Cañon City record., 1910-06-16
OF INTEREST TO FRUIT GROWERS

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We have often asked whether it is
advisable to plant red apples and
green apples together. Practically
this is right, but theoretically, it is
not for we have learned that the east
ern trade does not come out to this
country to buy green apples and they
are decidedly out of style. Just as an
incident on the side we would like to
add that a red apple can be made
darker by having it planted with a
dark red apple than by planting 1t
with a light green or yellow apple So
for winesaps we sometimes recon-
mend the Arkansas black because it
accelerates the dark color. Generally
the Arkansas Black is shy bearer
but here in the west in our irrigated
sections it is a good bearer. II We
were planting for dark complexioned
apples we would prefer dark colored
ones as pollenizers-
II girdling is properly done in
June it certainly encourages other
wise sluggish trees to come into bear
ing but we believe it is at the expense
OF the vitality and longevity Of the
tree and the keeping quality Of the
fruit Ii is often practiced to ascer-
tain the variety in trees that have
never fruited and to learn the trees
habits Of bearing. The operation is
to be condemned however In general
practice for obvious reasons The
natural effects of check in growth
such as is occasioned by girdling OF
root pruning is that the stricken
branch with an instinct of probable
dissolution imperfectly understood by
man. hastens to complete natures
processes and reproduce its kind The
enforced bearing must be detrimental
70 the tree. Girdled trees are gen.
orally short lived and the apples do
not keep as well as others of their
variety. In this Country when grid
ling is done winter apples sometimes
become fall and fall apples still earl
Ter.
In the fall of 1885 C. A. Klaioer of
Boulder county took charge OF four
chard which had been badly neglect
ed Deep bitches had been piowed
and washed out where irrigation had
been done and hardly any pruning
had been attempted and no spraying.
The next spring young trees were
set where the dead ones had been.
manure was well worked in after
which the ground was plowed shall
low.
A Myers hand force spray pump
was fitted on common fifty gallo>
whiskey barrel mounted on a wagon
drawn by a gentle team One man
drove and pumped while another did
the spraying Paris green l pound
TO 1so gallons of water. with aeout
pound of lime was used and each tree
was sprayed until the water began to
drop from the leaves, The orchard
was SPRAYED twice besides this during
the season and at harvest time eighty
per cent OF the apples were perfect
Denver Field and Farm.
We have always had the problem of
n heavy crop one year and light
crop the next TO deal with. In this
problem also comes the question of
disposing of the undersized fruit. The
question of how to equal up the crops.
reducing the heavy crop thereby
eliminating a large amount of the
small fruit, and Increasing the yield
of the off year. is of very great i'm
should be well fastened. as also the
window boxes. TO prevent accidents.
but more hardy vines may be used.
such as morning glory. wild cacum-
Der. moonfiowers. scarlet runner or
Dutchman' pipe and honeysuckie.
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