The daily sentinel., 1910-01-14

would more than pay the expense.
Remember the demand is for A. and
sitter pears. Our friends Will handle
sitter pears to help us out and the
pears too small to pack 6-tier ere
absolutely worthless-only hurt the
market for good pears and take up
the time of the association employees
as well as the employees of the job
bing houses when they should be
working on standard goods
"As for thinning peaches, all the
growers realize that this must be
done and all growers in our valley do
1t, some Just as ii should be but
great many do not thin, early varte-
ties especially, enough. Always re-
member that peach tree will pro-
duce more boxes of extra peaches
han the same tree will of pie peaches,
The tree loaded with extra peaches
will bring more than three times as
much as tree of pie peaches. Since
1t pays to thin peaches by picking off
some of the fruit, why would 1t not
pay TO thin apples and pears in the
same way
Spraying also plays a very i'm
portant part in the growing of fruit.
great deal has been written on this
subject by scientific men; men who
have tested out their ideas by actual
experience. and my advice to all
growers would be for them to read
all that is possible on this subject.
Judging from the condition of our
trees and fruit last season, 1T il my.
opinion that all trees in the valley, OF
all kinds and ages, should be sprayed
with some kind of winter spray
l,.- te
will clean the trees of all kinds OF
lice and eggs, and allow them TO
make a better growth the next year.
and allow bearing trees to produce
much better fruit. My opinion is that
the lime and sulphur solution is one
of the best sprays for this purpose.
although some growers prefer the
black leaf tobacco extract. In spray
ing for Coddling Moth, / believe ev-
cry grower in the valley is of the
opinion that arsenate of lead is the
best. 1t is not SO much the number
of times trees are sprayed for Cod
ding Moth as the thoroughness OF
the spraying when it is done and the
time of spraying. The time of spray
ing is one of the most import ant
things TO decide.
What our growers most need is
the advice of scientific men, and we
should make a united effort to induce
the Fort Collins Agricultural Col
lege to furnish at least three men for
Mesa county, who will devote their
whole time and attention to expert
ments in this county, and be here TO
answer any questions that any OF the
growers may ask them. | also be
Iieye that it would pay our assocla-
ton to keep one scientific man, VINO
has made the growing of fruit his lie
study, to be at the command OF any
of the growers. to inspect, and TO ad-
wise regarding any kind of trees at
any time. While | am not OF the
opinion that this expense should be
borne by our association, | am of me
opinion that such man would be OF
benefit to each grower in the valley,
and that his employment would pay
the stockholders of the association
and make a great deal of money for
the fruit growers of the valley.
zone thing more. We learned at
the National Apple Show in Denver
that there is. a difference between
growing fruit for show in competition
with the world. and growing strictly
fancy fruit for market. The growers
from the Northwest took the prem
iums on one, five and ten box lots
of fruit. but If we decide to do 80,
and will begin now, we can keep