Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-06-12
Discuss Pest and Many
Other Problems.
ELECT OFFICERS FOR YEAR
W,Il Hold an Orchard Meeting at
Fruitdale on SATURDAY.. After.
noon, June 20.

The annual meeting of the Grants
Pass Fruit Growers Association was
held last Saturday at the Court
House. There was very good at
tendance Of fruit growers but not the
number that should have been for
many of the orchardists were too busy
with their work to spare the time, 20
they thought, to attend the meeting.
It has been saia that the school OF
experience is thorough but the tuition
comes high. There are two ways OF
gaining experience in fruit raising.
One is to attend fruit growers meet
ings and secure the experience OF sue
cessful orohardists, and the other is to
gain knowledge Of the industry BY
years of work, patient endesvor,
numberless experiments, and the ex-
penditure Of much money. For to
profit by the successes and failures of
those long in the business is the
way the person who values his time
and his money begins in the fruit in.
dustry, for in no industry does e1per-
ience prove so expensive when gained
by--oneself, for q mistake IN orchard
work and management can not be
detected at once and sometimes 1t is
five years or more before the beginner
/ can know that he has planetd the
wrong variety, or has placed his or
chsrd or vineyard on the wrong soil or
location, or made a mistake in prun-
ing. And then his mistakes in his
combat with the pests will be another
big expense that will tend to dis
I courage him with the fruit in
dustry. The wise orchardists makes
as few experiments as possible him
self but gives close attention to the
success and failures of his neighbors
and profits by their experience.
And it 10 this class of orchardists
who never fail to attend fruit
growers meeting and also to visit
other orchards aud note their condi-
tion and the methods of handling
them If q beginner will attend fruit
growers meetings, visit other orchards
and read the bulletins issued by the
Agricultural College and the Agricul'
tural Department and the standard
fruit papers he will not waste day
of his time nor a dollar of his money
4 in bringing his orchard or vineyard
into profitable bearing, but il he pre-
4 fers to blunder along by himself he
may by spending much money aud
time attain success and he may end
in failure and become a chronic
growler who declares that there is no
money in fruit raising.
Recognizing the value Of these ex-
perience meetings the Fruit Growers
4 Association voted to hold number OF
orchard meetings this summer. The
4 first orchard meeting will be held on
Saturday afternoon, June 20, at River
side Fruit Farm. belonging to Geo. A.
Hamilton, and at Elerslee Frat
Farm, belonging to Prof. r. r. Tur'
ger, in Fruitdsle district A study
Twill be made of an old orcnaid that is
being reclaimed aud of two new Or
chards. one planted last year aud one
the past winter, and embracing apple,
pear. peach, cherry aud walnut trees
and a vineyard gu methods OF COM
batting the pests and of planting.
pruning. cultivating and the general
care of au orchard. A comparison OF
the square and hexagonal methods
OF tree planting will be made As the
/ new orchards are planted by the
latter method. After an in p ction
4 of the orchards and t lks by rxp rts
on the various pha,ts of the WORK al
shown by the tree, social hour viii
be spent under the shade trees at Mr'
Hamilton's home and light refresh
ments will be served by the ladies o.
Fruitdale Grange. This meeting II
open to all who are interested in th'
fruit industry and Ithe ladies win b
quite as welcome as the gentlemen.
The place of meeting is but tw'