The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-17
NJ 'PHERSON ARISES
TO TAKE EXCEPT|ON
Idaho Man Does Not Agree With
Scientist From Utah Agri-
cultural College.
TROUBLE BREWING WHEN
PAYETTE REGION ATTACKED
DR.. Ball Gives Exhaustive Lee
turc on His Observations in
Western States.

Ut. ~ - Dill OF lDs Anrlc0HQGdl
college Mt Logan told the fruitgrow.
ers' convention Wednesday forenoon
what he thought about the uon-progrcs-
sivcncss of somo of Utah S growers. and
thcreupon Alex Mcpherson, director of
the experiment station Mt Twin Falls,
Ida, was moved to make a few re-
marks about what he thought college
mon didn Z know about the practical
side Of fruiGgrowing. Dr. Ball was
down for lecture on his observations
on n trip through the western fruit
growing states. In winding up his re-
marks DR. Ball took occasion TO pass a
few structures on some of the meth
DDS and men who are growing fruit in
Utah. DIR. Ball spoke IN part as fol.
lows:
They use soil in the state OF California
that would not he looked at in Utah.
aud still you Utah people go down there
TO invest your money. They get from
four 10 eight bushels of wheat 10 the
acre Their biggest crop Is fungi The
state Is anything but golden.
In orchards at Warsonvillc Cal.
thcr get 20 cents . bushel for their ap-
pies on the trees. and consider 500 A
good proft for years apple growth,
Model Conditions in Oregon.
III the Rogue River valley I'm Oregon
they have model conditions. and they
grow good fruit. But their soil is not as
fine as it might be. They say they can
control pear blight in that district, and ]
believe them. Tor no self-respecting In
sect or fungi would intrude IN such a
region. where the growth of the tree is
from two 10 three inches n. year.
Central Oregon Is upheld as good
frnit country, II is good fruit country
Is looking Tor suckers.
The Willamette valley is a mighty
good place for raising fruit IL reminds
is not real orchardman there, The trees
arc so near the ocean thcv have moss
covered backs and tho people arc moss
Lake valley.
In Hood River valley the problem is
fertility There is no seepage, no frosts
good fruit place, but there must be some
fertilizer used.
AZ La Grande. or ! was treated like
a bishop, because that is a Mormon set
uement, one end oil that valley Is a
good fruit region and the other is q good
frog pond so that Tho matter OF secpago
is serious one there.
In Washington the farms are on the
sides of the hills and they do not have
very favorable conditions. They pick their
fruit Just as it is beginning 10 mature.
region before the snow blocks tho passes.
In several parts l got TO see real dry
farm apples; they arc like sponges.
Payctte- Boise Region.
In the Pavctte- Boise region found
hundreds OF trees dying from seepage.
bad. / can duplicate all of what I found.
both good and bad. in Utah.
over one-third OF the orchards OF tho
west win never produce" he said. "and
oue-half OF that third was never planted
to produce. 1t was planted to sell 10
eastern suckers. advise the people OF
Utah 10 so to the Grand valley In Colo |
RADIO 10 learn how 10 sell orchards that
are dying. That is their business back |
there, and they have It down to a fine
point.
Our sons arc going 10 Canada and !
other localities 10 get agricultural land, |
while there is land right here in Utah |
that will far eclipse that of any other
place,
We are driving the pioneers out Of
business because when their other crops |
fall they do not realize that fruit grow
stay home and plant orchards on their |
fathers farms. they would make thou |
sands of dollars and take no chances.
I am going to do everything in my
take up fruit raising. but am going 10 |
do more TO interest Utah people In the |
adviso bility of conducting orchards on
land which is suited for orchards
Mr.. Mcpherson S Remarks
When Dr. Ball had concluded. Mr.. |
made few cxtemporaneous
remarks, the gst Of which ran some
thing like this:
1t was this way" declared McPher- |
son. Wilson had a man taking care OF |
the farm who was ilitcrate. but he did !
know something about fruit raising. He !
fired this man 10 take a college gradu- |
ate, and that is what is the matter with |
his orchard. He has fired the college man |
now and taken back the illitcrate or
chardist and everybody expects the or
chard 10 grow again
This TWO hours of talk by DR.. Ball"
said Mcpherson, has been the greatest !
combination Of fairy tales I ever heard !
These professors talk about side hills /
believe they travel on the side hills so |
much their brains get sideways The peo- |
ple who will make success in this state |
are those who eliminate entirely the fol- |
lowing of the wild fairy tales of Dr. Ball. |
THE people OF Utah are the biggest |
In the world They have got ev- |
erythinG-mines. agriculture. fruit lands |
and everything else-but still they go TO |
Canada and to Idaho.
You ignorant chumps, you ought TO be |
kicked out of the state"
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