddenly, giving no time for the
circulation OF the sap through the
fruit. which was checked by the leaves
being killed. as well as most of the
fruit, on the heavily laden trees. being
softened. Our lesson is to gather our
fruit soon as the seeds are brown to
black. and to bat the buyers eye who
says. as they so often do, you should
leave the fruit on one or two weeks
longer to get higher color" When the
box mill men and the railroads failed
us. we should have gathered and piled
our apples.
The lesson is to secure boxes in
the spring. instead of waiting until
autumn. otherwise hunt other sources
to get your supply from. With the
great berry. cherry, peach, pear and
plum, summer and autumn apples and
grape crop well marketed. our grow
ers have much to be thankful for, and
the lesson should be to adhere to d.
versified fruit farming. The educa-
tional part OF the seasons work was
far ahead of any other"
An interesting subject, and one that
was intelligently and oomprehensively
treated. was The Fruit Growers Re-
lation to the Town." which was dis
cussed by ID. w. Ross. secretary Of the
{ non City Merchants Association.
NJ. Ross is an entertaining talker and
brought out some pertinent points for
the consideration of his auditors. In
community like Canon City horu-
culture and other commercial inter-
ests are interdependent, and there
should be close social and business
relations between the people of the
town and the country. Their con-
Germs are mutual and there should be
a hearty cooperation between them
In everything that relates to the ma
terial welfare Of the community.
The concluding feature of Wednes-
day afternoons program was the read
ing of an excellent paper by Mrs Mat
tie Thompson of South Canon on "The
Importance OF Flowers and Shrubbery
to a Fruit Farm" Predicated upon a
personal experience. Mrs. Thompson
gave some valuable rules for the guild
ance of the novice in Horticulture and
stated that the horticultural society
ought to have display OF plants and
flowers in connection with Its annual
institute. The suggestion was ap-