The daily sentinel., 1908-05-18
BOLTON ARRANCES FOR
GROWERS TO HAVE FACTS

Today Mr. ]. P. Bolton, the wealth
,er observer and smudging expert
from Fresno, Cal. who addressed the
great mass meeting of fruit growers
of western Colorado held in this city
Saturday. left for his home.
In talking of the meeting of Sat
urday Mr.. Bolton declared to The
Sentinel this morning that it was
one of the greatest and most enthus-
iastic gatherings of fruit men he ev-
er saw. He believes that western
Colorado fruit growers mean bust
ness and that next year efforts that
will prove successful will be made
by all the growers to save their
crops from damage by frosts.
Mr.. Bolton expects to keep in very
close touch with the situation in
western Colorado and the movement
of organizing to prevent frost dam
age. He will probably make sugges-
tions to the Chamber of Commerce
and the fruit growers associations
from time to time. Mr.. Bolton in
formed The Sentinel that the Frost
Preventing Company, which is hand
ling the famous Froude patent oil
pots, such as used by Messrs. Ham
ilton Haines, Turpin and other of
U0e RTOWeGS VI tllS bulltN LuiS Std-
son and which have proved trium-
phantly successful, will send to the
Chamber of Commerce within the
next thirty days complete and well
prepared literature covering the
frost prevention system and its work
ings in California. This literature
will be accessible to all our grow
ers 1t will contain the A B. c. of
frost fighting and will be of great
value.
The demonstration of the worth of
smudge pots made Saturday ming
at the Cottonwood park was wit
messed by hundreds of growers and
other interested citizens.
The demonstration embodied
among other things "A most decided
and convincible contrast between the
Froude patent oil pots Chose used
with such tremendous success in Cal
ifornia for several years past and by
few growers in this valley this sea-
SOM and other pots tested on this
occasion.
The demonstration of Saturday
was simply to show the relative mer-
its of different systems and not for
the purpose of making a thorough
demonstration of temperature rails
ing.
Everybody who witnessed the DEM
onstration became enthusiastic over
the showing made by the Froude oil
pots, and all pronounced IT as the
most successful, the simplest, the
most inexpensive and the most sat
| isfactory system OF smudging that
has yet been called to the attention
of the Grand valley fruit growers.
| rh.. LTt.At do mot 10 mt l.
ment As Mr.. Bolton stated in his
talk Saturday it is the result OF
years of experimenting, the child of
years of thought testing and devel-
oping. IL has saved the fruit crop
of many of the greatest fruit sections
of California yearly now for several
years. 1t can just as readily save
the fruit crops of the Grand valley
and other Colorado frnit districts.
At O'Clock Saturday night 45
Froude oil pots We're lighted and at
| l o'clock Sunday morning or four
hours after lighting, the pots were
still burning. One gallon of oil was
used to each pot. 1t was kerosene
oil-crude oil was not available last
night. With one gallon of crude oil
each of the pots would have burned
hours. Kerosene will not burn 50
long. The burning pots required but
| little attention and the heat given
out was most marked. The demon
stration, even under several neces-
sary disadvantages, was certainly
most successful and conclusive.
At $40 O'Clock AS of the Bryan
coal pots, invented by Mr.. Bryan oi
Paonia- were lighted. BY II pm
all of these pots were ont, having
burned about ? " hours. Much stir
ring was necessary to keep the pots
burning. The coal used in the pots
was saturated with kerosene, and
this greatly enhanced the strength OF
the fire for a time; but when the
OIL was consumed the fire fell to the
strength OF an ordinary coal fire. The
Bryan coal pots are larger than the
Froude oil pots. There is no ques-
! tion but what they are not nearly sc
satisfactory, are more trouble, more
expensive and are capable of giving
out less heat. They might be worked
suceessfull in Individual eases. but
as a general smudging system their
worth is as yet an unknown and un-
demonstrated quantity.
The demonstration was most in
teresting and of great vaSue to the
growers.
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