The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-07-14

| OOO, 900 crop OF fruit was saved from
| freezing In district q miles across,
with these smudge pots The farmers
were closely connected with telephone
systems, had stations for watching the
| temperature, and were all warned at
| the approach of dangerous tempera-
ture. The pots we're In readiness and /
when the signal WAS given, the farm
ers sailed out and got busy Their
| stations kept account of the tempera-
ture and they kept the mercury from
| going below 29h degrees, while the
surrounding territory was recorded to
have been down to 20.
1t is my opinion that these schemes
4 will all be used to insure our fruit |
llcrops. We may not be bothered with
destructive frosts majority OF years, |
4 but q full crop Of apples is matter of
some Importance, and 1t will pay to go
/ to considerable expense every year to
insure our crops against an occasional
i freeze. A man who insures his house |
against fire does not expect, necessar-
\ lily, that he will be burned out often,
but he can afford to insure himself
against an occasional loss. It's strict
" 8 business proposition.
4 Can we depend on market in ten
years to follow after our orchards
come into bearing? Many men have
! asked me, What are you expecting to
do with the apples II we all set out
big orchards, and grow fancy grade
OF commercial apples, you don't have
to give the market second thought
When you have the product the market
will be there. 1t will come to you
when you can turn over the fruit.
Statistics show the apple crops for
Il acf1 uoo rc fn ho a q
1896. j. SO 700 900 1897. ~. Al ,536, 900
1898. 28, 57OO0O 1899. j.. 37,560,00
: 1900. =. AT 100000 1901. 26,900,000
! 1902. At 1875 900 1908. =. 45,000.00O
1904. y. .45,3OO,O0O 1905. y. 23,50O,0 900
: 1906. IS, 600, 900 1907. $4,000, 600
! 1908. 23,000.000
Now despite the fact Of this remark
able decrease in the production of ap-
Z pies for the last few years, the market
e for our western, fancy boxed apple is
: growing Our population has increas-
d led greatly in that time, and the market
s has extended to such points as :. Lon
: don, Glasgow, Liverpool, Hamberg and
, many other European distributing CEN
!? tiers, besides, the Oriental market will
g soon be very big item.
IS The best Informed men tell us that
n the growth of the apple market is linz
y tied only by the supply, and will be
1; SO for many years. AS long as we
{ grow the best quality of apple we need
h never worry about the market. It we
n can grow the right varieties of apples
lie and grow them in large quantities the
le buyers will be only to glad to get your
lie fruit at the standard price.
Is Such are the possibilities in general
'r commercial apple orchards. Now &c
Is come down to concrete details of ouI
n own locality a man in putting out q
a, commercial orchard should first, sc
lie into the business as he would in any
W ether business in which he expects t6
ty succeed viz: specialize. He must Ge.
ne vote his energy to studying, investi
ie eating, observing other orchards, trav
u elling, attending the meetings of hor
be ticulturists, and posting himself III thu
r science as he would if he were invests
IS, eating any other extremely scientih;
w subject How many readers of this ar
ticle who are intending to put ~oA
re commercial orchard? A big majorit,
ng l think And the minority in this cas-
is are going to be the successful orchard
he lists. My observation has been tina
le- the men who are putting out the larg
re orchards today are men who hav
is made their money in other business an
ID If they can get first class horticultur
les lists to care for these orchards, we
tut and good But my advice is, infor1
as Yourself, educate yourself in this Sc
ng ence, for science it is. Attend the hol
Ter ticultural society's meeting. CORES
IRE pond with tho experiment. station
els get the government bulletins and pr
ere waite publications on the subject. Stud
zen investigate, observe. Devote your tim
nd to it. If it isn't worth your time, a
The your time, don't go into it. The gel
tn eral idea is that man must wait ii
for his trees bear before he can receiy
to pay for putting any time on it. BIZ
by not necessarily. Put in crops betwee
at your tree rows. Work in your orchar
al all the years till it bears and then yo
md will have a general working know
ey. ledge and can see how to handle it..
ho- you wait till your trees are bearing b.
ar fore YOU give your time to your o.
the chard you will know little of the bu
est mess at that time and will be compel
lor ed to place yourself at the mercy /
of some other fellow who will tai
n a charge of things
the Our soil here in the Snake valley
of very we'll adapted to tree growth. E
ich pecially the sandy soil. | believe tt
eat more sand, the better. Get some O
the ganic matter or humus into the sc
me as soon as possible, / believe innocl
will uated red clover is best for this pu
pod pose but alfalfa is good, or any Gro
/ is Our soil has great supply of miner
not elements. 1t lacks nitrogen. LeguT
au inOus plants store this in soil al
the when we get tho nitrogen we have OF
My of the most fertile soils on earth
box have already explained that we shou
red have orchard land sloping to the nor
and and east preferably for reasons give
)me However this is not necessary ,enout